(March 6, 2011 at 11:12 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Has it made any acurate predictions?
or is it just reverse engineered to meet the facts?
In a way, all scientific theories are "reverse engineered", at least to begin with.
I you're developing a model of something, and it doesn't agree with the data that already exists about the phenomenon you're trying to describe, then there's something wrong with your model.
So you better make sure it does agree right from the start.
Then you can use those constraints (current data) to look for other consequences of the model i.e make predictions.
As far as I'm aware modified gravity hasn't been used to make ANY predicitions, nevermind accurate ones!
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
