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jaydeschizo · 06-07-2007, 01:57 PM

Uplift, have you ever ingaged in this scientific research you seem to distrust so much?

I won't say I trust all scientific research, I know how done (seeing as I do it myself), but to descredit someone like Newton is silly. Newton was correct in what he did, was it later discovered that he was't right about everything? Yes!

That doesn't discredit him though, nothing wrong with Newtonian Physics, nearly everything around you can be accurately (not perfectly) modelled by it.

Oh, and people should really learn the difference between laws and theories. Gravity: law, quite certain it will keep doing what it's doing.
Quantum mechanics: theory, it seems to be working but where not quite sure if it will keep on working if we do it differently.

Science is all about degrees of certainty and assumptions, just like all human observations. However, most "scientific" human observations are redone multiple times by other people all over the world to get a higher degree of certainty whether or not it's really true.

I like a peer tested piece of knowledge!

Hmm, I'm rambling again.

06-07-2007, 01:57 PM	#62 (permalink)
jaydeschizo Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 97	True nature of scientific research. Uplift, have you ever ingaged in this scientific research you seem to distrust so much? I won't say I trust all scientific research, I know how done (seeing as I do it myself), but to descredit someone like Newton is silly. Newton was correct in what he did, was it later discovered that he was't right about everything? Yes! That doesn't discredit him though, nothing wrong with Newtonian Physics, nearly everything around you can be accurately (not perfectly) modelled by it. Oh, and people should really learn the difference between laws and theories. Gravity: law, quite certain it will keep doing what it's doing. Quantum mechanics: theory, it seems to be working but where not quite sure if it will keep on working if we do it differently. Science is all about degrees of certainty and assumptions, just like all human observations. However, most "scientific" human observations are redone multiple times by other people all over the world to get a higher degree of certainty whether or not it's really true. I like a peer tested piece of knowledge! Hmm, I'm rambling again.