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   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:10n8j6j$2icn$1@dont-email.me...   
   >> Physics and Chemistry advance when someone finally makes the critical   
   >> measurement that disproves the old system, ...   
   >   
   > Then hopefully one of the theoreticians' cloud castles will be a better fit.   
   > The convincing evidence is if the new theory makes testable predictions of   
   > new phenomena that experiments verify.   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment   
      
   A common misconception.   
      
   Experiments/observations _falsify_ or _confirm_ a natural-scientific theory,   
   they do NOT verify it.  Because such a theory is always only a model, not   
   the truth:   
      
   The more independently obtained experimental/observational evidence that   
   confirms a theory, the closer that theory is considered to be a solid   
   foundation and a scientific truth.  But that does not preclude the theory   
   from being falsified by another experiment.   
      
   Neil deGrasse Tyson even argues that this realization is why since the 20th   
   century new theories are not presented as or considered "laws" anymore:   
      
   StarTrel: Why Science Doesn't Make Laws Anymore   
      
      
   [His argument contains a semantic fallacy, though, because those laws were   
   never considered laws as in jurisprudence, but in the sense of regularities   
   of Nature, "laws" that *Nature* would obey; so humans "breaking" them, and   
   not calling them "laws" anymore because "laws are something that you don't   
   break" is certainly NOT the reason.  That physical laws would be laws as in   
   jurisprudence is yet another common misconception that, unfortunately, he is   
   helping to spread there.]   
      
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