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   "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn"  wrote in message   
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   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.   
      
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   It -should- have been clear to you from context that I did not equate   
   verifying a theory by experiment to declaring it a universal truth.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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