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   JTEM to Mitchell Holman   
   Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis    
   26 Jan 26 13:10:17   
   
   XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/25/26 1:14 PM, Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   > Dawn Flood  wrote in   
   > news:10l5h3l$1pmfd$5@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> On 1/25/2026 5:26 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:   
      
   >>>>> Now I'm going to discuss how we would look for a new law.   
   >>>>> In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First   
   >>>>> we guess it. Well don't laugh that's really true. Then we compute   
   >>>>> the consequences of the guess to see, if this law that we guessed   
   >>>>> is right, what it would imply, and then we compare those   
   >>>>> computational results to nature (to experiment or experience). That   
   >>>>> is we compare it directly with observation to see if it works. If   
   >>>>> it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.   
   >>>>> In that simple statement is the key to science.   
   >>>>> It doesn't make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It   
   >>>>> doesn't make any difference how smart you are who made the guess,   
   >>>>> or what your name is. If it disagrees with experiment it's wrong,   
   >>>>> that's all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Okay, and where's the "experiment" in anthropogenic climate change??   
   >>>   
   >>> Where is the experiment in astronomy (Feynman was a physicist) ?   
   >>> Current CMIP models outputs don't match observations. those CMIP   
   >>> models hypothesis are invalid (falsified by observations). Lets wait   
   >>> another 30 years or more to see how nowaday models match future   
   >>> climate observations.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You can't be serious, can you?  Do you know of the prediction made by   
   >> Edmond Halley??   
   >>   
   >> Dawn   
      
   So all the decades of FAILED Gwobull Warbling predictions can't falsify   
   Gwobull Warbling, but Edmond Halley confirmed the entirety of Astronomy   
   with a single correct prediction?   
      
   Do you TRY to paint yourself as such a frigging shit head, or is this   
   something that comes natural to you?   
      
      
      
      
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