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|    Dawn Flood to Paul Aubrin    |
|    Re: If predictions fail your hypothesis     |
|    28 Jan 26 10:36:13    |
      XPost: alt.global-warming, alt.atheism       From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com              On 1/26/2026 11:35 PM, Paul Aubrin wrote:       > Le 26/01/2026 à 15:16, Dawn Flood a écrit :       >> On 1/26/2026 1:21 AM, Paul Aubrin wrote:       >>> Le 25/01/2026 à 17:37, Dawn Flood a écrit :       >>>> Yep, such systems are known as "chaotic" for a reason. Per Paul &       >>>> JTEM's lights, physics is invalid because no exact solution is known       >>>> for the 3-body problem.       >>>       >>> Physics laws are valid over validity domains because they have been       >>> observed to match quite well reality in these validity domains. CMIP       >>> models have been observed to not correctly match reality over       >>> "climatic" (30 years or more) periods. Those CMIP models hypothesis       >>> have been invalidated (forever). Maybe, one day, some climate model       >>> will be observed to match reality over extended periods of times by       >>> comparison with (future) extended observations. Until then, suspend       >>> your judgement on climate model predictions.       >>>       >>       >> In terms of geological time, 30 years is NOTHING! You might as well       >> substitute "3 days".       >       > Mathematics show that the laws of the mechanics of fluid allow only very       > short term predictions. But, nevertheless, weather predictions compare       > quite well with observation for a few days. On the opposite, if the       > predictions made with an hypothetised law of physics don't match       > reality, the hyptothised law is proved invalid. If it fails one time,       > you won't know when it will fail again.              Hence, "all models are wrong, some models are useful." Have you heard       this quote?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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