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   Thomas Heger to All   
   Re: No amount of experimentation can eve   
   21 Nov 25 11:46:19   
   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Dienstag000018, 18.11.2025 um 21:39 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   ...   
   >   
   >>> Both these theories of physics give precise predictions   
   >>> for what will be measured in well defined experiments.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do you dispute this?   
   >>> ====================   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I distinguish between a model and the part of nature, which that model   
   >> attempts to model.   
   >>   
   >> This distinction is extremly important and by no meas disputable.   
   >>   
   >> If you equate a model with the real world, you would  conduct   
   >> something extremely stupid.   
   >>   
   >> That is like eating the menu in a restaurant instead of the meal.   
   >   
   > Again, your opinion of SR/GR is irrelevant.   
   >   
   > It is an indisputable fact that SR and GR give precise   
   > predictions for what will be measured in well defined experiments.   
      
   Again: you are a hopeless case!   
      
   You HAVE to distinguish between a model and the real world, even if the   
   model is quite good.   
      
   This is so, because model and real world 'live' in different domains.   
      
   TH   
      
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