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   Thomas Heger to All   
   Re: No amount of experimentation can eve   
   22 Nov 25 09:41:20   
   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Freitag000021, 21.11.2025 um 20:15 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   > Den 21.11.2025 11:46, skrev Thomas Heger:   
   >> Am Dienstag000018, 18.11.2025 um 21:39 schrieb Paul B. Andersen:   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > You are claiming that theories of physics can't make predictions   
   > of what will be measured in the real world, because a mathematical   
   > model has nothing to do with the real world.   
      
   No, I didn't say that.   
      
   Of course models use all kinds of mathematics. But models are,   
   nevertheless, different to what they model, .   
      
   And even good models are still models (and NOT real).   
      
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