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Old June 11th 07, 09:15 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Cecil Moore wrote:
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Hypotheses are discarded all the time, theories aren't.


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Ask A Scientist - General Science Archive
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Theories Proven Wrong


Question - Where can I find information on theories that
were proven wrong?
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Answer: Rumor has it that "Fads & Fallacies in the Name of
Science" by Martin Gardner is just what your looking for.


Every scientific theory is wrong in some respect. There is
no scientific theory of "everything".
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Apples and oranges.

A "scientific theory of everything" is meaningless babble
thrown around by the clueless.

A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for
describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social
phenomena. It originates from or is supported by experimental
evidence. In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized
expression of all previous observations that is predictive,
logical and testable.

In physics, the term theory is generally used for a mathematical
framework - derived from a small set of basic principles (usually
symmetries - like equality of locations in space or in time, or
identity of electrons, etc) - which is capable of producing
experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems.

Note the words "a given category of physical systems".

As for the "aether", no observations that are predictive,
logical or testable except in the negative.

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Jim Pennino

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