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Cecil Moore[_2_] · June 11th 07, 10:09 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

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

Is that your theory? :-) Such "meaningless babble"
was quoted from an "Ask a Scientist" web page.

A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for
describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social
phenomena.

Or a theory is "a reasonable guess or conjecture", (quoted
from Webster's).

For instance: "The red shift in the spectra of galaxies
supports the theory that the universe is continuously
expanding."

That theory seems to be on the verge of being proved wrong.

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

On the contrary, the Casmire effect seems to prove the
existence of something existing in empty space. Particles
seem to wink in and out of existence within the "absolute
nothingness" of a vacuum.

"For many years the Casimir effect was little more than
a theoretical curiosity."

Was that theory a "curiosity" or is it a "logically self-
consistent model"?

One more example: Nothing can travel faster than the
speed of light yet the communications between entangled
particles obviously travels faster than the speed of
light.

How about the "Theory of Evolution"? Is it right or wrong?

How about all the JFK "Conspiracy Theories"? Are they all
"logically self-consistent"?
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com