"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Tom Donaly wrote:
Besides, if Cecil can't demonstrate the validity of his
views experimentally, even if there are some sources that agree
with him, he's just parroting the old wives.

Please describe your experiments for proving Maxwell's equations.
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you raise a good point.

first of all, Tom is wrong. not much of anything can be proven. in
mathematics, you proceed from axioms, which are accepted assumptions. then
you chain things together to result in proof. some proofs are more formal
than others.

Russell and Whitehead attempted to axiomatize mathematics, which resulted in
failure. Russell never did serious math again. Tom should read the work of
Godel, Chatin, and Turing.

in M-theory (strings), there are many things which can't be proven at this
time, and may never be proven. there are some experiments which never can
be performed. this why we say string theory is unfalsifiable.

so toss out this idea of "proof", because it's a just a term that engineers
think they know something about.

and i didn't even get started on epistemology.

Gravity

73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp