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On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 6:12:50 +0000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
> On 07/18/2024 07:29 PM, gharnagel wrote:
> >
> > It seems that everyone is married to their own vision.
> > That's fine, but it seems to me that they should start
> > their own thread to discuss it.  Then everyone can decide
> > if they want to discuss it there.  I want arguments
> > against the ideas I've presented above.
> >
> > “I never learned from a man that agreed with me.”
> > – Robert A. Heinlein
> >
> > OTOH, I never learned much from an idiot, either.
> >
> > All ideas fall short of reality, so Carl Sagan suggested
> > a way to get closer:
> >
> > "Spin more than one hypothesis. If there’s something to
> > be explained, think of all the different ways in which
> > it could be explained. Then think of tests by which you
> > might systematically disprove each of the alternatives.
> > What survives, the hypothesis that resists disproof in
> > this Darwinian selection among “multiple working
> > hypotheses,” has a much better chance of being the right
> > answer than if you had simply run with the first idea
> > that caught your fancy.
> >
> > "Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just
> > because it’s yours."
>
> If there's any good theory at all,
> it's the one of them.

It seems to be an evolution.  Hypothesis A explains facts
of Group A observations, but leads to Group B observations
which require Hypothesis B, ...
Are we getting closer to a TOE?

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Re: Spacetime hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) - 2024-07-19 02:29 +0000
  Re: Spacetime Lamar Kovács <hvs@mrmmr.hu> - 2024-07-19 11:04 +0000
  Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-19 23:12 -0700
    Re: Spacetime hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) - 2024-07-20 13:04 +0000
      Re: Spacetime Tathan Hébert <ybaen@nhwnetb.fr> - 2024-07-20 14:01 +0000
      Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-20 09:36 -0700
        Re: Spacetime hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) - 2024-07-20 18:57 +0000
          Re: Spacetime Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-07-20 21:20 +0200
            Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-20 14:09 -0700
              Re: Spacetime Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-07-20 23:21 +0200
                Re: Spacetime hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) - 2024-07-20 23:28 +0000
                Re: Spacetime Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-07-21 05:58 +0200
                Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-20 21:31 -0700
                Re: Spacetime Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-07-21 08:21 +0200
                Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-21 13:36 -0700
                Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-21 19:53 -0700
                Re: Spacetime Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-07-22 21:23 +0200
                Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-22 12:52 -0700
                Re: Spacetime Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2024-07-23 08:48 +0200
                Re: Spacetime Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-23 13:03 -0700

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