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Re: OT: getting older/wiser

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Daniel Pitts wrote:

> On 2/27/14 5:22 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 2/27/2014 7:04 AM, bill wrote:
>>> On 2/26/2014 1:52 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> Recent research indicates that the reason older folk think "slower" is
>>> that they have more memories to go through to find what they are looking
>>> for (tested with word finding).
>>> It is reasonable to conclude that older = wiser, not slower.
> […]
>> Yes, but that research is controversial and has not been validated by
>> peer review yet.  Possibly in the future it will be, but until it is, it
>> is only a theory.  Remember cold fusion?
> You clearly mean hypothesis. Theory is once its proven.

A fundamental, but common, misconception in both statements; in part 
purported by some scientists employing informal language (non-scientists 
doubly so).  Theories are just elaborate(d) thought processes, based on a 
number of theses; they can only be either confirmed or falsified (by 
reality, e.g. experiment).  (The more a theory is confirmed, the firmer it 
is believed to be true.  And if something passes peer review it just means 
that the people who reviewed it have found *nothing* logically *wrong* with 
it; it does _not_ mean that the conclusions therein are true.)

For example, Einstein's general theory of relativity – which BTW grows 100 
years in two years from now – has not been proven at all and will never be 
proven; science just does not work that way.  We only assume that the 
assumptions he made are true because what follows from them explains our 
observations so well.  Likewise for Quantum Field Theory and all other 
theories.


HTH

PointedEars
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When all you know is jQuery, every problem looks $(olvable).

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  Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 12:07 -0500
    Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-26 09:52 -0800
      Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 13:52 -0500
        Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Adam Harvey <usenet@adamharvey.name> - 2014-02-26 21:25 +0000
          Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-26 13:48 -0800
          Re: Correlating curl resources to some other object. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-26 17:22 -0500
        OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 07:04 -0500
          Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 08:22 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2014-02-27 11:02 -0500
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-27 09:11 -0800
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-02-27 18:52 +0100
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-02-27 16:20 -0500
              Re: OT: getting older/wiser Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2014-02-27 23:56 +0000
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-02-28 19:08 -0800
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Colin Birch <colin@ihatespamrailscans.co.uk> - 2014-03-01 13:37 +0000
                Re: OT: getting older/wiser Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-03-02 12:51 -0800
            Re: OT: getting older/wiser Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-02-27 18:01 +0000

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