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Re: If old physics is all wrong who is prepared to go on with new now?

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On 2/8/2016 7:40 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Odd Bodkin wrote:
>
>> there is no argument needed to justify new physics, other than to point
>> to its improved consistency with experimental evidence.
>
> I do not think that consistency can be improved; something is either
> consistent or not consistent (it is inconsistent); /tertium non datur/.
> I think you were looking for another word(ing).

Experimental evidence is a *set* of data, usually compiled from a 
variety of corroborated experiments testing assertions under different 
circumstances.

So a theory can be considered an improvement over a previous theory if
a) Among the extant experimental evidence, there is a greater match 
between the theory and those results; or
b) The scope of applicability of the theory is broader so that the reach 
of experimental evidence (the *set*) can be broadened in its comparison 
with the theory.

>
>
> PointedEars
>


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