Friday, February 24, 2006
Just a thought
It occurred to me today, as I was thinking of several scientist that I know who have made breakthroughs that there is no such thing as the laws of science. I know several scientists in different fields who have patents or breakthroughs, the reason they came up with something new is that they tried something that shouldn't work given the "laws" of science. In our "modern" times, most people seem to think that science has it all figured out and that obviously is not true. Right now I am wondering if there is anything in science that we have totally right? I think in a hundred years or less the history books will record what we believed to be science and people will shake their heads and wonder how we ever believed such things.
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That’s the whole point of science; everything we know can be revised and altered from time to time. Science is a method whereby this is done according to observable and reproducible data.
If it was not so it would not be science, it would be religion.
They should be called scientific suggestions then and not laws.
This statement is obviously true.
People questioning science leads to new science..
True; I don’t believe there is such a thing as scientific laws. There are physical laws which work very well until you get below the chemical level. These physical laws then become probability at the quantum level.
Science is a logical toolset, not a set of laws written on granite tablets. It’s a way to pull errors out of a system.
There is a good illustration of this concept located at http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/evo/blfaq_sci_law.htm
Interesting topic. This is all about the Philosophy of Science. A huge topic. Paul Feyeraband is a biggie in this area and an interesting read. I wish George would have him on.
-G Diddy (gnowledge)
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