That is a little blunt Armike.
Newtonian physics used to be the very definition of a scientific truth, a
universal, unchanging law that allowed technology to expand and new
inventions to be made.
Einstein pissed all over that and showed the floors and inconsistencies in
Newtonian physics. What we thought where laws, where no longer.
It is foolish to claim to know any unchanging and universal truth.
I, however, disagree with Skybird on a further point. Whilst SB believes that
any given theory is just a model used to explain and predict and can not
possibly contain any truth value about the external universe, I believe that
theories and ideas can be relatively good or relatively bad descriptions of
the actual external universe based on their coherency, which I believe is a
reliable indicator how how the universe fits as it is impossible to have
an incoherent external world.
i hope SB will excuse my paraphrasing.
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