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How To Overthrow A Scientific Theory In Three Easy Steps

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  • How To Overthrow A Scientific Theory In Three Easy Steps

    Interesting article about some basics of science from FORBES. DEdicated to those who complain that scientists change theories and cannot make up their mind.

    Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/31/how-to-overthrow-a-scientific-theory-in-three-easy-steps/#a832d927e2db



    How To Overthrow A Scientific Theory In Three Easy Steps

    Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a successful scientific theory has questions it can answer, natural phenomena it can accurately describe, and robust predictions it can make, it's also fundamentally limited at any point in time. Any theory, no matter how successful, has a finite range of validity. Stay within that range and your theory works very well to describe reality; go outside of it, and its predictions no longer match observations or experiments. This is true for any theory you pick. Newtonian mechanics breaks down at small (quantum) scales and high (relativistic) speeds; Einstein's General Relativity breaks down at a singularity; Darwin's evolution breaks down at the origin of life.

    Even our best theories of today may be superseded with tomorrow's science. Here's how it happens.


    One of the great puzzles of the 1500s was how planets moved in an apparently retrograde fashion. This could either be explained through Ptolemy's geocentric model (L), or Copernicus' heliocentric one (R). However, getting the details right to arbitrary precision was something neither one could do. As interesting as both of these models are, neither one would have very much to say if another, new planet were discovered.

    Step 0: recognizing successes and failures of the leading theory. The proverbial holy grail of scientific theories is what's called a final theory of everything. This was Einstein's ultimate dream, and remains the dream of many other scientists across a variety of fields. Such a theory would predict all natural phenomena in the Universe given any initial setup and conditions. You could calculate the outcome of any experimental setup in advance; you could predict how any system would evolve arbitrarily far into the future. The only limitation you'd face would be from not having an arbitrary amount of computational power, rather than any theoretical limitations.

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    The easiest way is with evidence, evidence, evidence.

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