File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 195


Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:48:30 +0200
From: Manfred Schmidtke <m.schmidtke-AT-ebe-online.de>
Subject: Re: Tornado and Littleton


mokey wrote:

>look mani i don't believe in physics either, but your justification for
>throwing out quantum theory is just plain silly.  the experimental evidence
>is there - that's what they build particle accelerators for. 

particle accelerators prove nothing, except that scientists are good at
wasting money.

>and you
>really should know better than to use the term "experimental proof."
>nothing in science can ever be proven, as Hume so wonderfully pointed out
>250 years ago.  

true, but there are still convincing and less convincing theories out
there. darwins theory of evolution, for example, is well supported by lots
of interesting facts.

quantum theory, on the other hand, is stupid and everything i ever read
about it sucks. i mean... the cat is dead, even if schroedinger doesn't
know that she is dead.

but then i nearly failed my school exam this year because of physics, so
who am i to question the holy priests of science.

mani





   

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