Quote Originally Posted by comma View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Yerushalmi View Post
If particle-field duality doesn't actually exist, and we'll one day replace it with something else, that doesn't change the fact that computers and GPS satellites and particle accelerators and everything else we've built on the base of that theory works. Isn't that the whole point?
No, the point of science is knowledge. I think that's pretty clear. That's why people do it and that's what we get out of it every time. Science is what we use to justify our beliefs in truths. True justified belief is knowledge, simply put.

Things working might be the point of science to some senator who helps decide the NASA budget, but that's a limited context.

Otherwise, your presence in this thread is outstanding. I removed you from my ignore list just to read your posts here. Nice work.
I don't mean that the point of science is "to make things that work". I mean that the point of having a theory is "to make accurate predictions", and that if the theory is reliable enough that we've been able to build all sorts of stuff that wouldn't work without it, then we must have done a really good job with our theory even if something (or everything) about it is wrong.


...why was I on your ignore list?