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Originally Posted by bwv11
hi carn,
but it does nothing to assure us that we even know where to start looking, for understanding that which is not yet known.
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No, exactly for that such thoughts help, to give an idea, what is unknown and where to look for it. Though of course it does help only with a part of what is unknown.
If scientists were consequently unable to look for the unknown, where it can be found, science could not advance as fast as it does.
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Originally Posted by bwv11
after all, we don't even know what it is.
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But we know what ut us not.
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Originally Posted by bwv11
and that of course goes for the homeopathic mechanism of action, as well: nothing known can explain it.
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Post that in the thread about spallation over at hpathy forum, he/she doesn't seem to know.
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Originally Posted by bwv11
your inability to simply acknowledge that predicting future developments in physics is even more uncertain than predicting the weather, unfortunately is quite consistent with the less imaginative end of the scientific community.
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If you talk about tomorrows weather, ok, that is far more certain to predict. Talking about weather in 50 years, then we get closer to predicting future of science.
Science prediction is pretty hard or even impossible when trying to go for what will be discovered, but it allows in many fields a rather reliable prediction, that certain things will not be discovered.
That prediction is based on the limits set by the various laws, which are as far as known, universally true. Anything new found is very likely either only braking these laws slightly or happening under unsual and little- or unknown circumstances(and that is observation from science of the last 400 years).
Which is why homeopathy gets a pretty bad prognosis, as it happens under very well known circumstances and brakes fundamental laws extremly, therefore bad chances there.
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Originally Posted by bwv11
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Carn