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Any theory that predicts something other than the "expected" can be falsified by observing the "expected". To use the swan argument from down-thread: If a theo
by ISL 8y ago
Any theory that predicts something other than the "expected" can be falsified by observing the "expected".
To use the swan argument from down-thread: If a theory predicts a) All swans are drawn from a single distribution of colors and b) 1% of swans will be black, then the observation of a few thousand white swans will be sufficient to rule out said theory.
- sgt101 8y agoIn an idealised world the thousand white swans and 10 black swans will be mixed randomly, and you would be right. In the real world bird move in flocks, the presence of one group of birds frightens off different birds. You may live in the hemisphere with only white swans and never as long as you live see a black one, but just over the hill there is a big population, it just lives in a place you haven't looked. In natural systems observations are biased. You reasoning is based on ideal assumptions.
- Retra 8y agoFundamental physics is not like flocks of birds. It is much more like a system which makes ideal assumptions.