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Your suggestions would lead to absolute paralysis, as you are advocating against using basic plausibility tests before pursuing any hypothesis.
by scott_s 7y ago
Your suggestions would lead to absolute paralysis, as you are advocating against using basic plausibility tests before pursuing any hypothesis.
- ColanR 7y agoIsn't that what the author says we have (or are approaching) already?
- pas 7y ago... seeking extremes won't work, otherwise we'd rule out everything that's not supported by current theories. Also we can't let ourselves be deceived by the everyday cold-fusion perpetuum-mobile crackpot. But we should make it easy for crackpots to test their shtick. So we should invest in better metrology. And when something actually breaks through, then we should jump on it. And basically that's what's going on with the "EM drive". Currently even though it goes in the face of basic theories the test bench they used was not sensitive enough to rule it out.