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A person can certainly disbelieve electricity, they would just be foolish to do so. While I think a person would also be foolish to disbelieve gravitational wa
by drdeca 7y ago
A person can certainly disbelieve electricity, they would just be foolish to do so.
While I think a person would also be foolish to disbelieve gravitational waves, I think it wouldn’t be quite as foolish, because while we clearly measure gravitational waves, we don’t exactly use them to do (as opposed to “look at”) stuff, so a person’s everyday life is less impacted by disbelieving GW than by disbelieving electricity.
- Koshkin 7y ago> foolish to disbelieve gravitational waves How foolish of Newton!
- drdeca 7y agoPardon, I meant given the current evidence. Newton didn’t have that evidence. I thought that was obvious. And at first I had written “probably foolish” as a hedge, but thought “oh, I hedge the things I say too much, and it makes what I say less pleasant and more difficult to read. I’ll leave it out.”. By “foolish” I maybe I really meant something closer “probably reasoning incorrectly”.
- dnautics 7y agoThe exact point of my comment is that the evidence is not as strong as claimed in the popular conception, as there has not been independent confirmation via a multimodal technique. To date there has been a single, unreproduced, nonindependent, multimodal observation... A good start, to be sure, but still folks like yourself are saying that it would be foolhardy to merely believe GW.