I'm not sure what the best place to continue such subdiscussions is, but I think we should put an end to it here. Let me just conclude with this: I'd be surp

I'm not sure what the best place to continue such subdiscussions is, but I think we should put an end to it here. Let me just conclude with this: I'd be surprised to learn that this argument is controversial among physicists. The fact that an argument in philosophy is uncontroversial among physicists means exactly nothing, because they are generally too philosophically unsophisticated to respect the post-Popperian criticisms of what their jobs entail and what it is that 'science' produces.