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Now it might be, but let's remember that back in the day Physics was mostly used to derive laws from observations. Only with the advancement of calculus, notati

Now it might be, but let's remember that back in the day Physics was mostly used to derive laws from observations. Only with the advancement of calculus, notation, etc. we could make predictions that later we confirmed. Granted, at the time of the black holes prediction this had been going on for a while so it should not have been too surprising, but also I don't think it'd be such a strong point as it is today.

mannykannot 2y ago
Note that I was concurrently adding an update to my post as you posted this (though I think my update is orthogonal to your point here.) With regard to contemporary attitudes to verification, we know that Eddington went to Principe to measure the magnitude of gravity’s effect on light specifically because it would be seen (and was) as strong confirmation of the theory.