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>But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss Its an unproven hypothesis. It doesnt need to be "dismissed" it needs to be proven. You could make
by protocolture 10mo ago
>But I think the basic idea, by itself is harder to dismiss
Its an unproven hypothesis.
It doesnt need to be "dismissed" it needs to be proven. You could make up any number of hypotheses. You wouldnt "dismiss" any of them. If you were interested in one you might design a test to prove it. But failing that its not worth worrying about.
When you write like 49 books trying to convince people of your untested claim, it seems like grifting instead of working towards evidence.
- raverbashing 10mo agoExistence of extra-solar-system planets was an unproven hypothesis until the 90's but of course anyone could take a guess at its probability.
- defrost 10mo agoSure - it was considered a near certainty planets orbited other stars given all that was known about the formation of our solar system. That said, it's still an extremely low probabilty that life from other systems came and visited our particular rock some time in the past million years (and interacted with humans).
- protocolture 10mo agoYes, and the proponents of that hypothesis built tests to prove their hypothesis. Thats good. They never demanded I take it on faith.
- gitaarik 10mo agoWhy do you need evidence to write books about a hypotheses you have? Many people do that. And I think he never claimed to know the truth about it, he was just presenting his ideas of how it could be. You don't have to agree with it. But the lack of evidence doesn't disprove the hypothesis. Yes it doesn't prove it either.
- protocolture 10mo agoYou can write as many books as you like. But if you spend all your energy trying to convince people of your unproven hypothesis, rather than testing and proving that hypothesis, no one has to take you seriously.
- gitaarik 10mo agoSome things can't be tested (easily). There are many string theory scientists that wrote many books about a completely unproven theory. I guess you take them equally seriously.