Theory As Science

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  1. Martin Alonzo

    Martin Alonzo Supreme Member
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    Has science been misleading us by making guesses and calling it science?

    First was the idea of all life is due to the sun. They have found life at the bottom of the ocean at the cracks in the continental plates and there is a whole community of life that are feeding on the hydrocarbons coming up. This mired of life has nothing to do with the sun.
    Oil was made from decaying matter over millions of years. Now they have found oil in abundance far beyond this point in the earth and now thing the earth itself makes oil.
    The sun the science came up with a theory that it was an atomic furnace and was accepted but all the proof that this is true did not happen and that brought into question if it is true. There is a new theory that it might be something like a large capacitor and the light is caused by arcing of the electricity.
    One very interesting video that showed up on the internet showing something about the size of the earth coming close to the sun and it looks like it is feeding on the energy of the sun. Electric sun?

     
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    When a scientific theory becomes political, they call it settled science. Well, if it's settled, then it's not science.
     
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    As I understand it, a basic tenet of science is that a theory has to be disprovable. Any theory is a ' best fit' guess, based on the facts available and can be modified or rejected by future research. A good example, perhaps, is the atomic theory. The idea that atoms were indivisible and fundamental was discarded after splitting the atom and a better understanding of radioactivity. However the basic idea has remained the same.
     
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    @Harry Kemp I really meld with what you are saying regarding theory and proven fact. Have you a background in the scientific area encompassing such thought?

    I am especially interested in nuclear particle physics and resolution of the question of why neutron capture by various elements seems extremely unpredictable.

    Frank
     
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    @Frank Sanoica , thank you cordially for your post. I thought about and wondered if what I had written might sound like the pompous wittering of some would-be know-it-all, when it was intended as a neutral comment. You're right I do have a small scientific background, I have a BSc honours in Chemistry, sadly unused!
    Nuclear physics is fascinating - it seems to me though the theory is way behind the practical research, as they seem unable to explain why this isotope is more stable than that, although I may be totally wrong as I remember they said in the '70s they expected an "island of stability" for elements with an atomic number 125, I.e. at least one isotope wouldn't be radioactive.
     
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