From: "Gary Britt" 

What guesses do you hold dear today and in which you place your *faith*
that they are complete and accurate will be found to be inaccurate or
incomplete in 300 years??

Gary

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:59sln1hlnpvlr2la802gbjaeohe05hqv5l{at}4ax.com...
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news::
> > What is a hypothesis?  Its a GUESS that gets tested under certain
limited
> > circumstances.  A GUESS that can turn out to be wrong.  Like you or
Steve
> > said it took 300 years for the hypothesis/GUESS about the theory of
Gravity
> > to be replaced by the theory/Guess of relativity.  For 300 years all the
> > John Becketts and Steve Ewings of the world had *faith* in the
correctness
> > of the theory of gravity, however.  What guesses do you hold dear today
that
> > will be replaced by new guesses 300 years from now?
>
> A very nice blend of fact and fiction there Gary!
>
> The Theory of Gravity is still true! It works just as well today as it did
> 4 billion years ago, with all the objects that we come across in our
> everyday lives.
>
> It's just that when you take very accurate measurements involving very big
> or very fast objects, you need another theory to explain what you see.
> Note that "explain" is not quite the right word. In science, a theory
> DESCRIBES events more than it explains them. If the theory can predict the
> outcomes of other events, and no reproducible event contradicts the
> theory, then we come to accept the theory as an explanation (but that is a
> human interpretation - the science is just describing how things happen in
> the universe).
>
> So, Newton's views of gravity are still accurate, but they are incomplete.
>
> John
>

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