From: Robert Comer 

>Cellular respiration is a description of stuff observed.

Yep, once we figured out how it really worked -- it was pure theory to begin with...

>The theory of special relativity is an attempt to describe how things work
>in general - here, there and everywhere.

The key here is attempt, and it will continue to be a theory until it does
describe how things work, here, there, and everywhere.

>Of course the statement "the sun will rise tomorrow" is more of a fact
>than the theory of special relativity, but the latter will still be
>shining long after our sun has blown itself apart.

Only until something better describing everything comes along.

--
Bob Comer



On Fri, 18 May 2007 08:37:56 +1000, John Beckett
 wrote:

>Robert Comer  wrote in message
>news::
>> Okay, look up cellular respiration, that I consider a fact, the topic
>> is VERY well known, lots of experimental evidence, no counter
>> examples.
>
>Cellular respiration is a description of stuff observed. If you talked
>about the "theory of cellular respiration", you would be discussing
>current understanding of how cells work. It's not a general theory about
>how the underlying components work in general. It doesn't predict what
>would happen if you took the components apart and put them in a different
>environment.
>
>The theory of special relativity is an attempt to describe how things work
>in general - here, there and everywhere.
>
>Of course the statement "the sun will rise tomorrow" is more of a fact
>than the theory of special relativity, but the latter will still be
>shining long after our sun has blown itself apart.
>
>John

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