Just for Matt; Fascinating Math (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 31, 2012, 14:44 (4599 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Matt: The word "proof" is pointless in science. (It's the ONLY word of note for mathematicians.) I've come to a recent conclusion that the entire idea of "truth" is meaningless in science. You see a phenomenon, you create a model that explains it, and the life or death of the model is its ability to accurately predict events in the real world. 
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> If you have a scientific mindset, you gave up on the idea of "truth" a long, long time ago.-Does this approach allow the computer model results to be so acccepted as offering accurate predictions? The following suggests how life got its starter materials, and it must be true because we have life on Earth. Only problem is that all the curent analysis of meteorites finds only a smidgen of the stuff needed.-http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46898620/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.T3Yu5PBSRjA