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You are correct. Why are you stating the obvious? Who is claiming that all is known? Experiments are used to test theories. In pure science everything is still theory. Soooooooo what are you really referring to.
Now I'm with ya Joe. Life, Origins, Beginnings -------- Is there meaning or is there only cause & effect. The great mystery we all ponder, until the Romulins finally land line the WH lawn. Can't wait. 😁
There's other stuff as well we should not get all worked up about.
For example what's the cause for global warming. But even if we knew conclusively what the cause is, I doubt we would do what is required to change it. ;)
Who's to say GW would be a bad thing. Hell Canada could become a warm, sunny paradise all the way to the north pole.
Or thermal energy production could save us all from dwindling fossil fuel supplies. We could farm pineapples in Norway. Rednecks could live comfortably in Alaska. Can't be all bad -- right?
I am NOT saying there is a better way. I am saying that we must NOT forget that experiments demonstrate only one possible explanation.
Say you have something you don't understand. You come up with an explanation (theory). You come up with a test for your theory. Your experiment shows that the theory works. But there could be a competing theory and an experiment that shows that that theory also works.
The take home message is that once we have a working theory, we shouldn't be complacent and accept it as the ONLY explanation. ;)
Ok how is anyone getting complacent over the findings so far as regards dark matter ?
From wiki ....
Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by most of the astronomical community, a minority of astronomers argue for various modifications of the standard laws of general relativity, such as MOND, TeVeS, and conformal gravitythat attempt to account for the observations without invoking additional matter.[
It is ok if the debate continues. What I am trying to say is that people should not get all wrapped up in a theory and take it as Gospel because it is only one way of looking at it. ;)
Like gravity. I don't see it so much as gravity pulling me down. It's more like it's pushing me down. ;)
You either assume gravity behaves a certain way or you assume there is dark matter. Either way, there's a lot of assumptions that go into each of those two.
Or...., you assume God did it ;)
By Okham's razor, God is the simplest solution. Hell, there's no math involved! How simple is that ;)
