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...it's a great thought, it's a wonderful hypothesis, but it is not yet science.

Well Aric2000, science has to start somewhere. Before you can move to the design of an experiment, long before you get to actual experimental tests, you need to know what your experiment is designed to do. So you need a "speculation," a theory first.

166 posted on 08/08/2003 10:41:59 AM PDT by betty boop (We can have either human dignity or unfettered liberty, but not both. -- Dean Clancy)

Yes, indeed, but let's keep our verbage straight please.

This is a hypothesis, not a theory yet, once it is verified, falsified, repeatable etc, then it will be moved to theory status.

Again, I never said that it was not an interesting study, or worth pursuing, and if he wishes to use his scientific skills to pursue it, more power to him, but it is still outside the realms of science at this point, just as quantum mechanics once was, just as the theory of gravity once was, etc.

I never said that it wouldn't happen, I just don't think the chances are good, but I wish him luck all the same.

167 posted on 08/08/2003 10:47:50 AM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)