Quest opened this issue on Sep 24, 2011 · 41 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sun, 25 September 2011 at 8:40 AM
Bryster,
Oh yes, exactly! If a theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific. and the principle of falsifiability is what makes science open doors, and that's exciting.
You can't say "nothing is faster than light" because one day something might turn up that IS!
So he didn't 'get it wrong' exactly, he just hadn't (and may yet not have been) proved wrong. He was certainly not averse to proving himself wrong if the occasion demanded it.
He would have been more correct to say that nothing had (as yet) been observed to be faster than light.
I wonder how long it will take to check these results??? I'm on tenterhooks here!
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)