Memory is tricky. It is the Theory of Gravity. Before it was firmly
established it was a hypothesis.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jun 25, 2005, at 4:16 AM, Andrew Gullen wrote:
>
> That's not really what I remember from my upper-level science courses,
> especially physical and theoretical chemistry. We frankly discussed
> how well
> a theory fit the data, and what the uncertainty on the data was,
> and what
> the improvement was over previous theories on the same data.
> Nothing was
> perfect, but some theories did well enough to be very useful.
> Things that
> didn't fit were topics for more research, and meanwhile people go
> ahead
> doing practical things using the best theories available.
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