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Some were reluctant -- in the recent thread on religion and science
-- to use the word "truth" to describe the goal of science,
preferring the word "model" instead.
Once Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism were "nailed down" (I am
told) that physicists believed they had solved the universe, then
quantum mechanics came along. So it is understandable that
physicists would be more cautious now in declaring that they have
found truth since their theories are always subject to change as new
data is revealed.
But isn't this a limiting process? That is, as theories make more
accurate and more general predictions we consider them better than
older theories which made less accurate and less general predictions.
Isn't the limit as t goes to infinity truth?