Re: [Phys-l] Freeman Dyson - a heretic?

["Rick Tarara" <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

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From: "Ken Fox" <physicsfox23@gmail.com>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=freeman%20dyson&st=cse
>
> I found it intriguing. As scientists are we meant to be skeptics?
Absolutely!  We need always remember that it takes only one, reproducible, 
negative experiment to blow a theory out of the water, no matter how 
ingrained, how long, how universally accepted that theory might be.  The 
less hard data available to confirm/deny a theory (model, prediction, 
projection) the more skeptical we should be.  Of course, there are limits! 
;-)

Rick

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