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Old 27-03-2008, 12:44 AM
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Originally Posted by omnivorr View Post

...in your last post you did not address the point I made about the fact of Einstein's theory preceeding the means to its verification... in answer to your specious "tooth Fairy" remarks.
Ah...I see your point. Sure you make a null hypothesis, but when it is not verified by the data then it is likely the proposed notion is wrong...or at least needs serious modification...is this not how scientific method works?

That said much theory is built on what came before, and without the MM result Albert may have had to ponder a tad longer