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Old 15-June-2004, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim
(I guess it's a good thing that science isn't decided by vote, but by results.)
Well put. It's funny, I'm reading Steven Weinberg's Dreams of a Final Theory where he mentions the fact that essentially no mainstream scientific theory has been completely disproven in quite some time. Sure, there have been experiments that show that a theory's original scope is too wide, and that it is only applicable in certain places (Newton's gravitation, for example), but nothing has really destroyed a mainstream view.