Thank you for putting the word belief in there. Truths and facts exist for engineers and engineers alone. Well, for them and the religious, anyway.
No scientist would ever use facts, they have only theories. Go ahead, ask someone with a doctorate in any of the fields of physics, whether there are any laws and facts in science.
You will get a strong no from all of them. If you get a yes, then be assured, you are talking with an extreme minority. If you talk with a university professor in the realm of physics, you will also find out that they don’t teach facts or laws, they teach theory, and theory alone. For all the right reasons. When talking to the average person they might go for facts and laws, but when dealing with the new or exploring the new, everything reverts to the theory aspect.
When you start to play with the edges of proof and conceptual aspects, like with this subject of fuses and whatnot, things get complex and facts and laws have a long history of getting in the way (when we play in the rarefied reaches of the known). Thus, they revert to theory, which is what they really are.
I’m trying to make it abundantly clear that only theories exist, and there are no facts and laws. And that -- is the underlying force behind reason and exploration in science. It is absolutely critical that exploration go forward under such a mindset, a mindset that is not kneecapped by facts and laws before it even takes a step. All of science in it’s exploration agrees with this, even if you rarely hear them say it.
No scientist would ever use facts, they have only theories. Go ahead, ask someone with a doctorate in any of the fields of physics, whether there are any laws and facts in science.
You will get a strong no from all of them. If you get a yes, then be assured, you are talking with an extreme minority. If you talk with a university professor in the realm of physics, you will also find out that they don’t teach facts or laws, they teach theory, and theory alone. For all the right reasons. When talking to the average person they might go for facts and laws, but when dealing with the new or exploring the new, everything reverts to the theory aspect.
When you start to play with the edges of proof and conceptual aspects, like with this subject of fuses and whatnot, things get complex and facts and laws have a long history of getting in the way (when we play in the rarefied reaches of the known). Thus, they revert to theory, which is what they really are.
I’m trying to make it abundantly clear that only theories exist, and there are no facts and laws. And that -- is the underlying force behind reason and exploration in science. It is absolutely critical that exploration go forward under such a mindset, a mindset that is not kneecapped by facts and laws before it even takes a step. All of science in it’s exploration agrees with this, even if you rarely hear them say it.