Theory the-o-ry n.
-An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.
Lupin wrote:No, we call them "Theories" because they agree with empirical evidence. Like I said in the last post before I deleted it: "Gravitational attraction is a threory. Germs causing disease is a theory. The conjecture that matter is made up of things called 'atoms' that form molecules and things like bricks, watches and wolves is a theory. "
Matter moves towards other matter when allowed to move freely. We do not know why this happens. The idea that they are "attracted" to each other by an invisible force we call GRAVITY is a "Guess". We have no evidence of this mystical energy force. We have only the observation that matter is moved nearer to other matter by forces we can not see. They might not be "pulling" on each other at all. They may be being "pushed" together by a completely different force...and "Gravity" as we know it may just be a misinterpreted figment of our imaginations.
The model of what an "Atom" is, and how it is composed has changed many times since the term was first coined...and just when we think we've got thier construction figured out, we discover little things called "Quarks" (or at least we
think they are there, as even our most advanced microscopes cant actually SEE them, or orbiting electrons for that matter), which confuse us all over again.
The Germ thing is different. That is a discription of a series of events... "Cause and Effect"...not a "Theory".
Cause and Effect is like a Story.
The invaders enter the system...damage these cells when they come in contact with them...take away these chemicals...deposit these others...the body does this when it's presence stimilates these auto-immune cells...etc. etc. ...
I am not claiming that there is no such thing as "FACT". What is, is, and what isn't...isn't. There IS solid, unchanging, indisputible fact out there to be known. ...but there will allways be natural barriers disallowing us from ever being able to know the "whole" story...so there will always be a point where there will be questions of "Why" that we are simply unable to answer.
There are plenty of theories where the facts known
seem to match up with the guess of why it is the way it is, making the "Theory" appear to be prooven...untill NEW facts come to be known which disprove or contest them.
Did you know that it has been observed that at the farthest reaches of the known universe, the planets and stars are not behaving as gravitational theory says they should?
Where as everything around here seems to be pulling towards the "Core" of the known universe, or decelerating it's tragectory away from us as "GRAVITY" seems to be slowly pulling it all back to the center...
...at the farthest reaches, where the stars, asteroids and planets are the furthest apart, and away from the known matter cluster, they are not only NOT slowing down thier expansion away from us, but they seem to be Accelerating. ...as if something is pushing them away.
Is it because of "Dark Matter"? ...is it because they are closer to the "next universe over" that we just can't see which is pulling them that way instead of this way?... or is there a completly different reason, because gravity does not work the way we THINK it does, or who knows what?
...sorry for getting so "Long Winded" again. I actually
LOVE debating about stuff like this.
This is the kind of thing My Father, Brother, Sister and I sometimes talk about while waiting for our food to be served at restaurants, or while taking walks through the woods. We are Bizarre like that.
...by the way...the "Answer" is 42.
