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On Jan 18, 12:51 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week2/Monday/0105012.htm
> Lee Smolin: "How does science work? There is no scientific method."
>
> Paul Feyerabend: "There is only one principle that can be defended
> under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is
> the principle: Anything goes."
>
> Feyerabend again: "Having admitted this much, we must also concede the
> possibility of non-argumentative growth in the adult as well as in
> (the theoretical parts of) institutions such as science, religion,
> prostitution, and so on."
>
> Both Smolin and Feyerabend are correct as far as the era of
> Postscientism is concerned. Just an example of how the principle
> "Anything goes" works:
>
> http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/NoPopupRedirector.aspx?peid=5f32739a-624d-4ec8-9ecc-4d44d3d16fe9&shouldResize=False
> Lee Smolin: "Newton's theory predicts that light goes in straight
> lines and therefore if the star passes behind the sun, we can't see
> it. Einstein's theory predicts that light is bent...."

If there were a scientific method (that is, the principle "Anything
goes" did not work), the Perimeter Institute Genius would not have
been able to discover this:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/mar/11-we-all-live-in-darwins-world
Darwin could not have anticipated, for example, the work of physicist
Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in
Waterloo, Ontario. Smolin has utilized Darwinian concepts to shape a
theory of the universe that he calls “cosmological natural selection.”
He developed a theory that posits the existence of a vast number of
unseen universes, each generated by the collapse of a black hole. The
conditions of those collapses bestow each universe with its own set of
fundamental parameters, such as the masses of its various subatomic
particles. Just as life diversified on Earth, the “multiverse” in
Smolin’s theory evolved from simple beginnings into a complex and
varied assemblage of universes, each exhibiting a distinctive set of
traits. Cosmological natural selection could help to solve one of the
main conundrums in physics: the seemingly arbitrary values of the
fundamental constants in our universe."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com