Re: SHOULD THE THEORY CORRESPOND TO REALITY?

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From: xxein
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:48

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On Mar 11, 12:55 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm
> Stephen Hawking: "I take the positivist viewpoint that a physical
> theory is just a mathematical model and that it is meaningless to ask
> whether it corresponds to reality. All that one can ask is that its
> predictions should be in agreement with observation."
>

xxein:  Hawking is acting like a sore loser.

> REDSHIFT FACTOR."
>
> Some logical aspects of the problem are discussed here:
>
> http://www.wbabin.net/philos/valev9.pdf
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

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