FALSIFIABILITY IN EINSTEINIANA

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:43

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"At the AAAS meeting, Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss said
he was pessimistic about the potential for cosmology to make new
discoveries, based on the expansion of the universe. However, the
possible detection of gravity waves excites him. "The amazing thing
about inflation is that it is completely consistent with what we see,"
he told reporters. "I think many people think that what's been called
a smoking gun of inflation is gravitational waves. It's a prediction
of inflation that is ubiquitous. It's a generic thing. If these waves
are discovered ... if we detect gravitational waves from inflation,
there is a real possibility of pinning things down enough so that one
could perhaps convince every physicist that inflation happened."
Strangely, a negative finding disconfirms nothing, Krauss said. "The
absence of gravitational waves is completely consistent with
inflation," he said."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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