![]() ![]() I don't have any complaints about the way these sciences have been pursuing, it just strikes me as funny that some really big scientific ideas aren't actually amenable to experiment. ![]() Perhaps that explains the need to invoke the multiverse. Of course, the universe itself, the subject of the grandest of all theories in science, also falls in this category. In a micro-sense, you can see if similar things happen in different times and places, but the overall development of life on earth, or the development of the earth itself, only happened once, and we lack the capacity to conduct meaningful experiments about such things. In a grand sense, geology and biology fall into this category, since the big theories like plate tectonics and evolution depend on one big sequence of inter-related events. This book review is the source of one of my favorite cocktail party theories: a number of seemingly well-established sciences are built upon an n of 1. ![]()
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