Ideas=science. Simplification=engineering.
Without ideas there is nothing to simplify.
reveals that you are many centuries behind and a real cleric.
He wrote this signature as a response to mine:
Theory and practice sometimes clash. When that happens, theory loses. Every single time!
This quote (from Linus Torvalds) is only stating the obvious. Only a troll could dispute this. If a theory is not compatible with reality, then the theory is wrong. It's not reality that is wrong.
Some people on this forum still don't understand that, and keep trying to lecture us with their dogmatic theories, that fail the reality test. This quote is specially dedicated to them
Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
Ideas=science. Simplification=engineering.
Without ideas there is nothing to simplify.
reveals that you are many centuries behind and a real cleric.
He wrote this signature as a response to mine:
Theory and practice sometimes clash. When that happens, theory loses. Every single time!
This quote (from Linus Torvalds) is only stating the obvious. Only a troll could dispute this. If a theory is not compatible with reality, then the theory is wrong. It's not reality that is wrong.
Some people on this forum still don't understand that, and keep trying to lecture us with their dogmatic theories, that fail the reality test. This quote is specially dedicated to them
Sometimes one can change reality.
How many dots per inch makes it realistic. One can zoom in until infinity.
Main interest of realism is war.
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BTW:
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This quote (from Linus Torvalds) is only stating the obvious. Only a troll could dispute this. If a theory is not compatible with reality, then the theory is wrong. It's not reality that is wrong.
You are another person that has no clue. I am now starting to believe that cluelessness and the casual use of insults in conversation are directly correlated.
The foundation of scientific thinking is that a scientific theory is _never_ "right" (look up "falsifiability"). Any theory should be viewed as only an approximation to reality. But the aim is to make this approximation better and better in an organized way.
Like I did with Marco let me point you to Wikipedia so that you can also learn.
Michel wrote:
Think about nuclear energy. It was predicted by Einstein on purely theoretical grounds.
If I would be a cleric like you are, I could continue argumenting that the quantum mechanics, at the base of nuclear physics, has started when Max Planck tried to reconcile with some strange experimental results about black-body radiation. But I am not a cleric and I don't enjoy this type of void and self-centered rhetoric. I leave this medieval age philosophical pedantry to you, that seem very inclined, and I happily jump back into the 21th century
I could continue argumenting that the quantum mechanics, at the base of nuclear physics, has started when Max Planck tried to reconcile with some strange experimental results about black-body radiation
You didn't pick a good example since blackbody radiation was a purely theoretical contradiction between classical physics and electromagnetism! This was one of the problems resolved by the creation of quantum mechanics.
But it doesn't matter. What we see here is the scientific method at work. A problem is resolved by refining an existing theory.
Ideas=science. Simplification=engineering.
Without ideas there is nothing to simplify.
Michel wrote: You didn't pick a good example since blackbody radiation was a purely theoretical contradiction between classical physics and electromagnetism! This was one of the problems resolved by the creation of quantum mechanics.
There was not an issue of unexplained experimental results ?!?!?
