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Vishal Hegde wrote:Belief=Knowledge+Experience
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Belief without evidence becomes irrational, however.
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:...the general theory of Relativity wasn't actually demonstrated until well after Einstein's death...
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Belief without evidence becomes irrational, however.
Does it? I'm pretty sure that the general theory of Relativity wasn't actually demonstrated until well after Einstein's death; but I could be wrong.
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:...the general theory of Relativity wasn't actually demonstrated until well after Einstein's death...
But there still could have been evidence pointing towards it, even if it had not been fully demonstrated.
fred rosenberger wrote:But there still could have been evidence pointing towards it, even if it had not been fully demonstrated.
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Robert D. Smith wrote:
I cannot attest to the Theory of Relativity, although my thoughts on the matter are that it has not been either proven nor disproved (I only glanced at the article ).
Robert D. Smith wrote:I do now that the Pythagoream Theorem was just proven in the last decade.
Robert D. Smith wrote: Not the actual theorem, but that the expression only applies to a2 + b2 = c2 and will not work on any other expression (i.e. a3+b3=c3).
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Robert D. Smith wrote:I cannot attest to the Theory of Relativity, although my thoughts on the matter are that it has not been either proven nor disproved (I only glanced at the article ).
I do now that the Pythagoream Theorem was just proven in the last decade. Not the actual theorem, but that the expression only applies to a2 + b2 = c2 and will not work on any other expression (i.e. a3+b3=c3).
Paul Clapham wrote:That's Fermat's Last Theorem actually, not Pythagoras's. But again that's math, where things can actually be proved and therefore belief is unnecessary.
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Vishal Hegde wrote:Belief=Knowledge+Experience
Paul Clapham wrote:That's Fermat's Last Theorem actually, not Pythagoras's. But again that's math, where things can actually be proved and therefore belief is unnecessary.
Matthew Brown wrote:While it's possible to prove things in mathematics, that doesn't mean there's no room for belief...
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:Maybe we should start a new thread: "Science is the new Church - discuss".
Matthew Brown wrote:When I start getting scientists knocking on my front door trying to tell me how I should live my life, maybe I'll agree .
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Paul Clapham wrote:that's math, where things can actually be proved and therefore belief is unnecessary.
Winston Gutkowski wrote:Again: Really? There are no more conjectures? Or things that may never be proved?
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fred rosenberger wrote:It sort of depends on what you mean by "proof" in math...
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. . . because either of those events would have constituted evidence. The fact that Fermat was a good mathematician counted as evidence for Wiles' belief that the theory could have been proven.Matthew Brown wrote: . . .
While it's possible to prove things in mathematics, that doesn't mean there's no room for belief. I'm pretty sure Andrew Wiles wouldn't have spent so much of his career trying to prove Fermat's Last Theorem if he didn't have a reasonable belief that it was, in fact, true, and he therefore had a chance of success. Of course, that belief would have been flipped instantaneously if anyone had managed to conclusively prove it was false.
Winston Gutkowski wrote:
Paul Clapham wrote:That's Fermat's Last Theorem actually, not Pythagoras's. But again that's math, where things can actually be proved and therefore belief is unnecessary.
Again: Really? There are no more conjectures? Or things that may never be proved?
Paul Clapham wrote:Personally I think Goldbach's conjecture is true. So if this means to you that I believe it, then so be it. But there are no consequences to this belief -- I could just as well think it's false and nothing would change. That's why I say that belief is unnecessary in math.
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:I'm pretty sure that the general theory of Relativity wasn't actually demonstrated until well after Einstein's death; but I could be wrong.
Martin Vajsar wrote:Sorry, I know the discussion moved along meanwhile, but I cannot resist my favorite topic... :-)
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Martin Vajsar wrote:The very idea of flying precise clock in satellites and measuring relativistic effects predates the invention of the GPS.
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:But, surely not, the belief that it would be proved correct.
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