Plasmoid Forensics

[freebeard]

Stops being theory when the technology to measure it is invented

Isn't it that it stops being hypothesis when the technology to measure it is invented. Anyway their using gas analyzers, mass spectrometers and scanning electron microscopes.

[Piotrsko]

Well, yeah there's that, too

How different do you see theory and hypothesis ?

Ive observed theory getting radically altered while the hypothesis crystallizes

[freebeard]

How different do you see theory and hypothesis ?

Personally, I think we're stumbling round in the dark. Decartes' X-Y-Z axes have blinded us to what's going on. Literally -- Dark Energy and Dark matter is proposed. Postulates devolve from Axioms, you need to get those right.

The public probably agrees on what a hypothesis is but disagree on what a theory is.

Vague enough?

[Piotrsko]

Thanx, almost followed that.

[freebeard]

Axioms and Postulates are from Euclid's Elements.

The anti-Descartes position is from Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics. Stack one cannonball on three others and you have our old friend, the tetrahedron. Start there and the whole of Universe unfolds.

My 'theory' is that scientific theory is accepted findings. That would be opinion.

[Piotrsko]

I believe you nailed it in thw vernacular of the young

[freebeard]

Synergetics is actually easy. You know that you can fit six circles around a center circle. If you doubt it, try with seven coins of the same denomination.

Turns out with spheres, you can add six more spheres with three above and three below the center sphere. This is Fuller's Vector Equilibrium. The constraining bands and the radiating spokes are equal in number (12).


http://en.orion-metaphysics.com/wp-c...ctahedron3.gif

This is an Archmedian semi-regular, but it can 'jitterbug' into two of the Platonic solids. That was one of Bucky's favorite demonstrations.


https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/aa...837fff71b3.gif

The icosahedron is an intermediate phase when the squares turn into two triangles; then on to the octahedron.