More correspondence with experience is merely more correspondence with
experience.

If you look at the sequence of ideas as to what light is, the sequence has
no trajectory toward something specific.  Could the folks who believed that
light really is E&M waves have predicted that the next step would be to
believe light is little chunks of energy.  Can we predict what we will
think light is when the next major change comes?  We should be able to if
this process is asymptotic.

People who were sure that light was waves of E&M fields were just as
certain they were right and some are now that light is little chunks of
energy.  They were wrong then and we are wrong now.

Dewey


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Dewey I. Dykstra, Jr.                 Phone: (208)426-3105
Professor of Physics                  Dept:  (208)426-3775
Department of Physics/MCF421/418      Fax: (208)426-4330
Boise State University            [log in to unmask]
1910 University Drive                 Boise Highlanders
Boise, ID 83725-1570                  novice piper: GHB, Uilleann

"As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned."  --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
and Baby Universes, 1993.
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