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Posted by Bruce on July 14, 2003 20:57:18 UTC

"..in physics its not enough that mathematical structures are coherent or consistent, these must have a much more tangiblereference to reality."

Pretty much means that theoretical models for making predictions wrt natural phenomena must be internally consistent and empirically testable. He goes on to pretty much reitierate this point of fact. Unfortunately this isn't well understood outside the physics community. For instance when somebody claims Einstein was wrong for modeling time the way he did in his theory or he was wrong for using geometry to describe how things behave in a gravitational field. I only read
what you wrote [I assume it was from his intro].


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