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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TopCat who wrote (347951)8/22/2007 12:09:59 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575244
 
"Now, do I really need to explain to you why that is a non sequitur?"

What is the non sequitur? Now true, it has to do with expectations. But so what?

Einstein's model has known weaknesses. One of them is travel at the speed of light. Another, and related weakness, is intense gravitational fields. The model explicitly fails at those points. Now true, maybe singularities do exist and magic does occur. But that isn't the way to bet.

To expect that at some point there will be phenomena observed that violates the model is merely rational. When it happens, it will no more invalidate the model, just like Einstein's model didn't invalidate Newton's model. Both work, and work well, within their limitations. But they only model reality, and don't necessarily reflect it with all of its warts.
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