Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.David Deutsch
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
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The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.
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I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
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As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.
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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
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