/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2652372

No.

Well, prove that egyptians had no such god. You can say it is silly, but if you can't prove something wrong, you can't say it is false or that it has never happened. ( that is why I don't like theories like "egyptians had extraterrestrial god who left earth and made sure that no clue was left, that's why we don't find anything", it is self-protecting, and shouldn't be considered serious, but it can't really be considered false either because you can't disprove it.) Anyway I'm not very comfortable with history or sociology because you can hardly use scientific method, you can't really do experiments to test something.

I think we agree on the experiment thing. Do electrons exists ? Prove me that they exists. You'll probably give me a very very long list of experiments showing that indeed there is something that we choose to call electrons. But it is a model, you can't say "ELECTRONS EXIST". You can only say that it is very convenient to imagine electrons, and that it is very accurate. If my bug theory says that there is nothing like electrons, but that it can explain by some other weird ways EVERYTHING that electron model explains, you can't say that electrons model is better that bug model. Everything is based on experiment and results. When a theory explains observations and predicts successfully, it is considered efficient and used again, until we encounter a case where we need another model not a "better" model, just a model which covers this case, and that maybe doesn't explain everything the older one explained.