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>Then you've never done real science.

Done enough to have an MSc in experimental particle physics.

But do you have a point that isn't a personal attack?

>Science is how we verify that reality operates according to how we believe it does.

Drop a feather and bowling ball together. Feather drops last. Law of gravity proved wrong.

Science is the removal of the incidental qualities of a phenomenon until only the essential qualities are left. What is incidental and what is essential depend completely on the context.




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