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I have heard many view points lately about what science should be trying to achieve and what it shouldn't.
Instrumentalists believe that science should only be a tool for providing predictions about the future behavoir of a system. They also believe that it is beyond the scope of science to explain or understand reality.
Is this right?
Uhm... how can one build a model to predict the future of a system if one can't understand the present reality?
Instrumentalist sound like crack smokers. :)
Well, if I wanted to predict the motion of the planet Saturn over the next few months, all I would need is it's current position (and that of the rest of the solar system) and a good knowlege of einstien's space/time thoery.Quote:
Uhm... how can one build a model to predict the future of a system if one can't understand the present reality?
That's fine. All I've made are predictions based on a set of rules and data. If I wanted to then proceed to draw conclusions about the space/time such as is it possible to travel through time, is the future pre-determined and what's inside a black whole, is that a legitimate use of the theory or an abuse?
What ciberthug is implying is that you require faith to not go insane. Instrumentalists has more respect in logics and should rule the world! :p
Could you refresh my memory of Keppler's laws?
I have bad memory myself but i try to formulate it like this:
on equal amount of time the area of the sector passed squared is equal to the radius^3 then go on with differental dx/dt to find the displacement