[MD] Alternatives to the scientific method

[Heather Perella]

     [DM]
> Behaviour is rarely law like, rather sometimes
> you get one outcome, sometimes another. To
> create a controlled situation where a specific
> outcome happens most of the time takes a lot of
setting up
> of controlled experiments. Outside of the lab,
> and generally not even in the lab outcomes vary.
> Or take technology, a machine does a certain job,
> it is consistent for a while, perhaps not always,
> and in the end 'breaks down' which means it reverts
> to the normality of unpredictable behaviour.

      This seems easy to say, but Newtonian laws are
used everyday, right?  Sure inconsistencies are
present, but Newton's physics still are working.  I'm
not sure about your seemingly blanket statement that
unpredictability reins always.  The machine was
predictable until it broke down, sure, so just fix it
and it will do what it did before.  I don't see how
quantum physics has been able to make that jump into
macro-scale events.  I find this too much of a
reduction of underlying themes, such as quantum events
being what drives macro-events.  Sure quantum events
underlie macro-events, but a ball rolling down a hill
will roll until another force acts upon it, that's all
Newton said.  The macro-scale is more organized than
the quantum level.

woods,
SA



> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Heather Perella"
> <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
> To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [MD] Alternatives to the scientific
> method
> 
> 
> >
> >     [DM]
> >> Yes, but its propensities not laws, that's my
> point.
> >
> >
> >     Laws are universal, right?  If so, then I
> > understand Newtonian physics are not law.  They
> are
> > laws on that particular macro-level, but not
> > scientific laws, if scientific laws must be
> universal.
> > What do you mean by propensities?  I can guess you
> > mean propensities are laws on a particular level,
> but
> > I'd rather you say what they mean, for I'm not
> sure.
> >
> >
> > SA
> >
> >



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