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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
Its unfortunate that anything without a solid basis in science is not well received on this board. I personally don't think that planets or stars billions of miles away can actually affect you, but I cant prove they don't either.
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What makes something science is not whether it can be proved right, it's whether it can be proved wrong. If a theory can't be proved wrong then it's not science. I'm talking about any science that has an experimental component. Math, for example, could be called a science without an experimental component. When one comes up with a theorem in mathematics no one goes out to perform an experiment to see if it's correct. Everything is proven true based, ultimately, on a set of axioms.