by Lin Stone
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A theory is only a theory. We can use it right up until the minute it quits working for us but we don't have to bow down to it or worship it because it is not a fact, just a theory. We can test our theory long enough to know it works for us fairly well under some specific set of circumstances. Even when a theory is so good it sounds sound like new wine when it drips off the tongue we must always remember it is still just a theory because it has not been proven yet. In fact, some theories can never be proven -- or disproven. |
Browzer Books has published seven books by Lin Stone including: Short Stuff, Tales From the Light Side and Water, Water. As an editor Lin has organized several more books. Over eight hundred articles by Lin Stone are published on this site alone, some of which are exclusive. |
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For example, the snowflake theory sounds
good when it sails past the ear, but it can never be proven. The
snow flake theory is the one that claims no two snowflakes are
identical. |
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The theory that the universe is just so big and no bigger also sounds good when it sails past the ear but it is still just a man made theory. God has said there is no end of his creations and that the stars are without number. Maybe the red shift does prove something, and maybe it doesn't but the truth of the matter is, we don't know what the truth is because our weapons of investigation were horribly crude until just a few short years ago and every one of the measurements that have been recorded are distinctly unreliable, meaning we can't prove a thing by quoting them. But even if our instruments were 100% accurate back two whole hundred years, there would be no reliable way of knowing if some distant galaxy is scooting out of sight because the minute shift noted in coordinates over a period of 10,072 years might just as easily be caused by variant movements of our own sphere, our own orbit, our own sun, our own galaxy. Most of us can't even count the number of galaxies visible out there in space, much less the number of stars. Therefore the theory of a finite universe is still, just a theory.
We have telescopes that reach out forever
into space and the only thing we know for sure at this point is
that the universe seems to keep right on going long past what we
can see so far. Petty science teachers can rage until doomsday
that this theory is a truth but until someone bangs up against
the end of the universe or back where they started from while
still plunging straight ahead, then it is still just a theory. |
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Long, long ago mathematicians postulated this
theory that the earth was round. They even went so far as to measure
just how big around the earth was. Their theory sounded good when it
sailed past the ear but in reality it served no useful purpose to
know the circumference of the earth since the only people who ever
left their village behind were the ones carted off as slaves. Back in those ancient days it was in fact much more convenient to believe this theory that the earth was flat since it could be measured much easier that way and absolute accuracy wasn't as important when man was still using spears and bone-handled knives to stick hogs with. Thus it was that corrupt politicians and men of common sense laid aside the round earth theory until most people were so rabidly content with the flat-earth theory they believed it was a fact. Columbus resurrected the earth is round theory when he wanted financial backing to cash in on plundering the sweet smelling spices of India. However, since he only half believed this theory he also believed the earth was only half as big around as real mathematicians had claimed it was for centuries. Columbus had this half-baked theory that all you had to do was just sail west for a few weeks or months and he'd get to the other side of the earth and hone in on India from the east, THAT was his theory. Since no thinking man would sail with a fool consumed by such a half-baked theory, so (kicking and screaming in protest) most of his crew came straight out of prison. After The Theory The earth was round theory remained unproven until one ship made the complete circumnavigation of the earth in an uninterrupted voyage. Nowadays hundreds of times a week the jetliners and space shuttles of today reconfirm the earth is round in fact. Now that we know the earth is round it does not matter if the old theory sounded good when it sailed past the ear. The important thing to remember is this: the earth stayed round in shape no matter what half-baked theory we came up with or used for the moment. The earth stayed almost a sphere all that time because that was a fact. Ignoring that fact in favor of the earth-is-some-other-shape theory could lead you to conclusions sinfully useless, like the German scientists of Hitler's time being forced to believe that the earth was concave instead of convex. No matter how hard they tried to make their telescopes pierce the stratosphere to see what was happening in New York all they got for their troubles was static. By the same kind of fallacious thinking American citizens have delighted their fancy with this absurd theory that scientists must be FREE to make great discoveries; “and the proof of this is that American scientists make more great discoveries than scientists of any other persuasions.” This old theory sounded good when it first sailed past the American ear, but today we are seeing far too many exceptions to the rule to bow down to that theory any longer. Japan makes better transmissions Korea makes better tires India makes better doctors Australia makes better beaches England makes better politicians Communist scientists of China, are outstripping us on many production fronts. Sadly enough it must also be admitted that the communists understand the basic theories of economics far better than our high-paid American politicians. How else can we explain Congress being so intent on dragging us through bankruptcy while the Chinese are getting richer by the minute? In conclusion, theories are nice little gadgets and we need them desperately if we are going to forge ahead in the scientific fields of knowledge. But we must always remember to tell our children (and ourselves) that even the most politically correct theories of the day are only tools and may not fit the facts we will be dealing with tomorrow. |
About the author: Independently less than wealthy,
Lin Stone has this theory that writing
how to articles
will help the writing trade.
His first book, HOW TO
BUY
LAND AT TAX SALES, was so good
it is still selling
after eight
hypothetical years. Lin's latest theories are
posted on http://www.talewins.com/StoneSoup.htm
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