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In reply to the discussion: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November. [View all]qazplm135
(7,447 posts)First, we know a ton about physics. Our understanding of physics is both wide and deep.
Do we know everything? Of course not. Do we know a helluva lot? Absolutely.
Second, that's not how science works. Nothing can prove a negative. It's not a scientific way of doing things.
By way of illustration, please prove that light isn't really carried by invisible unicorns that you cannot see or measure. Sure, they may look like photons, but that's just a shell, they are really invisible unicorns. Well, that's crazy talk you say. And I say yes, but prove that it isn't true. And of course, you can't, because you can't prove a negative.
So you are proposing things in reverse, you should be asking, what proof is there that premonitions are real, and what mechanisms allow them to happen, and how can we recreate it in a laboratory setting? The answers are nothing other than anecdotal statements, no mechanisms at all, and we have tried and failed to recreate it in a laboratory setting.
Multiple universes have not been "proven" to be true, neither has String Theory or M Theory. They are all hypothesis with varying degrees of evidence although mostly on the not a lot of it yet side of things. String Theory is barely a theory because it's hard to come up with actual experiments to provide prove for it, same with M Theory. Multiple universes is one possible interpretation of the double Slit experiment and quantum physics, but it's just one. String theory is but one theory on the fundamental state of matter and no, no one has "proven" that matter can be reduced to strings yet.
You are embracing far too much "woo" science, and not enough of the scientific method.
And parapsychology is not a science. It's a field of study, at best. With no scientific results. They've "learned" that you cannot reproduce psychic powers in a laboratory setting. They've learned enough that there are a grand total of TWO universities in the US left that even have a parapsychology department. The CIA learned enough that they stopped investigating it 50 years ago.
Finally, if there "isn't any proof that this is possible", then the only scientific and logically correct position is that it isn't possible, until such time as said proof becomes known.