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How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?

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How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« on: 02/07/2018 15:29:35 »
Any ideas? And how.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #1 on: 02/07/2018 17:03:22 »
Quote from: opportunity on 02/07/2018 15:29:35
Any ideas? And how.
Hello opp

New , gives  your answer opp.  A new theory does not need to have any old theory in it , but it does have to use workable physics which is old facts as opposed to old theory.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #2 on: 02/07/2018 18:45:42 »
There is no requirement for a new theory to bear any particular degree of similarity to the old theory it is attempting to replace. It just needs to explain the existing data better than the old theory does and, more importantly, to be falsifiable and to have survived being falsified by critical experimentation. Reproducibility of those experimental results by independent groups is also important as is the statistical significance of those results.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #3 on: 02/07/2018 18:47:55 »
Quote from: Kryptid on 02/07/2018 18:45:42
There is no requirement for a new theory to bear any particular degree of similarity to the old theory it is attempting to replace. It just needs to explain the existing data better than the old theory does and, more importantly, to be falsifiable and to have survived being falsified by critical experimentation. Reproducibility of those experimental results by independent groups is also important as is the statistical significance of those results.
Quote from: Kryptid on 02/07/2018 18:45:42
It just needs to explain the existing data better than the old theory does
I try that and people say it is nonsense , oh well.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #4 on: 02/07/2018 18:59:17 »
Quote from: Thebox on 02/07/2018 18:47:55
I try that and people say it is nonsense , oh well.
Your "explanations" typically took the form of bad maths or bad cartoons, and they didn't explain anything.
It's because you are a useless troll.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #5 on: 02/07/2018 19:37:40 »
Quote from: Bored chemist on 02/07/2018 18:59:17
Quote from: Thebox on 02/07/2018 18:47:55
I try that and people say it is nonsense , oh well.
Your "explanations" typically took the form of bad maths or bad cartoons, and they didn't explain anything.
It's because you are a useless troll.

Oh my buttons, like I said, lets see what you have got, I started a thread.
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Re: How cloesly does a new thoery have to come to old theory?
« Reply #6 on: 02/07/2018 21:03:35 »
Quote from: Thebox on 02/07/2018 19:37:40
I started a thread.
You started many.
And you carried lots of them on when you should have accepted that they were nonsense.
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