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Comment Re:Ahhh is widdy baby's feelings hurt? (Score 1) 260

But that is how the SCOTUS works. It rules on a CASE where there is confusion as to what the constitution and law say. When it rules that the constitution overrides the law, it technically only rules for that case. However, to keep the SCOTUS from being bothered repeatedly by the same issue, lower courts take that one case as a precedent for similar cases. The law is not "struck down" or removed, it is simply ignored by the courts as being overridden by the constitution. Creating firm rulings where the law is ambiguous or contradictory seems like "judicial Power" to me. Perhaps "judicial Power" meant something else in Jefferson's time?

Comment Re:Relativity is just a model (Score 1) 279

Sorry, but I'm a mathematician... so everything you physicists do is just a model to me. Ever since I realized (via Goedel) that there aren't even any complete and consistent theories for logic, I sort of figured that there would never be a complete and consistent theory for physics. (Let me know if you find one.) In the mean time, I'm still really impressed with the work physicists do! I really should finish working through Gravitation some day... that's cool stuff.

Doesn't the Goedel just require an axiom taken to be true but not provable? Science has that: The Principal of Uniformity of Nature, which is the logical basis of all scientific induction.

Comment Re:Sorry, No. (Score 1) 799

If you don't believe science rests on at least one truth that science can't itself prove (called faith by some, an axiom by others), then Godel's incompleteness theorem says you don't believe science is consistent. All of science requires scientific induction to work. We can't prove it out of nowhere, and without assuming(believing) it, or some other axiom that can be used to prove it (e.g. the Principle of Uniformity of Nature), we can't prove anything with science.

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