johnlawrenceaspden comments on How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?

[johnlawrenceaspden]

And carry on. As the theories have to squirm to avoid experiments, they’ll slowly approach unfalsifiability and become more and more complex /​ make fewer and fewer predictions.

[johnlawrenceaspden]

Except in quantum mechanics, where they end up being really simple and explaining everything, but they make your head break.