No, I’m telling you, with a straight face, that “theories don’t determine observation” is consistent with, and “theories constrain observation” is simply a restatement of, what Einstein actually said, namely
It is the theory which decides what we can observe
as opposed to the completely different thing you wrote, namely
The theory decides what we observe.
(In case it’s necessary to spell it out: the important difference is the omission of the word “can” in your version.)
I think deleting my account might be needed.
Once again, let me remind you that however crazy you think I am I am only one of many many people here. You are of course free to delete your account if you can’t cope with the existence of one person who holds positions you think are crazy, but it seems like an odd choice.
(I think this is the fourth time you’ve said in this discussion that this isn’t the place for you. It seems almost as if you think you’re making a threat that will change someone’s behaviour. It’s maybe worth saying explicitly that that’s unlikely. You may stay or go as you please. But I hope that if you decide to leave you’ll do so for better reasons than encountering one person who disagrees with you, and that if you decide to stay you’ll come to realise that you’re not a lone voice of sanity among a crowd of idiots as it currently looks to me as if you think you are.)
[EDITED to add: when I say “what Einstein actually said” I should strictly say “what you say a book says Heisenberg says Einstein actually said”. I haven’t checked any of the links in that chain for myself. But it seems like something Einstein might plausibly have said.]
And yet, what I wrote was:
which, you might notice, is actually agreeing with the sentence in question.
Ok, let’s get this straight. The quote, word for word is:
It is the theory which decides what we can observe.
Which I summarized as:
The theory decides what we observe.
And your response was:
Did you notice that that isn’t actually what the quotation says? Theories constrain observation; they don’t determine it.
And now you’re telling me, with a staight face “theories don’t determine observation” is in agreement with “the theory decides what we observe”?
Wowza. Ok. I think deleting my account might be needed.
No, I’m telling you, with a straight face, that “theories don’t determine observation” is consistent with, and “theories constrain observation” is simply a restatement of, what Einstein actually said, namely
as opposed to the completely different thing you wrote, namely
(In case it’s necessary to spell it out: the important difference is the omission of the word “can” in your version.)
Once again, let me remind you that however crazy you think I am I am only one of many many people here. You are of course free to delete your account if you can’t cope with the existence of one person who holds positions you think are crazy, but it seems like an odd choice.
(I think this is the fourth time you’ve said in this discussion that this isn’t the place for you. It seems almost as if you think you’re making a threat that will change someone’s behaviour. It’s maybe worth saying explicitly that that’s unlikely. You may stay or go as you please. But I hope that if you decide to leave you’ll do so for better reasons than encountering one person who disagrees with you, and that if you decide to stay you’ll come to realise that you’re not a lone voice of sanity among a crowd of idiots as it currently looks to me as if you think you are.)
[EDITED to add: when I say “what Einstein actually said” I should strictly say “what you say a book says Heisenberg says Einstein actually said”. I haven’t checked any of the links in that chain for myself. But it seems like something Einstein might plausibly have said.]