This is starting to remind me of Kant. Specifically is attempt to provide an a priori justification for the then known laws of physics. This made him look incredibly silly once relativity and quantum mechanics came along.
And Einstein was better at the same sort of philosophy and used it to predict new physical laws that he thought should have the right sort of style (though I’m not trying to do that, just read off the style of the existing model). But anyway, I’d pay $20,000 to find out I’m that wrong—what I want to eliminate is the possibility of paying $20,000 to find out I’m right.
This is starting to remind me of Kant. Specifically is attempt to provide an a priori justification for the then known laws of physics. This made him look incredibly silly once relativity and quantum mechanics came along.
And Einstein was better at the same sort of philosophy and used it to predict new physical laws that he thought should have the right sort of style (though I’m not trying to do that, just read off the style of the existing model). But anyway, I’d pay $20,000 to find out I’m that wrong—what I want to eliminate is the possibility of paying $20,000 to find out I’m right.