Creating Information Naturally, Part 1: Snowflakes, Chess, and DNA

[Ashwin_s]

@gbrooks9

When they believed Pluto was a planet, they found this supported the basic tenets of modern astronomy. When they found that Pluto was not actually a planet but a dwarf planet or possibly even a collection of gazillions of comets, they found that this still supported the basic tenets of modern astronomy! This shows a disturbing difficulty to actually falsify the basic tenets of modern astronomy in any way.

Said no one ever.

That’s because calling Pluto a planet or a dwarf planet is a classification issue. The basic tenets of astronomy has to do with things like mass, gravity etc which predicts things like Pluto’s trajectory.
That’s why no one says there is difficulty to falsify..That’s why einstein was able to show that gravity does not follow Newton’s laws in some special cases.. and thus pointing to the possibility of a better fundamental understanding.