Waaaay offtopic
Tom Legrady
legrady-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 20 04:21:21 UTC 2003
Actually, the reverse is the basis of science, ironically.
You can't prove Newton's Theory of Gravity, but given Einstein's Theory
of Relativity, you can disprove Newton's theory .... or, more precisely,
you can prove that Newton's theory is a reasonably approximation, but
only until you consider certain situations. And Einstein's theories are
disproven by the the Uncertainty Principle, and by String Theory ....
which are refinements of Einstein. But it's impossible ( so far ) to
prove any of these. Maybe String Theory will be proven, and then we'll
know everything.
What does this have to do with Perl, kernels, or memory mapping?
JoeHill wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:40:29 -0500
>James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> If someone has a claim, the onus is on them to prove their claims, not on
>> someone else to prove them wrong.
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>...actually, IIRC it isn't even logically possible to prove a negative. Been
>awhile since Formal Logic 101 for me, and many many, er, "memory-loss inducers".
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