User:Nemesis75/Scientific Conventionalism

The principle most associated with Popperism is the "falsifiability" of a theory. The following is an excerrpt from Stanford's Library: ''It is easy, he argues, to obtain evidence in favour of virtually any theory, and he consequently holds that such ‘corroboration’, as he terms it, should count scientifically only if it is the positive result of a genuinely ‘risky’ prediction, which might conceivably have been false. For Popper, a theory is scientific only if it is refutable by a conceivable event. Every genuine test of a scientific theory, then, is logically an attempt to refute or to falsify it, and one genuine counter-instance falsifies the whole theory.''

Einstein himself seems to be a proponent of Popperism: "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." -Albert Einstein

Recently just such an experiment seems to have been performed: ...the measured field is a surprising one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein’s General Relativity predicts. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GSP/SEM0L6OVGJE_0.html