User:Truth-Seeker

Hello, My purpose is to find truth and reveal it to others who seek it. Whatever the subject, I like to get to the core, good or bad. If the need arises, I will make alterations to articles. However, I don't like to directly change other people's work here in Wikipedia, but I do like to give a different perspective on things. Just to help those making changes, stay objective. I like people to do extensive research on the subjects they are making into an article in Wikipedia. Information is knowledge, and knowledge is power. So the more accurate the information and the easier it is to understand the better. I like this idea of an online encyclopaedia where the knowledge of the whole world may accumulate. Clearly that also means inaccurate and false information will also accumulate here. Even so this is still a great idea and resource.

On a personal note, I would like to clear up some misunderstanding in definitions of fact and theory in science and in everyday life, for those who do not know. A fact has been proven, and is derived for things that exist. For example Gravity exists. It is an observable phenomenon, and it has specific properties that are also observable. These observable things are true facts. Thus the laws of gravity and air resistance and the mathematics also derived from these true facts, are also true. Where as on the other side we have a theory. A theory is not proven, and is not fact. And should never be presented a fact. For example the are many theories of the causes of gravity, and these are yet to be proven or unproven. These are just presumptions and assumption thus far. In other words mere speculation. These theories do not affect the fact of gravity or the laws and principles derived from it. As always, as we grow in awareness, knowledge, and understanding, ofcourse there will be refinements to much in science and to the refining of our understanding of the laws of the universe.

This is my personal definition of science: The pursuit of truth, through the study of observable nature, of the known universe. The Laws and principles derived from direct evidence from things that exist are true, although may be subject to refinement. Therefore, unless a theory can be tested and proven it is nothing but conjecture. Further, if there is any proven evidence found that goes against a theory, that theory is rendered false and rejected from science.

Although from the fictional character Sherlock Holmes there are many principles of his that apply directly to science. 1. (a)"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." (b)"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." (c)"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts." 2. "We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." 3. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different." 4. (a)"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (b)"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." 6. "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." 7. "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt."

Well that's what I have for you at the moment.