"Guidelines for Participating in Speculations Discussions" — Discussion Thread

[swansont]

16 hours ago, thetwoyous said:

Your rules on speculations. 

These rules limit "speculations," and open the door for the naysayers that enjoy trashing new ideas and concepts that are in conflict with theirs.  

Until testable, Einstein's theory of relativity was just a speculation. By the rules posted here his theories would have been moved to the trash can because they were initially untestable.

No, he had a mathematical model for special relativity, derived from mainstream physics, and the predictions were in principle testable. (i.e. the limits were technological, and not a shortcoming of the hypothesis)

He later developed a model for GR, which was also testable, and was in fact tested just a few years later.

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He comprehended the concept of relativity then spent years trying to define and describe the concept.  Many accepted theories are speculations that do not pass the test of "based on what." Example: The accepted terms and theories as relating to short and long term memories.  We know that some memories are short, lasting a few seconds and some memories last a life time.  But we cannot yet prove scientifically what determines their longevity, and so according to the forum rules we cannot speculate or offer a theory as to the root cause basis of memory longevity.  ARG! 

You can formulate an hypothesis and describe how you would test it, and explain how such tests would tend to confirm or falsify your hypothesis. If you can't do that, then you're guessing.