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Maciej Wozniak wrote:
>
> It is - right - determining the truth.

yes.

> Just not in the way you think.

And maybe not the way YOU think, either :-)

> Science is setting it, not discovering it.

I disagree, Woz.  Scientists have been dragged
kicking and screaming into relativity.  Einstein
was dragged k&s into QM, etc.

“Relativity and quantum mechanics were not invented because someone
thought it would be a good idea for the universe to obey these rules;
rather, these revolutionary ideas were forced upon us by nature.”
-- Lawrence M. Krauss

> We need a good description of the reality.
> Good - means: optimized. Science is solving
> the puzzle of optimized set of axioms and
> definitions. Or rather - axioms including
> its special form - definitions.

Axioms come after the discovery.  The postulates
of SR came from observation of reality, then
equations were derived, then confirmation by
further observation (results of experiments).