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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 10:48:11 +0200
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On 01/10/2024 05:48, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 2:40:55 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:58:46 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
>>
>>> The false religion of “science” failed.
>>
>> Science is not a religion. Science, unlike religion, works whether you
>> believe in it or not.
> 
> Science, unlike religion, adjusts to the current set of facts--whatever
> they may be.
> 

It would be better to say that science adjusts to the current set of 
/evidence/ - our measurements of facts.  The orbit of Mercury around the 
Sun is a fact, and has not changed over the centuries.  Our measurements 
of it have changed as our experimental tools improved, and science 
changed accordingly (from Newtonian gravity to relativity).

Sometimes new evidence directly disproves old theories or conjectures 
(such as the flogistan theory of fire), other times it gives more a 
accurate model while leaving the old one as a reasonable approximation 
in many situations (like gravity).