Although nothing prevents you from dreaming at least on papar with the hopes that as the result of your contemplation of something potentially different than what is commonly accepted you may arrive at an equally innovative solution... Mind you that depite all the physical limitations which have been theoretically summarised, nothing prevents nature from acting differently in consideration of the fact that our physical laws are descriptive of phenomena which occur with startling causality with a level of prediction which is first and foremost based on accumulated observation which gave purpose for the edification of specific pĥysical laws which only exist because of the relation to observe between theory and observation such observations being deemed as being faithfully representative of reality...
If this guy wanted to say that science is inductive, why didn't he just say so? Geeez! I SO want to reply to this, but I know it would be pointless. He seems to be saying that anything at all can happen, because science is "only" based on what we have observed to happen. He does have a point of sorts. With the very great wealth of carefully gathered scientific evidence we have gathered over the past few hundred years however, there are physical principles that in all probability will never be overturned. (That's not to say we have everything figured out, but that it is far more likely that physical laws will be refined rather than falsified.)
I'm so glad I studied philosophy of science. The popular conception of science is so far removed from the actual practice of it. I shudder to remember that I too once suffered from a similar kind of ignorance.
What do you think, am I being arrogant?
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