alt.sci.physics

First I just thought about how many times I've heard the phrase:

"We take vision and make it reality"

That's ironic right? I hope I'm not so off base that I've made up false
irony.

The other thing is, well, I really do want to go back over basic Physics but
I want to do it in the context of furthering my skillset as a software
developer.

Thought (1) is should we maybe stop assigning names to overlapping fields of
study? If they overlap, maybe they should just be taken as a single uniion.

Thought (2) Math is definately, beyond a shadow of a doubt, completely
different from science. It is based on counting and rules for representing
quantities, and has it's basis in abstract human thought. So it should be
studied separately. This doesn't detract from it's usefulness as a tool in
study, but keeping the distinction in mind forces you to remember the
equation may be true, but it does necissarily represent truth.

Thought (3) Should statments and remarks about science, and the act of
studying it, be firmly defined as to the domain and scope of the
descriptions they yeild, modeling what we see? It seems silly to think
about relativity when you are box, but not so silly when you are planning a
flight to another planet right?

Thought (4) Is it not a good idea to make a library of milestones,
experiments, adademically accepted correct theories, degrees of debate among
other theories, and so forth.

Thought (5) Do you think I have my head in the clouds if I think I can begin
to put together a framework for producing something in line with what I"m
alluding to?

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On Basis:

So the scientific method tells us to look around and take what we know, and
then extrapolate an hypothesis with an experiement to see if it is right.

I like that. It's rooted in observation.

But what about when you make a theory and you do some experiments that back
it up?

Is it useful to extrapolate situations that you have no chance of
experiencing?

I'm stuck on this one, because compouters can sertainly simulate these
extrapolated scenarios, but they rely on equations behaving how we think
they would, not how we have observed the do.

Any thoughts welcome. I'm really putting this together.