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Originally Posted by AnssiH
Obviously I don't want to advocate the ontological reality of any of them, as that would be a completely arbitrary choice. A mere belief. It's like the argument of "fairies vs. elves".
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You're not wrong, you're just inhibiting yourself. It wasn't that long ago people were honestly trying to figure out if the solar system was geocentric or not. Understand, we had a model that described the motion of the planets in the sky without the 'correct' (earth orbits around the sun) description. So there were two models and neither really worked any better than the other.
So, people I'm sure asked which was real - which was in the middle, the sun or the earth. You would have said "faeries vs. elves" and stayed above the stench. Good for you, meanwhile we did figure out which model was correct.
Same will no doubt happen with curved spacetime vs. gravitons or many other differences in interpretation we have today. Yeah, believe it or not, one of these interpretations is the more correct one.
"faeries vs. elves"
~modest
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We've both dragged this thread off topic. I appreciate that you will want to reply to this, and you should, but we're not getting anywhere and we should respect the topic me thinks.
