Re: BBC 100 Most Popular books


Will Frank wrote:
Gene Ward Smith e-mused:

Until something is DISPROVEN, then it is fair game for SF.

Science is math. You don't have proofs in it.

...Huh? Math has plenty of proofs, and science, well, it at least has
disproofs. (Sorry, I've been studying Karl Popper lately.)

Typo; should have said "isn't". And even a Popperian falsification
isn't a proof.

all theoretically possible according to Real Life
Physicists (tm).

Oh, really? How, exactly, does physics show these are possible?

I think his point is that they show the possible by not showing they're
impossible.

And that differs from magic exactly how?

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