Talk:Scientific method/Invariants

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Acrotatus, I copied your text here (fixed a typo):

There is a fundamental assumption in scientific method and this is that the scientific "laws" should always be space-time position independent or bounded to strictly defined space-time co-ordinates. This assumption is made to preserve that experiments and their results are also space-time position independent or space-time position bounded, so that it is not necessary to repeat experiments to all space-time co-ordinates in order to be able to prove a scientific theory. If the laws that govern experiments are position independent and/or cannot be bounded in a specific space-time position, then the experiments have to be repeated to all space-time co-ordinates (or to all bounded space-time co-ordinates the scientific theory requires), in order for the scientific theory to be proved.

Acrotatus, refer to the Latin phrases ceteris paribus and mutatis mutandis, meaning approximately other things being the same and changing what needs to be changed. Einstein and Born and other scientists used these words all the time. They are speaking from the tradition of geometry and logic which we are all intellectually descended from.

The mathematical term lifting also refers to your line of thought, but speaking specifically about some mathematical objects and not necessarily about spacetime.

In other words, many people have thought what you wrote down, and I personally believe that statements very similar to what you have written could be placed as preface to several of the mathematics or physics articles which currently are mostly formulas.

What I personally disagree with is the use of scientific method in your statement above. If you were to substitute scientific thought then I would actually agree with the statement above. Ancheta Wis 10:34, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

That is also the reason that the statement is technically not part of the scientific method article, but belongs to another part of the body of knowledge in Wikipedia.