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no opinion ever will, that's my point. your point is that opinion should be equally regarded as verification
no, I do not acknowledge that opinion is verification... LOL, if so I should ask a one year old....
Your word "verification" implies knowing the truth... LOL, but that never will be in science because science is not bounded by time.
In science all opinion can be deemed correct... until further evidence comes to light
With new evidence, then interpretation (usually biased) comes into play... how clever can one be to incorporate that new evidence into their existing theory.... but that still does not make anything absolutely correct... neither the theory nor the new evidence nor the interpretation
absolute truth will always be elusive.... so no one can claim to be absolutely correct.... thus no one can judge another's interpretation..... all they can do is point out either factual or logical errors....
Ultimately all such mental gymnastics will be proved to be incorrect in time due to some future evidence base via repeatable observation.
Just because a brick drops to earth today really does not imply that a brick will drop to earth tomorrow....
In scientific discussions, all evidence is presented and all opinions are determined and all theories should then be scanned to see what jigsaw pieces fit those models, while always realising that many pieces to the puzzle remain hidden..some may be hidden forever.
Prediction is a useful tool to identify places where more pieces may be found.
Sometimes, what may appear like a discredited theory yesterday can become main stream tomorrow....
Only a fool is biased, only a fool knows the truth, and only a fool will claim someone is a fool for having such and such opinion.
A scientist will present further evidence, rather that attack with slander and other ill intent.
Are you a fool ?
From the information Newton was privy to, he did a fine job
today his analysis is primitive, but still correct at some level.
Neils Bohr, stated somewhere (these are not his words...he said it far more eliquently that I have here) that science is like children's blocks, at the lowest levels that theory must gel/mesh with upper level building blocks.
Newton's work underlies higher level theory in cosmic motion. An electrodynamic layer on top brings his work up to the modern day.