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Originally Posted by Russ
Broadly speaking, science goes on the notion that it allows itself to be disproven at any time by stronger evidence. As you say this new revelation has been theorised for many years and could only be proven 100% if someone was able to view and test these 'waves'. Instead the evidence and research in their favour is very strong.
Going on what I've read about it, if the evidence was put before some kind of 'law court', it would be considered one of the biggest 'cut and dried' cases ever.
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It would seem so.
Of course it could be disproven at any time and many scientists will be trying to do so as we speak. The Higgs Boson is still being verified but it would require something extraordinary for those results to be invalidated at this point. As we learn more we may adjust what we think we already know.
The thing is these theories often led to us being able to do something practical with the knowledge. Our understanding of physics has led us to invent air travel, cars, nuclear energy and more. So even if we've made a fundamental mistake somewhere we must be correct about the aspects of how these concepts relate to each other.
As I said we can only measure and observe the world we see and work within the parameters given. The idea there could be something outside of that which would invalidate it (other dimensions, other forces, God) is useless to science as we can't test it. So it's an irrelevance as far as scientific research goes....