It is fine to hypothesize/speculate such topics. The problem is they move them to the state of "theory" which in the scientific method should never occur without experimentation and observation.
It is important to realize that "Theoretical X" where X is some scientific field usually implies people are trying to come up with ideas that can explain oddities we observe in X that we can't quite prove. So they are really just hypothesis/speculations that seem like they COULD prove something if we could measure them.
They still have value. The problem is that people treat them as truth, when really all they are is a guess that might be true, or have elements of truth.
Agreed @dwinblood. But one could argue that it is all "Theoretical X". At any point in time (or understanding) a problem is only explained by the person trying to define it to an extent that there are no more questions that can be asked by the person asking questions. Hence my reference to dark energy and matter (or shall we call it fudge factors to make the math work).
What do we really know?
Agree with your conclusion on climate change.
I am young compared to most talking on this subject and I have actually started despising the words science and scientist. Not for what you know it to mean but for what I have realized it has become. It should be a search for answers not profits. We are very far off course.
It is fine to hypothesize/speculate such topics. The problem is they move them to the state of "theory" which in the scientific method should never occur without experimentation and observation.
It is important to realize that "Theoretical X" where X is some scientific field usually implies people are trying to come up with ideas that can explain oddities we observe in X that we can't quite prove. So they are really just hypothesis/speculations that seem like they COULD prove something if we could measure them.
They still have value. The problem is that people treat them as truth, when really all they are is a guess that might be true, or have elements of truth.
Agreed @dwinblood. But one could argue that it is all "Theoretical X". At any point in time (or understanding) a problem is only explained by the person trying to define it to an extent that there are no more questions that can be asked by the person asking questions. Hence my reference to dark energy and matter (or shall we call it fudge factors to make the math work).
What do we really know?
Agree with your conclusion on climate change.
I am young compared to most talking on this subject and I have actually started despising the words science and scientist. Not for what you know it to mean but for what I have realized it has become. It should be a search for answers not profits. We are very far off course.