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Unfortunately, this subject triggers a barrage of emotive response and a great dumping of previous baggage.
Having read the previous discussion I believed that it was all in the name.
“Theory Development” suggested credibility = factual. That encouraged critical attack.
“Fairy Tale” suggests incredibility = fiction.
I am interested in the way people think, (or don't), and the multiple different interpretations possible. On reflection, there is a subliminal fear that physics can itself be interpreted as an internally consistent fairy tale, that is still under development. There must be very many people who are unable to tell the difference between a science and a fairy tale. I guess PF must draw a line in the sand somewhere.
The imaginative human mind seems quite happy to come up with what we call science fiction. The next generation then researches the science necessary to make it happen. Fiction leads science by 90°, they may be orthogonal but they are in the same plane.
Having read the previous discussion I believed that it was all in the name.
“Theory Development” suggested credibility = factual. That encouraged critical attack.
“Fairy Tale” suggests incredibility = fiction.
I am interested in the way people think, (or don't), and the multiple different interpretations possible. On reflection, there is a subliminal fear that physics can itself be interpreted as an internally consistent fairy tale, that is still under development. There must be very many people who are unable to tell the difference between a science and a fairy tale. I guess PF must draw a line in the sand somewhere.
The imaginative human mind seems quite happy to come up with what we call science fiction. The next generation then researches the science necessary to make it happen. Fiction leads science by 90°, they may be orthogonal but they are in the same plane.