From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 09:26:22 MST
Amara,
I copied and pasted the text exactly as sent by "Ron" Ebert who is a
physicist. I too see models as practical applications of theories.
Perhaps general semantics are interefering here. I forwarded your
message to the Skeptic list and quoted Ron's reply again as I received
it. Perhaps Ron will reply once again.
Terry
*****
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> Terry: You garbled too many quotes. Please keep the appropriate
> headers- the parts where I spoke and the parts where the
> other scientists (cosmologists, physicists, astronomers, etc.)
> spoke, and then there is a person whose name is at the end
> named Robert Ebert that I guess was disagreeing with every
> statement by all persons. Too confusing to me to sort it
> out.
>
> Amara
>
> BTW: news to me that a model is not a theory...
> I wonder what I've been doing the last n years!
>
> ("models are merely visualizations" ... what???).
> To my understanding and last 20 years experience, models are the
> *applications* of the theory, that is what it meant when you see the
> term 'model' used in scientific journal articles as well as when you
> hear scientists talk. Models are usually described with math,
> sometimes with computer code and so on. Maybe Robert Ebert has
> different experience with this term, mine comes from astrophysics,
> atmospheric physics, planetary science, geophysics.
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