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"Benj" wrote in message
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> Obviously agnosticism is a "religion" (system of belief) but that
> wasn't what I was talking about. Agnosticism is a valid position of
> science. (I don't know! However the rest of that "this can NEVER be
> known" is clearly NOT valid in science) My attack upon Fred was
> because of his overt insistence in validity of physics dogma (fields
> exist, Maxwell's equations are absolutely true in ALL cases and never
> fail, etc.). These statements are clearly matters of "faith" for him
> rather than a result of a careful examination of all experimental
> evidence. I call matters of "faith" religion. Don't you?

LOL! Apparently you have never played with bar magnets nor charged
objects. If static electric and magnetic fields are not involved then
what the heck would you call it? I'm a mechanical type of person and
would never buy into spooky action at a distance nonsense. I suspect I
have examined the experimental evidence quite a bit more than you have.
And anyone with common sense can plainly see that Maxwell's equations
are too simple for them not to be correct for the classical EM domain.
I hardly think that agreeing with close to 100 percent of what other
physicists think is "faith" based. LOL! The burden of proof here is on
you. Not me. If you can prove that Maxwell's Equations fail in the
classical domain, then a trip awaits you with all its glory. Theories
can only be proven wrong.

Best,

Fred Diether
Co-moderator sci.physics.foundations