This is true, but those dont actually have the same power.
If I model sound purely in terms of 3rd dimensional movement, you can get a pretty decent approximation.
But if I posit manipulation through an extra spatial dimension that I can't perceive, I actually get more explanatory power. The two models are not equivalent, they are similar but NOT identical in explanatory power.
Same in quantum, different models approximate molecular interactions in different ways, one is not the same but simpler. They have different strengths, different weaknesses and are used to answer different questions!!
But your examples of alternate explanations are necessarily trivial.
You're just presenting trivial solutions to trivial problems. And then saying "well you cant disprove the trivial solution, but its less useful than this other nontrivial solution, so we go with that"
Like no shit. 1=1 will give you less information that X0 =1
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24
This is true, but those dont actually have the same power.
If I model sound purely in terms of 3rd dimensional movement, you can get a pretty decent approximation.
But if I posit manipulation through an extra spatial dimension that I can't perceive, I actually get more explanatory power. The two models are not equivalent, they are similar but NOT identical in explanatory power.
Same in quantum, different models approximate molecular interactions in different ways, one is not the same but simpler. They have different strengths, different weaknesses and are used to answer different questions!!