Sentences with phrase «alternative body of theory»

Not exact matches

An accepted comprehensive theory is overthrown not primarily by discordant data but by an alternative theory; we should visualize not a two - way confrontation of theory and experiment, but a complex confrontation of rival theories and a body of data of varying degrees of susceptibility to reinterpretation.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

The theory behind it is that emptying your stomach and depriving of the main energy source for a period of time has your body seeks out an alternative or secondary energy source, which is stored fat.

But Darwin's theory of evolution, like modern climate science, made sense of a vast body of observations that had no alternative explanation: there was therefore a clash between disciplines.

Ah, denialists try to play being skeptical about the near two hundred year body of literature that includes research into every posited alternative hypothesis, when the issue is really their paranoid conspiracy theory.

For me, that begins with people accepting that there is no hiding place left in the science — the overwhelming consensus of the vast body of scientists that study climate is that the trends we are seeing in the air, the oceans and in our ecosystems are entirely consistent with the theory of global warming, while the alternatives offered by sceptical scientists — even the much heralded role of the Sun — so far fail that test.

I would research myself to find alternative theories, as many have done before and proved wrong the «body of qualified scientists».