Physics and Reality.

Reality is prime. If anything exists, it is only
because reality allows it to exist. Physics is a
science by which man endeavors to determine reality.
It is reality being determined, since reality is all
that there is to be determined.
Physics is able to be a science precisely because
the nature of reality allows it to be a science.
Reality has shown itself to act according to laws or
principles, which makes it repeatable. That is, if
the same situation exists, the same results occur.
The scientific method uses this characteristic of
reality to employ tests to make decisions as to what
reality is.
Reany does the following: Reany is able to
identify weaknesses in man (he only has five senses),
and weaknesses in science (it can never test
everything), and weaknesses in reality itself (it
makes no effort to directly tell us things), and
concludes that man will never ever really know
reality. This is, of course, only an assumption. He
takes this assumption, and without any scientific
testing to support this assumption, he assumes that
his assumption is correct, and therefore concludes
that physics cannot be about finding reality.
Thus, to him, physics is only about determining
the results of tests. Well, all this is of course
silly, and has no science to it at all. It is all
useless speculations. And Reany tries to make it
physics, with no defining testing to support his
conclusions. Thus, he is acting like a philosopher,
not a scientist, and has corrupted everything he has
touched.
Only time will really tell us what limits we might
eventually reach in this effort to find reality. But
so far, as others have already pointed out to Reany,
we really do know much. And the successes of science
can easily be seen and appreciated.
I have often suggested to Reany, that he ought to
take his philosophy, and determine ways in which it
can be tested. If he could actually test even one
point of any philosophy, he would go down in history
as being the first man to advance this area of
thought. But he seems to miss the importance of this
point.
What ever we might eventually be able to do, or
not do, cannot change the fact that the purpose of
science is to help man understand, and thus, control,
his reality. And we are doing this. And we will
continue to do this. And there really is no end in
sight. You, Reany, need to be more optimistic. You
definitely need to be more scientific. All these
things would do you, and us, a world of good!

Thanks for reading.
Gerald L. O'Barr