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And the point I'm making is that "just because we falsified stuff before, we can do it again" is a bad argument, since the knowledge 1000 years ago was based on easily falsified beliefs, whereas now our understanding of the universe today is a lot more rigorous. Our laws aren't just a fit of observations, they've predicted plenty of observations as well.
Saying that "we can discover how to travel faster than light, because we used to believe the Sun circled around the Earth" is a poor argument.

Furthermore, the falsifications we've done historically haven't necessarily radically changed existing theory. Newton's laws of motion are still plenty valid under most normal conditions.

We never falsified stuff. Just because it was incorrect doesn't mean it was falsified. It was just a belief that people had based on their observations before new observations came in and corrected it. If there's new information that contradicts our theories, then we have to correct them to account for those new scenarios.

And honestly, I can't see how someone can dedicate their life to a field of exploration without a sense of wonder and "what if". To create things that are considered revolutionary, like Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin, you have to feel like you're doing the impossible.
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