Exactly.Uhh? Duh! — tom
In a nut shell: scientific claims must necessarily relate to the physical (or actual) world we live in, in such a way that it is somehow conceivably observable, or else it's predictions can never be tested, and therefore can never be falsified, which would render us unable to determine if it is a predictively reliable belief or not — VagabondSpectre
I suppose that means that various interpretations of quantum mechanics are not scientific? — Michael
What's the difference between a philosophical belief and a scientific belief? — Martian From Venus
When it comes to some other hypotheses, like the many worlds interpretation of QM phenomenon, we are not yet and may never be able to use it to make any predictions or run any experiments to see if it holds true with what is observable. — VagabondSpectre
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