Is science too much about assumptions?

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TheJimbo1234 said:

pauluzzz1981 said:

Let's get this clear. I love science. I'm reading alot about science, if i can understand it. But i was watching a program on discovery about the stars, dark matter, anti-materie and wormholes. I love the theories, but aren't they going too far? I was listening to a scientist, pressumably one of the smartest people of the world and he was talking nonsense. He was talking about alternate universes and that we can create them in the future with some device. My only question was, where do we leave another universe?

Look, i know, i'm not so smart and we need people with vision. But where is the line between interesting theory and woohoo??

Maths.

Their crazy ideas are backed up by solid maths.

HOWEVER, these ideas make vast amounts of assumptions which we have no idea are true or not. Mathmatically they are sound, but if you somehow mathmatically show the sky to be pink, that does not mean it will be.

Actually it would. The colour of the sky is blue because of the elements in our atmosphere are mostly oxygen and nitrogen. An increase in other elements can change the colour of the sky, so if you have a statistic that tells you a certain element will increase a certain percentage, you can predict the colour of the sky....ofcourse there is never a sudden change except when volcanos erupt, which may cause parts of the sky to change to colours such as green temporarily.

I believe this will also be the leading method to determine whether exoplenets have a habitable envrionment or not, once we get telescopes that are good enough.