Ferro comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Rip 27 August 2007 04:07:39AM -2 points [-]

Black holes, dark matter and dark energy seem to pretty much fit this description. They are, after all, inventions tacked on to calculations, in order to make theory and calculation fit observations.

Comment author: mindbound 01 December 2010 04:08:28PM 1 point [-]

It seems somewhat hard to understand why are black holes being included in this list - for objects that by their definition cannot be observed directly, there certainly seems to be a whole lot of a solid observational evidence for their existence, both in the case of stellar and supermassive ones.

Comment author: Ferro 25 May 2012 05:51:02AM -1 points [-]

True. Higgs Boson anyone?