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Comment author: Peterdjones 08 October 2012 08:24:10PM -1 points [-]

One correct probability estimate of what? You are tacitly assuming that someone has mapped the ideaspace and presented you with a tidy menu of options. But no-one could have converged on relativity before Einstein because he hadn't thought of it yet. Guessing bad, hypothesing good.

So...no.