[B5JMS] Amazing Spider-Man #510 (SPOILER SPACE--BIG REVELATION)

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From: "W. Blaine Dowler" <fiziko at NOSPAMbureau42.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:58:33 GMT

Ken Arromdee wrote:

> No, you don't investigate both possibilities.  You investigate the regular
> possibility, and only when it's ruled out do you investigate the weird
> one.

If you've lived through what Peter's lived through, the weird one may not
seem as weird.

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 16 Aug 2004 20:53:42 GMT

>> No, you don't investigate both possibilities.  You investigate the regular
>> possibility, and only when it's ruled out do you investigate the weird
>> one.
>
>If you've lived through what Peter's lived through, the weird one may not
>seem as weird.

Correct.  Also, scientists don't tend to think in terms of what's "weird,"
that's a subjective and pointless term.  Either something is true, and
provable, or it isn't.  Weird doesn't enter into it.  If weird were a criterion
for ignoring something, then the entire area of quantum physics wouldn't exist.
 jms

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