Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190617222636/@comment-32182236-20190701143820

There's a difference between declaring something has no meaning, and declaring it doesn't exist.

The question we need to ask ourselves is:Does the theory still make sense, with the evidence?

Monster SOULs aren't made of hope, love, and compassion... Because the Underground was devoid of hope at one point, but not devoid of SOULs. So the book was wrong.

Gaster made an experiment in Entry 17.. You point to the "Darker, yet Darker", as evidence that it was an evil, dark experiment... When it could have just meant that it was literally dark.

That's what I mean when I say evidence doesn't have a bunch of meaning. It's still there, and you can't contradict it.. But you don't have to make it a big part of the story. That's what I mean when I say rocks are sometimes just rocks. Is there any meaning to Pluto's existence? I'd argue no.. But if a theory still contradicts it, we can still eliminate it.

That's the dividing line. I say you can't contradict it.. As in, if you put it in, the theory's not busted. If there's a row of rocks forming a wall, and I say that Frisk ran straight through the room, I'm wrong. They wouldn't be able to... They'd have to carefully step over the rocks. But if I said that since the west sight was lighter than the east side, Frisk walking over the rocks signifies a transition between a realm of light and a realm of darkness... That's not a reasonable assumption. That's adding meaning to meaningless "evidence".

Now do you understand it better?

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As I said.. Relativity was a genius invention. Einstien was a genius at first. His science revolutionized it. By finding a problem with Newtonian relativity, and making a new theory, he helped bring forth much of modern physics.

If I were in his place... I'd probably deduce that there's a problem with Newtonian physics, and Death Blow it... But I wouldn't have been able to form Relativity after it. And since it's common practice for scientists to go with the closest approximation.. A modified version of Newtonian physics would probably be used by them. I might have found gravitational waves by looking at the anomaly itself.. And then deduced that forces travel at that speed (it's really causality itself, but I wouldn't hit that point.).. But I wouldn't have been able to figure out that gravity was space-time warping...

As I said, I'm great at breaking theories... But not very good at making them.

He was a genius alright.. At first.

But once he let emotion override logic ("God does not play dice!"), that's what made him wrong about quantum mechanics.

The problem wasn't him. The problem was letting emotion override logic. Something you should never do.

Just because you mess up once doesn't mean you're not smart. But that doesn't chance the fact that you messed up. We have to learn from that. We can't rely on a flawed method. "God does not play dice" is basically the real-world equivelent of "Toby wouldn't do that".

Basically.. Relativity=good, "God does not play dice"=bad.

I've revised my theory on who the statue is.. I used to say it was Asriel. And while my calendar theory brings Asriel back as a possibility, I think it's more likely to be a Royal Guard, because that relies on only one assumption instead of THREE. (Royal Guard existed before Chara, instead of the monster year being made different than the already-established human year, PLUS the assumption that Asriel's friendship lasted less than a month, AND that the fountain could have been built in less than a month.)

As I said, my response to Chapter 10 cannot exist until my Mother Interlude is finished. Otherwise, I'd mess it up.

But you still have Chapters 8 and 9 to look at-You never responded to those.