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:::::Of course, just because general relativity hasn't been ''disproven'' doesn't mean that it's been proven.  There could be a better theory which accounts for all the gravity-probe data and states that black holes don't exist.  We don't know yet; that's the wonder of science:  God's always put more out there for us to discover!  So, we don't know that black holes do exist - that claim isn't falsifiable; we'd need to survey every square millimeter of space and say "there isn't a black hole ''here''!".  But, the theory that states they ''can'' exist is falsifiable.  I tried to reflect this dichotomy in my edits to this article. -- [[User:EvanW|EvanW]] 00:46, 13 November 2009 (EST)
 
:::::Of course, just because general relativity hasn't been ''disproven'' doesn't mean that it's been proven.  There could be a better theory which accounts for all the gravity-probe data and states that black holes don't exist.  We don't know yet; that's the wonder of science:  God's always put more out there for us to discover!  So, we don't know that black holes do exist - that claim isn't falsifiable; we'd need to survey every square millimeter of space and say "there isn't a black hole ''here''!".  But, the theory that states they ''can'' exist is falsifiable.  I tried to reflect this dichotomy in my edits to this article. -- [[User:EvanW|EvanW]] 00:46, 13 November 2009 (EST)
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::::::You make excellent points, particularly in your last paragraph above.  The introductory paragraph to [[black hole]] would benefit from this, and please feel free to edit it again (I apologize if others deleted your work).  Note, however, that it is not very practical to devise a test that could falsify General Relativity, and falsifying General Relativity would not falsify the claim that [[black holes]] exist.  Black holes are far too popular in science magazines and liberal publications like the New York Times to "go away" that easily.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 09:52, 13 November 2009 (EST)
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