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→Reversion Anticipated: Good point, but we need to tell why. How's this?
::Black holes and wormholes were predicted by relativity in a similar way, and both are not falsifiable and thus arguably not science. The term "[[falsifiable]]" has a real meaning and your replacement isn't quite the same. The point is that if black holes are false and non-existent, then there is no way to show that. Ditto for wormholes, and in that information should be in the introduction, not buried thousands of words later.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:36, 30 November 2009 (EST)
::Black holes and wormholes were predicted by relativity in a similar way, and both are not falsifiable and thus arguably not science. The term "[[falsifiable]]" has a real meaning and your replacement isn't quite the same. The point is that if black holes are false and non-existent, then there is no way to show that. Ditto for wormholes, and in that information should be in the introduction, not buried thousands of words later.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 21:36, 30 November 2009 (EST)
:::I don't really understand wormholes myself. It seems to me that they're a different subject and that mentioning them actually detracts from our points about black holes; however, I'll defer to you on keeping them there. And thanks for your point about the meaning in the specific word "[[falsifiable]]". My main point is that we should explain why "you can't prove there isn't a black hole somewhere in the universe" is different from "you can't prove there isn't Jack Smith somewhere in the world": because "black holes cannot be observed from outside, since not even light escapes." So, I tried to restore the chain of reasoning; I tacked wormholes on the end because I can't see a better place to put them. If you disagree with how I phrased the non-falsifiability sentence, I'd appreciate if you could try to fix that rather than revert the whole paragraph. --[[User:EvanW|EvanW]] 23:30, 30 November 2009 (EST)