Unfalsifiable Astrophysics: 3 Kinds of Research with Nothing to (Dis)prove

In empiricist science, falsification means that you can only get it wrong once. In exploratory science, you only need to get it right once (and then repeat). The question is, when do we cross the line into engineering?  Also, did Rheinberger falsify Popper?😉🤣Of course, now I have to read Popper for my own research. I need to check on how Patreon works - and see my own page to see if I have any.

My work on the philosophy of science uses the tools of Jungian personality theory and of Mary Douglas work on grid-group cultural theory (which she originally came up with in studying the sociology of religion).  From what I have noticed from these is that science can be lots of things. Social science brings values (feelings) - rather than just reason - into the mix (making it more feminine). The harder sciences put reason (Jungian thinking) above whether it engages in sensory (individual) versus intuitive (communal) perception. Academy, as a rule, attempts to lionize shared intuition and reason - those being the key factors in what Mary Douglas called Hierarchism. Relying more on values than reason, but still using intuition is sectarianism (which some call egalitarianism - although reactionaries use the same methodology).  On all of these polarities, everyone does everything. One polarity is about 80-90 v 10-20, with the second being more like 60-40 - so that one can go either way on the second polarity. For example, I am an extraverted thinker - so I gather in lots of information, not concentrating one thing (introverted thinking) - and can go toward either organizing (sensory/individual) or consensus building (intuitive/group). Let's talk more.

On God and Aliens. In the world of exploratory science, if one person can be proved to have known something while in an NDE that he or she could not have otherwise known (such as someone dying or something happening that he could not have known), then that has to only happen once - which it has. Or we can think of this as falsifying the hypothesis that there is no God. Six on one, half dozen of the other.  My point is that, if NDEs are real, then the God question is pretty much solved - the only question is now how to deal with religious counterprogramming that cannot handle the concept that there is no Hell, which has led to lying in the space by injecting stories - probably lies - that claim only Jesus saves - which Jesus would have found abhorrent - as well as those of us who, using reason - cannot accept a personally vengeful God. In the Old Testament, God punished nations who turned a blind eye to the poor and abused the alien. (Comment on Gaza implied).

I mention Aliens because one way we know they are there is the reporting back of NDE survivors who say that this is not the only civilization in the galaxy - indeed, we are the primitives in a time out because of how we view sin as an opportunity to hate. The original sin is not eating the apple, it is blaming God for keeping the knowledge of the good and evil of others from us. In other words, we invented evil, rather than calling things unfortunate or dangerous. Until we stop doing this and calling it free will, we are unfit for galactic civilization. Finding faster than life travel is not the metric. Finding peace with ourselves is. Of course, once hooked into the galaxy, a whole lot of technological advancement will be technology transfer rather than a need for new science - until the youth of that period can catch up to the state of the art in the galaxy - then we can do science again.