Hi Goldenverse,

Please do not ask your readers to examine lengthy references, and give "their thoughts". I can buy a book in a charity shop and do that.

By all means supply a reference but, if you have a specific issue to raise, summarise the relevant points and phrase your question in a way which invites agreement or disagreement supported by critical analysis of the reference. Don't be a lazy thinker!

As an offering: Bacon tended to think that if one could only amass sufficient data, the explanatory hypothesis would become obvious, like the picture in a jigsaw puzzle. I t would drop out under its own weight, so to speak. We now know, what Bacon couldn't have guessed, that it isn't as easy as that. There is always more than one explanatory hypothesis. Because "not only is the Universe a queer place, it is queerer than we can imagine".