Comment by taneq
7 years ago
Uh, all your examples illustrate the core fact that our current theories are pretty close (to within many decimal places, usually) and that anything new isn't going to completely upend our expectations, even if it posits a completely new way of looking at things.
As the OP said, its not about upending expectations about precision of measurement.
After all you can make the geocentric model infinitely precise with enough epicycles, it can match all and every earthbound observation to any degree of precision.
That does not change the fact that it is fundamentally wrong.