>>16709100 (OP)"it's all just models, man" -said in different ways by two smart profs
"keep asking questions and stay healthy. check your assumptions (from programming experience and logic)" -me
we do not typically directly prove things when using the scientific method in the modern way,
we repeatedly reject null hypotheses under increasingly stringent conditions which allow us to make affirmative claims with certain degrees of confidence, claims about dispelling the opposite of what we are trying to prove
life uh, finds a way