>> No, you don't investigate both possibilities. You investigate the regular
>> possibility, and only when it's ruled out do you investigate the weird
>> one.
>
>If you've lived through what Peter's lived through, the weird one may not
>seem as weird.

Correct. Also, scientists don't tend to think in terms of what's "weird,"
that's a subjective and pointless term. Either something is true, and
provable, or it isn't. Weird doesn't enter into it. If weird were a criterion
for ignoring something, then the entire area of quantum physics wouldn't exist.
jms

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