ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter, together with a number of contexts earlier in the book, evidence has been offered to suggest that at least some traditional applied science models of empirical science are inadequate to enclose not only exploratory areas of empirical science, but also some of the deeper topics in microphysics and cosmology. In these respects, some science is not a master of facts, but a subtle enquirer after the experimental and theoretical accurate representation of the external world. As science advances, the roles of conjecture, refutation, imagination and counter-intuitive pathways have expanded the criteria of what it is to be such science. Although there is a large amount of invariance in scientific concepts as they are refined and developed, there is a significant proportion, especially in cosmology and microphysics, where the degree of theoretical imagination seems exponentially to develop disproportionately to its past track record. In these perspectives the bold leap forward is not infrequently confirmed by experiment or observation-linked calculations. It appears, in these spheres at least, that the identity of science is increasingly unpredicted or unpredictable.
