Science does not gather facts, the facts exist whether science understands them or not. Facts exist in the objective reality that science tries to understand, but science does not create facts. The facts that validate relativity did not come into existence because of the logic of the argument, they exist independent of how complete our understanding of the universe is.
An excellent point, to be sure, that facts exist independently from our desire. However, if no one is there to discern the fact from the fiction, then isn't it similar to another crux?
We've all heard the one about if a tree falls in a forest, but there is no one there to hear it, if it makes a sound? Our intuition says that a tree would generate sound waves independent and irrespective of whether or not our ears were there to have those waves hit our eardrums.
But at the same time, isn't noise only understood in the context of the sound waves in conjunction with our ability to hear it?
Likewise, aren't "facts" pointless unless we are aware of them?
“This life’s dim windows of the soul, distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and goads you to believe a lie, when you see with and not through the eye.” -William Blake
™ Version 4.2
