This still doesn't help you get around the problem posed by epistomological solipsism. You could easily perceive that others are getting the same results as you--but your senses are telling you all of that (you must read it or hear it somewhere, or otherwise receive the information).
Epistomological solipsism is an exercise in futility. Since if nothing is real, everything is an illusion, then talking to anyone is useless, talking about anything is useless, discussing anything is useless, any experiment is useless, everything is simply useless. After all, none of it, is real, nothing you ever do can mean anything, including debates on it. It is therefor illogical to even debate the notion; for that debate too, is useless. Anyone who goes with solipsism and even bothers to talk to anyone, especially about that, is someone who is contradicting him or herself.
You and I agree that when it comes to the material world, that is the means by which a theory is proven. And we do both accept the input of the senses--to Trent, I am not the sort of person who believes I am the only being in the universe: there is a difference between that sort of solipsism and epistomological solipsism (the latter being that you simply cannot prove that anything but one's perceptions are real). I choose, though without conclusive proof, to accept the reality of the physical universe and those in it, to include you because it is the most logical possibility.
However, I challenge you guys to consider why you make the decision you do: why have you accepted that the input of your senses is valid?
Ah, no actually, one's perceptions cannot be proven as real at all - in fact, if everything is false around us, they are indeed false. Indeed, we KNOW for a certain FACT that our perceptions are FALSE. After all, we do not see atoms and electrons and positrons and such, we see a solid object. We feel as if we touch that solid object when we do so, when in fact, we do not. It's the electromagnetic forces of the atoms that we and the object are made off, that repel each other - the atoms/you/the object, do in fact, never touch at all. Indeed, seeing as the only way we could somehow quantify our perceptions is to use the things we cannot prove exist, our perceptions cannot be proven to be real either. After all, if we're trapped inside of a Matrix-like contraption, all our perceptions are simply false data fed directly into our brains.
In short; if we go by epistomological solipsism we cannot be sure of anything, so any debate on anything is pointless, we might as well shoot ourselves in the head. Which is the reason why I don't bother with it. As I said: it's and exercise in futility.
Indeed, a TRUE scientist, would not only entirely trust it even then, but would say, this must be the way things are, until more and/or better data and a more and/or better theories come along to prove it wrong.
Sadly, this last seems to be lacking in most "scientists" these days.
What are you basing that on?
Because of the reason that anyone brings up theories that are multi-dimensional in nature and points out anomalies that can't be explained by present day theories, but can be explained by those multi-dimensional theories (except when it's that established ridiculous string theory) the dissertation on it, will not even be opened and read. It will be sent back unopened, even if inside it, it hold's the writings of present day Newton, that has theories, experiments to support them, and show those dimensions are real and quantifiable and useable. It will all be sent back, unopened.
That's not science, that is blind faith, refusing to look through the telescope.
