Scientific Progress

[Mark Knowles]

There is a good chance that we will never be able to read the VM text. 

• if we cannot find the way to break the code
  
• if the system used to encode is was imperfect, or like a one-way cipher
  
• if it has no semantic meaning
  
• ...
  

In any of those scenarios, most theories will be unfalsifiable. Without the solution to the text, it is much easier to think of theories that cannot be falsified than those that can.

I suppose I am more optimistic that the text will be broken even if the system used to encode it was imperfect and I doubt it has no semantic meaning.

However even if none of those things are the case I still there is a lot of scope for falsifying theories. I think there is huge scope for finding documents in archives or elsewhere as yet unknown to the Voynich community, but very relevant to the Voynich manuscript. With time more and more documents will become known to Voynich researchers. And in the hopeful scenario that human civilisation does not come to an end all relevant surviving documents will at some time be identified.