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Post by Odysseus on Oct 28, 2021 12:46:36 GMT
OK, you just gotta love these physicists. Seems like no matter what they cannot find, they tout it as a sure sign that they've found something even better than what they were looking for. LOL.
And who knows? Maybe they'll discover the ultimate secret of... nothing...
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Post by elmerfudd on Nov 13, 2021 2:38:15 GMT
I would say Prof Mark Thomson, if he considers this stuff pretty exciting, lacks the personality to be an economist.
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Post by Mercy for All on Nov 16, 2021 0:19:15 GMT
OK, you just gotta love these physicists. Seems like no matter what they cannot find, they tout it as a sure sign that they've found something even better than what they were looking for. LOL.
And who knows? Maybe they'll discover the ultimate secret of... nothing...
When you're trying to fill in the blanks on a major complex theory (or "set of theories") a "missing particle" can be a big deal, "pretty exciting" as much because of the new questions it raises as the expectations it does not fulfill. |
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Post by Odysseus on Nov 16, 2021 1:57:36 GMT
I would say Prof Mark Thomson, if he considers this stuff pretty exciting, lacks the personality to be an economist.
LOL...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 20:31:39 GMT
In order to write these articles understandable by the layman, they have to simplify the theories. Sometimes the simplification is so drastic that fundamental elements are left out.
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Post by elmerfudd on Nov 22, 2021 3:41:12 GMT
a subatomic particle known as the "sterile neutrino" doesn't sound like a very promising smoking gun with regard to the creation of the universe. I still gotta invoke a magical, ineffable, inexplicable, eternal (no beginning, no end) creator, one who also created time along with stuff and space to 'splain it. Seems more believable than magical, ineffable, inexplicable, eternal (no beginning, no end) stuff of some sort, including sterile neutrinos and particles of space dust that coalesced into that infinitely dense thing that burst open (big bang) and began expanding into something that is not space because space was created at that time too, along with time.
In that case you have magic without a magician.
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Post by Odysseus on Nov 22, 2021 4:45:13 GMT
As a continuing student of science (one never stops learning), I generally reject supernatural arguments in favor of what can be described and authenticated as thoroughly as possible.
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Post by Mercy for All on Nov 22, 2021 14:12:18 GMT
As a continuing student of science (one never stops learning), I generally reject supernatural arguments in favor of what can be described and authenticated as thoroughly as possible. There are real limits to what can be authenticated. |
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Post by elmerfudd on Nov 23, 2021 2:28:18 GMT
As a continuing student of science (one never stops learning), I generally reject supernatural arguments in favor of what can be described and authenticated as thoroughly as possible. There are real limits to what can be authenticated. like the origin of the universe. |
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Post by Odysseus on Nov 23, 2021 12:09:05 GMT
There are real limits to what can be authenticated. like the origin of the universe.
Of course. But that is no reason to resort to airy-fairy explanations for why things are the way they are.
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Post by elmerfudd on Nov 23, 2021 15:20:07 GMT
like the origin of the universe.
Of course. But that is no reason to resort to airy-fairy explanations for why things are the way they are.
100% agree. And I have not done that. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2021 21:18:21 GMT
The imbeciles who keep saying "god" or "creator" each time they are told anything in relation to the origins of the universe like broken records or parrots on amphetamines are not just annoying they are also idiotically ignoring how much unlikelier is a ready-made magically-perfect being than an impersonal clockwork-like universe. They don't realize the naiveté of what their addled minds mistake for subtlety and savviness. They don't realize how much their predictable clichéed objections have no more relevance in any debate of that sort than white noise.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2021 23:11:15 GMT
As a continuing student of science (one never stops learning), I generally reject supernatural arguments in favor of what can be described and authenticated as thoroughly as possible. There are real limits to what can be authenticated. "Real"... again. Ironically, you use that word a lot. |
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Post by Odysseus on Nov 28, 2021 8:05:41 GMT
There are real limits to what can be authenticated. "Real"... again. Ironically, you use that word a lot.
Really?
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Post by bama beau on Dec 3, 2021 6:18:08 GMT
There are real limits to what can be authenticated. "Real"... again. Ironically, you use that word a lot. But certainly in that context he used it correctly, no? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2021 6:28:12 GMT
"Real"... again. Ironically, you use that word a lot. But certainly in that context he used it correctly, no? Not really. |
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Post by bama beau on Dec 3, 2021 6:52:47 GMT
But certainly in that context he used it correctly, no? Not really. Go answer the Movie Quote. |
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