Itoero

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Christianity and Islam are the biggest religions.(I counted them) Many Christians can't forgive people for being atheist or homosexual. A good friend of mine lives in Italy with an Italian catholic girl. She was pregnant but the baby was unwanted. He proposed abortus and for saying that she sued him and they broke up for a while...being an Italian catholic prevented her from acting like a normal person. She was indoctrinated as a child with religious 'morality'. The main story in Christianity is the one of Jesus's sacrifice...Why couldn't God just forgive people without a 'human' sacrifice? In Islam, apostates are most of the times punished and can even be killed...why cant they forgive people for apostasy? Most Islam terrorism comes from the fact that they can't forgive people for being different...this difference creates imaginary social injustice. Or why can't they forgive people for making cartoons about Mohammad? (Charlie Hebdo)

the irony

Wingsuit flying is the sport of gliding through the air using a wingsuit which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. It's indeed not flying, but it's a start.

When you registered, was it said they would send an activation email? I think Mods often have to send the e-mail....they can chose not to send one. You have to wait.

It's often via an activation e-mail. It happens it takes a while before it is sent...it's not always automatically.

I had to get used to it but I find it a positive upgrade. It's a bit more 'customer friendly'.

I used the word 'probably', it was just an idea. And 'godsdienst' is not always the same as 'religie'. 'religie' is the real translation from 'religion'. edit: a real translation of 'godsdienst' is 'god service' or 'service of god'

Today I learned that male Chinese hamsters have very large testicles. http://www.noobooweb.com/Chinese_Info

In humans neurons store knowledge and consciousness comes from the interpretation of stored knowledge. So the amount of neurons might be a guide line for the consciousness of an animal. But not all neurons can store knowledge. An African Elephant has 3 times as much neurons as humans, it contains 257 billion neurons. However, 97.5% of the neurons in the elephant brain are found in the cerebellum, this might be related to sensorimotor specializations. The larger absolute number of neurons in the human cerebral cortex (but not in the whole brain) is correlated with the superior cognitive abilities of humans compared to elephants and other large-brained mammals.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4053853/ It's those cognitive abilities that cause are superior consciousness. The amount of neurons in the cerebral cortex of mammals is imo related to the consciousness of mammals. An interesting fact: In humans, the Neocortex is the largest part of the Cerebral Cortex. They found that the long finned pilot whale has more neocortical neurons then humans.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocortex#Evolution

True 'faith' is 'foi' in French, 'fe' in Spanish and 'fede' in Italian..they stem from the Latin 'fidem'.

Ok, thx for the explanation. There are imo 2 things that point to the validity of holographic entangled space time, the Kondo effect and the hypothesis that entanglement holds DNA together. -In the Kondo effect, resistivity in a metal rises when it reaches 0 K because of an impurity in the metal. It has been shown that entanglement between conducting electrons or of an electron with its environment causes the rise in resistivity...this many-body entanglement lies at the heart of the Kondo effect. This implies that the entanglement inhibits movement of conducting electrons. This is imo only possible if there is some sort of attraction force between electrons and its environment which inhibits movement. So there is a kind of attraction force between entangled bodies, you might call this quantum magnetism. Another way of saying this is that entanglement reduces the volume between bodies, like Leonard Susskind explained in the video. http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12442 https://phys.org/news/2011-06-electrons-entangled.html#jCp -A theoretical model suggests that quantum entanglement holds DNA together, it prevents DNA from breaking apart. Each nucleotide in a base pair is oscillating in opposite directions, this occurs as a superposition of states, so that the overall movement of the helix is zero. In a purely classical model of DNA the helix would vibrate and shake itself apart. So quantum effects are responsible for holding DNA together. There is Quantum Entanglement between the electron clouds of nucleic acids in DNA. This shows there is a kind of attraction force between entangled bodies or between entangled electronclouds....quantum magnetism...just like in the Kondo effect and like Susskind explained...although he did not call it quantum magnetism. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419590/quantum-entanglement-holds-dna-together-say-physicists/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4053 Spin-entangled electrons might be necessary for this quantum magnetism. What do you think of this? It points to the idea that entanglement holds space together. Space is then volume between entangled particles.

When you translate 'faith' into Dutch, you get 'vertrouwen' (=trust) or 'geloof' (=belief). There is no real Dutch word for 'faith'. That's probably because there is less religion in the Netherlands and Belgium...there is no use for such a word.

No. You use logic and math to create a new model. It requires faith to believe the model will work/show reality. You can't know your model works until it's proven somehow.

Is that not possible in the Philosophy section? You can consider Science to be a sub-field of Philosophy...depending on the definitions you use.... And non mainstream science topics are opened all the time in the hard sciences. Is the OP of Mordred (What is space made of) mainstream science?

I can imagine it's difficult to explode two times, even for a billiard ball!

Melisandre is Dutch.

Why does a finite universe have no boundary? I don't mean an edge where you can fall of.

Today I learned the first plastic billiard balls had a habit of exploding...they were made with nitrocellulose. https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-earliest-plastic-billiard-balls-had-a-habit-of-expl-1705491374

That seems logic yet to create a new model in physics people use mostly math and logic...it requires faith to believe a model shows reality before the model is proven. Why would you create a model if you don't have faith it will 'work'? When you for example create a therapy to treat a disease then you need to have faith it will work until it's proven to work. a synonym for faith is trust

Then what causes all those interpretations about quantum mechanics? If people only follow evidence then there should be only one model...

Religion can hold back science but faith based beliefs are necessary for the evolution of science. In every field in science there are many faith based beliefs which can turn in evidence based beliefs through scientific evidence. Those faith based beliefs are often beliefs based on an interpretation of data. According to Leonard Susskind, entanglement holds space together. The model concerns holographic entangled space time. Such a model is based on an interpretation of data, this implies the use of logic and mathematics. When a model in science gets disproven or when they can't find evidence then the model will (sooner or later) disappear out the world of science. This is a how science remains science. When a 'model' in religion gets disproven or when they can't find evidence then the model will not necessarily disappear. This is a big difference between the two. Science concerns mostly evidence based beliefs while religion mostly concerns faith based beliefs.

Science can never prove an infinite universe. ..you can't prove the absence of a 'boundary'. I'm inclined to believe in a finite universe because infinity throws open all possibilities.

That's why I put it in 'general philosophy'...