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One mind according to quantum field theory
Phi for All replied to Buket's topic in General Philosophy
When anyone can believe a claim, isn't it more important to look for reality-based evidence to support or refute the claim? -
"You need supportive evidence" is NOT "Oh, your great big intuitive imagination saved the day and made all the eggheads look bad". That's your imagination in overdrive, and some serious justification for falling asleep in physics.
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Ihcisphysicist has been suspended for 3 days for repeatedly insisting on promoting a book, which violates our "no advertising" rule. The rule will still be in place Wednesday....
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How do you know that it is my book you worthless swine.
Phi for All replied to Ihcisphysicist's topic in Book Talk
! Moderator Note Get your ideologies right. Fascists would have no problem promoting capitalist causes. We just don't like advertising. It's in the rules. ! Moderator Note As for being worthless swine, I'm assuming that means you find no worth here past promoting this book (which you aren't being allowed to do because we'd be flooded with book promotions if we allowed any), so take a bit of a vacation and maybe restructure your thinking on being a member here. If we have no other worth to you, are you just here for the bacon? -
Coincidentally enough, as I read your thread this morning, I was on my third cup of French-pressed Carte Noire with milk (arrived yesterday). Even with just mixing in milk, a bit of a skin forms by heating the fats and proteins and then letting it sit untouched. I'll admit I haven't checked this formally yet, but a layer of solid fat at the top should act as an insulator, trapping heat inside the cup, keeping the drink warmer.
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The title seems more comprehensive, but the OP suggests I shouldn't participate if I don't have a god. I can answer "What is god?" though. I think god is the ultimate end product of Imagining Things That Aren't There, something that serves humans well in protecting ourselves in a proactive instead of a reactive manner. It probably started by imagining tigers in the shadows, and developed into many unseen entities that influenced fragile early human existence. God is a wishful thought of comfort and stability, like orphans dreaming of parents who are unimaginably wonderful.
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Until you can match the criteria that other ideas match in order to become "accepted" science, then your idea doesn't deserve the room. Nothing personal, but this is not rigorous methodology. Over the years I've tried to say this many ways, but if you're interested in "accepted science" then you should study it formally, not in dribs and drabs of popular science articles on the internet. That's a horrible way to study science. Those articles are supposed to be followed up by research into the basics you don't understand. Instead, too many people get lazy and fill in the gaps in their knowledge by just making up whatever they need to force an explanation to make sense to them.
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But you're basing the explanation on a false premise, that the Big Bang was like an explosion with a center, and everything moving outwards from it. That's not the case. It was a rapid expansion of space everywhere, so there is no "center of the universe". You're also using unfamiliar terms like "mirror math function", then implying it's not a math function at all, but something physical that can rest at the "center of the universe", and "reflect" and "control". Also, space is empty by definition, so what about it could be vibrating? Do you have any evidence to support empty space "vibrating"?
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Since you said cream, and not milk, I'm going to guess:
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Imo, this isn't a single issue fix. Guns play a heavy part and we need some progress in this area, but the reasons Americans don't want to give them up are part of the whole tapestry too. We have a ruling class that doesn't understand or represent the majority, we've allowed extremist capitalist policies to undermine the middle class, we lag behind many first world countries in the kinds of programs that build strength in economic infrastructures, we excel in destruction and imprisonment, and it's become status quo to spend a couple billion dollars on elections that divide the country along artificially drawn lines that only benefit the people who have the billions to spend. I think we'd have to take care of all these other problems before enough Americans would see the sense in giving up their own guns so there eventually won't be a gun problem. Sometimes I think the real need for a well-regulated militia is not to protect us from the government, but from wealthy people manipulating the government.
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Coffee Cup Tea Cup logic
Phi for All replied to TakenItSeriously's topic in Brain Teasers and Puzzles
Please clarify, does "a tea cup" hold "exactly 1 cup" of liquid (in this case tea), or does it hold more? It will make a difference if the tea cup holds "exactly" one cup, since you'll be displacing tea out of the cup when you put an extra spoon of coffee in the tea. -
It is? Interesting enough to join just to comment on it?
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Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
Or, I'm trying to show what the shoes look like on your feet. I can't figure out why on Earth decent people who claim to be Christians are playing politics with this potentially catastrophic disease. Can you tell me why the GOP is delaying funding for Zika research so they can remove support for birth control at a time when that might help fight the disease? Couldn't they find a better way to hurt poor people? -
Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
Why aren't you demanding that your party leaders stop sacrificing other people's children for their political gain? Why? Why? That says a lot about you. -
Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
To be fair, we should have a thread for smartest political move of the year so far. Which reminds me, I'm hoping to find sponsors for a bill to use the children of GOP politicians to test the Zika virus.... -
Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people. -
Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
So how do we educate the average US citizen about the situation as it stands, where business is woefully under-regulated, from banking to bad water, and has been given too free a hand for many decades, resulting in the current unbalanced, un-American system where money and corporate influence overwrites fair market practices? It seems clear that we have given too much leeway to business, so how do we prevent the ignorant from electing other-hand businessman Trump when we clearly need to adjust our capitalist behavior away from weasels like him? FTFY. -
Cooler heads are being ignored all over the world lately. Many people who identify normally as conservatives are trying to justify a red-faced, frustration-fueled, screaming seizure over issues of intolerance that obviously embarrasses as it empowers. I hope it can be shown quickly that this is a horribly costly approach, these kneejerk reactions that are like going to the emergency room for headaches.
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Nominations for stupidest political act of the year so far...
Phi for All replied to imatfaal's topic in Politics
Are you still planning to vote for Trump? If so, how do you justify the above? -
If you decide to come back, you'll be welcome. When you're depressed, it all seems like things are caving in on you, and you can tend to take things too personally. Some folks deal with it by doing nothing, some like to get even more emotional. And some people try to find something to trust, something they can count on to be consistent, that doesn't lie, that doesn't stretch the truth, that isn't open to interpretation from every person you meet. This is a place for reason and science. We care about how you feel but it really shouldn't matter to the subjects we discuss. We attack ideas to make them stronger. People aren't their ideas, people HAVE ideas. And most, the vast majority, are wrong. That's just the way it is, and we think science is the most effective and trustworthy way to explain the universe. And it sort of requires us to leave our egos at home, and deal with these topics as objectively as we can.
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You asked for mistakes, I gave you an example, but instead of replying to it, you choose to post this?! This seems like a deflection, or a Red Herring. I don't really care, until someone claims the Bible is inerrant. Then it's rather easy to show some very basic mistakes, like historical accounts that directly contradict each other (Aaron died in two different geographical places; in 2 Samuel, Saul dies in two ways that are different from the way he died in 1 Samuel, and a fourth way is described in 1 Chronicles).
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One mind according to quantum field theory
Phi for All replied to Buket's topic in General Philosophy
I usually find popular science stops short of making assertive claims, preferring to speculate without a firm basis about imaginative possibilities that many find intriguing enough that profit is generated for the work. It's more wishful thinking than science in many cases, but it sells. -
To me, this is like the "What's beyond the universe?" question. We make all these observations and experiments that show us the observable universe seems infinite, and performs within the parameters of our best explanations regarding its development, and every bit of evidence shows us that this universe is all there is. Yet people keep wanting to invent beings that can break the laws of physics, ignore time and the spatial dimensions, and basically do anything we can dream up because they know everything and can do anything they want. All the really obviously pertinent questions are answered with a blanket wave of the magic wand; God can do anything, even design physical laws that he himself gets to break when he feels like it. Question any of this and you obviously don't understand the mind of god. His Ways work mysteriously when they need to, they only become clearer to believers (who never get a reasoned explanation), and they always encourage you to stop questioning things you should take on faith. "Outside of time" there would be no movement, so we have to invoke the omnipotence clause so god isn't controlled by what we understand.
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Genesis 1:11 claims God made plants on the third day of creation, before he made man. Genesis 2:5 claims before he made man, God hadn't even made it rain yet, and there were no plants.
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I think it was put together purposefully to be muddied waters that only the clergy could help common man see his way through. Constantine and the Council of Nicea weren't stupid, and that was a chance to compromise and become the most powerful religion ever. If any of it had a coherent meaning that people could follow themselves, they wouldn't need the clergy.