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Post 181

Jabberwock


smiley - musicalnoteAll together now

smiley - musicalnoteWe are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the Garden(alternative theory)smiley - musicalnote

One verse=universe?


Jabsmiley - smiley


CERN

Post 182

winternights

I like the following two approaches being, “the laws of quantum mechanics ultimately determine how I deduce the laws of quantum mechanics, which appears to be fully circular argument and therefore logically difficult to sustain”.
Also according to Einstein, the universe exist all at once and everything that has happened and will happen is already there.
smiley - erm


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Post 183

Jabberwock


Yep. I don't know the first but it sounds very likely. But the philosopher Kant first suggested that time was in our heads, not out there, emphasised in a different way by Einstein's bending and shaping time in different ways even if it is out there. Without time everything could well be already there. Or gone already. Or there.


Bye bye common sense!


Jabsmiley - smiley




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Post 184

Jabberwock


And if time is the fourth dimension, you could imagine the death and the birth of the universe being simultaneous, with us somewhere in the middle of the time-line and Socrates and Jesus doing their thing at another point along the line at the same time as us being wherever each of us are, living our everyday lives. Within no-time as seen universally, sub specie aeternitatis - from the viewpoint of eternity.

Trouble is, Einstein ruled out simultaneity too. But he could have been wrong of course. And there could be too much common-sense wrapped up in that picturesmiley - yikes

Jabsmiley - smiley


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Post 185

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

until a time comes that I meet myself(perish the thoughtsmiley - winkeye)to me, time will only remain linearsmiley - biggrin


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Post 186

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

"But common sense? Best not go there!" [Jabberwock]

It's all I've got, when you get right down to it. smiley - sadface

Or up to it.

Or across the universe.

Or just down the hall, where the 9-month Child Development Lab is located.



The thing is, this planet is pretty much our only frame of reference. It was Einstein's frame of reference, too.


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Post 187

Jabberwock


That's a very good point, Paul smiley - ok

Jabsmiley - smiley


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Post 188

Jabberwock


Although we must go beyond CS if /when we need to. Or we'd still be stuck in the middle ages. Another word for Common Sense might be Preconceptions.

I meant the point about frame of reference being good. We all start from similar beliefs based on our own sense experience on earth.smiley - ok

Jabsmiley - smiley


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Post 189

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

"to dare is to lose your foothold for a moment - not to dare is losing yourself” (søren kierkegaard) smiley - zen

smiley - pirate


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Post 190

Jabberwock


smiley - ok


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Post 191

winternights

Belief !, is it not pointless expecting to get a simple true and false answer from quantum theory.?
If by implying belief, it is in its self an acceptance that an object ceases to be isolated from its environment and the classical notion is instated.
Is belief the same as reality and does consciousness and the mathematical models we use allow us to understand it.?
smiley - erm


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Post 192

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

belief is belief. you want truth? what if belief is truth?

"science may one day answer the question 'how' - but will it ever answer the question 'why?" (jens martin knudsen)

smiley - pirate (agnosticist)


CERN

Post 193

Jabberwock


winternights - I was referring to beliefs based on sense perception, e.g. wood is hard, feathers are soft, the sky is blue.

And Pierce - Modern (Descartes and after)science has never even tried to answer the question 'why', unless it is used as a substitute for 'how', since it sees such questions as unanswerable, certainly unanswerable by the Scientific (experimental) Method. Why does h20 boil at 100 deg. C.? Not a clue, except for all the 'how' questions, why in terms of how. But WHY? we may still ask.

Belief can be true or false of course.

Jabsmiley - smiley

Cue Descartes jokes smiley - biggrin


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Post 194

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

I think I will be a sweet potato in my next life, according to Descartes: I think, therefore a yam.

Quantum theory doesn't have much of an impact on my life.
Heck, I could ignore it completely, even deny its existence, and still not be turned down for the Vice Presidency (assuming I wanted ity, which I don't. smiley - yuk)


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Post 195

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

things travelling through space at near or even light speed and with no mass are passing through my head all the timesmiley - ermsmiley - ermand I'm expected to know what 8 X 9 equals smiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 196

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

Quarks from the original Big Bang (assuming that there ever was one) are passing through the Earth all the time. Your head, my head, Mrs. Murphy's cow, etc.


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Post 197

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

hope they go through my head first, I don't fancy them after a cowsmiley - laughsmiley - laugh


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Post 198

paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant

They do all of the above. Chances are, they would go through the Earth's center on the way to your head. Probably there are no cows on the other side of the world...


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Post 199

Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U.

they say all the galaxies are heading away from us at the speed of light, yet not long back, they now say the Andromeda galaxy is heading towards us, so who's turned it round ???


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Post 200

Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~

i bet the andromeda galaxy is shaped like a boomerang! smiley - yikes

smiley - pirate


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