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Jacques d'Orleans
Banned
If she's easy she has it, if she has it you'll get it and remember a blob on the slows demob. - Squadron Leader Tony Iveson DFC, No 617 Squadron "Dambusters" RAF
Niels Bohr's rejoinder to Einstein is also excellent:
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
-Princess Leia
Talking about one of the basic flaws of Tyranny.
Well, to me, quantum physics is the best indicator that there was one or more intelligent beings that designed and created everything. Because joining it (quantum physics) to other physical principles and theories of physics just doesn't work. It's like we have 2 completely unconnected systems, one that follows logical rules and one that is totally random.
That's a very obscurant thing to say.
The fact that you can't see the connection doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means you don't know enough, or see deep enough.
"God of the gaps" attitude will get us nowhere.
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
It makes total sense, it's just a matter of scale.
Using photons to look at a refrigerator is perfectly fine; they bounce off of it and end up in our eyes.
No biggie.
Using photons to look at photon sized things has a whole host of problems not present in the above example.
Imagine bouncing beach balls into a beach ball, in order to create a picture of a beach ball.
The act of observing in that manner, affects the behavior of that being observed, in a way that the refrigerator is not.
Using photons to look at a refrigerator is perfectly fine; they bounce off of it and end up in our eyes.
No biggie.
Using photons to look at photon sized things has a whole host of problems not present in the above example.
Imagine bouncing beach balls into a beach ball, in order to create a picture of a beach ball.
The act of observing in that manner, affects the behavior of that being observed, in a way that the refrigerator is not.
Ok. But I still say order does not spring from chaos. That flies in the face of the 1st law of thermodynamics. The one that says in a closed system entropy always increases.
That's something a bit unrelated, but okay.
In closed systems, entropy does always increase. But the universe, macro or microscopic, isn't a closed system. You have sources of low entropy in the universe. You can notice one rising above horizon every morning.
In something as vast and old as a universe, "Order from chaos" is exactly what you can expect as infinitely small probabilities become inevitable.
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Infinitely small. Ok. Whatever you say.
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"Every word you just said is wrong" ~ Luke Skywalker
Well, beats the good ol' "I don't understand it, therefore God did it" -every lazy mind ever.
"To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too." ~ Rick Riordan
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Frank Zappa/Quotes:
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Z was a goldmine of great quotes...........
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Z was a goldmine of great quotes...........
I feel that these two quotes cancel each other out.
