Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: LibWhacker

I think a lot of these “facts” will sound laughable 100 years from now.


7 posted on 11/12/2009 8:03:26 AM PST by Pessimist (u)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Pessimist
I think a lot of these “facts” will sound laughable 100 years from now.

I will be long long gone well before 100 years passes.

However, after my body is dead, "I" will know the truth about these statements.

And...if you'll send me at least $1,000 in unmarked bills, I'll come back and whisper the answers in your ear!!

10 posted on 11/12/2009 8:12:22 AM PST by Logic n' Reason (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: Pessimist

Most of the “facts” are interpretations that will probably be discarded as more is learned. The claim that the infinite universes hypothesis is the “standard model” is bogus. (God as a bubble machine). The hypothesis is just an effort to save metaphysical naturalism from John Wheeler’s anthropic principle. Paul Davies rejects the bubble machine in favor of an equally unsupported theory of backward causation. There are probably other theories that try to answer Wheeler’s original challenge. All of them are interesting, but none of them ought to be considered as a part of the standard model of physics in the sense that, say, quanum mechanics and general relativity are part of the standard model.

Physics is fascinating.


19 posted on 11/12/2009 8:46:41 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: Pessimist

These “facts” are mostly just laughable misunderstandings of oversimplifications of actual facts. That which does not account for the “mostly” part is true, very strange to the general populace, and entirely reasonable to those who do understand. No need to wait 100 years.


38 posted on 11/12/2009 9:30:02 AM PST by ctdonath2 (End the coup!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

To: Pessimist
I think a lot of these “facts” will sound laughable 100 years from now.

A lot of them sound laughable right now. Remember when Edison was already generating power at greater than 90% efficiency, scientists were saying that it was a law of nature than no means of generating power could be more than 50% efficient and were criticizing him for being such a scientific ignoramus. Quantum physics is standing in the position of those critics of Edison. There are other ways of explaining the nature of reality than quantum physics that are demonstrable.
63 posted on 11/13/2009 5:19:32 AM PST by aruanan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson