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The Destiny of the Universe
FQXI ^ | 7/2/10 | Julie Rehmeyer

Posted on 07/17/2010 4:54:59 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: samtheman

It seems like scientists today refuse to admit that they are clueless about many things.


21 posted on 09/04/2010 5:02:45 PM PDT by MiltonFriedmanFan
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To: MiltonFriedmanFan

Most scientists in any age are opinionated hacks. There are more scientists now than ever before. It just means more hacks than ever.


22 posted on 09/04/2010 6:52:59 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: LibWhacker
Everyone knows that the universe is self-programmed to achieve social justice!!! [/sarc]
23 posted on 09/04/2010 6:56:08 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Zokhrenu lechayyim Melekh chafetz bachayyim; vekhotvenu beSefer HaChayyim lema`ankha 'Eloqim Chayyim)
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To: LibWhacker

I just knew that was what was going on


24 posted on 09/04/2010 6:58:40 PM PDT by woofie
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To: samtheman
The key phrase in the article is.... $70,000 grant.
25 posted on 09/04/2010 7:03:48 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Songwriter

Exactly. Grant money! Now that’s a destiny worth fighting for!


26 posted on 09/04/2010 7:05:39 PM PDT by samtheman
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What if you get the RESULT in step 2, and then fail to perform the action in step 3 that leads to that result?


I think the implication is that if you get that result in step 2 invariably somehow, some way, you or someone else will perform step 3 which causes the step 2 results.


27 posted on 10/16/2010 8:19:59 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: Amos the Prophet

A good way to think about it is that we simply do not have a sensory input to detect the passage of time the way we have eyes and ears to detect size, shape, depth and location of objects in space.

Our perception of time is just that - our perception.


28 posted on 10/16/2010 8:23:07 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: Personal Responsibility
...we simply do not have a sensory input to detect the passage of time....

Excellent. Of course our sensory input is similarly subjective. We measure time as the distance between two points. I had a prof who claimed that thinking about time for too long would render one insane.

29 posted on 10/17/2010 7:00:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The American Revolution is just as unpopular with statists today as it was at our founding.)
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To: Amos the Prophet

He’s right. It’s like the old adage about the two dimensional beings trying to explain height. How could they? It’d be impossible for them to prove given the set of data they would have to work with.


30 posted on 10/17/2010 7:37:31 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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