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The gods must be crazy (Physics article)
U.S. News and World Report ^ | September 8, 2003 | Charles W. Petit

Posted on 09/12/2003 9:39:02 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist

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For later read.
81 posted on 09/15/2003 1:42:07 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (The USA, the land of gigantic junk yards, from crap bought from China.)
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Well aside from the fact that I have some amount of scorn for theoretical cosmological types, the author's complaint about "ugliness" creeping in, in the form of extra forms, factors, and finitudes, doesn't phase me in the least. A non-perfect system will always require mathematical "tweaking" to some extent. Consider the ideal gas law. To describe a more realistic gas system, one has to consider the fact that the gas particles ain't infinitesmally small and will take up a certain volume, and will interact with each other, for starters...
82 posted on 09/15/2003 6:36:39 PM PDT by maxwell (Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
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bttt for later read
83 posted on 09/16/2003 6:09:54 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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Mechanistic thinking began to die a hundred years ago. The new paradigm includes 'specified complexity' which implies intelligence behind the design. Mind before matter?
84 posted on 09/16/2003 11:05:05 AM PDT by metacognative
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