Came across some interesting new thinking is science of the existential questions we sometime deal with here

[disappoint]

Was it this:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1202093

Or this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies

Yeah he dabbled in a lot of subjects, he also invented calculus. Oh but I don't want to bore you with reality.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Just because we haven't done so yet, does not mean it can't be done. According to this wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
the question of superluminal communication remains open. Remember it's called the no-communication theorem for a reason. It's theoretical, not proven.

Um... theorems and theories are two different things. Theorems are proven, theories are not.

What scientific facts do you think *are* proven, anyway?

 

[Ozoned]

Typical low IQ, without a clue drivel. Perfectly delectable morsels of meaningless mantra to those without any formal education in science. Try reading about science written by a scientist, not a scrambled eggs for brained philospher or journalist.

Nice of you to bump this thread from the dead...

Facts, fiction, knowledge, reason, and fantasy allows an escape, albeit temporary, to the soul that spends its whole life contemplating an existence that ends with death.

Science defines death in very concise and clear language. BORING....

Some people NEVER reach that moment of clarity,,, when they ACCEPT that they ARE going to die.

This won't mean much to you, but it will to the OP~er.

 

[Moonbeam]

Beliving that a world exists outside my own consciousness is not the same thing as claiming to be absolutely certain about anything in particular within that world.

Please explain how believing that reality exists only in one's own mind, and by necessary implication that any search for knowledge is therefore absolutely futile, is not a recipe for total nihilism.

- wolf

I am too modest to. In fact, I am so modest I don't even assume I can formulate a meaningful question or understand what alternatives apply if things are this way or that. I stand in wonder. I am in awe. Sometimes my mouth drops open and I drool on myself.

 

[Generator]

I would sooner believe in god than accept the notion that one atom 7 miles apart from another are in collusion. No, those 2 twin particles must be one particle that makes up this probability wave. Some singular thing that is so fast, its at all places at all times. What we call reality is nothing but the stink of human inadequacy as man animal tries to fathom and place upon something that is obviously to fast for us to catch and comprehend.

Whats amazing about all this is that there is a difference between reality as its being called and probability. As for everything else in the article...it reeks of arrogance. The mystery is the 2 states of the particle. A better question would be why would something so omnipresent not be considered the true reality and our perception just an offshoot of something genuine?

 

[Moonbeam]

Yeah he dabbled in a lot of subjects, he also invented calculus. Oh but I don't want to bore you with reality.

I know, that's why they call it fluents and fluxions instead of calculus.

 

[Modelworks]

Oh my, I am red faced. What was I thinking? I bow down before the superior intellect before me.

BTW Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton! I hope he isn't rolling over in his grave from reading this thread. Greatest scientist of all time. I'll bet you don't know why though. Go ahead and do your homework and google him to find out.

You mean the same man that wrote prophecies, believed in turning lead into gold, and that the world would end before 2060 ?

Many great scientists also have another side, usually they have some mental 'quirks'

Educate yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies

Newton would spend much of his life seeking and revealing what could be considered a Bible Code. He placed a great deal of emphasis upon the interpretation of the Book of Revelation, writing generously upon this book and authoring several manuscripts detailing his interpretations. Unlike a prophet in the true sense of the word, Newton relied upon existing Scripture to prophesy for him, believing his interpretations would set the record straight in the face of what he considered to be "so little understood"

"
So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year. And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic for “long lived”] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings A.C. 800, will end A.C. 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fancifull men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, & by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons wch God hath put into his own breast. "

 

[Moonbeam]

You mean the same man that wrote prophecies, believed in turning lead into gold, and that the world would end before 2060 ?

Many great scientists also have another side, usually they have some mental 'quirks'

Educate yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton's_occult_studies

Now now, don't pick on the pygmy. He found out Newton had something to do with calculus and has fallen in love with himself over his impressive erudition. We don't want to let all the hot air out of his balloon least he fall to the ground and crack open his big fat egg head.

And remember, Newton was here just dabbling.

 

[disappoint]

Now now, don't pick on the pygmy. He found out Newton had something to do with calculus and has fallen in love with himself over his impressive erudition. We don't want to let all the hot air out of his balloon least he fall to the ground and crack open his big fat egg head.

And remember, Newton was here just dabbling.

LOL, You mad? I didn't make you look like a fool. You did it to yourself.

 

[Nemesis 1]

I will become what I become