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(Probably Stupid) Physics Question (That's Probably Been Asked Before)

Started by Nephew Twiddleton, April 15, 2014, 05:59:24 AM

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Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Well, that's because he's more interested in science than the rest of us.

Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Ok, I gotta ask. What hilarious conversation did I miss?
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Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 12, 2014, 02:47:27 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Ok, I gotta ask. What hilarious conversation did I miss?

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 12:35:17 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Well, that's because he's more interested in science than the rest of us.

No, no... not more interested. He just cares more. His Western ethnocentric obsession with his own interpretation of the "right" reality and complete lack of comprehension of what science actually is can't get in the way of how much he cares.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Doktor Howl

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 12, 2014, 03:56:18 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 12:35:17 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Well, that's because he's more interested in science than the rest of us.

No, no... not more interested. He just cares more. His Western ethnocentric obsession with his own interpretation of the "right" reality and complete lack of comprehension of what science actually is can't get in the way of how much he cares.

Similarly, I CARE about post-modern art.  I don't know what it is and I haven't ever seen or done any (at least I didn't recognize what it was), but I feel that I have the chops to tell post-modern artists why they're wrong.  Because I CARE and they DON'T.
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Nephew Twiddleton

That thread, what I read of it at least, reminded me of the time where he said that people are dicking around with viruses and it's dangerous and stuff, and we should stop doing that because not understanding a damn thing about how viruses work is a lot safer.

Not knowing shit is safer.
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 12, 2014, 03:59:50 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 12, 2014, 03:56:18 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 12:35:17 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on December 12, 2014, 12:13:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 12, 2014, 02:40:03 AM
Just recite the holy litany, "it all adds up to normality."


The Universe hasn't changed the way it works just because you read about this.

Dodo might disagree. I mean, he thinks the moon disappears when nobody is looking at it.

Well, that's because he's more interested in science than the rest of us.

No, no... not more interested. He just cares more. His Western ethnocentric obsession with his own interpretation of the "right" reality and complete lack of comprehension of what science actually is can't get in the way of how much he cares.

Similarly, I CARE about post-modern art.  I don't know what it is and I haven't ever seen or done any (at least I didn't recognize what it was), but I feel that I have the chops to tell post-modern artists why they're wrong.  Because I CARE and they DON'T.

Totally legit, man. Because at least you care.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 12, 2014, 04:06:49 PM
That thread, what I read of it at least, reminded me of the time where he said that people are dicking around with viruses and it's dangerous and stuff, and we should stop doing that because not understanding a damn thing about how viruses work is a lot safer.

Not knowing shit is safer.

Yeah.

He doesn't know enough about what or how people were dicking around with viruses to be able to make a specific criticism, but he knows that they are and that's bad.

FUCK finding a vaccine for HIV.

In fact, fuck ALL gene therapy.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Nephew Twiddleton

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 12, 2014, 11:13:22 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 12, 2014, 04:06:49 PM
That thread, what I read of it at least, reminded me of the time where he said that people are dicking around with viruses and it's dangerous and stuff, and we should stop doing that because not understanding a damn thing about how viruses work is a lot safer.

Not knowing shit is safer.

Yeah.

He doesn't know enough about what or how people were dicking around with viruses to be able to make a specific criticism, but he knows that they are and that's bad.

FUCK finding a vaccine for HIV.

In fact, fuck ALL gene therapy.

Playing God is a scary thing, when you consider it to be a blind process.

Funny thing about genes though, it's really easy to make them non-functional. "What can go wrong" most of the time isn't some sort of horrible 100 meter tall spider. Usually it results in something that just can't survive. And holist would know that, if he cared to.
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I mean, there's a reason why most mutations are detrimental to the organism, and it's a rare one that grants a selective advantage. Chances are good that the mutation will kill the organism. Cancer, being a prime example, in animals.
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Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 13, 2014, 05:52:47 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 12, 2014, 11:13:22 PM
Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 12, 2014, 04:06:49 PM
That thread, what I read of it at least, reminded me of the time where he said that people are dicking around with viruses and it's dangerous and stuff, and we should stop doing that because not understanding a damn thing about how viruses work is a lot safer.

Not knowing shit is safer.

Yeah.

He doesn't know enough about what or how people were dicking around with viruses to be able to make a specific criticism, but he knows that they are and that's bad.

FUCK finding a vaccine for HIV.

In fact, fuck ALL gene therapy.

Playing God is a scary thing, when you consider it to be a blind process.

Funny thing about genes though, it's really easy to make them non-functional. "What can go wrong" most of the time isn't some sort of horrible 100 meter tall spider. Usually it results in something that just can't survive. And holist would know that, if he cared to.

Which also goes a long way toward explaining why so many people are terrified of genetic manipulation.

But of course with Holist there's an extra level of curiosity, which is why he's so afraid of the perspectives of non-Western Native people.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 10, 2014, 07:00:54 PM
Homeopathish?

No, that's for a hypothesis which is demonstrably incorrect, but still gets trotted out anyway

A hypothesis that can't be tested is called "unfalsifiable"

Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 13, 2014, 05:52:47 AM
"What can go wrong" most of the time isn't some sort of horrible 100 meter tall spider. Usually it results in something that just can't survive.

As a huge nerd I feel compelled to point out that the 100 meter spider probably couldn't survive either. It's weight would scale up disproportionally to the strength of it's muscles or the structural integrity of it's exoskeleton.

EDIT:
Also, going back to big bang related stuff, has anybody else thought about the possibility that the big bang was the result of a Big Rip in a previous universe, or rather from the effect of the big rip on a hadron in that universe?
When the repulsive force of dark energy began to rip its component quarks apart it would instead be converted into a prodigious quantity of matter due to Color Confinement
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Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on January 14, 2015, 06:32:27 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 10, 2014, 07:00:54 PM
Homeopathish?

No, that's for a hypothesis which is demonstrably incorrect, but still gets trotted out anyway

A hypothesis that can't be tested is called "unfalsifiable"

Quote from: Nepos twiddletonis on December 13, 2014, 05:52:47 AM
"What can go wrong" most of the time isn't some sort of horrible 100 meter tall spider. Usually it results in something that just can't survive.

As a huge nerd I feel compelled to point out that the 100 meter spider probably couldn't survive either. It's weight would scale up disproportionally to the strength of it's muscles or the structural integrity of it's exoskeleton.

EDIT:
Also, going back to big bang related stuff, has anybody else thought about the possibility that the big bang was the result of a Big Rip in a previous universe, or rather from the effect of the big rip on a hadron in that universe?
When the repulsive force of dark energy began to rip its component quarks apart it would instead be converted into a prodigious quantity of matter due to Color Confinement

Bothered you that much, huh?

Genetically modified to produce a graphene exoskeleton. Boom.
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