It's hard to see what the difference is between two models with the same empirical consequences. |
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No it doesn't. |
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That's the most fascinating thing about dark energy and dark matter, we can only see its effects. We can't "see" dark energy or dark matter with any technology known - its bizarre |
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You don't need to get into deep-space-time-continuum stuff to find scientific mysteries. There's a LOT we don't know even about what goes on below the earth's crust. |
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I wasn't trying to hide that fact. I am "arguing" with common sense, because that's what I have at my disposal. I'm bad at studying. :-\. I am "arguing" in order to learn. I know that Xei knows more from the physics textbook than I do, and as long as he doesn't mind sharing that knowledge, I'm going to soak up as much as I can. I don't take this information as absolute knowledge, because that would be foolish, but it is interesting to learn what the science book THINKs about the nature of our reality. Just because I'm challenging what he says doesn't mean that I believe he is wrong. I merely am looking for a version of his statements that makes sense to me. |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
I like the idea that gravity is a force of quantum entanglement, my brother (astrophysicist) tried explaining it to me, but it was very hard to visualize. Off course it is only a hypothesis. |
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"There have always been men to defend the rights of the irrational. The tradition of what may be called humiliated thought has never ceased to exist. The criticism of rationalism has been made so often that it seems unnecessary to begin again. Yet our epoch is marked by the rebirth of those paradoxical systems that strive to trip up the reason as if truly it had always forged ahead. But that is not so much the proof of the efficacy of the reason as of the intensity of its hopes." |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
You realise how useless that is without context..? |
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I think the reference is pretty clear. But I'm glad you think it's not. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid. |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
Um, no. I'm glad you didn't understand what I meant. I was not trying to be vague for everyone else. But I think you are a presumptuous brat and I love fucking with you |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I think you're both right. |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
I am here... OP is screwing with people way before I got here. Haha. |
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Sure. I find a lot of what OP says to be questionable and infuriating, but the line's drawn at what was basically just aggressive bullying. There's never any justification for that. |
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I know someone who used to be the same way... |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
According to my cell bio prof., the precise method of how mitochondria, chloroplasts, and even the nucleus of a cell came to exist as part of the normal cell structure as we currently know it is still a mystery. The narrative I've heard is that mitochondria were swallowed up and made part of the cell, which gave it a selective advantage. A similar narrative might be true of chloroplasts as well. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
Formerly known as BLUELINE976
Never heard that about the nucleus... I guess it kind of depends on what you mean. Not sure how it'd work though. |
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