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NutmegCT said:
Maybe a brain humans developed over the last couple 100,000 years isn't quite up to "understanding" what developed over the last couple billion years.

But trying is a noble effort!
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Which brings up a whole other line of inquiry.

Benjamin Franklin was a true renaissance man in that he knew pretty much every thing that you could know in that time. One person could know all the knowledge in the world in one lifetime. Not now, and especially things like Quantum physics - and, of course the assumption that moving forward we will need AI to make sense of all this also puts us back to our robot overlords.

In the meantime, what did you do the last two years?

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(by the glasses I think the pic is actually Basil)
 
JPSmit said:
and, of course the assumption that moving forward we will need AI to make sense of all this also puts us back to our robot overlords.
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Beware Skylab! :eek:
 
Doc-
I kinda thought space-time was in there somewhere. What I understand, and thus do not understand, is that space time is not a "thing" of any kind, so it is exempt from the speed limit of physics, yet it can carry "things" faster than "things" are allowed to be carried by the speed limit of physics. WTF again.
Bob
 
We're back to: "It's turtles all the way down"!!
 
bobhustead said:
Doc-
I kinda thought space-time was in there somewhere. What I understand, and thus do not understand, is that space time is not a "thing" of any kind, so it is exempt from the speed limit of physics, yet it can carry "things" faster than "things" are allowed to be carried by the speed limit of physics. WTF again.
Bob
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Well, the "things" aren't defying physics, just moving at a velocity that keeps coming closer to or matching C. The "edges" are still that "nothing" space-time expanding, possibly FTL? But decidedly matching it.

And dare I introduce entropy into the mix... "the force in a closed system available NOT to do work." Acting on "everything" in that system, allowing an acceleration rather than an accretion (gravity) to slow momentum. :eek:

S. Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes" trapped me into all this back when it was first published, the theoretical physicists had nailed it down to 10-to-the-minus 32 seconds back then. He's written some other particle physics/cosmology books since, all cause for a great deal of head scratching.

Must now go scoop out a litter box...
 
Remember - you don't know if there's any poop to scoop, until you observe it.

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DrEntropy said:
Well, the "things" aren't defying physics, just moving at a velocity that keeps coming closer to or matching C. The "edges" are still that "nothing" space-time expanding, possibly FTL? But decidedly matching it.

And dare I introduce entropy into the mix... "the force in a closed system available NOT to do work." Acting on "everything" in that system, allowing an acceleration rather than an accretion (gravity) to slow momentum. :eek:

S. Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes" trapped me into all this back when it was first published, the theoretical physicists had nailed it down to 10-to-the-minus 32 seconds back then. He's written some other particle physics/cosmology books since, all cause for a great deal of head scratching.

Must now go scoop out a litter box...
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Well maybe the litter box is only partially full. If I understand Schrodinger ;)
 
Basil said:
Nunt uh! I don't have to observe it, I kin smell it!
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If a man speaks in the forest and his wife can't hear him is he still wrong?
 
Obviously there's only one right answer everyone is missing, it's the matrix and one day someone will hit the reset button and we'll be discussing this all over again...
 
mikephillips said:
Obviously there's only one right answer everyone is missing, it's the matrix and one day someone will hit the reset button and we'll be discussing this all over again...
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One day? between covid brain and age half my conversations are discussing something all over again. :rolleyes2: :D
 
mikephillips said:
Obviously there's only one right answer everyone is missing, it's the matrix and one day someone will hit the reset button and we'll be discussing this all over again...
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maybe we're already doing that :jester:
 
mikephillips said:
Obviously there's only one right answer everyone is missing, it's the matrix and one day someone will hit the reset button and we'll be discussing this all over again...
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Obviously there's only one right answer everyone is missing, it's the matrix and one day someone will hit the reset button and we'll be discussing this all over again...
 
" we'll be discussing this all over again... "

Sounds like a BCF SU carb choke adjustment thread.
 
Listen guys we're all just passengers on the back of Great A'Tuin as he, or possibly she, glides through the cosmos.
 
Fascinating conversation, thanks everyone. My dad was an astrophysics professor. Growing up, you had to show the data - he trusted nothing at face value. A real pain for a ten year old kid trying to get a new doo-hickey for his bike. "But dad, I neeeeeeed this!"

In my dad's defense, he grew up in pre-WW2 Germany. As an impressionable child he was subject to Nazi propaganda, then after the war East German propaganda (being on the wrong side of the border). After political protests resulted in his expulsion from the university for political protests, he said to h..ll with all that and escaped to West Germany (not so easy), met and married my mom, and emigrated to the US. Thenceforth he questioned and cross-checked every politician and newspaper; something all of us learned to value!

As Richard Feynman once said: “You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live, not knowing, than to have answers which might be wrong.”
 
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