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  1. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you did understand what I meant then. I applaud your trolling then! You had me going there for a bit.

  2. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    If the effect turns out to only be your imagination it does not warrant a name.

  3. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    No, if the model you start out with is wrong in the first place and there is no substance at all that only interacts weakly through gravity then there is no such thing as dark matter. In other words, if it doesn't exist in the first place and we just thought it did because we are ignorant, then there is no dark matter. Unless, of course, you want to start calling extreme scientific ignorance dark matter.

  4. Re:Untestable? on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Agreed, and faith is as far from science as you can possibly get. If your hypothesis can not be validated by testing it, then it is not a scientific theory, it is merely in the realm of religion.

  5. Re:Bullshit and Religion and Self Deception on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    The amount of truth in this statement is astounding.

  6. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    I don't trust them either. I'm not saying I'm certain that they are wrong, but I will not take their findings at face value.

  7. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    The naming of the "god particle" was actually a disagreement between a scientist and his publisher. He wanted to name the book "the god damned particle" to represent his frustration with scientists not being able to observe it yet, but the publisher refused and shortened the name to "the god particle".

  8. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    You are failing to account for one thing. What if the base model is wrong? Then the failure of the observations to mirror the expected is inherent in the fact that the model is wrong, not dark matter. So no, it is not some forgone conclusion that dark matter and dark energy exist, it could easily be merely the fallout from observations not matching the model, due to the model being wrong in the first place.
    What is sad is that so very few people are willing to accept that the model being wrong is even a possibility.

  9. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Nope.
    These placeholders always arise because the base model has been disproven and something has to be done to save it. After that the true believers will continue to praise the broken model until they die. Eventually a new, likely more correct, model will be accepted until the cycle repeats itself.
    The true believers will always oppose any new idea, no matter how well the evidence supports it. They always slow the progress of science by controlling scientific discourse in universities and and controlling peer review in scientific journals.

  10. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Atoms have been directly observed, and so have many subatomic particles. Being observed does not end with our vision.

  11. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    Bravo, someone who is willing to say the obvious, but hated truth. If only you were brave enough to say it with your username so it would have been seen by more people.

  12. Re:String Theorists Are Not Physicists on Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method · · Score: 1

    It truly amazes me how these ideological fanatics are incapable of realizing what shaky ground their "theories" are sitting on. They evangelize things like dark matter and dark energy with no evidence for their existence for one simple reason. Those things are needed to save their flawed standard model.

    From the proportions in which these are required to save the model the flaws must be astronomically huge. It is time to throw out the broken model and search for a new one, not tack on several new versions of aether to save it.

  13. Re:Is there a downside to upgrading to 10? on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Telemetry, keylogger, the thing that monitors for cracked programs, and who knows what else.

  14. This post contains more truth than any I have seen today.

  15. Re:Time, once again, to post... on UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs (oomlout.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Let's play the "spot the lunatic" game!

    I try to be as involved as possible in the lives of my six children.

    Found one!

  16. Wow! I'm generally against psychoactive pharmaceuticals, but this guy needs something, and I have no other ideas that have the faintest of a chance of helping.

  17. Re: Because It's the Only Thing That Actually Work on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    The airforce has not been trying to kill off the Warthog, the Pentagon has been. The airforce refuses to let go of it, and have been basically telling the Pentagon to fuck off over this plane for decades.

  18. Re:Because It's the Only Thing That Actually Works on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    3D printing is not limited to plastic, it can be done with metal as well.
    Still, it would be a horrible idea.

  19. Re: Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    So, can we send the corporation to Texas for execution?

  20. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Audio monitoring? You are not thinking deeply enough. They can take full control of your car if they want. This isn't tinfoil hat shit either, it has been proven that many cars, if not all, that have cellular connections can be remotely hacked and the hacker can take full control over the vehicle. The audio monitoring is a given.

  21. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Then your police are corrupt and need to be fired immediately, and possibly jailed.

  22. Re:So a national emergency gets declared and... on French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, when are you idiots going to realize that all forms of government are extremely authoritarian?
    Governments are all designed to protect the elites from the poor.

  23. Re:Is there a downside to upgrading to 10? on Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I just checked it out and it does not appear to be sufficient. It can only turn off the things you can turn off yourself in the interface. The nasty shit is the stuff you cannot turn off in the interface.

  24. Re:Dark Matter Filaments on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    On the basis of this equation, the optical energy flow can be deflected by a magnetic field

    found here http://lpm2c.grenoble.cnrs.fr/...
    Funny, there seems to be something else that can bend light in our universe.

  25. Re: Dark Matter Filaments on Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And I would say the same to you.