> After more than two decades, it remains in the state of "not even wrong"
This is not a long time. It's only because it's the time we live in now that it seems a long time. If you look back over the last few thousand years it will make you realised just how quickly 20 years is for a theory.
Even to do a single experiment, the LHC, takes 18 years to build and still another 2 or 3 years to run. When it takes that long to do each experiment, I can't see how 20 years is an unreasonable length of time for the theory of everything.
A thin hologram can be represented truly as a 2D surface. You can print a thin hologram out using a laser printer and transparencies. You can even display a hologram on a TFT.
The fact that you don't even understand holograms makes me wonder why you are even commenting on string theory.
It's become very popular these days to bash string theory, yet noone has an alternative.
People like sexconker want to remove grant money from research into any new theory until they have a theory that is complete. And yet it can't be completed with people actually working on it.
The scientist in me likes the ideas of NICE. If an operation neither extends life nor increases quality of life, then what's the point in the operation?
Of course, it never works perfectly, but I'd be interested in what the critisms against NICE are?
so what about Hawking radiation? For the outsider observer, an unfed black hole is continually shrinking (albeit slowly) while the subject falls very slowly into it. So wouldn't the (very long living) observer see the black hole shrink faster than the subject falls into it? But the subject must also come to the same conclusion, and so see the black hole shrink very rapidly as he approached it.
> You can not take every word in the Bible literally. It was not meant to be a literal factual scientific document.
Yet it is meant to be legal document. One that if you break, you will burn in hell for eternity. Yet it is full of statements that shouldn't be taken literally..
I can only conclude that God is out to screw with us and _wants_ us to go to hell.
In some parts, Jesus says that just loving him and God is enough to not be burnt it hell for ever. Then in other parts he says that you have to follow ever single letter of the old testament to not burn in hell.
How can you come to any conclusion other than that God is an asshole?
A bridge is irreducibly complex. If I remove any one component, it will fall down. Thus it must have been impossible to build a bridge. The bridge couldn't have ever existed in a state of almost-done-except-one-piece since it would fall down.
Therefore I've just proved that man cannot build bridges. So all bridges must have been built by God.
As a physicist, I really enjoyed Stargate. They did pretty much everything physically correct, within their artistic license. The technobabble was almost entirely correct.
As joe_frish's post points out, gravitational waves don't come from inside a black hole.
Gravitational waves generated actually inside a black hole would not be able to escape. (Since otherwise we'd be able to determine the structure inside blackholes from the gravitational waves. And that's a big no-no)
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> After more than two decades, it remains in the state of "not even wrong"
This is not a long time. It's only because it's the time we live in now that it seems a long time. If you look back over the last few thousand years it will make you realised just how quickly 20 years is for a theory.
Even to do a single experiment, the LHC, takes 18 years to build and still another 2 or 3 years to run. When it takes that long to do each experiment, I can't see how 20 years is an unreasonable length of time for the theory of everything.
So basically you'd cancel all research into future theories? Real nice.
Why are people modding this up?
A thin hologram can be represented truly as a 2D surface. You can print a thin hologram out using a laser printer and transparencies. You can even display a hologram on a TFT.
The fact that you don't even understand holograms makes me wonder why you are even commenting on string theory.
It's become very popular these days to bash string theory, yet noone has an alternative.
People like sexconker want to remove grant money from research into any new theory until they have a theory that is complete. And yet it can't be completed with people actually working on it.
"It's caused by forces" sounds an awful lot like "God did it"
"It's caused by atoms" sounds an awful lot like "God did it"
etc etc
As opposed to non-human engineers?
Er, yes. The labour party was very clear during the elections that Brown would take over from Blair.
The scientist in me likes the ideas of NICE. If an operation neither extends life nor increases quality of life, then what's the point in the operation?
Of course, it never works perfectly, but I'd be interested in what the critisms against NICE are?
so what about Hawking radiation? For the outsider observer, an unfed black hole is continually shrinking (albeit slowly) while the subject falls very slowly into it. So wouldn't the (very long living) observer see the black hole shrink faster than the subject falls into it? But the subject must also come to the same conclusion, and so see the black hole shrink very rapidly as he approached it.
Any flaws with my logic? :)
No, the point of teaching is to increase their knowledge. There are far too many gaps of knowledge for anyone to know everything.
There's no point in teaching string theory to kids who are trying to learn Newton mechanics.
Thanks.
Are you for real? Noone can really be this ignorant can they?
> as far as I know, we've hit ALL of those factors in science today, thus making evolution invalid at least to Mr. Darwin.
Then clearly you don't know.
Where does it say that in the bible?
Because students wouldn't understand the curent problems that current exist in gravity. Most students never even learn the current theory of gravity.
I'm guessing by you "wait" that that is sarcasm?
In the UK we do call it the Theory of Gravity, Gravitational Theory, and more formally, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
I don't think I've ever seen it written as the law of gravity. Is this a US thing?
> You can not take every word in the Bible literally. It was not meant to be a literal factual scientific document.
Yet it is meant to be legal document. One that if you break, you will burn in hell for eternity. Yet it is full of statements that shouldn't be taken literally..
I can only conclude that God is out to screw with us and _wants_ us to go to hell.
In some parts, Jesus says that just loving him and God is enough to not be burnt it hell for ever. Then in other parts he says that you have to follow ever single letter of the old testament to not burn in hell.
How can you come to any conclusion other than that God is an asshole?
A bridge is irreducibly complex. If I remove any one component, it will fall down. Thus it must have been impossible to build a bridge. The bridge couldn't have ever existed in a state of almost-done-except-one-piece since it would fall down.
Therefore I've just proved that man cannot build bridges. So all bridges must have been built by God.
Yes, I'm sure that your noble prize was much better than his.. eh?
Hum, I watched it again. I'd watched it ages ago when he first did the talk. I'd forgotten just how bad it was.
I agree that he was really quite an ass in the video, although I hope that it was just a bad judgement call and regrets it now.
Heh, all it demonstrates is that you have no sense of humour. He's funny and take friendly jabs at the svn developers.
Lol, you've clearly never had to debug anything complex.
And who would be left to drive the bus?
As a physicist, I really enjoyed Stargate. They did pretty much everything physically correct, within their artistic license. The technobabble was almost entirely correct.
So basically you rely on every single application and every single library having its own way to check for security updates? Sounds awful.
It's not particularly even a social problem. At 18 you should be old enough to decide whether to go to class or not.
As joe_frish's post points out, gravitational waves don't come from inside a black hole.
Gravitational waves generated actually inside a black hole would not be able to escape. (Since otherwise we'd be able to determine the structure inside blackholes from the gravitational waves. And that's a big no-no)