Indeed. Scientist are usually wrong because we have no way to say conclusively that this is how it works. All we can do is make a theory, then say if it is wrong in it's ablity to predict the outcome of experiments.
It is really sad that the Creationists are using a key concept of scientific investigation piecemeal to say science is wrong by they never apply that concept to themselves.
By what I am reading, when you fuse Deuterium and Tritium the only products are neutrons, alpha particles, and 17.6 MeV. The halflife of a free neutron is only 10.8 minutes and alpha radiation can be stopped with paper.... not that bad considering that halflife of most by products is thosands of years.
I would have to agree... but then again this is venturing into vary hazy territory. Seems to me that the question is very philisophic.
Is a draft of an e-mail an e-mail even if you never send it, but you wrote it with the intention of sending it? Is piece of mail that sits in your out box but never leaves considered mail?
The court system is going to have to be very careful with subjects like this if they do not want to over step their bounds.
I don't know.... I like that/. puts up relavent science news... this is the only site that I have found that provides an open forum on my two loves... computers and Physics.
But I would disagree with your statement about not having anything to say. You should check out the argument on the Unified Theory, or some of the discussion of Bose-Einstein Condensates...
Mathematics exists in the abstract. Numbers are completely meaningless until someone gives a meaning to a number. Math doesn't solely serve to prove reality, that's why the various fields of science exist. It is simply used in those fields since it is the only concrete form of logic we know of. Only then, when a Scientist not a Mathematician, gives the number a meaning does Math venture into the realm of reality.
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Indeed. Scientist are usually wrong because we have no way to say conclusively that this is how it works. All we can do is make a theory, then say if it is wrong in it's ablity to predict the outcome of experiments. It is really sad that the Creationists are using a key concept of scientific investigation piecemeal to say science is wrong by they never apply that concept to themselves.
No they're physicist so they don't deal in pounds they deal in Kilograms
doesn't this whole thing disagree with the conservation of mass-energy ... ?
By what I am reading, when you fuse Deuterium and Tritium the only products are neutrons, alpha particles, and 17.6 MeV. The halflife of a free neutron is only 10.8 minutes and alpha radiation can be stopped with paper .... not that bad considering that halflife of most by products is thosands of years.
Not to mention you get to play with the damned cool physics toys .... ahhh there is nothing like a kinematics cart wreck....
I would have to agree... but then again this is venturing into vary hazy territory. Seems to me that the question is very philisophic. Is a draft of an e-mail an e-mail even if you never send it, but you wrote it with the intention of sending it? Is piece of mail that sits in your out box but never leaves considered mail? The court system is going to have to be very careful with subjects like this if they do not want to over step their bounds.
I don't know .... I like that /. puts up relavent science news ... this is the only site that I have found that provides an open forum on my two loves ... computers and Physics.
But I would disagree with your statement about not having anything to say. You should check out the argument on the Unified Theory, or some of the discussion of Bose-Einstein Condensates...
You forgot to mention the fact that the UN has no real way to enforce its "decrees." (i.e. look at arms inspections in Iraq)
Mathematics exists in the abstract. Numbers are completely meaningless until someone gives a meaning to a number. Math doesn't solely serve to prove reality, that's why the various fields of science exist. It is simply used in those fields since it is the only concrete form of logic we know of. Only then, when a Scientist not a Mathematician, gives the number a meaning does Math venture into the realm of reality.