Part 2 of the solver since/. sucks for "junk characters"
int Solve( Board* board )// Recursive Brute-Force Solver { Board temp = *board; int nCells = TotalEmptyCells( &temp ); int x, y, n; if( !nCells )// trivial case - solved if no empty// if zero cells remaining return 1; for( y = 0; y < 9; y++ )// while we have empty cells, for( x = 0; x < 9; x++ ) if( ! temp.cell[y][x] )// Find first empty// empty = !full { int bInvalidMoves = GetInvalidMoves( &temp, x, y ); for( n = 1; n <= 9; n++ )// iterate the empty cell with all possible candidates { if( ! (bInvalidMoves & (1 << n)) ) { temp.cell[y][x] = n; if( LOG ) printf("[%d,%d]=%c ", x+1,y+1,'0'+n); if( Solve( &temp ) ) { *board = temp;// propogate solution back to caller return 1; } } } if( LOG ) printf("\n"); return 0;// No valid configurations for this board } return !printf( "No empty cells! Couldn't find solution for this board.\n" ); }
void Input( Board* board ) { memset( (void*)board, 0, sizeof( Board ) );// Clear() char *p = &board->cell[0][0]; while (p <= &board->cell[8][8]) { int c = getchar(); if ((c == '-') || (c == '_')) p++; else if ((c >= '0') && (c <= '9')) *p++ = c - '0'; } }
> or sending volunteers on a one way trip to Mars: these are not actions that can be tolerated by a moral society.
Thank-you for dictating your morality [on] to me. NOT.
I have the right to live (or die) on my own as I see fit. e.g. If I wish to kill my lungs (smoking), my liver (drinking), that alone is my choice. I don't of course. I wish others didn't either, but that is THEIR right (and choice.) The fact that you are blind to the other side of the equation demonstrates you have this have the false belief that morality of soceity is "absolute" -- it is not, it is relative. Any _truely_ free society does not have right to impose only one set of group consensus of morals onto others -- who determines what is "right" ?
The funny thing there was an old Apple ][ program that would let you single-step programs and it would visually trace how the bytes moved from memory to/from A/X/Y and the status flag.
Can't remember the name of it though! Something along the lines of "Inside the 6502" Can't find it on Asimov either:-(
Agreed. I've been using Linux off and on (started with Slackware ~1.0, kernel 0.99, yeah _that_ long ago) The running joke is that it is always $(Year)+X for the year of the Linux desktop -- seriously doubt it will ever happen for the masses. Windows + Mac OS X are just too entrenched and "good enough." As a programmer/geek, if I don't have time to dick around getting Linux to work, the rest of the non-computer illiterates don't have a hope. It is easier to just recommend OS X to non-computer people.
Always cool to see "the little OS that could" continue to make progress though.:-) Drivers are Linux's strength (older hardware) and weakness (newer hardware.)
Yes, but you forgetting one tiny little but important detail. While the PS2 EE, VU0 and VU1 can be emulated, the BIG problem is the dam FAST speed of the GS VRAM ! Play Ico and Shadows of the Colossus to see some really neat framebuffer tricks used.
> You don't sound like a dick, you sound like a tripping hippie dipshit. > I think you're the one getting higher here.
I don't do drugs of any kind, so I would recommend not making assumptions if you don't want to look like a fool.
>> In this regards, you are correct, _for you_ there is little point in vegetarianism. > Ahh, so there is the dehumanization. I was waiting.
Methinks you need to re-read the above in context. Just because you have found something that doesn't work for _you_, doesn't imply that it won't/doesn't work for _others_. That was the point.
> It's what all vegetarians really want.
You so now you are speaking for _all_ vegetarians !? Who died and made you their spokesperson?
Vegetarians range from the ultra-quiet that never proselytize all the way to those that can't stop spewing their propaganda -- just like the same in any other group.
Sorry, mistyped the critical keyword can -> think. Thanks for the catching that!
It should read:
"She* exists, just not in way that you can relate to him*.
->
"She* exists, just not in [the] way that you think you relate to him*.
You are _always_ relating to God, by definition. The question isn't "Does God exist?", but "To what degree are you conscious that you are [relating]?" but I digress...
> That goes against the definition of existing. > If you can't relate to it in anyway, if you can't measure it, or interact with it in any way, then it doesn't exist.
So, just like Dark Matter, and Dark Energy ?:-)
The concept of zero / infinity before it was discovered ? The summation of an infinite series that converges, e.g. Sum(n=0,inf,2^-n) ?
You're using a rather fallacious definition of existing.
e.g. Most people are ignorant of consciousness above & below the human type. That doesn't mean they don't exist. It just means they simply are not (yet) aware of the 7 levels of consciousness.
> That whole "it's another plane of existence" is just nice words Nope. That's ignorant dualistic a/theistic thinking, and an extremely limited perspective on what you think "God" is. God is _inclusive_and_, not _exclusive_or_. e.g. "I'm physical, so God must be in this "magical" spiritual state??" The reality is "God" is meta-physical AND physical -- the key phrase being multi-dimensional. Physical reality is only _one_ dimension of God. An crude analogy, at the risk of sounding like a trite Kan *, would be a drop of water in the ocean: The drop of water is part of the ocean, and the ocean is part of the drop of water.
> I just don't see any reason to be a vegetarian. To me it boils down to some mystical bullshit.
Calling something "bullshit" just because you don't understand it shows a complete lack of intellect and maturity. If you don't want to be a pseudo-skeptic, may I suggest being a honest skeptical instead? At least then you would have the balls to admit that you don't know what the big deal is. The first stage of true knowledge is admitting you don't really know.
Sorry to sound like a dick, but just because you are ignorant of the differences between the mineral, plant, animal, and human consciousness doesn't mean everyone is.
There are health reasons, there are moral reasons, there are religious reasons, and most importantly there are spiritual reasons.
If none of them work for you, so what??
As a vegetarian I couldn't give a fuck what you eat -- I am more curious in _why_. Personally I would hope someday that you become fully consciousness enough to question why you live the life you do, but that is between you and your Higher Self. You have shown zero interest in understanding that there just _might_ be more to the subject that you so off-handily dismiss. In this regards, you are correct, _for you_ there is little point in vegetarianism.
He still uses a dualistic view of good/evil, but I'm not surprised, I've really only see other mystics that seem to grok that a higher level of consciousness it and other humanistic dualistic viewpoints don't exist.
When I was in my 20's I met people in their 50's and 60's playing Ultima Online. There are older gamers out there, you just have to find that "inner circle". Back then it was MUCH harder.
Us 1980's and 1990's gamers are getting dam close to 40. Most (all?) of my gaming friends are in their (late) 30's.
These days I would recommend Steam, browse the store, make sure the game has "Co-op" and score above 80, and when you play, "pug" it (Pick Up Group) until you add a few friends. I've met some great Steam friends that way and we have been playing for over a year.
Agree with you on the PS3. Ironically, I tend to player singler player on the consoles, with the exception of Castle Crashers! GREAT co-op game! (Rockband is great party game for XBox 360 or PS3.)
If you pick up L4D, L4D2, Battlefield Bad Co2, Rainbow 6 Las Vegas 2, Guild Wars, give me a shout sometime in the new year (will be away on vacation until then.) I'll think about posting my steam/psn in my journal if you are interested. Yeah, most of those are shooters but that is because shooters tend to offer free multiplayer.
> I guess we need both kinds of people, the idealists that keep the system clean and the pragmatists that make the system work. Without them we would either be at the mercy of Microsoft or struggling to boot The Hurd.
WOW. One of the best commentaries I've read in a long time in/. about ideology.
> No TV? How do you do that? What do you stare at when you come home in the evenings after work?
Let me introduce to you a foreign concept --- gaming with friends. You know, before there were computers the activity used to be with board games and usually family members.
If I was evil I would tell you about L4D coop. Really evil, maybe World of Warcraft or Eve Online. And if i was a sick bastard, to get rid of any saving grace, I would send you to reddit.com. (Whoa Nelly! That dog-gone-it "intar-net" has tons of boobs on it!)
Exactly. Two counter-examples to help prove your point...
a) Bit Torrent. b) Ever been to a Tanning Saloon? Why pay for sunlight / radiation when you can get it for free... c) We don't "have" to pay for free electricity (via solar), yet there is a huge demand to pay for electricity.
I'm more pissed of at Wikipoodia for the "No Trivia Section" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Handling_trivia -- UHM, HELLO, anything based on fictional is ALL Trivia. Sometimes it nice to spot all the "easter eggs" of Trivia!
> If you are a logical positivist what we can access through science is the highest form of truth.
IMHO, remove the words "through science", and you would be more accurate. i.e. Science is NOT the highest form of truth, far from it. But it works pretty dam good considering the circumstances and limitations of human understanding.
The original way you wrote it "what we can access through science is the highest form of truth", if you will pardon the pun, is not exactly true, as any good Mystic would argue and I apologize I can't do a better job of that but the fallacy is not understanding that Consciousness creates Matter (experience), not the other way around. e.g. It is possible to KNOW things are true, but be completely UNABLE to prove them, via experienced or not. i.e. Ask any mother if she loves her new-born child, a newly married couple if they love each other, "I exist" (Descartes’ "I think therefore I am" is completely backwards), etc. What kind of "experiment" would you even do for "proof" ??
There are 2 types of truth: absolute, relative.
Of the first kind there are only a handful: You exist ("always have/will"), The Void of Nothingness, Infinite Love, etc., but I digress as this is not a discussion on meta-physics, nor how time-space is only a subset of Consciousness.
Of the latter, Mathematics (and Science) fall into because they are based upon assumptions. e.g. 1+1=2 "simply" because that is how you have _defined_ it either implicitly, or explicitly. This universe is simply based on "Local Laws", the same do not hold in others. Read Tom Campbell's "My Big TOE" for more details. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972509461/
But yeah, logical positivist, is a pretty good model. I am not sure why wikipedia says "A 1929 pamphlet written by Neurath, Hahn, and Rudolf Carnap summarized the doctrines of the Vienna Circle at that time. The doctrines included the opposition to all metaphysics" as I don't see any contradiction between the two, as logical positivist is dam good starting point an unifying the masculine "Reasoning" and feminine "Gnosis."
> But how would the two theories be contradictory if they both explain everything?
Depending on how you define "everything". It would probably be labled a paradox. i.e. One truth does not negate another truth. The hard part is trying to figure out how the hell to have a super-set theory that can explain both, ala GUT (Grand Unification Theory) for GR (General Relatively) and QM (Quantum Mechanics).
> I have no doubt that certain instruments could eventually be built to "observe" other dimensions if they even exist.
It will be called a Plasma Lens and it will allow Scientists to see White Holes. (What's on the other side of a black hole.) Current ETA is sometime within the next 2 - 20 years last time I checked a few years, but I don't pay attention to the "when" of particular dates, only the "what" that things will happen, as dates are not important as the paradigm shift.
> I forget who proposed it, and as far as I knew it was not generally excepted by Physicists. However it treats light as a non-constant and posits that 2 other dimensions exist that have something to do with gravity and electromagnetism.
Now that is REAL interesting. Sure hope you can remember or someone can dig up a link!
The only alternate theory I've seen is Dewey B. Larson 's "The Reciprocal System" but it is pretty unorthodox to be seriously be considered by the mainstream. It sure would be good to have a review to see what its critical flaws are... http://www.reciprocalsystem.com/ce/step/index.htm
> through some kind of conversion between electromagnetism and gravity That's currently the missing piece we don't understand. Guess that's the holy grail of physics though, eh?
What's really strange is that E=M*C^2 is basically a linear system, since Einstien assumed that 'c' was constant. I would like to see a non-linear interpretation of energy = mass, along with dispensing of the assumption that 'c' isn't constant.
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Part 2 of the solver since /. sucks for "junk characters"
// Recursive Brute-Force Solver // trivial case - solved if no empty // if zero cells remaining // while we have empty cells, // Find first empty // empty = !full // iterate the empty cell with all possible candidates // propogate solution back to caller // No valid configurations for this board
// Clear()
int Solve( Board* board )
{
Board temp = *board;
int nCells = TotalEmptyCells( &temp );
int x, y, n;
if( !nCells )
return 1;
for( y = 0; y < 9; y++ )
for( x = 0; x < 9; x++ )
if( ! temp.cell[y][x] )
{
int bInvalidMoves = GetInvalidMoves( &temp, x, y );
for( n = 1; n <= 9; n++ )
{
if( ! (bInvalidMoves & (1 << n)) ) {
temp.cell[y][x] = n;
if( LOG ) printf("[%d,%d]=%c ", x+1,y+1,'0'+n);
if( Solve( &temp ) ) {
*board = temp;
return 1;
}
}
}
if( LOG ) printf("\n");
return 0;
}
return !printf( "No empty cells! Couldn't find solution for this board.\n" );
}
void Input( Board* board )
{
memset( (void*)board, 0, sizeof( Board ) );
char *p = &board->cell[0][0];
while (p <= &board->cell[8][8]) {
int c = getchar();
if ((c == '-') || (c == '_'))
p++;
else if ((c >= '0') && (c <= '9'))
*p++ = c - '0';
}
}
int main( int nArg, char *aArg[] )
{
Board board;
Input( &board );
Print( &board );
Solve( &board );
Print( &board );
}
Yeah, no kidding. This is a Sudoku solver in less then 100 lines of C code that will solve any (solvable) board.
... breaking this posting up into multiple posts...
// gcc -DLOG=0 sudoku.c -O2 -o sudoku.exe // memset
// bitmask of invalid moves // horizontal // vertical // 3x3 block
// empty = !full
/. sucks
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct Board
{
char cell[9][9];
} Board;
void Print( Board* board )
{
int x, y;
for( y = 0; y < 9; y++ ) {
if (y && (y%3 == 0)) printf("---+---+---\n");
for( x = 0; x < 9; x++ ) {
if (x && (x%3 == 0)) printf("!");
printf( "%c", board->cell[y][x] ? '0' + board->cell[y][x] : ' ' );
}
printf("\n");
}
printf( "\n" );
}
int GetInvalidMoves( Board* board, int x, int y )
{
int cx, cy, wx, wy, bMask = 0;
cy = y; for( cx = 0; cx < 9; cx++ )
bMask |= (1 << board->cell[cy][cx]);
cx = x; for( cy = 0; cy < 9; cy++ )
bMask |= (1 << board->cell[cy][cx]);
wx = x - (x % 3);
wy = y - (y % 3);
for( cy = 0; cy < 3; cy++ )
for( cx = 0; cx < 3; cx++ )
bMask |= (1 << board->cell[wy+cy][wx+cx]);
return bMask;
}
int TotalEmptyCells( Board* board )
{
int x, y, nEmpty = 0;
for( y = 0; y < 9; y++ )
for( x = 0; x < 9; x++ )
if ( ! board->cell[y][x] )
nEmpty++;
return nEmpty;
}
> or sending volunteers on a one way trip to Mars: these are not actions that can be tolerated by a moral society.
Thank-you for dictating your morality [on] to me. NOT.
I have the right to live (or die) on my own as I see fit. e.g. If I wish to kill my lungs (smoking), my liver (drinking), that alone is my choice. I don't of course. I wish others didn't either, but that is THEIR right (and choice.) The fact that you are blind to the other side of the equation demonstrates you have this have the false belief that morality of soceity is "absolute" -- it is not, it is relative. Any _truely_ free society does not have right to impose only one set of group consensus of morals onto others -- who determines what is "right" ?
Now piss off. :-)
Here, let me fucking google that for you ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_husbandry
It's not rocket science (only agriculture science)
Hey, it worked on Earth for "exotic" foreign lands ...
oh wait :-)
Yeah, it is cool.
The funny thing there was an old Apple ][ program that would let you single-step programs and it would visually trace how the bytes moved from memory to/from A/X/Y and the status flag.
Can't remember the name of it though! Something along the lines of "Inside the 6502" Can't find it on Asimov either :-(
Agreed. I've been using Linux off and on (started with Slackware ~1.0, kernel 0.99, yeah _that_ long ago) The running joke is that it is always $(Year)+X for the year of the Linux desktop -- seriously doubt it will ever happen for the masses. Windows + Mac OS X are just too entrenched and "good enough." As a programmer/geek, if I don't have time to dick around getting Linux to work, the rest of the non-computer illiterates don't have a hope. It is easier to just recommend OS X to non-computer people.
Always cool to see "the little OS that could" continue to make progress though. :-) Drivers are Linux's strength (older hardware) and weakness (newer hardware.)
> but would a PS2 emulator be possible?
Yes, but you forgetting one tiny little but important detail. While the PS2 EE, VU0 and VU1 can be emulated, the BIG problem is the dam FAST speed of the GS VRAM ! Play Ico and Shadows of the Colossus to see some really neat framebuffer tricks used.
Specifically, see: The Making Of "Shadow Of The Colossus"
http://jeremyawon.info/sotcss/making_of_sotc/making_of_sotc.html
Cheers
>> Stop thinking that WoW is the ultimate game that will ever be produced
> Isn't it, though?
LOL, no. WoW is the McDonalds of MMOs. Popularity != Quality.
Let me know when they actually have player housing, or when I can level without genocide.
Character Classes are training wheels for players & developers too lazy to implement a clean GURPs-like system.
> I find it so funny when religious
Please show me where I said I was religious?
> You are just a deranged lunatic that believes in mythical creatures,
Please show me where I said that?
Thanks
> You don't sound like a dick, you sound like a tripping hippie dipshit.
> I think you're the one getting higher here.
I don't do drugs of any kind, so I would recommend not making assumptions if you don't want to look like a fool.
>> In this regards, you are correct, _for you_ there is little point in vegetarianism.
> Ahh, so there is the dehumanization. I was waiting.
Methinks you need to re-read the above in context. Just because you have found something that doesn't work for _you_, doesn't imply that it won't/doesn't work for _others_. That was the point.
> It's what all vegetarians really want.
You so now you are speaking for _all_ vegetarians !? Who died and made you their spokesperson?
Vegetarians range from the ultra-quiet that never proselytize all the way to those that can't stop spewing their propaganda -- just like the same in any other group.
Cheers
Sorry, mistyped the critical keyword can -> think. Thanks for the catching that!
It should read:
"She* exists, just not in way that you can relate to him*.
->
"She* exists, just not in [the] way that you think you relate to him*.
You are _always_ relating to God, by definition. The question isn't "Does God exist?", but "To what degree are you conscious that you are [relating]?" but I digress ...
> That goes against the definition of existing.
> If you can't relate to it in anyway, if you can't measure it, or interact with it in any way, then it doesn't exist.
So, just like Dark Matter, and Dark Energy ? :-)
The concept of zero / infinity before it was discovered ? The summation of an infinite series that converges, e.g. Sum(n=0,inf,2^-n) ?
You're using a rather fallacious definition of existing.
e.g. Most people are ignorant of consciousness above & below the human type. That doesn't mean they don't exist. It just means they simply are not (yet) aware of the 7 levels of consciousness.
> That whole "it's another plane of existence" is just nice words
Nope. That's ignorant dualistic a/theistic thinking, and an extremely limited perspective on what you think "God" is. God is _inclusive_and_, not _exclusive_or_. e.g. "I'm physical, so God must be in this "magical" spiritual state??" The reality is "God" is meta-physical AND physical -- the key phrase being multi-dimensional. Physical reality is only _one_ dimension of God. An crude analogy, at the risk of sounding like a trite Kan *, would be a drop of water in the ocean: The drop of water is part of the ocean, and the ocean is part of the drop of water.
Cheers
* I'm not a Buddhist, but they understand the importance of multi-paradigm meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan
> The second generation PS3s had the PS2 graphics chip in them
The PS2 graphics chip is called the GS (Graphics Synthesizer). /pedantic... saying Emotion Engine CPU is redundant :-)
> Look, there is NO GOD, there is just nature.
And your proof of no god is where ... ?
As a mystic, you're definition of GOD is overly-simplisitic. She* exists, just not in way that you can relate to him*.
Aside that from, I have no qualms with the rest of your post.
* She/Him is intentional.
> I just don't see any reason to be a vegetarian. To me it boils down to some mystical bullshit.
Calling something "bullshit" just because you don't understand it shows a complete lack of intellect and maturity. If you don't want to be a pseudo-skeptic, may I suggest being a honest skeptical instead? At least then you would have the balls to admit that you don't know what the big deal is. The first stage of true knowledge is admitting you don't really know.
Sorry to sound like a dick, but just because you are ignorant of the differences between the mineral, plant, animal, and human consciousness doesn't mean everyone is.
There are health reasons, there are moral reasons, there are religious reasons, and most importantly there are spiritual reasons.
If none of them work for you, so what??
As a vegetarian I couldn't give a fuck what you eat -- I am more curious in _why_. Personally I would hope someday that you become fully consciousness enough to question why you live the life you do, but that is between you and your Higher Self. You have shown zero interest in understanding that there just _might_ be more to the subject that you so off-handily dismiss. In this regards, you are correct, _for you_ there is little point in vegetarianism.
Regards
Thanks for the ref to Anthony Flew's bliks.
He still uses a dualistic view of good/evil, but I'm not surprised, I've really only see other mystics that seem to grok that a higher level of consciousness it and other humanistic dualistic viewpoints don't exist.
Interesting read though. Thanks again!
> I'm talking in the 39+ age range...
When I was in my 20's I met people in their 50's and 60's playing Ultima Online. There are older gamers out there, you just have to find that "inner circle". Back then it was MUCH harder.
Us 1980's and 1990's gamers are getting dam close to 40. Most (all?) of my gaming friends are in their (late) 30's.
These days I would recommend Steam, browse the store, make sure the game has "Co-op" and score above 80, and when you play, "pug" it (Pick Up Group) until you add a few friends. I've met some great Steam friends that way and we have been playing for over a year.
Agree with you on the PS3. Ironically, I tend to player singler player on the consoles, with the exception of Castle Crashers! GREAT co-op game! (Rockband is great party game for XBox 360 or PS3.)
If you pick up L4D, L4D2, Battlefield Bad Co2, Rainbow 6 Las Vegas 2, Guild Wars, give me a shout sometime in the new year (will be away on vacation until then.) I'll think about posting my steam/psn in my journal if you are interested. Yeah, most of those are shooters but that is because shooters tend to offer free multiplayer.
Cheers
> I guess we need both kinds of people, the idealists that keep the system clean and the pragmatists that make the system work. Without them we would either be at the mercy of Microsoft or struggling to boot The Hurd.
WOW. One of the best commentaries I've read in a long time in /. about ideology.
Very nice.
> No TV? How do you do that? What do you stare at when you come home in the evenings after work?
Let me introduce to you a foreign concept --- gaming with friends. You know, before there were computers the activity used to be with board games and usually family members.
If I was evil I would tell you about L4D coop. Really evil, maybe World of Warcraft or Eve Online. And if i was a sick bastard, to get rid of any saving grace, I would send you to reddit.com. (Whoa Nelly! That dog-gone-it "intar-net" has tons of boobs on it!)
Instead I'll be nice, and send you to Gemcraft Chapter 0 :-)
http://armorgames.com/play/3527/gemcraft-chapter-0
> It's like a fundie arguing that the bible is right because the bible says it's right--it just doesn't work.
Here, this "Wheel of Power" picture will help ... ;-)
http://www.wayofthemind.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/infalliblebible-thumb.jpg
> Bullshit.
Exactly. Two counter-examples to help prove your point ...
a) Bit Torrent. ...
b) Ever been to a Tanning Saloon? Why pay for sunlight / radiation when you can get it for free
c) We don't "have" to pay for free electricity (via solar), yet there is a huge demand to pay for electricity.
Holy Crap ... thats a lot of characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_characters
I'm more pissed of at Wikipoodia for the "No Trivia Section" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Handling_trivia -- UHM, HELLO, anything based on fictional is ALL Trivia. Sometimes it nice to spot all the "easter eggs" of Trivia!
> If you are a logical positivist what we can access through science is the highest form of truth.
IMHO, remove the words "through science", and you would be more accurate. i.e. Science is NOT the highest form of truth, far from it. But it works pretty dam good considering the circumstances and limitations of human understanding.
The original way you wrote it "what we can access through science is the highest form of truth", if you will pardon the pun, is not exactly true, as any good Mystic would argue and I apologize I can't do a better job of that but the fallacy is not understanding that Consciousness creates Matter (experience), not the other way around. e.g. It is possible to KNOW things are true, but be completely UNABLE to prove them, via experienced or not. i.e. Ask any mother if she loves her new-born child, a newly married couple if they love each other, "I exist" (Descartes’ "I think therefore I am" is completely backwards), etc. What kind of "experiment" would you even do for "proof" ??
There are 2 types of truth: absolute, relative.
Of the first kind there are only a handful: You exist ("always have/will"), The Void of Nothingness, Infinite Love, etc., but I digress as this is not a discussion on meta-physics, nor how time-space is only a subset of Consciousness.
Of the latter, Mathematics (and Science) fall into because they are based upon assumptions. e.g. 1+1=2 "simply" because that is how you have _defined_ it either implicitly, or explicitly. This universe is simply based on "Local Laws", the same do not hold in others. Read Tom Campbell's "My Big TOE" for more details. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0972509461/
But yeah, logical positivist, is a pretty good model. I am not sure why wikipedia says "A 1929 pamphlet written by Neurath, Hahn, and Rudolf Carnap summarized the doctrines of the Vienna Circle at that time. The doctrines included the opposition to all metaphysics" as I don't see any contradiction between the two, as logical positivist is dam good starting point an unifying the masculine "Reasoning" and feminine "Gnosis."
> But how would the two theories be contradictory if they both explain everything?
Depending on how you define "everything". It would probably be labled a paradox. i.e. One truth does not negate another truth. The hard part is trying to figure out how the hell to have a super-set theory that can explain both, ala GUT (Grand Unification Theory) for GR (General Relatively) and QM (Quantum Mechanics).
Cheers
> I have no doubt that certain instruments could eventually be built to "observe" other dimensions if they even exist.
It will be called a Plasma Lens and it will allow Scientists to see White Holes. (What's on the other side of a black hole.)
Current ETA is sometime within the next 2 - 20 years last time I checked a few years, but I don't pay attention to the "when" of particular dates, only the "what" that things will happen, as dates are not important as the paradigm shift.
> I forget who proposed it, and as far as I knew it was not generally excepted by Physicists. However it treats light as a non-constant and posits that 2 other dimensions exist that have something to do with gravity and electromagnetism.
Now that is REAL interesting. Sure hope you can remember or someone can dig up a link!
The only alternate theory I've seen is Dewey B. Larson 's "The Reciprocal System" but it is pretty unorthodox to be seriously be considered by the mainstream. It sure would be good to have a review to see what its critical flaws are ...
http://www.reciprocalsystem.com/ce/step/index.htm
> through some kind of conversion between electromagnetism and gravity
That's currently the missing piece we don't understand. Guess that's the holy grail of physics though, eh?
What's really strange is that E=M*C^2 is basically a linear system, since Einstien assumed that 'c' was constant. I would like to see a non-linear interpretation of energy = mass, along with dispensing of the assumption that 'c' isn't constant.
Cheers
> Not, you know, of destroying civilization as we know it and rendering the planet inhabitable for human life.
You say that like its a bad thing... ;-)