Horizon:Is everything we know about the universe wrong?

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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    SCIENCE HAS FAILED ME
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • Gav888
    Gav888 Posts: 946
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    SCIENCE HAS FAILED ME

    Yep, read this with caution - http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/apo ... _teach_me/
    Cycling never gets any easier, you just go faster - Greg LeMond
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Gav888 wrote:
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    SCIENCE HAS FAILED ME

    Yep, read this with caution - http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/life/apo ... _teach_me/

    Actually in fairness the guy is correct in stating that the development and root of much of modern Science was not just influenced, but shaped by religious convictions.

    The notion of nature being subject to Gods laws, in the same way as man was subjct to the 10 commandments, was the basis of the "book of nature" concept.

    This idea, that one could read nature like a book, and that nature acted in a consistent way, always, made observation and experimentation worthwhile, as "scientists" (loaded and innaccurate term), realised wider conclusions could be drawn from their experiments.

    Indeed this theology of God given laws, was something that China specifically lacked, and is generally the reason given for their lack of Scientific development.

    For further reading consider some of Boyle's works as examples of scientific thinking being led by religious conviction, also consider Paracelsus, Francis Bacon and Newton.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    awallace wrote:
    Is anyone watching this?

    I wish i studied harder at school, id love to be this clever!!

    Its got me thinking about one of my favourite "How/why?" questions.

    How can the universe be infinite?

    Is there life on other planets? - There must be.

    What was there before the big bang?

    The universe is so vast i struggle to comprehgend it all!

    Anyone else baffled by space?
    There was a very intelligent scientist who spent years trying to answer these kind of questions and his conclusion was that it is best not to think about it.
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Before the BIG BANG, there was the BIG SUCK - echoes of which can be still heard when a plumber is considering an estimate for the repair of your boiler. The figure he eventually produces is based on hypothetical mathematics and usually involes moving the decimal point at least one place to the right. In this way, plumbers can achieve what the Alchemists have been attempting to do for aeons - change base metals such as copper and brass into gold. :wink:
    Cycling weakly
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Have X-Wings been invented yet?

    Years ago, Im an ace 8)

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