Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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. . . OK, broadly in the right order!
Wilier Izoard XP0 -
Newton was a leading expert on religion.
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The bloke was just lucky an apple hit his noggin. It's not as if he landed multiple reusable rockets or mass produced electric automousish cars.
Lucky!
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. . . although he may well argue that this would not have been possible without his laws of motion . . .
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Sorry I don't understand this. But I can assure you that under quantum theory, other than a particle in a box with infinitely high walls, which doesn exist, everything is everywhere all at once.
Is it the concordance principle that says that whatever quantum phenomenon you are concerned with becomes consistent with macroscopically observable phenomena (eg Newtonian mechanics) if you scale up the system? This is where my intellect started to run out of puff, but I seem to recall that the existence of what we perceive as discrete particles and their motion is the probability weighted sum of time dependent wave functions.
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...laws of being lucky an apple hit his head!
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Indeed . Kind of frustrating that anti-religion types get hung up on the first part of the first book of the Bible, but more or less ignore the rest of it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not bad for Bronze Age pastoralists.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I guess that is because a lot of the vocal christian groups (or I guess the controversial ones, especially US based) do the same - Leviticus justifying homophobia, Genesis 'proving' a 6,000 year old earth etc but very little "turn the other cheek" or "it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle"
I'll admit to taking the bait on it quite a lot, I can quite easily fall down a rabbit hole of watching young earth creationists on Youtube, they have a fascinating combination of utter conviction and being very clearly wrong about almost everything. I do have to remind myself sometimes that it is a pretty fringe viewpoint (although i did have a friend who briefly went in for it, he had an MSc in biomedical science and worked in the sector)
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I happened to sit through some of the Christmas eve service at Ely Cathedral this year.
I can understand the idea that you're using the story really as an illustration of how and why to do things, but I get quite unstuck when they keep insisting it's all real.
I appreciate the meta irony here, but one of the stories the bishop was going on about was the grief and shame Mary had to endure because, bluntly, no-one believed that she had indeed had an immaculate conception, and how strong she must have been in an era of terrible misogyny yadayada.
Mate. Give over.
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That's an easy one to explain with religion, god, gods or the spaghetti monster whichever you choose, invented it so we don't float away.
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Ain't nothing quite as tortured or tenuous as a CofE sermon 😁 It's part of the brand.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Sure. One thing you can be sure of with European Christianity. Someone somewhere had already thought it and wrote it more articulately then you ever will.
An awful lot of attention from an awful lot of incredibly clever people for an awfully long time.
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You know how the Post Office scandal finally got the attention it deserved after someone made a TV drama about it and people could directly relate to the victims? Stories are how people understand and engage with ideas.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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This is top class trolling. You manage to compare the finest mind that ever lived to Elon Musk.
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Newton was heavily into the occult and alchemy. Would probably have a YouTube channel about Atlantis if around now.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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He definitely wasn't very nice and had his issues, but I don't hold his work on either of those against him.
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Yeah, whatever. Musk has got proper apples setting up a rocket and car company. Apple bloke just talked a wicked game of stating the bleedin obvious.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, now he created some good $hit.
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I wouldn't say everything is everywhere all at once. There are correlation functions, and these do have zeros. For starters, there's Pauli's exclusion principle. If one electron is in one state, no other electron can be found there. So just one, at most.
For scattering, I don't need to rely on eventual classical equivalenced. Let me go a bit deeper on "scattering". The actual quantum idea, rather than snooker, is to have a particle in a wave pocket travel towards a potential, and then measure how the wave pocket is disturbed. In standard quantum mechanics, this behaviour is described by the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. The LSE is derived from a standard Hamiltonian, without assuming classical particles at any point.
Of course, you will now complain that I changed from, say, two particles, to a particle and a potential. But these two can be shown to be equivalent with the reduced mass particle transformation, just like in classical mechancis.
Finally, in order to compute the anomalous magnetic moments you need to make use of a better theory, quantum field theory. QFT is rarely solvable, and instead relies on further and further orders of perturbation theory (think Taylor series, but for interaction). Here, the more complicated the term, the smaller the length scales you're probing. So far, the series holds true.
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That's all well and good, as long as they remain illustrative stories. Religion comes undone when presented as facts.
Then again, I guess if you believe, you believe. Crack on, quietly. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Ion plasma propulsion, incredibly demonstrated on a small scale in this video.
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A story doesn't have the same effect if you are constantly saying it's just a story. You know when you are watching a film or reading a book and find yourself emotionally involved with the characters and wanting them to succeed? At that moment you believe in the reality of those characters and their situation even if another part of you knows it is a bunch of actors on a set who have had six goes at getting it just right, or words that an author has drafted and edited. At that moment it is real and true. It doesn't matter a jot whether circumstances within the story are physically impossible. The story is not helping you to understand physical truths.
Also, people misunderstand religion just as they misunderstand science.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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That was me by the way. Unnecessary rudeness.
Edit: much better.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I go the other way...
The fact that there are scientists that believe religion shows that some form of religion is a near innate quality of being a human.
There is no human society ever that has not believed in some form of sky fairy/faries. The only other thing we have is dancing.
(Doesn't make it real tho)
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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That is precisely how I watch a film or read a book. Get involved, right up until it ends. Then the illusion is over.
Lessons and morality can be learned, but I don't believe in Jack Reacher. 😉
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That's the fault of the author perhaps 😁. There are terrible films that do just feel like you are watching a rehearsal.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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You need to stop copying and pasting from Wikipedia.
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Who created the creator?
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Ummmm...who created the creator who created the creator?
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