Bonam Posted December 31, 2012 Report Posted December 31, 2012 (edited) http://xkcd.com/1153/ Edited December 31, 2012 by Bonam Quote
Guest Manny Posted January 1, 2013 Report Posted January 1, 2013 "Scientifical" ??? No underhanded references.....take the hard courses or take lower pay....on average. Simple fact that it is not an easy topic, for maybe 99% of people to grasp. I won't pretend I'm an expert. But I will be generous enough to say, those rare people who do "get it" such as Martin Reese or Sylvester Gates are not so arrogant to claim they know what its all about. In fact, quite the opposite, from the way they explain it, they have simply uncovered a much deeper mystery about ultimate reality- that there may not even be one. So while modern science provides at least some kind of an answer, the paradoxes are still there from the perspective of human experience. Quote
GostHacked Posted January 2, 2013 Report Posted January 2, 2013 If you want things that do not exist within this universe, try Gravity. I've been hearing somethings about the 'Electric Universe' for some time now which tries to replace gravity (weak force) with the notion of the electromagnetics being the main force that keeps things together. Quote
GostHacked Posted January 2, 2013 Report Posted January 2, 2013 It has nothing to do with it. The Xeno's problem is he did not understand that it takes exactly 0 seconds to traverse an infinitely small chunk of space. Wrong, even when moving in the smallest of increments, it still takes time to move from one place to the other. The time duration is just infinitely small as well. if you move from one place to another instantly then you are using the higher dimensions to travel through in order to instantly travel from one spot to the next. Quote
bush_cheney2004 Posted January 2, 2013 Report Posted January 2, 2013 Simple fact that it is not an easy topic, for maybe 99% of people to grasp. I won't pretend I'm an expert. I never said it was easy material to understand. But any decent (accredited) undergraduate program in science or engineering requires that these and other concepts be understood and communicated in the language of higher mathematics. But I will be generous enough to say, those rare people who do "get it" such as Martin Reese or Sylvester Gates are not so arrogant to claim they know what its all about. In fact, quite the opposite.... Not sure what you mean here....some of the saving graces of mathematics are the concepts of lemmas, proofs, theorems, axioms, etc. that build a solid framework for analysis and the communication of discoveries to others. "A proof is a proof....because it's proven". Quote Economics trumps Virtue.
Guest Manny Posted January 3, 2013 Report Posted January 3, 2013 I never said it was easy material to understand. But any decent (accredited) undergraduate program in science or engineering requires that these and other concepts be understood and communicated in the language of higher mathematics. Sure, but we were talking about science at the fringes here. Not normal stuff, paradoxes. Not, ordinary equations. Not sure what you mean here.... What I meant was, I was being generous enough to continue this discussion... Quote
RB Posted April 29, 2015 Report Posted April 29, 2015 Curious if anyone is as interested in these things as I am, as I'd like to have a discussion about some of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox I'd like to have an open discussion on Paradoxes so I'd rather not begin by stating my solutions, but if the mods demand such, I will begin myself with my solution to Zeno's Paradoxes. Are you interested because you are curious in paradoxes ? or you have a higher level of cognitive understanding?? I am curious. Quote
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