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I see that there has not been a thread abut CERN for some time. Is it "Turtles All the Way Down"? LHCb discovers three new exotic particles Once upon a time there were three elementary particles and it all made sense. Now: I wonder if the actual number of particles in this universe has a...

As reported: Huffington Post, 6/10/2010: Vladimir Shpunt, 71, lived most of his life in Russia. He has three degrees in physics and a letter of reference from a Nobel Prize winner. He knows next to nothing about baseball. Yet the Dodgers hired him to, well, think blue. Frank and Jamie...

I thought this would be interesting to recite. I was just reading this article by Doctor Cramer http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw141.html It reminded me of this exciting news: http://www.internationalreporter.com/News-2566/massive-hole-in-the-universe-billion-light-years-away.html I...

In a previous thread Hypnopsi, championed by Malerin, claimed that idealism is more pragmatic because the notion of God is more supported by what we know than the notion of Matter. This argument is invalid. For an entity to be sure of anything, there must exist a referrent. For an entity to...

A question has been bugging me lately. I am an agnostic/atheist, and don't really believe in a soul or an afterlife. But if there is no soul, I wonder why I have this subjective experience. I think the brain is probably what is having this experience, but what part of the brain? Are the atoms...

At this stage, my vote is no.

I came across this article that, if I understand it correctly, rather boggles my mind. Apparently Harvard researchers were able to demonstrate that by passing a light through a supercooled sodium vapor cloud (at temperatures close to absolue zero) the light separated into two different states...

Hey. I had a discussion with a friend about matter and energy. I was under the impression that: - that matter and energy are fundamentally made out of the same stuff. - atoms are made of certain particles (electrons, protons, neutrons) which are actually exactly the same just in different...

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Hi, i really am on shaky ground here. What i know about philoosophy can be written on a postage stamp, yet alone the philosophy of science. I have read quite a bit of "popular science" based books and articals on Astronomy that cover the topic of Dark Matter. I can appreciate the hypothesis of...

I'm going to attempt to do this once more, and hopefully I won't get into trouble this time. ;) Now, these are the words of the Nobel prize winning physicist and, father of quantum physics, Max Planck ... Now, I can understand why the mods chose to move the other thread to the Science and...

Philosophy The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The general beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group. Popular Appealing to a majority of people. Accepted by or prevalent among the people in general. By philosophy I...

Picked up this article from Slashdot. Some folks are saying that Dark Matter might not exist and is unecessary to boot. General Relativity can explain the behavior seen in the cosmo. http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/45/8/8 There is a link to the actually paper in the article. If...

Scenario: On planet zero, there are 3 groups of citizens. There are the tall and green skinned ones, the short and gray skinned and the red skinned ones with wings. The red skinned ones make all the laws for the 3 groups. Is there anything wrong with that?

Check out this link: a convincing study that shows significant improvement in migraines from use of acupuncture. It also shows the same amount of improvement from "sham acupuncture", where the needles were placed in the "wrong" locations. Oops. :D Journal of the American Medical Association

Do we have the obligation to treat others with the utmost respect, despite their differing values, mistakes, poor judgement and (dare I say) ill-considered ideologies? When is it right to interfere in the affairs of others? Should we educate others to a level commensurate to our own line of...

Can someone tell me the scientific difference betwen living and non-living matter? What exactly has changed during the transition between life and deat? So - say I have a living cell and a dead cell. What is the difference exactly between the two?? Thanks, SS

Hello, Once again..In my previous post I talked about my discovery of 'a mental process'(which occurs without our actual awareness except through a kind of 'feel') responsible for the control of direction and spin motion of a billiard ball. Now that I am in a position to give a sound proof of...

Exodus 21 : 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. So if an abortion takes place, the HUSBAND has...

On space.com, they said that Neutrenos might be dark matter and now this nasa website claims that a cloud around a nebula is made of dark matter. Here is the website. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/deepspace/chandra_dark_matter_halo.html Scientists keep saying that different kinds of matter is...

Bush Relatives for Kerry I mean...an entire website with W's second cousins twice removed talking about why they're voting for Kerry? Do they expect these mini-testimonials will sway anyone? :confused:

I used to think the characterization of France as being appeasers quick to surrender as probably being unfair to them. Today I'm not so sure. I visited the doctors office and found an old issue of Time Magazine. In it was a tiny article about a terrorist group called “AZF” which had planted...

Hello All, I would like to share my thoughts with you. I am IMMSHARMA and have done research on the subject of 'aiming' ..it's involve ment of human brain....in billiards........ The strange result is that human mind(irrespective of age,sex etc.,) does require to complete a simple...

Bush vs Kerry.......scary thought isn't it? Disscuss!

I don't have all the facts! I heard this on the radio and I was wondering if it's BS? According to the report the US Supreme court ruled in favor of an HMO who ordered that a woman be released from the hospital against the express instructions of her doctors less than 12 hours after a...

Kumar got me thinking... Has anyone in science been able to destroy matter/energy? Is there any observable effect that destroys anything in the Universe? If there is no real destruction of matter/energy, then why do people think there must be a creation of said matter/energy?

I once saw a science program, where the host placed a small glas jar inside a larger glass jar, and filled a particular kind of liquid in both jars. I have forgotten what this liquid was unfortunately. The funny thing is, that when looking through the big jar, the smaller jar had become entirely...

Where do skeptics consider things like: ideas information emotion thoughts feelings sensory input (can't think of any more) Can these things be classified as 'matter' or 'non-matter' ? Is there anything that is non-matter? Are these things less, as, or more important than things that are matter?

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Rather than to continue to derail another thread, I thought I'd start a new one. In that thread, I stated: Jan responded: To which I responded So, where do we draw the line about which experiences/stimuli/senses we believe are definitely "real" and potentially "illusion"? If we reject only...