paradox

This puzzle wafted in during half-sleep tonight: You can't fake understanding mathematics without really understanding it. You can't fool a mathematician into believing you know maths when you don't. Science ditto. On the other hand, a skeptic can fake belief. Acting skill is all you need to...

Do you agree with this? I do.

I might have to go and get Harpers to read what the rest of this article says... http://harpers.org/ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html O.

I was going to put this into the 'contradictions' thread, but feel in a way it fits better on its own. I had a discussion with a Xian colleague the other day who explained that God is pure love. I was tempted to simply nod and say, 'He sure is!', but since this guy (a damn good physics...

Suppose there is a particular shelf of books somewhere. Hypothesis: for every sentence in any of these books, if the sentence contains the word "impropriety" then it doesn't contain the word sequence "Nastasya Filippovna." I notice several novels by Dostoyevsky in the shelf, but I ignore them...

Here's a well known paradox in the philosophy of science, that can be applied to general skeptical thinking. I've never been completely happy with the various resolutions that have been proposed (inlcuding my own!). See what you make of it. Consider the hypothesis/claim: The hypothesis is well...

Hello everybody, great site for share ideas and thoughts Although im a convert skeptic in free energy since some time ago , yet there are some results that confuse me and i want to hear your opinions about this avramenko experiment hooper-monstein experiment chernetsky experiment ampere force...

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The twin paradox is easily solveable with general relativity. However, there is another form of the paradox which I have not been able to solve. The paradox has one assumption, the universe is closed. Ok, so here's how it goes. There are two probes, both with clocks strapped to them. Probe 1...

Help, please, I really can't quite get past the twin paradox thing in special relativity. I think I understand it, with time dialation and all, but here's what's puzzling: Twin one leaves the earth in his 1-g accelerating rocket and lets it burn for three months. After only a few weeks he's...

Most Christians say that a true belief in a Christian God will see them to heaven (Good works alone won't do it - you have to have the belief!) So I ask them: Q. What about the Muslim? Is he going to hell? A. Yes - he had the chance to believe & he didn't take the true belief. Q. What if...

How is it that perfectly amazing things become normal? Terry Pratchett has pointed it out a few times in his books, as have others. 'A filter against being overwhelmed by all the fantastic stuff that would otherwise prevent you from living your life.' Fabulous things surround us every day...

I've heard someone referring to this. Something to do with A-Series and B-Series time...What is it?

I apologize if this has come up before. I had an insight once many years ago about time travel and forgot about it until it came up in conversation the other day. I submit my idea for review: The well-known time travel paradox works as follows: An engineer (let's face it, scientists never...

Okay, it's probably not really a paradox at all. My kids and I were talking the other day about geometry and we arrived at a question I couldn't answer. A line segment is usually defined to be the set of all points between two other points. But a line has one dimension; a point has none. No...