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Hey guys, Is anyone here an insider as to know how acceptable is the eastern theory of the energetic meridians as it relates to explain how acupuncture works? I mean, in bad english, I know: How experimentally verifiable is this theory? Is it possible to verify that, by placing pins at the...

Hi, I invite you to discuss my physical and scientific definition of the state of consciousness, which is : Consciousness is the state in which an entity is recalling any aspect of its prior state. Note that, recalling and memorizing happen unconsciously, which means: An entity that is...

Because it was suggested to start a new thread from the following: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4296847&posted=1#post4296847 In order for string theory or any scientific theory to be "falsifiable" or "verifiable" it must be "testable" and for it to be testable...

- Identifying a Problem (Can the Scientific Method be understood?) -Forming a hypothesis (It is a phrase with many meanings, understanding difficult) -Collecting and Analyzing Data (Do research, see links below) - Designing and Performing Experiments (start discussions on science based Internet...

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/evolution-wins.html

Hello all. Long time lurker, first time poster. I was up early (for me) and a tad bored, so I thought I would post my pet theory on a potential connection between water and evolution and see what people here thought of it. Theory is a bit strong really, since my academic background is...

The Intermediate Absorber/Emitter Principle of Absorber Theory Ever since reading Feynman-Wheeler Absorber Theory and Jack Cramer's Transactional Interpretation of quantum mechanics, I could not help but think that there was a simple solution to the two major problems with absorber theory. The...

One thing has bugged me is the term "Conspiracy Theory". Yea, I know it is a permanent part of the conversational lexicon as we know it, but I can't help referring back to the scientific method that defines the the term "theory" as something that has been proven via the rigors of the scientific...

Which published papers, books etc have you read that helped formulate your beliefs? The reason I ask, is that I don't have the benefit of a university education and have been wandering around the net choosing material from various sources. There's a lot of conflicting information out there. I...

Which published papers, books etc have you read that helped formulate your beliefs? The reason I ask, is that I don't have the benefit of a university education and have been wandering around the net choosing material from various sources. There's a lot of conflicting information out there. I...

Why does this system works? It is assumed that is BECAUSE the theories "reflect reality" (whatever that means), thats why we can make accurate predictions with (some of) them. Still, take for instance gravity. Is it a force? Is it a distortion of the spacetime continuum? Newtonian mechanics...

A jazzy beat with a message for you true believers to dig. tD5WlQ54Sg0 :cool:

This is the link http://www.geocities.com/natureoflight/pgindex.html

Evolution has been in the news quite a lot recently. Check out the new cover of Newsweek: I'll not quibble with a few of the sloppy wording and metaphor used, but it is overall a pretty insightful article. You can read it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542627/site/newsweek/ But the...

SInce I mentioned branes in one of my other posts I thought I would ask for some opinions here regarding the topic. What do you guys think, is the theory true or false?

http://xkcd.com/c171.html

In modern justice, you have basically one simple setup. Person A does X. X is considered a Bad Thing to do. We have the following options: 1. forgive it 2. forgive it if A promises not to do it again 3. punish A 3a. as warning to others in the future 3b. as enforcement of a prior warning to...

Where do you stand on the BBT?

(This is meant as a mostly-humorous thread. Please take it as such.) I don't want to have this thread be spinnoff on the agnosticism / atheism topic. The question for you guys is: If: 1. Kopji is right and all women were replaced with perfect alien clones 100 years ago, and 2. I did in fact...

It is possible to use martingale probability theory to beat some games of chance. In a fair game of coin toss, where the odds reach an equilibrium of 50/50 chain reactions do occur. This can be explained using martingale probability theory, but in simpler terms it only shows an example of how...

I can just about understand how people can believe in conspiracy theories, and other woo. If someone says something in an authoratitive way with lots of pictures, numbers, and claimed professionals it is easy to go along with it if you do not do your own research and no nothing about the...

I'm honestly suprised that we don't here more about this. It's believeable, and doesn't require alot of hypothetical hoops to jump through to make it work. And we already know the mafias history of shenannigans in whatever industry they get thier hooks into. But you'll never hear the "truth"...

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php Well, I must confess that I know nothing at all about string theory, except perhaps that it makes no testable predictions. At least, that's what I remember reading. Just posting this as an interesting link. :)

A couple of weeks ago, my fiance got a chuckle when one of her coworkers brought some fliers from a friend into work. They were quickly laughed over and then shredded. The best my fiance can remember is that it was a "Come to our church" type flier that was heavy on some quite laughable 9/11...

On NPR this morning: Sensational headline "Huge Asteroid Closes in on Earth." (Silly explanation later that it won't come closer than the Moon, and that you'll need a good telescope to see it.) ----------------- On CNN this morning: NASA Head Michael Griffith approving Shuttle launch...

While reading a book about John VonNeumann, I came across a strange game called the Dollar Bill Auction. There are two rules. 1) Bidding is perfomed as in a regular auction, i.e. all bids must be higher than previous bids, once bidding has stopped the high bidder pays the highest bid to...

Mine would be Joe DiMaggio hiring Lee Harvey for the shot. (Arthur Miller or James Dougherty also works) I did manage to get a book that had six theories, Lee alone, Cubans, Mafia, Elvis, Lee with Jack Ruby, and Gerald Ford. That was a good read.

It seems as though one can make a name for themselves in the CTer world by coming up with the farthest fetched scheme. As far out as you could imagine....

I have dipped in and out of Memetics research quite a bit of late (reading from the sidelines). It is not my field and I still have a great deal to get to grips with but I was wondering about opinion here. To me it seems (at times) to be little more than a metaphor. A nice metaphor granted -...

I have read through Kelly's blog, as well as numerous other sites detailing psychic readings, and based on what I have read, added very much to my own personal experience, I have come to a conclusion. Psychics are frustrated unpublished writers. I am an amatuer writer - I love horror fiction...