But waves include particles. All particles in the universe are physically described by point particles and wavefunctions can be seen as cross sections...
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I think there are two kinds of causes. Well, three actually. The first cause is what caused the whole shebang to exist in the first place. You can say...
I really don't understand your feeling about the use of nonsense. What's so bad if I think something is nonsense? It's not a personal attack. I just d...
That's because photons don't emit photons themselves. So you can't see them. You can see them indirectly by letting them interact with the double slit...
Not exactly. But approximately. Just like I said, they had their own way of coping. Most of these though collapsed by the devastating effects of scien...
Seems like costs don't matter for Musk. The guy wants to move to Mars and die there, together with his girlfriend. Something has gone horribly wrong o...
We eat. That's a fact. The food exists regardless what we think about it. In food there are huge collections of electrons. They have charge. A scienti...
If the information is a finite, say the maximum of information contained in the observable universe, 10exp120, then there are still is still a continu...
Without science, we wouldn't have had a global warming in the first place. What else than science is responsible? Scientists themselves admit that. On...
As long as one story with ontological importance for the people telling them is not made to bow to others or worse, is tried to be wiped from the face...
If you go back in time you can't go back to t=0. What caused time to begin? God is the easy answer. That's no physical answer. If he created a singula...
Okay sorry if I sounded impolite! It's young wildness, I guess. :smile: I consider my view applicable to everyone. I realize though that there are mor...
What is noonsense? Sounds like one wants to nap at noon! "I have superb noonsense!" Where am I not polite? I just said it's nonsense and corrected tha...
God(s) aused the universe. Who else? But in the realm of causal relations, the first cause of each new big bang is a causeless state, which is not the...
I have thought long and deep about this issue. Ontological relativism is the way out of all misery. The realization that all worldviews are just stori...
I think we have a small misunderstanding. I mean there is a qualitative, intrinsic difference. The model of the combined motion of stone and air, incl...
Well, on a rotating Earth, you feel an extra force, the centrifugal, a tidal non-local force. But, strange as it may sound, you can say just as well t...
It is stated somewhere in your book by Brian Green, about the water bucket (if I remember well). If you find yourself on a rotating sphere and look at...
All very good things indeed! According to me and you. The thing is though, that after church and state were divorced, a new happy engagement was celeb...
It can! Like a model in a brain, which are just running patterns of sodium ions rushing in. How can a free process, say a stone moving freely in the a...
Depends what you mean by nonsense. From the POV of those who think programmed electron currents can be a model, yes, indeed. The diverging view is lab...
Okay. But I think walking in a world where drones instead of birds rise up from gardens, the sound of geese that are still left flying over is overscr...
It's Einstein's reasoning: Acceleration is absolute. If you accelerate in empty space you can equally valid (is there one word for this?) say that all...
I think this makes no sense, or that it is nonsense. Time could have a starting point that is different from the time that is measured by the clock. T...
1 Exactly! There are only bunches of electrons pushed and pulled around on the strict structure of the circuit wite. About 10exp15 times per second, i...
Seems like all questions in philosophy reduce to the nature of reality and if, how, or what we can know about it, are there gods, can we know them, wh...
Ah, you are the OP. Okay then. All of matter is charged. Charge is said to be the cause of force, acceleration, interaction, energy. It's my convictio...
:lol: More or less! Let's not forget though that to actually and objectively experience the non-narrative aspect of the conceptual imperative as impos...
Got mixep up in threads! There was another one about the reality of time. A first cause for the big bang is the perfect clock, which the singularity c...
Which is nonsense. Information content, like the often quoted Bekenstein information content of the observable universe, i.e, 10exp120, is no indicati...
Try to make a water sculpture. You will see the differences with ice are not that slightly. Ice and stone are more alike than ice and water. What matt...
Except that qualia are the conscious understanding of the nòn-material content of the two gauge-coupled massless Dirac fields constituting reality. Th...
The end of our universe, at infinity, may cause a new bang at the singularity. At the singularity time is present in a sense that there is no begin po...
If the mind can leave the body, yes. Some body once. But then the body has now fallen apart. Without charge the brain can't even develop, nor the body...
The point is, materialists think the mind is the effect of a huge collection of ordered particles interacting with the physical world. They think that...
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