universeness

'Can have', yes, 'needs,' no. You have yet to provide adequate evidence for your view of the Universe and your view is one of many in existence. There...

If each human you meet, confirms to you (if you ask them) that in their opinion, humans dream, then that is proof enough. Can you PROVE you exist? You...

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But unlike faith or belief-based hypotheses, scientific hypotheses can be progressed into accepted fact!

I voted no as time may not be linear. Can you perceive of a lifeform who experiences existence, not as a continuum? A lifeform which 'hops' (@"EugeneW...

Well, that was an interesting few pages of exchange to read. Nothing new in the theist vs atheist dialogue that I could garnish but the trenches betwe...

Ok Yoda! BS is certainly strong with you!

You can officially copyright it but there is probably no need. Everyone who reads it here can confirm that it was first read here, on this date, by us...

So, does your invisible friend comfort you? If your rhetoric is produced from qualifications in the study of philosophy then I am glad that there are ...

I tend not to capitalise that which I don't think exists, i try not to at least just like i call your god an it rather than assign it the 'he' gender ...

The word has been used in many contexts from its inception. From jealous gods to envious gods to angry gods, vengeful gods, benevolent gods. I think t...

As your own original work, this is very impressive writing.

Total BS. What evidence are you basing this on?

You don't even state which god you are referring to. Your own god? The one that admits to being a 'jealous' god in the Old Testament (or popular book ...

I personally consider Alexander the (not so) great to be a butcher but I did like the story of his encounter with the Gordian knot. If he could untie ...

Just an interesting aside. I see the use of :fire: as an indication of your opinion of a sentence or a group of wording in a post in accordance with t...

You have to return to the time of our emergence from the wilds. The cro magnon's etc. The original gods were all related to the strange but very impor...

As a person who is interested in philosophy but is not academically qualified in the field, I find the exchanges in this thread 'entertaining.' The lo...

I think otherwise, for reasons I have already stated above and the fact that I also reject the concept that such an entity has ever or can ever exist....

You cant have more than one Omni, can you? Two omnipotent's would have to fight it out! So, if it killed itself, I take it that it just sprung back to...

Yeah, I don't think we are the originators of such questions towards that which is proposed omnipotent. But my question was less gender-biased than yo...

Maybe the Final T.O.E will be The EugeneW equations (but with strings attached!).

If you know that the virtual can become 'real' then all those virtual bottles of single malt Scottish whisky's that I am imagining in my head right no...

As I said, when I have read stuff involving Feynman diagrams. The 'horizontal line' is always referenced as 'we don't know what happens here.'

It's a deal! By that time you will be able to buy all the single malt whisky's I will need to keep the jokes flowing!

But there is only one horizontal line in the diagram. The electron(e-) and positron (e+) are inputs. I took the wiggly lines to be the two 'real' phot...

Well done EugeneW. All you have to do now is convince the likes of Ed Witten, Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, Michio Kaku and Leonard Susskind. If you do,...

Well, if you want, I can provide you with the link to his answer on Quora. You can respond to his answer if you wish.

I thought it was the existence of the extra dimensions that caused the 'vibrations.' but if I am wrong then my bet lies with the musings of Ed Witten,...

He's a Ph.D. who got his doctorate from Huston Uni, not a professor! Maybe he was just 'summarising.' According to wikipedia, a lot happens during an ...

At the moment, I am most attracted to the posit that it's a multidimensional string vibration. If I was going to bet, I would bet on some future versi...

Can that which is omnipotent and has free will, kill itself?

A question on Quora was: If photon and electron are point-like, how can they collide at all? An answer was offered by: Masroor Bukhari Ph.D. in Partic...

If you watch his online debates and interviews, I think you would find Dawkins to be a humanist, an altruist, and an optimist. He regularly reports hi...

Well if so, then that's down to your, in my opinion, too high a setting of sensitivity. I take a 'such is life' approach to such and move on.

I think you are imagining that is true!

Well, I try my best to follow the logic of your typings as best I can but I don't blame you for my lack of physics study. I still very much enjoy our ...

Yes but I am asking you about the persistence/gnawing aspect of imagination. Philosophically, where do you think this tendency of imagination to gnaw ...

Not at all, many questions are still to be answered in cosmology. Currently, all that exists are theories regarding the quantum structure and workings...

Well, I consider physics to be in the purview of science and metaphysics is 'after' physics.

This 'virtual photo' is emitted by one particle and absorbed by the other yes? The process of emission changes the momentum of one particle and absorp...

Don't muse about the physics, comment on the concept/persistence/gnawing of human imagination. When a really intelligent scientists such as Sean Carro...

Kismet is just a term that relates to 'destiny' or 'fate' or 'providence' or 'predetermination. We both seemed to go for 'metaphysics' as an answer to...

Kismet!

I have admitted in the past to being an interloper here Alkis. I am sure you can find a philosophical aspect, relevant to the thread and if you look a...

As I think about your 'hoping' imagery and this 'cloud' or 'smear' appearance, it sounds to me more like vibrating strings! The cloud/smear/hopping ap...

Ha ha. I was hoping YOU could help ME understand that one. From my recent reading and from what the physics professor said on Quora, an electron is mo...

Sorry I meant to type 'orbiting the nucleus' not orbiting the sphere.

I think all of the specs together ARE THE ELECTRON. The electron is not a single sphere in orbit around the nucleus. Its a 'smear' or 'cloud' orbiting...

Click on the link in the OP, look at the image.