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Well, through air, the path is not a parabola actually. But it looks like one. The very concept of a parabola follows from math. There are no parabola...
April 22, 2022 at 06:33
The parabola form is traced out by the stone. It's not there before.
April 22, 2022 at 06:12
It hasn't. It's gaining popularity, in fact. The search for primordial black holes is on. In fact, LIGO measurements support the idea. "A new study th...
April 22, 2022 at 06:09
In my humble opinion, that's a matter of taste. Does the thrown stone follow the parabola or the parabola the stone? What comes first, the parabola or...
April 22, 2022 at 05:59
The dark matter can be black holes. Dark energy is no matter or energy at all. It's empty spacetime itself that has inherent negative curvature. If ma...
April 22, 2022 at 05:51
I have to admit, you got humour! :lol:
April 22, 2022 at 05:22
:lol: Okay, seriously now. An eternal universe can have created itself? The ball on the cushion is self caused?
April 22, 2022 at 05:03
Sweet dreams! :yawn:
April 22, 2022 at 04:57
Damn you! Still laughing. I can't stop...
April 22, 2022 at 04:51
:lol: You make me laugh out loudly!
April 22, 2022 at 04:47
Well, you climbed the 6 meter rope in 3.4 seconds once... with arms only! Did you succeed with that Victorian cross (no offense!)?
April 22, 2022 at 04:45
I return the spoon. Stick it in your... wherever you want, and enjoy the self created infliction.
April 22, 2022 at 04:24
But they never saw the first bridge built.
April 22, 2022 at 04:17
It's clearly an incoherent thought process. Why consider the ball and cushion as separate. I see one thing only. Saying the ball and cushion exist apa...
April 22, 2022 at 04:13
But if there were no bridges before they we're built, you must have had knowledge to build it. How can't that be a priori?
April 22, 2022 at 04:01
Why is that an incoherent notion?
April 22, 2022 at 03:56
It's all about time. If time doesn't go forward then what are we looking at? A photograph?
April 22, 2022 at 03:53
Yes you have. A cushion with a ball on it eternally. My god, am I really discussing about a cushion with a ball laying on it eternally? The dent causi...
April 22, 2022 at 03:52
That depends on the direction of time. Goes time forward?
April 22, 2022 at 03:44
Doesn't an engineer has synthetic a priori knowledge about the bridge?
April 22, 2022 at 03:42
You seem to think there exists no a priori know?edge. But correct me if I'm wrong. But if that's the case how can we anticipate unknown territory with...
April 22, 2022 at 03:40
The cushion with the ball on it has to be its own cause as well as effect than. We can't tell. Is time going forward?
April 22, 2022 at 03:29
Yes, and? But the initial state of the universe is unique in this picture. The MWI was introduced to ensure unitarity in QM, during an interaction, wh...
April 22, 2022 at 03:27
Synthetic a priori knowledge. For example. If I consider all experimental scientific knowledge, non-natural knowledge, a step away from true natural k...
April 22, 2022 at 03:10
A cause doesn't need to be prior to the effect. That's onnly the case if time goes forward. In your cushion case, we can't tell which direction time g...
April 22, 2022 at 03:05
Like I said, then time stands still. A ball eternally on a cushion is equivalent to time standing still. Nothing happening. Not true. The causating ev...
April 22, 2022 at 02:53
I'm not disputing the wonderful new developments in computing. It's the idea that by computing consciousness can be created that's a fantasy.
April 21, 2022 at 22:57
Einstein based his theory on thought experiments, for a large part.
April 21, 2022 at 22:35
But how it got there? It must have fallen on it, cause-> effect, it will leave it if time is reversed, effect->cause, it is laid on it by me for the d...
April 21, 2022 at 22:19
If I lay a ball on a cushion to dip it, then the dip precedes the ball.
April 21, 2022 at 21:49
It depends on which way time goes. If it goes backwards, effect precedes cause.
April 21, 2022 at 21:42
Hey, you asked me if cause and effect can coexist. Yes they can.
April 21, 2022 at 21:30
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Can't the same be said of science nowadays? N Just replace "religion" by "sciences" in my quote of yours: "But existing sciences disagree and use an i...
April 21, 2022 at 21:27
On what else than instinct is reason and knowledge based. Any attempt to enclose knowledge in a rational system is doomed.
April 21, 2022 at 21:06
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Maybe the much too brightly shining light of reason is the disturbing truth. If you consider the infinitesimal specks in infinite eternity the divine ...
April 21, 2022 at 20:36
I can remember reading about the baby's retina aleady stimulating the brain with shapes. Don't ask me how they found out... Maybe you have seen it wit...
April 21, 2022 at 20:28
My dear god... :lol:
April 21, 2022 at 19:45
Damned! He was born even before his own birth? Suspicious... He secretely fertilized mamma Maria? Is the first coming actually the second one? Is our ...
April 21, 2022 at 19:43
How can it be useful if a brain memory is not based on static information as in the static maximum information content in a volume of space, the maxim...
April 21, 2022 at 19:36
In my humble opinion it's math following nature and not nature following math, non? Math is a description. Not an explanation. The velocity of a falli...
April 21, 2022 at 19:02
Knowledge of god can't be empirical, although you can see them all around. Somehow this knowledge resides in us. During education and participating in...
April 21, 2022 at 18:50
Do people feel the same as during the Cuban missile crisis?
April 21, 2022 at 18:25
Followed by this one: https://youtube.com/shorts/SByqxvjKfo8?feature=share
April 21, 2022 at 18:21
Let's face it. The end is near. And only a few months aga I was assured that peace is the result of atomìc weapons. Someday these babies will get used...
April 21, 2022 at 18:17
The baby already has knowledge of the world without ever having walked in it. How can that be? The knowledge must have evolved already in the womb, wi...
April 21, 2022 at 17:59
I must have anything to do with his super moustachoe. He must have admired the attempt of modern man to create robots.
April 21, 2022 at 17:44
Depression is no natural state. Some drugs do the job. The real cause is not taken away but you just feel better. How can a sane person not get depres...
April 21, 2022 at 17:34
It will pale in comparison with a natural brain. Where is the computing or program in a brain?
April 21, 2022 at 17:30
Again you delegate your vain hope into the future. Once upon a time in a future far far away. We dont know if we dont try, true. But we can contemplat...
April 21, 2022 at 17:27
The guestimate is nonsense. I can give you the Bekenstein fir all computers. But as said, it's static. The origin of the current universe is simple. T...
April 21, 2022 at 17:22