Hillary

It's exactly the opposite. It are a north and south pole. Of course, your poles are contrary because you, irrationally, don't believe and are not able...

"The bootstrap philosophy abandons not only the idea of fundamental constituents of matter but accepts no fundamental entities whatsoever — no fundame...

Conformal Bootstrap in the Regge Limit From 2017. Interesting stuff!

The bootstrap was advocated by Fritjof Capra, in the Tao of physics. There was critique on his book because he didn't take the November revolution int...

In Druk Yul all people are religious. What about North Korea? The religion of the Supreme Leader, the Great Leader, and the Dear Leader?

We're hallucinating all the time, eventhough unconsciously. For example, matter is, in reality, made up of parts which we hallucinate to be continuous...

Bhutan. If one ignores the Sun, no life is possible. Nor if you ignore the rest of the universe.

He means we don't understand what came before it? "We're working on it!" And the money inflow is ensured. Even for asking him a question (without a gu...

Knowing what's bad doesn't mean we should punish it or eliminate it. Gods created both good and bad. The real horror starts if we want to eliminate "t...

No. That's when it started, to culminate right here and now! :rofl:

A confession of ignorance... But hey, it's Carroll!

If you knew the physics, that should be, exactly not.

Whatever! :rofl:

Brother Smith! T Clark is serious!.... :lol:

Which is overally irrational. Explain me where virtual particles in pre-inflationary substrate 4D space come from? Yòu can't say its eternal because b...

All cultures besides the western one. The whole world is western. I cant really tell the difference between people in Iran or in Europe. Same streets,...

:up: Totally agree! I always felt something missing in learning at school. I loved physics though. Maybe because its somehow related to know about the...

That depends on the theocracy. And it seems atheocracy has some problems too...

So an atheocracy is better? Why?

You're predictable! Dear mother of gods... whatever...

Good observation! Why are state and religion separated in the first place? Shouldn't the state be involved in all kinds of life? I mean, watching they...

Then why not believe? Because there's no evidence? The circle is closed.

You're irrationally messing up your reasons. Evvery universe emerging from random quantum fluctuations includes evolving life. Which is precisely the ...

Then it wouldn't be belief.

How can there be evidence for gods?

I read: "In the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled the teaching of creationism as science in public schools to be unconstitutional, irrespecti...

This whole Tao nonsense seems like a perfumed soft paper handkerchief to me. You can blow your nose, clean the screen, or wipe your ass with it. In Ta...

And it means we include secular institutions, devoid of religious values. So non-religious values are given the power.

Again, you adopt an old view on objective reality. That view holds that there is one such reality. Which is ostensibly wrong. Just ask two different s...

I have pondered too much about this and have come to the conclusion that the idea of one and only absolute reality is a useless idea having its roots ...

But why should you want them to be subjective? It's a more human approach if you think that the morality people hold as objective are considered objec...

:up:

We need a wider metaphysical framework, a theology, or maybe a cosmology. How you view, say gods or God, seems to influence your morals. Maybe the bes...

Yes, indeed. But what else can we do than think they are objective? Why do we think they are objective? I think for a lot of people it's the easy way....

But it depends on your view of gods or God what the morals are then.

You mean moral is divinely inspired? Say, that life is sacred because life is divinely "created" or evolution invented by gods or God?

It's a sub of the problem of an absolute, objective reality. Why should there be one such reality? You can say because that's by definition the case, ...

You can always ask them to change to other objective morals. You might convince them.

What if gods can't show up and proof their existence in the way you demand proof to be? Wouldn't their showing up in the flesh disturb the laws and st...

Indeed, to you. But when you ask the people involved, and they say their morality is not how they want it, but an objective morality, then it is an ob...

Good point. We will never be able to avoid the final apocalypse. One fine day it hits globally and universally. No worries. Behind us it starts all ov...

Good observation. Not one single lifeform can be produced in a lob. Not even a virus. Life evolving naturally was the intention of the gods. The only ...

Believe it or not, but I had a truly amazing dream. Maybe it were the gods themselves who made me dream, or maybe it was my unconsciousness in action,...

I think they made the basics. If all life in heaven took part in the development, research, and finally creation of the particles with the right prope...

It's more or less like this. Morality is objective. But it depends on who you ask what that objective morality is. Likewise for objective truths or re...

Consider what happens when you hit rock bottom insifar the physics is concerned. You know how the cosmos functions. Just assume. Then you ask the ques...

Yeah, I mean, you wrote a pretty substantive comment, and even wrote it to be a great thread (which it is)... Just one word in reaction would suffice,...

:up:

Yes. The universe is uncreated if you turn time backwards. But then a new appears at the same time at infinity, running back to the central singularit...

Precisely. One cannot say time runs forward or backwards in such a primordial state.