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Is this the fabric of the universe?
Telegraph ^ | 3/19/07 | Roger Highfield

Posted on 03/19/2007 8:34:38 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: philetus

Faith in what?

Why when I read this article am I reminded of the Tower of Babel?


21 posted on 03/19/2007 9:37:38 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: KevinDavis; sig226

ping


22 posted on 03/19/2007 9:40:58 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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To: Eccl 10:2; RadioAstronomer
In a way, seeking the answers to the Universe He has created (is creating in my belief system) is a most honoring tribute to His creative powers. It is the effort to apply discoveries which can be blasphemous, but the search is seldom blasphemy to His sovereignty, in my humble opinion having dealt with scientists over the years.
23 posted on 03/19/2007 9:45:39 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: philetus
This is a quote from Richard Feynman a Cal Tech physicist

I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics... In fact, it is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. Some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it, in fact, is that it is unquestionably correct

Now thats faith..

24 posted on 03/19/2007 9:51:17 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I just can't say Democrat with out the ick)
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To: ThomasThomas
Uh, if time after time experimentation proves the efficacy of a theorum, how else would you characterize it?

What we need is imagination. We have to find a new view of the world. Richard Feynman

25 posted on 03/19/2007 9:55:28 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: dayglored

Well said!


26 posted on 03/19/2007 9:56:42 PM PDT by raftguide
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To: dayglored

"Mathematics is the language God used to write the universe."

I read this somewhere recently; don't remember who said it; very probably Albert Einstein.


27 posted on 03/19/2007 9:58:46 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: Eccl 10:2

Even if so, how would it differ from God?


28 posted on 03/19/2007 10:00:37 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: mgstarr
Where does Duncan Hunter stand on this?

His rising poll numbers will soon rate him an E8 symmetrical asterisk.

29 posted on 03/19/2007 10:09:15 PM PDT by Joe Miner
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To: ThomasThomas

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.


Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)


30 posted on 03/19/2007 10:15:09 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: IrishCatholic

Looks like both that guy from e Harmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, with his multiple dimensions of compatability, has picked up on this, not to mention Teresa Heinz Kerry with her varieties. The important thing, for selling ANY product ,or idea, is that you have to have lots and lots of ......something.....or other.....just remember to have LOTS//


31 posted on 03/19/2007 10:18:49 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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32 posted on 03/19/2007 10:31:04 PM PDT by Dallas59 (AL GORE STALKED ME ON 2/25/2007!)
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To: LibWhacker
Related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803493/posts.
33 posted on 03/19/2007 10:38:19 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: LibWhacker

Denim.


34 posted on 03/19/2007 10:42:35 PM PDT by null and void (To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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To: LibWhacker; grey_whiskers; RightWhale
An MIT news release:
Math research team maps E8
A fairly comprehensive glimpse of the work from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) website, with informative sidebar links and a photo of the mathematicans involved in the work:
Mathematicians Map E8

35 posted on 03/19/2007 11:01:05 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: razorback-bert

Wwow......that is a GOOD one....Feynman was really something. But only Einstein could have explained that
whacking off has its own physics.


36 posted on 03/19/2007 11:30:07 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Elsiejay

Galileo.


37 posted on 03/19/2007 11:34:22 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Tag to let -- 50 cents.)
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To: dayglored

... but the Divine intellect, by a simple apprehension of the circles's essence, knows without time-consuming reasoning all the infinity of its properties. Next, all these properties are in effect virtually included in the definitions of all things; and ultimately, through being infinite, are perhaps but one in their essence and in the Divine mind. Nor is all the above entirely unknown to the human mind either, but it is clouded with deep and thick mists ...

- Salviati at the end of the First Day of Dialogues
Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Despite their innocuous character, these passages were seized upon as one of the textual points offensive to the Church. ... "That he asserted some equality between the Divine and the human mind in geometrical matters."

- from the notes to the Stillman Drake edition


... so tread lightly !


38 posted on 03/20/2007 12:15:21 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: IrishCatholic

Read it again. They lied about 248 dimensions. I'm suing. :)


39 posted on 03/20/2007 1:03:09 AM PDT by sig226 (see my profile for the democrat culture of corruption)
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To: LibWhacker
Roger Highfield describes a heroic mathematical enterprise

After the "heroic", I lost interest.Sea rescues are heroic, saving your buddies under fire is heroic.

Math can never be heroic until someone works 40 days and nights determining if an asteroid will demolish Earth and how to avoid it.

This is more Eeyore than E8.

40 posted on 03/20/2007 1:13:20 AM PDT by leadhead (Vote Fred Thompson, he's already played a President on TV)
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