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Why our Understanding of Reality is False
Metallicman ^ | 18APR19 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 04/18/2019 5:20:21 PM PDT by vannrox

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To: Olog-hai

I see. Then, She should be advised to simply un-perceive the troublesome rocks. Problem solved.


41 posted on 04/18/2019 7:06:32 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: mosaicwolf

Nowadays I’m
Perceiving too damned much. And have to admit that it oft seems I know next to nothing


42 posted on 04/18/2019 7:07:48 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: jjotto

Well
If the world doesn’t exist then certainly global warming doesn’t either.


43 posted on 04/18/2019 7:08:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: vannrox
Our Understanding of Reality is False.

What I do now?

I wish Professor Irwin Corey were still around. He would know.

Maybe we could just change our reality and he will become alive again! Then he could tell us how to change our reality.

44 posted on 04/18/2019 7:10:49 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: vannrox
... the (task directed) “universe” consists of an infinite isothermal heat bath

First Problem, the universe is finite, 10^89 atomic particles if you include photons. Time is finite 10^61 segments of planck time.

Suggest the author either increase or reduce his medication

45 posted on 04/18/2019 7:21:43 PM PDT by D Rider
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For in the last two decades the entire foundation of our understanding of reality has been turned on it’s head. …
It really has been turned on it is head?

Or do certain people just watch too much lame-stream “news”, never mind the pseudoscience coming out of government-funded left-wing universities?
46 posted on 04/18/2019 7:24:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: faithhopecharity
If the world’s not real then neither is this article.

Nor are any of the observations the author makes. Which may constitute a fifth paradox. Or a fifth of gin. Which is what was required to write this obscurantist mumbo-jumbo.

47 posted on 04/18/2019 7:29:31 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Moonman62

Never mind there usually being no college course titled “Quantum Mechanics 101”. At Brown University for example, the course titled “Introduction to Relativity and Quantum Physics” is Physics 160, “Quantum Mechanics” is Physics 2050, “Advanced Quantum Mechanics” is Physics 2070, and so on. No abandonment of the scientific method there.


48 posted on 04/18/2019 7:34:25 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: TLI

So does most of the gobbledegook in the OP.


49 posted on 04/18/2019 7:35:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: lee martell
"...there is no one reality."

WELL, there is certainly not one rate of inflation for everyone.

The gov't inflation rate is certainly NOT the same as mine.

Year after sad year...

50 posted on 04/18/2019 7:37:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

Are there Craftsman Tool Sets for Quantum Mechanics?


51 posted on 04/18/2019 7:39:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: IronJack

Ha!


52 posted on 04/18/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: reasonisfaith

Let me be the first to suggest that he might be right... Science as we know it is a religion. We buy into it on faith. The question we should ask ourselves is “What do you really know for sure?” The answer is, “not much.”.


53 posted on 04/18/2019 7:43:08 PM PDT by babygene (hMake America Great Again)
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To: vannrox

Put 5 people in isolated boxes with a little window and sound from the exterior.

Tell them to note every detail of what they see and each detail noted is worth $100.

Boxes face a stage. Out comes a clown in an orange suit, juggles 3 balls, a dog comes out and grabs a ball and runs off.

I bet each of the five observers could relate exactly what occurred. Its called reality. At the quantum level I don’t have an opinion.

Anyone else notice that some sentences in this post have no right margin? Reality check. Could be my dying laptop. ;-)


54 posted on 04/18/2019 7:44:46 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: vannrox

https://www.amazon.com/Space-Time-Beyond-Toward-Explanation-Unexplainable/dp/0525473998?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0525473998


55 posted on 04/18/2019 7:53:14 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: vannrox
The writer never heard of statistical thermodynamics. The 2nd law has been thoroughly described via statistical mechanics, previously it was taken as an axiom. Thermodynamics is slowly being married to general relativity, including gravity.

My last class in Thermodynamics was also the Professor's final lecture. He was also an ordained minister. The lecture was a thermodynamic proof of God.

56 posted on 04/18/2019 7:56:59 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Olog-hai

Neatly put. I wonder how we got from “I think, therefore I am”, to “I think therefore there is no God”....

Once I am in my resurrected body, having put on immortality by the grace of God and Jesus’ perfect substitution, I’LL let you know how it works for sure. Why not just join me?


57 posted on 04/18/2019 7:58:04 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: norwaypinesavage

> This is nothing but pure mindless garbage. <

Agreed. The article reads like it was written by an automated nonsense paragraph generator. I actually thought the article was a prank at first.

By the way, here’s one such generator for the computer sciences. It’s a hoot. And some nonsense papers it generated were accepted as real!

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/


58 posted on 04/18/2019 7:58:25 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

+. I had hope but it just went into the garbage dump.


59 posted on 04/18/2019 8:00:18 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: babygene

This is a philosophical discussion, so let’s turn to real philosophy.

The phrase to remember is “properly basic belief.”

Properly basic beliefs include things like the belief that everything in front of your eyes is not a hallucination and that the universe wasn’t just created five minutes ago with the appearance of age.

The guy who wrote the article is not right. Like many nerd types, he got so distracted by his interest in a multitude of details that he created out of whole cloth an imaginary pattern which blinds him to the actual pattern of reality. So despite his claims about reality and Newtonian physics, the writer will to the end of his days be slave to time, distance and reality.


60 posted on 04/18/2019 8:06:39 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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