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1 posted on 04/24/2016 7:20:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have a friend who is the head of physics at a prestigious college. He once told me that any “discovery” should be prefaced by the qualifying statement “At our present level of ignorance we assume that....”


35 posted on 04/24/2016 7:51:00 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
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Him and Steven Hawkings, which one is the bigger idiot?


39 posted on 04/24/2016 7:58:02 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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Hey Tyson, you ignorant ass; somebody else is responsible for the universe, that somebody else is GOD.


43 posted on 04/24/2016 8:15:14 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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Ahh yes, our affirmative action physicist. No thanks.


46 posted on 04/24/2016 8:23:02 PM PDT by bkopto
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Time for the Masons to update their higher power to “The Grand Programmer Of The Universe”


47 posted on 04/24/2016 8:25:06 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Unfortunately, the Universe is running Windows 95 (unmatched).


48 posted on 04/24/2016 8:26:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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This clown is more of an astrologer than an astronomer. ‘Course, he’s black, so nobody can call him out.


52 posted on 04/24/2016 8:28:47 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Computer, end program.

Whew, still here.

59 posted on 04/24/2016 8:55:09 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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But most physicists and philosophers agree that it's impossible to prove definitively that we don't live in a simulation and that the universe is real.

As such, what possible difference could it make? It seems to me that this is more a matter for philosophers than for serious physicists.
60 posted on 04/24/2016 9:14:03 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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We will need to adjust the impellances and coil omnidirectionally.


61 posted on 04/24/2016 9:15:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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Mr. Tyson you’re an atheist..... but if you think the universe is a simulation.... you inherently are saying you believe the universe was intelligently designed...


64 posted on 04/24/2016 9:27:02 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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“...somehow that someone else is responsible for our universe...”

Mr. Tyson: And who, exactly, do you posit that “someone else” is?


65 posted on 04/24/2016 9:31:19 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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NDT can go FO.


69 posted on 04/24/2016 10:20:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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72 posted on 04/24/2016 11:14:10 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Let’s test that theory. If none of this is reality surely he won’t mind me firing a bullet into his head right?


75 posted on 04/25/2016 12:40:24 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Tyson agrees, but says that he wouldn't be surprised if we were to find out somehow that someone else is responsible for our universe.

This is not exactly a new hypothesis, though Tyson is too rigidly programmed to think of the classic answer.

Tyson points out that we humans have always defined ourselves as the smartest beings alive.

Not true. See above. The idea that humans are the smartest things in the universe is a peculiarly modern delusion, probably rooted in having too many tenured faculty members around.

"And if that's the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity for their entertainment," Tyson says.

Most people who have considered the subject think that God had some purpose in mind other than entertainment.

The idea that our universe may be considered, for lack of a more adequate terminology, as a thought experiment in the mind of God is an old one. It answers a number of puzzles. If Tyson were not locked in his dogmatic box, he would recognize that he is stumbling around a well-rehearsed question. Of course, I'm sure he would prefer to believe in a race of incomprehensibly intelligent aliens as opposed to a creator God. He might want to pause and reflect on why he would prefer to consider himself a plaything as opposed to an infinitely valued creation.

77 posted on 04/25/2016 3:43:47 AM PDT by sphinx
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The funny thing is that Tyson is pretty much describing God but will never admit that. They have to change the language is order to accept the fact that we have a creator.. Both man and the universe.
They simply lack the faith to truly understand.


79 posted on 04/25/2016 3:59:35 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary)
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"We are here! We are here! We are here, here, here!"

-PJ

80 posted on 04/25/2016 4:03:18 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is another ‘popularizer’ of science. Like Bill Nye and Carl Sagan before him. It’s a schtick. These guys — well maybe not Nye — are probably experts in a particular field, but nobody can claim the kind of general expertise that these guys are.

It would be one thing to have people like deGrasse Tyson if we were actually attempting to educate our children in math-science-engineering. But we’re not. So we’re left with a kind of pseudo-religion with Mr. Tyson as one of it’s High Priests.


81 posted on 04/25/2016 4:07:55 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Tyson is a “Baghdad Bob” for NASA. He has been instructed to lie to the populace. However, in this case, his overlords have instructed him to mix a morsel of truth with his lies.

I believe that we will find out that eventually that the heavens and the earth are constructed just as described in the Bible.


82 posted on 04/25/2016 4:14:02 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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