Posted on 10/10/2022 9:11:35 AM PDT by BEJ
This is the kind of stuff that midwits might find convincing.
Space curvature:
Suppose you had two very long strings.
You anchored each at anchor points on the equator.
Then you and a friend walked due north — 90° from the equator. You would meet at the north pole.
So two lines perpendicular to the same line, which is what we thought of as parallel, meet, because the earth is sort of spherical.
Now erect 2 lasers, each 90° from a steel bar, both pointing straight up. If the distance between the light beams varies, then you can say space is curved. If they converge it’s curved kinda like a sphere. If they diverge, maybe it’s like a hyperboloid.
Does a snake have hips?...................😜
It seems to me that even the idea of ‘location’ is limited, human thinking.
Does a fish have lips?
5.56mm
“If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can’t lift it?”
-George Carlin
-PJ
Only if it does, in fact, cross the road.
What is the speed of heavy?
What is the speed of Bud Light?
When I was a young Marine calibrating PMEL, digital test equipment, multimeters, etc. was just beginning to come into general use.
When calibration required adjusting a display for ‘zero’ I would adjust them for the negative sign to just be flickering on-off-on-off, so I knew the ‘true Zero was in there somewhere.................😎
the square root of the distance between your table and the restroom....................
A man asks God, “What’s a million dollars to you?”
God says, “A penny.”
Then the man asks God, “What’s a million years to you?”
God says, “A second.”
Then the man asks God, “Can I have a penny?”
And God says, “Sure, just give me a second.”
The operative word is “were”, as in past tense. Ones complement faded out long ago for obvious reasons.
Humans do not have a grasp of infinity. We do not have the intelligence to know or to imagine how many dimensions there are in the universe let alone to prove it. We do not have enough intelligence to imagine part of the powers of God.
We can not know the nature of God. Is he infinite? Does the term have any significance when discussing that which creates infinity?
Since God transcends the natural universe he also transcends logic and reason. Since the only thing infinite is God, the whole idea of infinity tends to escape logic and reason. Thus, the “can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it” paradox or the seeming paradox of Anselm’s ontological proof of God.
... ha, ha, ha. The contradiction is in the limitations of our language, not metaphysics. Our language allows us posit or define things which logically cannot exist. For instance, what would happen if an unstoppable force met an immovable object. Well, if there was an unstoppable force, there could not be an immovable object, although our language can include both in a sentence. Likewise, here, if there were an object too heavy for God to lift, he would not be omnipotent, and vice versa.
56 replies and no one has cited Wittgenstein, so I’ll do it:
“Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent.”
Sound advice.
Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
Wait a minute, my post #57 is Wittgenstein/Bertrand Russell.
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