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Posted on 09/04/2024 7:34:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bkmk
Tohu wa-bohu
(”waste and void,” “formless and empty,” or “chaos and desolation”) Biblical Hebrew phrase in Genesis 1:2 describing the condition of the earth before God said, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3)
Sorry but there are some things that can only be the subject of speculation and conjecture. They can never be visited or directly oberved or definitively analyzed to determine their true nature. Black holes are of that type.
I’m amazed the scientific community hasn’t been hit yet with a racial discrimination lawsuit for adopting the term “Black Hole” to describe an astrophysical anomaly.
It’s just a really dense object. It’s not magic. Scientists should have named it RDO (really dense object) instead of black hole. Then, perhaps, people wouldn’t imagine it’s a magic place.
I wonder if scientist will ever admit that ‘Global Warming’ isn’t what they ‘thought it was’???
Except most of those harping about Global Warming aren’t actually ‘scientist’, and the only actual science involved is the mathematics needed to calculate how much tax revenue they can raise in ‘carbon credits’, and how much of it they can steal before everybody figures out that Global Warming is nothing more than pseudoscience bunk.
Ya know what? That’s exactly what I’ve been preaching for years!
There are conceptual “white holes”...starting to think that physics may be close to the asymptote of knowledge. Thank you Planck and Heisenberg.
Thanks for posting these. It is a good break from politics
Your welcome.
Many fields have topics that are solid and other topics that are speculative. The ratio of the speculative to the solid may vary by field, but you can probably find something speculative in all fields.
I think cosmology and evolution are both speculative. Macro-economics is more speculative than micro-economics. Political science? I don’t know but will speculate that it is all speculative. Perhaps a lot is known about nutrition, however it seems obvious that a lot is also speculative. Environmentalism? Well, yes clean water is good and smog is bad. However, once you get past the basics, much of it is speculative at best. Anything with a taint of Marxism is just flat-out wrong.
I was just saying the same thing last night, after several drinks.
By a weird coincidence, Calcutta is in India.
Very little of theoretical physics can be experimentally proven. It is philosophy at its best.
True of pretty much anything.
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