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To: SoothingDave
Or go take a nap or something.

I took a nap. I'm fully refreshed.
7,159 posted on 04/30/2002 8:16:32 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE
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To: OLD REGGIE;angelo
I took a nap. I'm fully refreshed.

Wonderful. :-)

Who, among you, really knows the "Laws of the Universe"?

We really don't. If there is one thing that the discovery of quantum mechanics has done, it has been to make it more clear that the "laws" we know of physics are models that function within certain parameters. Change the parameters and we observe "violations" of our models. So we revise the model.

For example, when calculating where a ball rolling off a table will land we can use simple laws of motion. But if instead of a few feet, we are talking about projecting a missle, we then need to factor in wind resistance, etc. In the first case, it is not that wind resistance does not exist, just that it is negligible. It is the difference between engineering and science.

Science would want to fully define, to the best of its ability. Engineering realizes that if it doesn't matter, it does not matter.

Finally, can we see any echoes of the incarnation and Christ's hypostatic union in light and its apparent wave-particle duality?

SD

7,166 posted on 04/30/2002 8:37:36 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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