Mon 1 Mar, 2010 01:55 pm - I think the question is inherently unanswerable. If we talk about objects in and of themselves, e.g. their dynamics without any human involvement, we are still humans trying to understand objects.... (view)
Mon 1 Mar, 2010 01:52 pm - [QUOTE=fast;132841][COLOR=black]Supposing there are no particles and only waves, does this imply that electrons do not exist, or does it imply that the definition of the word, "electron"... (view)
Wed 16 Dec, 2009 01:37 pm - Slight aside: The comedian Steve Wright said: "I wish the first word I'd learned to say was 'quote' so that before I died I could say 'unquote'." (view)
Wed 16 Dec, 2009 01:24 pm - [QUOTE=Dave Allen;111769]In fact - prior to Gulf War 2 Iraq were trading with France and the US. That oil wasn't at risk. It embarrassed the US to deal with a tyrant in Iraq (the US prefers... (view)
Wed 16 Dec, 2009 05:46 am - Just because Iraq owns and sells the oil, it does not follow that the war was not primarily about oil. I think most people can understand the difference between Saddam Hussein being owning a huge... (view)
Tue 15 Dec, 2009 09:39 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;111475]Not at all. The original idea of Democritus was 'atoms and the void', which was convenient. because it was a kind of binary value. Either a space was occupied, or it... (view)
Mon 14 Dec, 2009 05:21 pm - [QUOTE=memester;111291]OK, here is one for fun: using availble notations , playing at disambiguating this to mean the other person is right, and is usually right, or is right this time, but is... (view)
Mon 14 Dec, 2009 05:17 am - Hi
What we call atoms these days are not the atoms of atomist theory since they are not indivisible. The indivisible units of matter of atomist theory we no longer call atoms but elementary or... (view)
Sun 13 Dec, 2009 06:04 pm - [QUOTE=jeeprs;111023]thanks Bones! I will look into him a bit more. Intuitively it rings true for me. (And my suspicion is that if there are to be big breakthroughs on the nature of physical... (view)
Sun 13 Dec, 2009 03:45 pm - After a brief scan, the author appears to be attempting to make a case for modelling the strong interaction between protons as a gravitational force, supposing protons to be particles on the verge... (view)
