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Hi Loco some kind of hyperwallmentalblock errected by my subliminalsubconscioussubliminalities I suppose. Aristarchus, I hope your subliminalblockages don't cause you as much discomfort as they do the I who is me. What ever that means, I will just say yes to. Mark A "yes" is acceptable, M...

As for slaves, and equality. We all need slaves but equality we will never have. That's why I have a wife. If I change my religion I can have 16 wifes. A good wife will certainly make a husband feel superior to her (while ensuring her footprint is firmly stamped on planet Earth.) Are you thinking o...

G'day from the land of ozzzzz This paper maybe related to this topic. http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0537 Sociology of Modern Cosmology Authors: Martin Lopez-Corredoira (Submitted on 2 Dec 2008 (v1), last revised 18 May 2009 (this version, v2)) Abstract: Certain results of observational cosmology cast c...

What you say has value. However, if a theory MUST be disprovable, that seems to say the theorist knows the theory is false to begin with. I agree with Aristarchus that this proposition seems to have no value at all. A good theory is constructed in such a way as to be disprovable. Keep in mind that ...

I'm genuinely stumped on this one. If they are actually disproved, they add to our knowledge- we know with high certainty that something in particular is not true. If they survive testing for a long time without being disproved, they boost our confidence that they do represent truth. Either way, th...

Hello aristarchusnotinexile, A theory is akin to a patterned idea. A framework, if you will, which is sort of the method we humans use in order to organize a set of ideas that support the pattern or disprove it through testing. Some tests win, some don't. If we couldn't for some reason develope thi...

What if the 'Big Bang' was really an 'anti Bang' and we are all anti what we would have been had the bang been a real bang?
If so, there is an earth on which dwells peace and harmony.

If that were a CANADIAN spacecraft it NEVER would have crashed. Our technolgy is simply superior. Applications for membership to Local Ottawa Cosmos Ottawa now being accepted.

If all men were created equal, why did the beholders of self evident truth embrace slavery? slaves were considered to be different from men, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygenism I suppose it would be easy for the merchant class armed with weapons of mass destruction like flintlocks to say &q...

and I made a wish upon a falling star, or is it a shooting star? That might maybe perhaps depend on whether the meteor's velocity is faster than gravitational attraction could account for, taking into account all slingshot effects in the meteor's path, and whether or not the meteor's tail contains ...

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We hold these truths to be self evident, ...

If all men were created equal, why did the beholders of self evident truth embrace slavery?

This is where space and time come to an End..... http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html I think it would be more accurate to say that this shows the point where our existing theories are outside their limits of validity. Simply put, we don't know what happens to space or time at the e...