... Jeremy: If you consider the possibility that there is a level of parallel universes that vary in their physical laws, the physics of our universe become...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:42:33 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... These are 2 separate things. My POV (FWIW) is that a theory can be true, but we can never be sure...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:41:49 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... All explanations of reality are indirectly inferred at some stage. The double slit experiment...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:42:00 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I think the tensor term would have to be different at the Planck scale (where it would be...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:40:16 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... Cosmic rays have a maximum energy which is determined by their interaction with the background...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:39:37 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... I didn't say that I thought any scientific theory is true. I said (or implied) that I think it's...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:32:37 AM GMT Daylight Time, ... Sorry, I misunderstood. When you said "every theory" I thought you meant it literally, rather...
... And is this a fault of science, or philosophy? ... and scientists _know_ their subject ;) -- Mikko Särelä Emperor Bonaparte: "Where does God fit into...
The best argument I've come across on this may be summed up by the phrase "there are no relativists in a 747" (relativists being people who reject the notion...
In a message dated 8/1/2003 1:43:42 PM GMT Daylight Time, ... Not if it can be shown that "our" laws of physics are the inevitable and only result of some...
Dear members of the list, Would you give some reccommendation on good PhD programs (if any) that would involve work in philosophical implications of quantum...
Here is a comment on a proposition by Jeremy <doogiedc@...> and a comment on Alan's comment about it. (<alan_forrester2@...>) ... I think the...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Aug 2, 2003 2:05 am
7989
You are simply saying that a theory that is consistent with a limited set of currently agreed facts *might* be true? One could go further: since a "falsified"...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 2, 2003 2:06 am
7990
... OK. I agree with this. Possible but unverifiable. Z....
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 2, 2003 2:06 am
7991
... That is a different matter. The idea that the earth is *really* stationary will all the stars *really* move and no other way of describing it is true is...
In a message dated 03/08/03 01:06:07 GMT Daylight Time, ... I don't think this is so and, because all our experience by definition takes place within the...
SimonJAnthony@...
Aug 4, 2003 12:10 am
7993
... One can -- and as a matter of historical fact often does -- have in hand two mutually contradictory physical theories both of which have the resources and ...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 4, 2003 12:10 am
7994
... There is no way of being *absolutely certain* about this -- although I agree that the return of the geocentric model as *literally true* is highly...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 4, 2003 12:11 am
7995
... But the "bounds of experience" are moveable, dynamic. ... I'm not sure structuralists like John Worral would agree that these are necessarily "metaphors". ...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 4, 2003 1:07 pm
7996
I’m new to the discussions regarding FoR and have some questions regarding ‘Life’ as embodied in molecular matter and it’s (i.e. Life’s) origins. ...
I think this point came up in previous discussions on this list, but isn't it the case that classical physics is "false" only with respect to describing what...
Dear Charles, Has anyone considered how a wave function behaves at these scales? Kindest regards, Stephen ... From: <PaintedDevil@...> To:...
Stephen Paul King
stephenk1@...
Aug 5, 2003 12:40 am
7999
... Classical mechanics, as an empirically interpreted mathematical theory of motion, cannot be true in one domain and false in another except in a strained...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 5, 2003 12:59 pm
8000
Hello, I believe it is more proper to think in terms of a set of molecules as living rather than just one. There is new research going on at the Santa Fe...
Gene
g-h@...
Aug 5, 2003 12:59 pm
8001
I just thought of another way in which nature could be local, given EPR experiments, and without need to accept MWI. Perhaps our space is only a sort of...
Henry Sturman
henry@...
Aug 5, 2003 1:00 pm
8002
But the "bounds of experience" are moveable, dynamic. Well, our knowledge of the bounds of experience may change but the claim that the bounds themselves...
SimonJAnthony@...
Aug 5, 2003 1:01 pm
8003
... No. It's false with regard to what happens in EPR expriments for one thing. Look it up in the archives. ... You'd have a job trying to desing planes...
... But isn't this a historical fact? For example, Herz's discovery of radio waves. We now "experience" radio and television broadcasts, using receivers to...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 5, 2003 11:55 pm
8005
... But you can design a 747 without any knowledge of the existence of atoms, by treating matter as a continuum. So I fail to see the relevance? Obviously, we...
Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
Aug 5, 2003 11:56 pm
8006
... Why is this supposed to be a problem? Most physicists are agreed that their current theories are only approximations to some as yet unknown TOE. Charles...
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