On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> Even Einstein believed in God.
Einstein also believed in hidden variables and disbelieved in spooky
action at a distance.
... and he was wrong.
-- Charles
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> Even Einstein believed in God.
Superstition is hard to root out. -T
On 26 November 2010 22:34, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
>
>> Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
>> encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of science
>> and there are no more et ceteras?
>
On 26-Nov-10 10:37 PM, Madhu Menon wrote:
>> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
>> about spirituality? etc etc etc.
>
> That isn't the purpose of science.
Indeed: http://netropolis.in/silklist/msg00181.html
> Also see: "God of the gaps".
Is that like Cantor D
On 26-11-2010 21:54, Deepa Mohan wrote:
How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
about spirituality? etc etc etc.
That isn't the purpose of science.
Also see: "God of the gaps".
--
Madhu Menon
http://twitter.com/madmanweb
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
> Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
> encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of science
> and there are no more et ceteras?
>
>
I firmly believe that there will always be et ceteras an
On 26 November 2010 21:54, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does science start thinking
>> about spirituality? etc etc etc.
>
>
Isn't that the whole point of science? To investigate without these
encumberances? So that one day all of them fall within the realm of s
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Keith Adam wrote:
> Keith
>
> Keith...and strange thingsI was instantly reminded of a catchy song ,
from the TV series, Spitting Image:
http://artists.letssingit.com/spitting-image-lyrics-the-chicken-song-zh46wn8
"Eat a Renault Four with salami in your ears/
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:54:31PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > Which dilemmas?
> >
> How do we deal with our discoveries?
If we don't like what we discover, we probably
should have thought about that a bit earlier.
(And the more interesting question: how will
our discoveries deal with us?)
>
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:26:43PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> > ..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in
> the
> > novel...still remain.
>
> Which dilemmas?
>
> How do we deal with our discoveries? When does sc
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:26:43PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> ..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in the
> novel...still remain.
Which dilemmas?
> > Ask for vegetarian food in South Korea without an interpreter's
help,
> and I guarantee that you will see some very strange 'food'.
>
> For a couple of days back in 2003, I had breakfast in Seoul by
> wandering
> around the streets and pointing at stuff in the carts. I had no way of
> knowing
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> As far as I can see, this is a Very Big Deal.
>
> Udhay
>
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antimatter-confined&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20101123
>
..and as far as I can see, the dilemmas that Dan Brown talked about in the
novel
As far as I can see, this is a Very Big Deal.
Udhay
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=antimatter-confined&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20101123
Upping the Anti: CERN Physicists Trap Antimatter Atoms for the First Time
Antihydrogen has been produced before, but it must be corralled for
detailed
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