02-08-2014, 10:16 AM
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There was a time when we believed the world was flat and that you would hit a wall as you broke through the sound barrier. What is impossible today often becomes possible as we learn more. Who know?
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02-08-2014, 10:29 AM
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There was a time when we believed the world was flat and that you would hit a wall as you broke through the sound barrier. What is impossible today often becomes possible as we learn more. Who know?
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"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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02-08-2014, 11:41 AM
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"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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Theoretical laws?
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02-08-2014, 11:48 AM
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Theoretical laws?
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I would hardly call Einstein's equations "theoretical"; people have been trying to prove them wrong for over a hundred and ten years, and every challenge only to end up reconfirming their validity............
Even the concepts those equations predicted way back then that were considered "wildly unrealistic dreaming", like black holes and dark energy, have come to pass.
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02-08-2014, 02:24 PM
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I would hardly call Einstein's equations "theoretical"; people have been trying to prove them wrong for over a hundred and ten years, and every challenge only to end up reconfirming their validity............
Even the concepts those equations predicted way back then that were considered "wildly unrealistic dreaming", like black holes and dark energy, have come to pass.
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But yet the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics could not be reconciled without a complete revision like string theory.
Einstein was great but he is not the end all of science. Lets face it the guy dumped his wife and married his cousin. He is not perfect he just points the way. And he did a very good job of that but I for one hope that science does not stop and say "It's all been discovered, let's go home". It hasn't and laws of physics change as we discover new evidence.
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02-08-2014, 02:55 PM
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But yet the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics could not be reconciled without a complete revision like string theory.
Einstein was great but he is not the end all of science. Lets face it the guy dumped his wife and married his cousin. He is not perfect he just points the way. And he did a very good job of that but I for one hope that science does not stop and say "It's all been discovered, let's go home". It hasn't and laws of physics change as we discover new evidence.
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And the lack of congruity between relativity and quantum theory in no way disproves either theory, it simply points to a transitional gap in our understanding; perhaps string theory, or perhaps something else yet to be tested.
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02-09-2014, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by JFP in PA
"Learning more" is not going to help violate the laws of physics......
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as per our own understanding of bare bones physics as we know so little of, perhaps. However would you agree there is more than that?!
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02-10-2014, 02:30 AM
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as per our own understanding of bare bones physics as we know so little of, perhaps. However would you agree there is more than that?!
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Of course..............
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