Before the invention of the telescope, what empirical evidence did Copernicus have for a heliocentric system? History and philosophy are very important to physics.
NiftyNiblick (05-28-2023)
The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle falls out of the mathematics of waves and fourier transforms. What do you mean by "eternal laws" or how they were created? Is there anything particularly philosophical about 2+2=4? Does it require some special feature of the eternal universe or is it effectively tautological?
2+2=4 is only a convention, a construct of the base 10 numeric system we have agreed to use. It's not an eternal truth.
2+2 is equal to 11 in the base 3 system.
A quantum flux that created the universe could seemingly only have happened if the Heisenberg uncertainty principle was in place and preceded it. Which begs the question, why did the Heisenberg uncertainty principle exist before creation? You can't have quantum flux without the principle underlying it in place already. It just a chicken before the egg question
Doc Dutch (05-27-2023)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (05-27-2023)
It's an open philosophical question as to whether numbers are real, or a convention constructed by our minds.
I think mathmatical concepts like Pi and e are eternal truths, because they represent something fundamental about spatial relationships and rates of change that exist even if you changed their representation to Roman numerals, base 2 numeric symbols, etc.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Cypress (05-27-2023)
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area we call the Twilight Zone."
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Global Warming violates the 1st LoT by claiming a magical creation of thermal energy out of nothing, in the form of a temperature increase, which is somehow caused by a magical substance.
Greenhouse Effect violates Stefan-Boltzmann and black body science by claiming that an increase in earth's temperature is somehow caused by a decrease in earth's radiance.
Greenhouse Effect violates the 2nd LoT by claiming that the cooler atmosphere somehow heats the warmer earth's surface.
Lightbringer (05-27-2023)
No I'm not. I despise Libertarians almost as much as I despise you.
And, in another thread you referred to the Nashville shooter as s/he. Are you so far fucking gone that you don't know a man from a woman anymore?
That's a rhetorical question, I know you do know the difference you're too much of a fucking coward to call her a she. The latest in a long line of bullshit that makes me believe you're a fucking coward...Max.
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