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Monday, July 12, 2004
quite bored, so lemme post this interesting lil' convos (adapted) that i had with xinyang early in the morning today. --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: nothing can detect an external reality --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: science is not truth lah --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: whoever said science is the truth >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: well >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: it appears to explain why things happen >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: and if we ever do discover the ultimate unification >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: then its proof tt everything happens for a reason >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: even if in our quest for truth we find out tt there is an external reality --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if the universe was in anyway different from the way is it now, intelligent beings could not have existed or evolved. >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: u mean the universe created humans just so they cld question its elegance? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: no i didn't >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: ehh i dont think the universe had much of a choice --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i meant that, it is not a coincidence that the universe is the way it is --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: the big coincidence lies in our existence --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why do we exist? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because of evolution >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: time has evolved primates into intelligent beings --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if u investigate the beginning part of the evolution of the universe is almost random >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: that have thus begun to seek the truth --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if the electron was heavier --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: or its charge denser >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: ...then it wldnt be an electron --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: or its charge lighter --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: or the strong force weaker --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: or the gravity obeying an inverse cube law --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: atoms cannot form --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: nuclear reactions cannot take place >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: hey >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: superstring theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: electrons are this way cos of the string's vibrations >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: it is the specific vibrations that determine the charge , the mass... --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but what if it vibrates differently? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if the string vibrated a different way it wld no longer be an electron >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but a different particle --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: ahhh --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but say the laws of science now work in a different way --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it takes a great deal of coincidence to create living beings --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: much less intelligent ones >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yes >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: so why is our universe this way? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: why was it created this way? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: that is the question >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: what we are trying to find out >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: what we hopefully will find out --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it is because it coincidentally creates us --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: thats why we are here to ask --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if it was created another way it might have another coincidence that make things happen a different way >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but we asking has no effect whatsoever on how the universe continues to function anyway --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: true --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but it is a coincidence that we are created --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: the coincidence is not in the universe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if the universe were any different, it cld still be elegant in its own way --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: exactly! >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if humans werent created, other organisms might still have evolved --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but we would not be there to question its elegance --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: true >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: and other being s will still be there to question its elegance --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: they would then observe another kind of coincidence --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: which puzzles them >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: as it puzzles us --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: and makes them wonder all the coincidences in the universe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why is 1/sqrt mu nought epsilon nought equals to the speed of light? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why does gravity obey and inverse square law? why not linear or cubic? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: actually u cant say gravity obeys laws --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: any difference would have led a big difference >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: it is the laws tt are derived from gravity --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: patterns more like --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but why inverse square? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why not inverse cube? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why not linear? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because the graviton was created this way >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: the string vibrates this way --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if gravity was linear we cannot exist >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: uhhuh --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: nuclear fusion cannot take part --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: *take place >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: gravity was created this way because its the only way it can be...? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it can be other ways, but we will not exist --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it is only when things match up and piece together very nicely, that we can exist >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: any difference in the string's vibration and a different particle will have formed >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: in other cases, it is match and piece together too >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: tts the elegance of it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but different --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: so different we cannot exist >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: it is impossible for gravity to obey inverse cube law because the particle needed for that to happen cannot be formed --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if the universe expanded 1/26000 seconds faster nuclear reactions cannot take place >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: and this is because spacetime is discrete? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: 1/26000 slower the universe would be consumed within years >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yes >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but that could not happen >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because the particles needed for that to happen cannot be formed --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: cos space have existed for more billions of years >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: the string cannot vibrate tt particular way --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i dun like the string theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because energy comes in discrete units >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: thats the part i believe in >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: there are parts of string theory i find not plausible --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: energy coming in discrete units is not the string theory boy >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: and here im joining string theory with loop quantum grav >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yes i noe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it was discovered in 1900+ --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: long long before any string shit >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: i noe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: im interpreting the theory my own way >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: using other factors to explain --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: oh okay >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: this elegance of our universe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i still dun like the string theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: i dont like parts of it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: like 11 dimensions >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: calabi yau manifolds --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i dun like all of it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: why? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: whats not to like? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: cos there is no reason for me to believe it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: *believe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: its the best theory arnd to believe in >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: its our best chance...for now --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: you give me a proof u might as well make me study 20+ years of math --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i cannot understand the proof --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: thats why we have to take it at face value >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if other ppl can...why cant u? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: which is why i dun like it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: there is no proof >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: u sound like sheldon glashow >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if there was >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: u cant say u cant understand it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: all u gotta do is try' --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: for now i dun like it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because there is no proof? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: in the future i might >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: okay >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: for me im not saying i buy it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: because before i understand it there is no reason for me to believe it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but there are portions of it that can be used to explain the universe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: just like philosophy >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yarh >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: believing in string theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: when there is no proof >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: is just like religion --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: we cannot understand it, we have to either take it at face value or study 20+ years of math --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: newton's laws rock becos even as i walk i can prove it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: it is not about how things work --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: its about how things happen --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: and that, i believe is the most reliable >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but string theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if proven >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: can explain why things happen --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: then good for the string theorists --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but for now, before we know anything about string theory, let’s not take things at face value >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: i noe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: of course >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: there are so many other possibilities we can consider --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: as i see it anything i can say about string theory is what the scientists tell me --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: how can i know if it is correct? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: because we dont understand it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: we trust them --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but i dun't --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: its my problem i noe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: its their duty to bring us correct information --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but its my problem too if i dun like string theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: why should they not tell us the truth as it is? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: ahhh --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: why should aristotle lie then? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: they are telling the truth...but still they cant prove the theory >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: he didnt, did he? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: he didn't --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but he made mistakes >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yes he did >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but aristotle was one man >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: this is the global scientific community --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: his theory is backed by millions >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: who trusted him --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: almost all >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: what a fallacy --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yep >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: things are different --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: how so >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: much more people are involved >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: like the whole world >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: physicists all over the globe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: so? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: that means we should trust them? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: watever they do is based on math --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes? >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: not assumptions, unlike aristotle >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: unless u say u dont trust math? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: so? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: not that --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i trust myself --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i dun believe until i see it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: i noe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but tt doesnt mean u shld totally reject it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i haven totally rejected it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i just dun like it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: theories are not meant to be liked or disliked >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: they are meant to be used --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: corrected >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: disproved --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but they can be --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yes are meant to be used --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: but they can be liked or disliked >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: i noe --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i remember the famous quote >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: me im taking an objective stand --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: "i don't like it, and i'm sorry i ever had anything to do with it" --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: by erwin schrodinger >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: oh! who said that... >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: oh him --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: whose theory led to the opening or parallel universes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: i mean the possibility of parallel universe >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: haha >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: okay >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: im still taking an objective stand --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: just like einstein --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: whose general relativity opened up the possibility of black holes --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: and he was against it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: why? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: he just dun like it >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: dun like the possibilities of black holes? --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: yah --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: cos at singularity general relativity breaks down --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: and no laws govern it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: and nothing can be done about it, nothing can be known about it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: which is why einstein dun like it --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: if i were him (fat hope) i would like it either --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: *wouldn't >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: yah >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: but possibilities are just possibilities >sealt6< and hell's comin' with us says: if it cant ever be proved, then id say it doesnt exist --<<{cHeoNG faTT}>>-- ask for skin to be removed says: its like u spent 10 years on a math problem and someone tell u tt if u assign it this value it won't work |