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Loren Booda
Feb22-04, 12:24 AM
What do you predict will be the next overarching, revolutionary saltation (paradigm) in the philosophy or theory of science?
elibol
Feb22-04, 12:38 AM
booda sounds so cool when u say it in your head..
booda!
booda!
booda!

anti-matter, once it is used as an energy source i think this will cause major leaps in our capability to preform scientific experiments...

and u know the experiments on creating matter out of energy? i think this will change alot... cause this sort of scientific discovery is godlike...
Loren Booda
Feb22-04, 11:43 AM
I must admit that my name is not a Buddhist mantra!
selfAdjoint
Feb22-04, 08:46 PM
Originally posted by Loren Booda
What do you predict will be the next overarching, revolutionary saltation (paradigm) in the philosophy or theory of science?

Creation of artificial life.
elibol
Feb22-04, 10:31 PM
no such association was made!

booda!
booda!
booda!
booda!

just sounds cool =]
Loren Booda
Feb23-04, 11:10 AM
I appreciate your admiration.
elibol
Feb23-04, 10:30 PM
=] your appreciation has caused me to admire it more!

booda!
Mentat
Feb24-04, 11:17 AM
The discovery of the ToE.

More directly, the discovery that M-Theory is the ToE after all [;)].
elibol
Feb24-04, 09:29 PM
you mean like the toes on my feet?
Loren Booda
Feb24-04, 09:46 PM
Theory of Everything; perhaps M-Theory or quantum gravity.
elibol
Feb24-04, 09:59 PM
whats the M stand for? this is a theory that explains everything?
Loren Booda
Feb24-04, 10:22 PM
The significance of "M" is still Moot, but some claim it is an upside-down "W" for Edward Witten, the superstring genius out of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.
Canute
Feb25-04, 11:25 AM
Originally posted by Loren Booda
What do you predict will be the next overarching, revolutionary saltation (paradigm) in the philosophy or theory of science?
One in which consciousness exists and science faces up to the metaphysical quicksand on which it is built.

No. wait a minute, that's what I hope, not what I expect. What I expect is no change.
Canute
Feb25-04, 11:27 AM
Originally posted by Loren Booda
What do you predict will be the next overarching, revolutionary saltation (paradigm) in the philosophy or theory of science?
One in which consciousness exists and science faces up to the metaphysical muddle on which it is built.

No, wait a minute, that's what I hope. What I expect is no change.
Mentat
Feb25-04, 12:03 PM
Originally posted by Loren Booda
Theory of Everything; perhaps M-Theory or quantum gravity.

Or both [8)].
Mentat
Feb25-04, 12:04 PM
Originally posted by Loren Booda
The significance of "M" is still Moot, but some claim it is an upside-down "W" for Edward Witten, the superstring genius out of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.

Witten himself said that the word either stands for "Matrix", "Mother", or "Membrane", depending on preference, IIRC.
FZ+
Feb25-04, 03:11 PM
The nature of "Dark Energy", and the realisation that our present ideas about a Theory of Everything must be supplemented by a Theory of Everything Else.
Canute
Feb26-04, 09:12 AM
I like that. 'A Theory of Everything Else'. Lol.