Recent content by rygar

i've seen those pictures, but i can't find a poster of either of them... :-/

are there any posters of both Albert einstein and neils bohr? being two of the greatest minds of the 20th century, and the dichotomy between them... i think the poster would say a lot. plus, einstein is my favorite physicist. so, if you know of any, id like to buy one. thanks!

i don't know much about strings and branes, but I'm under the impression with branes there could be other universes completed independent of the one we live in created by the big bang... right? my question is, do these other universes have the same fundamental forces that we have, and if...

this is not necessarily true! with the advent of modern cognitive science, most have significantly lessened the scope of behavism's role in the learning process. i believe there is an underlying cognitive architecture that guides how we store and retrieve information, but the process is...

i went through a metal detector last year at NBC studios. it went off, and they made me go back. i started to take out my change and he said "no, that wouldn't set it off". turns out it was the foil from my gum wrappers!

if it's true that if you push at the center of a paper in space, the paper will bend, and continue on forever (or until it hits something)... will it continue on forever in it's bent shape, or return back to it's rectangular shape? i would guess the former because i don't know what force...

i think you can change the syntax and terminology, but you're really not changing the core idea behind it. the same way that with language, you can say the same thing many different ways in different languages, but most linguists believe there is some underlying fundamental "universal...

i never claimed it had anything to do with experimental limitation. in fact, i stated that it had nothing to do with experimental limitation. but i still don't believe that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle proves an indeterministic universe. although I'm not versed enough in QM enough...

zooby: sorry, i was more referring to though i still think the connection is ambiguous at best. schizophrenia-like symptoms, maybe, but schizophrenia?

i don't know if the universe is deterministic or not, I'm just saying Heinsenberg's uncertainty principle can't be used as evidence for one way or another. if it were that simple, why would there even be a debate? consider the most common simplified form of heinseinberg's uncertainty...

wait, so where in any of that does it say injestion of LSD leads to schizophrenia? all it says is that people who have a family history of schizophrenia shouldn't take LSD. LSD affects seretonin, schizophrenia is the result of dopamine (too many dopamine receptors or a lesion, both in the...

this simply isn't true. heinsenberg said that we the more we know about a particle's momentum, the less we know about it's position, and vice versa. this is because anything we use to measure a particle will affect it's position or momentum. this isn't to say our instruments aren't precise...

documented where? please post reliable sources. personally, i don't see much point to it. first of all, no matter what your perception of time, you can only accomplish a finite amount within that time frame. ie, whether it feels like a minute or an hour won't make a difference in...

Cosmology Just because you can't pinpoint a cause, you can't draw conclusions that something happens by "chance" alone. Quantum Physics Heinsenberg's Uncertainty principle just states that the more we _know_ about a particle's momentum, the less we know about it's position and vice...

i don't know enough living philosophers to have a favorite. i liked thomas kuhn, he died in '96, that's kinda close...