Recent content by Carla1

You're here to ask the question. How do you know if you have asked the question?

Just to let you know, I've started a new job. It's taxing the living daylights out of my time and energy so hard to give valuable input to this thread at the moment. Might have to resign myself to weekends for the moment. A pity, at a brief glance, both of you have added something from two...

That last post especially made me smile. Yeah...Barrow already leads me to understand that we are essentially made from the stuff of stars, which is rather cool (after it stops being so hot)in my opinion. Baked in the oven of a dieing sun. Something like that? One day, I really sincerely do...

I was seeking generally accepted definitions of these things in the world of physicists. I understand it's an ongoing process. No pressure to come up with THE definitive, undisputed truth-of-the-matter... I'll ask that next week. :wink:

I have tried to get hold of a copy of Coming of age in the Milky Way but it seems to be out of print and I will have to order it in from overseas. Meanwhile, I bought a copy of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John Barrow and Frank Tippler which promises to contain an historical...

I am speaking of qualities of the human spirit using terms which are belittled rather than truly belittling. There need be no 'god-ly' enter into it yet for some, that will always remain a pre-requisite for meaning and what does it matter except when 'god-liness' becomes a slave-driver and a...

Numbers or the language of numbers, has not been a very meaningful language for me. That might say it all. In physics, I am the person who lives in the tropics speaking to the person who lives in the snow, about snow. Say I reach my understanding of 'what is' by a different language, that of...

Mmmk. I am going to have to run this past you again kind of dialectically. I hope this is not too boring a process for you, though. And I changed my name slightly because I have changed my ISP so I can not get in as a registered member under 'Carla' thus I re-registered as Carla1 under my new...

Hi Marcus, Glad to see you're NOT shutting your mouth. I hope to be able to add something more substantial to this in the next couple of days so don't mistake my lack of response for lack of interest. Just a little run off my feet at the moment.

No need for such dramatic displays of humility. Why deny your readers the right to make up their own minds as to whether what you have to say is worthy of reading?

I just realized I included your entire quotes in the last two my posts. That can be ruly annoying...sorry 'bout that.

I'll look out for the book; it sounds like it would be a good, informative read. I agree utterly with you about city night-skies being a depressive thing. I live in Australia with its fair-share of smogged night-views. However, when you get out to some of the more remote parts, the night-skies...

I do have some thoughts about that which I am asking on but I'm really, at this point, attempting to clarify for myself, the philosophical basis of physics. For that, I need to develop an understanding of how physicists themselves view physics. I have obtained a picture of physics as being a...

I see. Thanks. So you would not say intuition is the basis upon which all constructed physics models ultimately rest, I think, if I am reading you correctly. If that is correct, upon what basis do they rest, in your opinion?

What is intuitive physics? Thanks in advance.