Recent content by Giles

I don't think intelligence has anything to do with a person's knowledge of historical or geographical facts. That's based primarily on an individual's education and age. For instance, I have greatly increased my knowledge over the last 5 years, but my IQ should have remained constant. My...

Sure you can. Some Drs are very empathetic in certain situations (due to having similar experiences), some can empathize a little (if they have a relatively minor understanding of the experience), some may feel varying degrees of sympathy (usually attributed to a natural tendency, I imagine)...

And if a genie could grant me just one wish I'd wish for an infinite number of wishes. That's very greedy, isn't it?

Please tell me everything about the universe? By everything I mean EVERYTHING :)

There are degrees of approaches to patient care: empathy, sympathy, objectivity and cruelty. I think the character House tends to employ the latter when dealing with a patient’s emotional wellbeing, often resorting to sarcasm and contempt; but he uses objectivity when deciding which...

We exist in something, so there couldn't possibly be "nothing". And if there is something (which there is) it must be infinite (no beginning or end)... because you can't make something out of nothing. And something can’t destroy itself. It could, however, act upon itself in a positive and...

There are a lot of scientists like your friend. Unfortunately, though, the majority are reliant on the current set of principles for their livelihoods, and have a tenancy to malign anyone who comes out with a solid theory to the contrary (such as those mentioned above). The word "crackpot" and...

Baywax, I read Gabriel Lafreniere's site you posted on pg 2, and also others who share similar theories regarding spherical standing waves, such as Milo Wolff, Geoff Hasselhurst and the late Caroline H. Thompson. Although I'm personally open to the possibility that modern physics may have...