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Thanks, I'm pretty sure I get it - it reminds me of some things in 2D and 3D graphics programs. Off topic, but I'm curious: why does it make a difference if the reference frame is rotating?

- If we really really wanted to screw with the climate, couldn't we do it with a bunch of well placed nuclear bombs?

- Looked at the wikipedia article on "inertial frame" and I think I get it (if I do, the second sentence in the first paragraph is kind of wrong and confusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_frame) I guess that would be true about the gravitational center of whatever system you're talking...

- I realized that a geocentric view would be insanely complex, but I didn't really appreciate the scale of the awkwardness before I saw this post :) As for a theory - I guess the standard model will do okay?

- Yellow labradors and black labradors also look different, but they're still the same race. Like Moridin pointed out, there really isn't a rigid, consistent, systematic way to divide between races - so at least to me, especially in such a hot topic as this is, the question becomes "what's...

Seeing as motion always has to be defined relative to something. And seeing that relative to, say, the sun, the Earth spins around it's own axis... Doesn't that mean that, relative to Earth, everything moves around it? It's not elegant neither mathematically nor logically, but isn't it...

Sorry, didn't see this. Well, in context where you'd use "non-religious" you could probably replace it with "not religious", which is similar to what you'd use in the same kind of situations with regards to the voodoo priest, astrologer or alchemist cases. For example, compare "I'd comment on...

Right, so evolution tends to stabilize when the environment is stable and you get more dramatic changes as the environment has dramatic changes. I assume that we're in a pretty stable situation nowadays? Or does global warming mean that we may be seeing lots of new species?

I have no education in biology, nor am I going to get it, so this is just out of curiosity: as life fills the Earth and develops into more advanced forms, filling up the different niches - does evolution slow down because of "lack of room"?

Well, I was thinking with relation to mental and physical health - winter depressions, vitamin D deficiency and so on. I guess they could make adjustments for these things as well, then.

From the new scientist article: Just checking, wouldn't these measures make the Earth a darker place?

- Could you spell out the difference to me, please? I can't really see it from that text. Also, note that a physicist who's talking about the nature of science isn't doing physics - she may be doing sociology, psychology, social anthropology or history, she's probably doing philosophy, but...

The lack of support for java is really what ruins it for me - just think of all the cool things you miss out on, gaming console/handhelds emulators for example

- No it's not - at the very least not in formal logic, and it seems reasonable for me to think that that were the terms Popper was thinking on. - They are, however, important terms in the Philosophy of Science, which is the topic at hand. - Exactly! And I don't think you have any philosopher of...

- They have a special application for showing YT videos, and it only shows the ones that've been converted to the supported format (that is, not .flv)