Recent content by Plaster

No. Hidden variables theories suggest that we don't understand qm fully right now. If we did, we would know why the cats survival or demise was determined (by something), and not as random and inexplicable as the laid back Copenhagen supporters are, or as plain crazy as the many worlds...

Over 18 000 posts and that's the best you have to offer ? Do you hunger for the truth in these matters or do you believe we nearly understand everything, as Lord Kelvin did ?

Where is your evidence for particles ? You can have material detectors which are composed of particles that then detect a "particle" amount of energy and react to that level of energy by releasing an electron from their outer shell. Where is the evidence for EM itself being particulate ?

I agee. Zeno's point was about logic not being sufficient by itself. Reason must temper logical thought.

"In my opinion, the first question is actually a very good one" cdbfarley is right, surely. This chap is asking a reasonable question with the first one. Is it just language, is potential energy really equivalent to temperature, for example? Of course they are, one can be changed into the...

I agree. And it's people like hugh that make it more difficult for reason to be at the centre of things. It's even difficult to find a context to argue against.

It think my understanding of size is simplistic - I'll try and substitute complexity for cardinality as hurkyl suggests,and see how I go. Thanks all

What density would such a neutron star have to be to rotate at, say, 2000 times per sec without flying apart ?

I do understand the usefulness of cardinality in some linear circumstances. If someone would agree that cardinality should be defined as "order of relative growth", I would accept different infinities. It's this insistance that this equates in some way to "size" that I can't accept, despite...

For the sake of counting, let's say the set of real numbers is composed of individual sets that contain all real numbers between one integer and the next. Each of these member sets is countable against the set of integers, even though each member in one set is itself infinite.

You can't accommodate integers in countable rooms, unless you ignore the fact that counting is a process that tends towards an end.

I love the forum. But I do feel sad that I had to delete all the cookies on my iPhone just to be able to visit the site without a message about me being a "CRACKPOT" blocking me from reading anything here. I have no problem with people being offensive to me if I've offended their sense of...

Einstein was concerned that specialisation would lead to a loss in terms of understanding the big picture. When did science change from the persuit of the unknown, to the ridecule of challenging ideas whilst accepting the rediculous idea that gravity is not a force. Of course this post will...

Do you have any evidence for this? Ignoring dark energy for now, a Massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy *could* be dragging spacetime around it such that it becomes like a disk of spacetime where "dark matter" has a novel but reasonable explanation. Such descriptions of large scale...

My advice would be to look at youngs slit experiment, and then look at it again, often. Don't think that people understand it, and you are alone in finding it strange. No one understands it.