Is Physics the Ultimate Authority?

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The forum discussion centers on the nature of physics as a system of descriptions rather than absolute laws. Participants argue that while physics models observed events, there is no definitive logic enforcing these models, suggesting that events could theoretically disobey established "laws." The conversation highlights the inductive nature of scientific reasoning, emphasizing that scientific laws are subject to modification based on new observations. The debate concludes that while current physics provides a reliable framework, it does not guarantee absolute truths, leaving room for the possibility of exceptions.

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  • #31
To Orion

Once the brain learns something and accepts it as a fact, it is extremely difficult for you to unlearn and reinterpret what is happening.

Given a simple example
If u would ask any given human to identify the color blue, they would all mostly say yes I see that color is it called blue.

The brain is seeing blue because of sub-atomic particles which make up a certain specific pattern which creates this certain pattern of light which the brain has been thought to identify as the color blue.

however if we ask let's say someone that we call "color blind" to identify the same color he/she will call it a totally different color, he might call it RED, why ? ...is that person really "color blind”? According to us he is...he’s not identifying the colors correctly, correct?

or is it simply because at some early age he wasn’t taught how to identify colors ?, the answer is we will never know the truth, simply because colors can't really be identified, there seems to be a law that says what colors are what...but where does that law really exist ?

In the mind? Or in the physical world?

u see the color blind person some where along the line his / her brain didn’t accept the normal way the majority of the people define colors, the brain incoherently assigned a different color pattern to sub-atomic structures reflecting transecting light into color.

And the book I would suggest reading.. To you is

Hypnosis - theory, practice and application
written by psychologist - Raphael H. Rhodes

this book gives detailed examples of how the use of hypnosis can be applied and HAS been applied for the use of altering known physical laws by alterations made directly on how the brain interoperates physical stimulus.
 
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Agent C.I said:
now it is known that certain "retarded" people can actually deify the natural laws around them...for instances there was a retarded person who could actually clime up and down walls, his brain wasn’t able to comprehend he wasn’t able to accomplish this, so that limitation didn’t exist for him and through the way his brain interpreted the situation, he was able to defy the law of gravity...thus allowing him to walk up and down walls and ceilings...

Where did you hear this? I can't believe anyone else hasn't asked this yet. Can you produce any evidence of this?
 
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Okay, this has gone far enough.
 

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