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I find it very fascinating how more and more pieces of evolution are found to have repeated themselves even here on earth. Feeds directly into the (overinflated) discussion of the big barrier.

Just because you are unaware of what's going on in the world doesn't equate to an event being a strawman. There has been much focus on his suicide without seeming to realise that being suicidal is totally different to being a homicidal maniac. The suicide thing is just an easy out for shallow think...

There are a couple of good videos in this thread on RatSkep about advances in technology, and particularly AI, that will make much of human labour obsolete. Interestingly in both of them there was a suggestion of a universal basic income as a sensible step to rebalancing society in light of this. L...

I was kind of a bit disappointed at his answer. As a well respected intellectual I thought he could have come up with something more profound than 'okay, so why do children get bone cancer?' ... limited. Also, why don't registered atheists just not entertain the hypothetical question and not play t...

Svartalf wrote: well, neither can god, especially since fried bacon is so good and he forbade it to Its Chosen People...

That too

Punnig, at its worst?... at its best?...

Tero wrote:Holland bans Roundup

TTIP will put a stop to such nonsense

It may not even be the only universe. String theory suggests that E500 universes exist, and each has different physical constants. With a number that large (indistinguishable from infinity), everything must happen somewhere. ...including God. Seths example of a Shakespeare novel is actually what di...

It may not even be the only universe. String theory suggests that E500 universes exist, and each has different physical constants. With a number that large (indistinguishable from infinity), everything must happen somewhere. ...including God. Seths example of a Shakespeare novel is actually what di...

Another tool to counter it is to imagine a situation where one flipped a coin 500 billion times. The odds of getting the resultant sequence of tosses are spectacularly minute. Does that mean Goddidit? Of course not, you just physically did it. .:this: And then of course: If the universe is so impro...

I still claim that (size of universe)/(size of universe)=1. Or if it doesn't now, it never has and never will. :razzle: But to be more serious. What if you would be able to measure a centripetal force in the universe? Would that not indicate that it is rotating? The same way as measuring growing dis...

But then it cannot expand relative to itself, either. Which only can mean one thing. We are all shrinking.

The limits of measurability stems from the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, so I'd give rEv right here. You need the unpredictability that comes from quantum effects to make a chaotic system impossible to predict, even in theory. About rEv's original question. It would be r...

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:And, of course, there is no difference between entangled photons of 10MeV produced by a nuclear event and a pair produced otherwise.

Which is why they have a common name "photons". What is your problem?

It sounds like MiM wants to define gamma rays as photons produced by events in a nucleus... True, except that it is not me who wants to make that definition. While, I admit that there is no absolute consensus of how to define x- and gamma rays, one of the most used ways is exactly that. What about ...