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Diggsey
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 16:34 Edited at: 1st Jun 2012 16:35
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Quote: "His interpretation of the constant to "stabilise the universe" was incorrect, and was removed for a time, then reintroduced to account for a different anomaly that he hadn't realised (Dark Matter and Dark Energy)."


Who is to say that one intuitive understanding of a constant is any more correct than another? If you look at the equations you can see that the constant could be interpretted to arise from any of the other terms in the equation, it's not important which one you choose as they all give the same physical result, it just happens that one interpretation (dark energy, vacuum energy, etc.) has become more popular than others. I think it's more insightful of him that he didn't immediately assume that it would be zero, which is what most people did at the time... Yes, based on no evidence Einstein guessed that the universe was static. When presented with evidence to the contrary he changed his mind, that's how science works.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 16:42
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Quote: "When presented with evidence to the contrary he changed his mind, that's how science works."


Heresy! Once you've made up your mind you should defend it to the death and never bother to re-evaluate it!



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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 18:21
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Quote: "When presented with evidence to the contrary he changed his mind, that's how science works."


In our lifetimes we don't have time to wait for the corrections. I am happy with the physics that I have now, and they are not very similar to the scientific versions. If you want the truth, you shall die before the truth is ever established.

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Indicium
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Please don't use your physics outside your simulations, in that case.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 18:24 Edited at: 1st Jun 2012 18:25
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They don't change anything at our scale. You just know what is going on at lesser scales. Most physics are averages of smaller particles, and averages always even out.

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No they're not. The scale of physics are completely different. That's why we have seperate rules for quantum physics than we do classical.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 21:03 Edited at: 1st Jun 2012 21:12
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But I don't. I have standard physics that work their way up to lower powers of physics. Mountains are big sand, but the physics seem different, because of scale. The sand produces flow, and water-like qualities, the mountains would if you could put enough together, but you can't. The smaller you get, the more water-like the properties become. And spacetime is very water-like, and un-bonded. Physics are reproduced, but quantity, and scale changes the way they behave. Quantum physics in the current model is not entertaining the idea that the physics should maintain a gradient of change. The two slit experiment shows water-like qualities, but nobody is scaling the physics down properly. And mass, has the bar set in the wrong place. But I am not here to tell anyone how to fix physics, I only want people to start from scratch, and work upwards. I want to see if there is a different way to get what I have got.

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Indicium
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Posted: 1st Jun 2012 23:16
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We have the laws of physics because they work. If the same rules could apply to every situation we would save ourselves the effort in having different sets.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2012 00:56 Edited at: 2nd Jun 2012 01:06
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Yes, and how long do you want to wait for them? I didn't wait.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2012 23:13
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Wait for what?


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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 02:20
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Everything.

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 02:28 Edited at: 11th Jun 2012 02:29
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Quote: "...the same rules could apply to every situation"


Quote: "Wait for what?"


...wait for the same rules to apply to every situation. If we could have them we would, and so we will, because we can have them. I have figured them out, and I won't be the last person to figure them out.

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Indicium
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There won't ever be rules that apply to every situation. That's like saying the rules of Java and C++ will be the same if you wait long enough.


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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 14:30
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Quote: "There won't ever be rules that apply to every situation."


called world-formular, searched by heisenberg,einstein and tried to avoid with dark matter by hawkins. geniuses and followers no success yet.

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Quote: "There won't ever be rules that apply to every situation. That's like saying the rules of Java and C++ will be the same if you wait long enough."

No it's like saying Java, and C++ use the same binary system.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 18:25
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Seems to me you've been programming iOS apps too long;



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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 20:34
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*Laughs and keeps derogatory comments about a certain fruit company to himself*

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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 23:34
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this is what this thread made me think of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDSjuo67LM#t=7m31s

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Quote: "No it's like saying Java, and C++ use the same binary system."


The brilliant thing about that is, the difference is the same.


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