--- santa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pentcho
>
> I sense an approaching lull in the climate crisis
> coming, so maybe now
> is a good time to address the physics crisis.
>
>
> There's a few things that bother me about your
> comments. One is that
> there is this LANGUAGE thing that I see in Bush's
> "War on Terrorism,"
> which is that he's using inexact aspects of language
> to proclaim a very
> real war on something nobody can authoritatively
> define. So when you
> proclaim the "death of physics" or the "death of
> chemistry" or try to
> make equals of science and religion, well, my brain
> just explodes.
>
> It seems to me that science, physics, and chemistry
> are simply here in
> the universe and they will always be here no mater
> what humans do, or
> think, or say. So, to me, the rules that run the
> universe (science) are
> independent of human activity. So, HOW CAN THEY DIE?
They can't. Human rationality can. Just make students
repeat "Sugar dissolves in water because the entropy
increases" and "I measure your clock to be slower than
mine and you measure mine to be slower than yours but
if you go and return you will find mine to be faster
than yours".
> Or worse, how can
> religion and science be one and the same; they are
> polar opposites.
> Science is science, and religion is religion.
How about this:
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/divine.htm
Pentcho
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