Aarrrrghhhh! Scientists screwing around again...

by bboyneko 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  bboyneko

  .. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/01/22/gravastars/index.html

  Apparantly, blackholes don't exsist and the scientists who were so convinced that they did exsists are WRONG hehe.

  Without quantum mechanics, the early theorists made crucial mistakes in envisioning black holes and their relationship with space and time...For example, light photons would gain an infinite amount of energy when they reach an event horizon, according to classical theorists. But they ignore the gravitational effects of this unthinkable amount of energy.

  Maybe the new quantum theories on exploding stars will be 'rpoven' abut then it will be discovered that according to 'rubber duckie theory' quantum theory is bologna and when stars die they become giant floating rubber duckies.

  Point being that no matter what you put your faith in, faith is beleif without proof and can and more often than not will be proven wrong. Just like recently scientists were convinced panda bears were a member of the racoon family, and now they decided they are actually bears after all.

  I personally do not like quantum theory, it sounds alot like new-age mystisism and not enough like science to me. Effects like Particles affecting each other thru infinite distances with no known means of interaction are not really explainable at the moment, and I don't think Quantum physics adequatley explains such bizzare phenomena.

  We still haven't really explained such everday things as gravity and light very well, just their effects. I kinda hope they are wrong about back holes being wrong, because black holes have given us such great films as Disney's 'Black Hole' and 'Event Horizon' not to mention many cool star trek episodes.
  -dan
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  SYN

  Quantum theory is just that - a THEORY. It isn't neccessarily right, but it's about the closest we've got, and the formulas and algorithms it has given us have proven useful.

  RELATIVITY IS WRONG. Voyager (that deep space probe thingie) didn't go where it should have - it's path was out by millions of kilometers when it reached the edge of the solar system. Relativity cannot explain why it did that, because it is an incomplete theory.

  It's a pity Einstein died so soon, because if he had managed to complete his GUT (Grand Unified Theory) maybe we would now have an explanation for the stuff that happens at the sub-electronic level.

  Hell, a hundred years from now people are going to laugh at us because we thought things like electrons and neutrons even existed! Think back to the Victorian era science, snake oil, etc, and you'll see what I mean.

  "I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone." -- Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, 1869.
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  David Gladden

  One thing you have to remember about science is that scientists do not claim to have the "truth", nor do they claim to understand or be able to explain anything.

  All science does is "describe" what is observed... nothing more. As an example, the universal law of gravity [F=(G(M1*M2))/r^2] does not "explain" gravity... all it does is describe what observations have been made.

  Their theories only allow them to predict future behaviors of measured systems. As SYN pointed out, there are some obvious problems with current theory. Another example is that if you strictly follow the equations associated with relativity, the spatial distortions would prevent you from seeing clearly more than a meter or two ahead of yourself. Everything would be distorted.

  Remember, science has come a long way since alchemy, and within a relatively (no pun intended) short period of time. When you stop and think about it, religion and spirituality were humans’ first failed attempt at science. The problem is that religion tries to explain “everything” in “absolute” terms – that is what has caused it to stagnate... leaving the WTBTS teaching that the Soul is in the Blood, and that a person has a “Spirit” in one’s breath. Anything that they did not understand was and “act of god”.
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  Mindchild

  Hey Dan,

  Good to see you around and kicking again. Don't step into any "black holes" now....hahahaha (pssst...I read the article too and I like black hole theory, especially the hairy black holes and the other fun things that go with them) NO I'm not talking about sex!

  Sssssssskkkkkkkkiiiiiiiipppppppppppppppppeeeeeeerrrrrrr (being stretched into a black hole)