straight from the article friends... .
*** w61 12/15 pp.
767-768 questions from readers *** .
Oh my good god
Thanks for that you b*****d! I now have coffee pouring out of my nose I'm laughing so hard! I mean, I know it's not really funny (it's a shocking article in truth) but come on, this is comedy gold!
When the current mrs. iggy comes home, I'll ask her how, when she was a teenager, she coped when her "ovum was at large and is causing sex disturbance and cravings within her"! Do people really talk like this any more??
Get breeding you cows!
ig
does god exist?
camp one: yes!, camp two: no!.
were we created, or, evolved, or, both?
yes, I'd never looked at it like that!
does god exist?
camp one: yes!, camp two: no!.
were we created, or, evolved, or, both?
I used to worry myself an awful lot about evolution/creation, god/no god/little green men etc. And then over the course of some time I began to think that God (if it was even in existance) didn't seem to mind if I believed in him or not, and that if I was supposed to have my own answers to great religious questions, then they ought probably be a little bit more possible to answer. I'm sure I'm a good deal more stupid than many of the people most entranched on both sides of the great religious questions, so what chance do I stand, and why bother if it's not that important - I could better spend my time doing all sorts of things I enjoy, than getting ANOTHER evolution book out of the library (the subject bores me rigid sometimes!)
And then one day, hey presto, I was a committed evolutionist/athiest, but only after I thought that God wouldn't mind if I was. Go figure!
ig.
hey all,.
i'm totally fascinated by the concept of entangled particles.
as i understand it, you take a proton (or something tiny like that), split it apart, but don't observe the resulting particles.
Well, I don't know about having a large cranium, but being interested in physics don't get you no women at parties!
ig (of the "tell 'em you're interested in physics and watch 'em run" class)
hey all,.
i'm totally fascinated by the concept of entangled particles.
as i understand it, you take a proton (or something tiny like that), split it apart, but don't observe the resulting particles.
Hi Frankie, no I've not come across that book. The last one on this sort of subject I read was on superstrings, called (searches through crap on floor..... there!) The Elegant Universe, which had a pretty good stab at giving reasons for why it's so hard to get relativity and quantum physics together in a single theory.
I've just had a look at some stuff on Bell's theorem (god bless google!) and it's surely very interesting stuff. It's certainly an interesting question - if physics is inherently non-local, what makes me think I'm here and you're over there?
ig. (over here)
hey all,.
i'm totally fascinated by the concept of entangled particles.
as i understand it, you take a proton (or something tiny like that), split it apart, but don't observe the resulting particles.
I read a good passage in a book by James Gleick (spelling?) about quantum theory, and what we actually understand about life (<-- you see that, I'm anthropomorphising already!) at the quantum level. I have to declare an interest at this point, being a physicist myself I'm all in favour of smashing atoms to bits and extrapolating "meaning" from the experimental results - it's fun!
He (James Gleick) talked about oxygen, and how it has eight electrons orbiting its nucleus, which immediately fills the mind with an image a bit like a tiny solar system. However, what's actually going on in the oxygen atom is absolutely nothing like that, and quite what it is like, I'm sure any physicist would tell you is perhaps outside our human imagining at the moment. That's the trouble with being the sort of beast optimised by evolution to run away from animals with big teeth, hit large docile animals on the head with clubs and eat them, and shag. When you're suddenly called upon to understand the world of the very small, words understandably fail.
Sorry, went off the track a bit there! Back to James Gleick. He was making the point that the best we can really say about oxygen is that it has a certain "eightness" about it. In terms of its mass it has a certain "15.9994ness" about it (according to www.webelements.com). In chemical composition with other elements it has a certain "sixness" about it, so that when it combines with hydrogen (which has a certain "oneness" about it) we get two hydrogens to one oxygen, giving a combined "molecule" we'll call it (well, we have to call it something don't we?) with again a certain "eightness" about it. We also know from experiment that when "molecules" attain a state of "eightness" they seem more stable. However we code this into language with words like "orbit", otherwise a conversation between two chemists about oxygen might take quite some time!
It seems to me, physicists (and scientists in general) in my experience are pretty good at understanding the limits of their understanding of nature, and are pretty good at not over-deducing from experiments. Unfortunately I think sometimes the language that physicists use gives the impression that they think they understand what their experiments "mean". I think if you questioned any scientist hard enough they'd eventually admit that all they could really do would be to predict the result of a given experiment to a certain degree of accuracy. But that's extremely useful, and it's enabling us all to use the computers we're using at the moment..
God I'm rambling now! I'm not sure of the point I was making! I'll post anyway...
ig.
i always liked what richard dryfress said in the movie "alaways", when he found out he was dead---"wow!!
!-----what a jerk i turned out to be"!!!!.
my mother's head stone says---------"i told you i was sick"!!
Here lies iggy_the_fish, died peacfully in his sleep...
...not screaming in terror like his passengers
(I'll get my coat....)
btw - can you put smileys on gravestones? Do we have virtual graveyards yet? It appears so, just been to good old google and found http://www.findagrave.com/ amongst others!
just had a kid come in needing a bandaid, just made me think of a friends comments the other day.
she reckons that all we need in the world is mothers spit and bandaids.
mothers spit cleans absolutely anything, and bandaids fix any ailment that a child can come up with.
Lavender! My gf seems to believe it can cure everything. There's not a single square centimetre of my body she's not tried to rub lavender into at some time
ig.
i always liked what richard dryfress said in the movie "alaways", when he found out he was dead---"wow!!
!-----what a jerk i turned out to be"!!!!.
my mother's head stone says---------"i told you i was sick"!!
...or how about
iggy_the_fish - committed athiest. All dressed up and nowhere to go!
i always liked what richard dryfress said in the movie "alaways", when he found out he was dead---"wow!!
!-----what a jerk i turned out to be"!!!!.
my mother's head stone says---------"i told you i was sick"!!
Here lies the body of ig, alas!
He tried to trace escaping gas!
With lighted match, he braved the fates......
which blew him to the pearly gates
ig
