(Do different kinds grow from each other, btw... or do different kinds just continue to adapt to their surroundings as per their survival? I always get kinds/genus/family/etc confused with one another. Becasue humans did not evolve out of a dog-type species. Nor elephants from apes. So they would have to have accurate knowledge of what those different things were to accurately describe the process for future generations to have their 'aha' moment.)
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There is No Morality Without God
by whereami inaddressing the argument, made by many christians, that with no god there can be no morality.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnu-qbgxmn0.
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Neutrinos faster than the speed of light...
by EntirelyPossible inreferencing back to this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216165/1/what-is-truth-could-einstein-have-been-wrong..... i was doing some reading on the neutrino thing and i discovered somthing i didn't know, a subtle but important distinction i think a lot of us get wrong about relativity and nothing being able to move faster than the speed of light.. there are two theories of relativity from einstein, general and special.
general relativity (gr) describes gravity, gravity wells, the expansion of the universe, gravitional lensing, among other things.
special relativity (sr) describes things like mass-energy equivalence (e=mc^2), the expansion of the universe and spacetime itself.. sr doesn't say nothing can go faster than the speed of light (c in the equation).
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I'm trying to be a nicer person, Shamus. Or apply my Righteous Asshole personality more judiciously. Or I'm letting it all build up for special occasion so it will be epic like a goddamn supernova blowing up.
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Does the Issue of Universal Sovereignty make sense to you as an explanation for evil?
by gubberningbody init used to for me, and now it doesn't.. i'm not sure how i was able to accept that argument now that i don't, but perhaps it was connected with my increasing compassion for people and their personal suffering as i've grown older.. now it seems like a sick excuse.
more like a bar-bet with satan and all of creation suffers.. i read paul's words and he has no rejoiner except to say in effect "sucks to be a vessel of wrath...glad i'm not one, but who are you to complain anyway, huh?
who's bigger, smarter and more powerful than you, you, you complaining vessel of wrath, you.
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This thread is why some people put whiskey in their morning coffee. You have to get a little cross-eyed to bring these things into focus.
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Neutrinos faster than the speed of light...
by EntirelyPossible inreferencing back to this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216165/1/what-is-truth-could-einstein-have-been-wrong..... i was doing some reading on the neutrino thing and i discovered somthing i didn't know, a subtle but important distinction i think a lot of us get wrong about relativity and nothing being able to move faster than the speed of light.. there are two theories of relativity from einstein, general and special.
general relativity (gr) describes gravity, gravity wells, the expansion of the universe, gravitional lensing, among other things.
special relativity (sr) describes things like mass-energy equivalence (e=mc^2), the expansion of the universe and spacetime itself.. sr doesn't say nothing can go faster than the speed of light (c in the equation).
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Bohm, I was simply describing some of the things the two topics covers. I think I did that accurately.
And if there is a fix, I didn't say it would be simple. For instance, if it turns out that neutrinos CAN travel faster than the speed of light, that would mean their mass would be negative or imaginary. Maybe. If it's confirmed, simple isn't the word.
And, since we're being nitpicky, it's not according to Einstein that we will see time going slower for the other person at the same time ;)
Either way, your input and knowledge is always appreciated.
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Neutrinos faster than the speed of light...
by EntirelyPossible inreferencing back to this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216165/1/what-is-truth-could-einstein-have-been-wrong..... i was doing some reading on the neutrino thing and i discovered somthing i didn't know, a subtle but important distinction i think a lot of us get wrong about relativity and nothing being able to move faster than the speed of light.. there are two theories of relativity from einstein, general and special.
general relativity (gr) describes gravity, gravity wells, the expansion of the universe, gravitional lensing, among other things.
special relativity (sr) describes things like mass-energy equivalence (e=mc^2), the expansion of the universe and spacetime itself.. sr doesn't say nothing can go faster than the speed of light (c in the equation).
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Referencing back to this thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216165/1/What-is-truth-COULD-Einstein-Have-Been-Wrong....
I was doing some reading on the neutrino thing and I discovered somthing I didn't know, a subtle but important distinction I think a lot of us get wrong about relativity and nothing being able to move faster than the speed of light.
There are two theories of relativity from Einstein, general and special. General relativity (GR) describes gravity, gravity wells, the expansion of the universe, gravitional lensing, among other things. Special relativity (SR) describes things like mass-energy equivalence (e=mc^2), the expansion of the universe and spacetime itself.
SR doesn't say nothing can go faster than the speed of light (C in the equation). It says that nothing can break the light speed barrier if it has a positive rest mass. This is because as speed increases, mass increases proportionally and passing from sub to superlimunal speed would require an object to travel AT the speed of light at which point motion would require infinite energy because the object would have infinite mass. The same is true for an object with positive rest mass passing from super to sub luminal speeds.
Photons, when they are created, are created AT the speed of light in a vacumn. They can go slower if traveling through a medium, but never faster. They have a zero rest mass.
Neutrinos, however, have an unknown speed at the time of their creation. They DO have mass. If, at the time of their creation, they are ALREADY moving faster than the speed of light, relativity is not broken at all.
Because neutrinos are electrically neutral, they passt through matter without interacting with it. Almost 65 billion solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of the earth exposed to sunlight, pass out the other side and stream into space. We detect them when they DO interact with a proton, are absorbed and create a positron and electron, which annihilate each other almost immediately and give off gamma rays we can detect.
Now, should the measurements taken that show them moving faster than the speed of light turn out to be correct, it STILL doesn't mean that SR is wrong (neutrinos have mass, remember), it may mean that they are a type of matter that has mass, but not in the way we traditionally think of it and there is something more to be discovered about what mass means. It might mean that neutrinos can never be at rest, as soon as they interact with a proton they convert into something else without ever slowing down, it might mean they interact with a proton and turn it into an election and and a positron and keep moving.
Most importantly, if the measurements are correct, it's doesn't at ALL necessarily mean that Einstein was wrong, just that he was incomplete. And we already knew that.
Or maybe they measured wrong.
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There is No Morality Without God
by whereami inaddressing the argument, made by many christians, that with no god there can be no morality.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnu-qbgxmn0.
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Then perhaps simply inspiring them to write down and learn the scientific method would have helped, along with a little starter knowledge. Shouldn't have been too much to manage. Instead we got slavery, murder, court intrigue, sex ... the kind of stuff you see in TV dramas.
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Why is there something rather than nothing?
by mankkeli ini suppose both theists and atheists can answer this question, although if theists do, maybe they could explain why it is they believe god made creation and they are free to quote scripture if they choose.
for my own answer i believe he made it because he loved it and therefore made it exist, because it was therefore good (genesis 1:31 and god saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
i'm especially interested though in the answer from the perspective without faith.
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Why should it be reasonble to expect something from nothing rather than that the something that is here has always been here?
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Do we have the right to judge god?
by mankkeli indo we have the right to judge god?.
this is an important question.
non-believers often become and remain non-believers because they judge that god is incomprehensible or malevolent, and therefore of dubious existence in the form believers claim.
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Is logic really the best way to decide things?
by mankkeli ini think that for many people, and i've noticed particularly for those coming out of religion, logic is held up as the ultimate tool for understanding the world, and non-logic-based methods are derided.
but even for those who accept a certain amount of intuition, emotion or other non-logical elements in their decision making processes, there is still a pervasive norm priviligeing logical over illogical thinking.. .
i question that, though.
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Logic? Most poeple don't even know what it is.
Use the right tool for the job. Logic is not the be all end all of making decisions. Emotion is not the be all end end all. Wisdom is knowing which to use and when.
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My career as a budding alcoholic is over
by Qcmbr ini've had a goal to drink my first alcohol this year and i decided that i would take the plunge while in my hotel.
i chose a tiny bottle of jacob's creek and retired to my room.. i had two sips and had to stop.
seriously vile.
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There is a big difference between having a buzz and getting drunk to the point of vomiting or having a hangover. You can be responsible about drinking just like anything else.