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- ukit20
Like this guy says...science works (picture taken at CERN)
http://forums.somethingawful.com…
If magic and casting spells worked I'd be in favor of religion too.
- uan0
- GeorgesIV0
^ btw, synchronicity there,
was watching this with my son and the last bit had this quote,
- detritus0
Came across this yesterday, which appears to up the ante where space-based travel's concerned (ie. once you're out of major gravity wells, which only chemical rockets are good for so far)
- ukit20
Primordial gravitational wave discovery heralds 'whole new era' in physics
Gravitational waves could help unite general relativity and quantum mechanics to reveal a 'theory of everything'
- monNom0
We all know this empirically: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
So in the case of modern science (particularly the theoretical), when all you have is mathematics, every problem becomes mathematical.
Maybe we're missing the bigger picture as a result of the limitations of our tools?
- monNom0
^ this also goes back to platonic aesthetics. Everything should be simple once distilled to it's fullest. e=mc^2, d=v*t, etc.
Maybe that's just an opinion and that guiding principle causes us to discount solutions that are more complex only because they are complex.
- ukit20
An ANU team has successfully replicated one of the crucial steps in photosynthesis, opening the way for biological systems powered by sunlight which could manufacture hydrogen as a fuel.
“Water is abundant and so is sunlight. It is an exciting prospect to use them to create hydrogen, and do it cheaply and safely,” said Dr. Kastoori Hingorani, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis in the ANU Research School of Biology.
- detritus0
Had to smirk at something I heard elsewhere on BBC recently, with some science personality trying to explain what dark matter is "right now I have hundreds of thousands of dark matter particles streaming through my hand..".
You do?
Says who?
You sure you're not thinking of neutrinos?
- omg0