Golden Earring wrote: > I don't think there's any point in working through all the points you > raise. >
Possible Translations: (1) I know I'm wrong but no way in #$!! I'm going to admit it in public (2) Your answers were over my head (3) No matter what you say, what evidence you provide, I know I'm right. > > I did (a long time ago) get awarded an Open Exhibition to read Physics > at Oxford University, so I think I do have a basis to comment on what > science is and what it isn't. > If you have some actual response to what I said, where is it? It surely isn't the following meandering collection of 25 cent words and name dropping: > > As Wittgenstein pointed out in the 1920's, any question beginning with > the word "why" is meaningless from the standpoint of Logical Philosophy, > which now leaves that area of conjecture to those of a religious > persuasion. > I never said why. So why bring it up? > > I am not an atheist (which is a logically indefensible position, since > you can't know that a God of some kind or another does not exist), but I > am strongly agnostic so have long ago stopped bothering with why things > are the way they are. > Why add irrelevant controversies like religion to the discussion, if not for the purpose of obfuscation of befuddlement? > > Physics has always been an investigation into "how" the universe > functions. I suspect that Sir Arthur Eddington was close to the mark in > the 1930's when he said, "The universe may not only be stranger than we > imagine, it may well be stranger than we can imagine". There will always > be new things to find out. IMO, Stephen Hawking's stated objective of > "knowing the mind of God" is flogging a dead horse, no matter how > brilliant a scientist he is (or was when he did his best work). > Seems totally irrelevant to what used to be the fairly discussion at hand - namely audio. My vote for physicist of the 20th century goes to neither Einstein nor Hawking, but to Paul Dirac who did some astounding work on quantum mechanics (which underpins all electronics) and despite being little-known got himself buried in Westminster Abbey which is a signal honour. All that I am trying to point out is that our appreciation of music is itself subjective - otherwise we would all like (& dislike) the same things. This is a good thing, I'm all for human diversity it's got us a long way in a very short time from an evolutionary standpoint. Sorry to be so misunderstood. Yeah, its not your fault. One can assist others in their understanding by being responsive, relevant, and concise. Three strikes... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
