On 15 Nov 2003, at 9:34 pm, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Explanation
On 15 Nov 2003, at 3:24 pm, Dan Minette wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 7:40 AM Subject: Re: Explanation
I presume you mean by 'Cult' a 'false religion'. But isn't a false religion a religion too? Or if not, how do you tell the false ones from the true ones? And how can more than one be true?
In a manner similar to the ability of a photon to be a wave and a particle. ;-)
I don't think so. A photon can be a wave and a particle in the sense that it behaves like a wave and it behaves like a particle.
Clearly these are not mutually exclusive attributes.
Actually they are.
Not from where I sit.
That it is true that a photon is like a wave does not make it false thatit is like aparticle.
Literally speaking, it certainly does.
What does literally have to do with anything? You view things through a physics lens and I view things through computer science lens. To me it seems a 'photon' inherits from two abstract classes 'wave' and 'particle' and exhibits polymorphism so that it can be one or the other in different contexts. Utterly unusual. [1]
On the other hand, with respect to the claims of religion, for certain claims to be true other claims of other religions do have to be false.
So, I don't see the similarity :)
I appreciate that. Let me start a description of the similarities with a
question: how can a particle go through two different slits?
Because its 'wave' methods get called when it does that?
[1] Actually I don't like multiple inheritance, so lets say a photon instantiates two different protocols 'wave' and 'particle' :) Or interfaces to use yet another variant of the terminology.
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