Yea! Agree.
On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A modern equivalent would be dark matter theory. This substance is not >> tested, but inferred or postulated, based on other testable phenomena. Dark >> matter itself has never been been quantified as other than a place holder >> thus dark matter is not yet a fact just like phlogiston wasnt. >> > > And because of dark matter and dark energy, we simply can't completely rule > out the existence of what religion views as the spiritual world. We infer > that something is there because it exerts force on normal matter and energy, > but we can't directly see it. Why not? > > Our perspective is inadequate to the task. Think of Plato's cave. We don't > see dark matter, we just see it's reflection in our reality. And thus we > have equations with an unknown variable, which I will simplify as: > > (whole lots of complicated stuff we can detect and understand) * x = Our > universe (hooray!) > > So what is x? Got me. Religion gives an answer that fits, and people like > that. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:342915 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
