On 27 January 2014 17:31, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 1/26/2014 6:44 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 27 January 2014 14:08, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> On 1/26/2014 3:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> I have provided the definition. Should I repeat? >> God is the transcendental reality we bet on, and which is supposed to be >> responsible for my or our existence. >> >> Sounds like "physics" to me. >> > > If physics is transcendental, a lot of people may be wasting their time > trying to find a TOE. > > Depends on what "transcendental" things have to transcend. Bruno's fond > of pointing out that physicist just assume that matter is fundamental but > don't define it. Of course they might say, "It's whatever we find to be > fundamental...and we're calling it doG." > > Transcendental does have a lot of meanings, depending on who's using it, but generally I'd take it to be something like "beyond our understanding", hence my (tongue in cheek) comment.
I think Bruno has a point. Well, at least, I'd be disappointed if physicist decided that they couldn't explain matter etc, and that they should just "shut up and calculate" from now on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
