Re: How much of this is really science?

2005-04-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:18:13PM -0400, danny mayes wrote: > > Is Laughlin right that so many of these topics we discuss are beyond the > reach of "real" science? Should certain questions be put on hold until > science/technology has caught up with our ability to test questions? > I don't kno

How much of this is really science?

2005-04-19 Thread danny mayes
>From "A Different Universe" by Robert Laughlin (winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1998): "Greek creation myths satirize many things in modern life, particularly cosmological theories.  Exploding things, such as dynamite or the big bang, are unstable.  Theories of explosions, including t