Those miracles could be translated in Cowboy language : People who have seen animal in the sky are drunk because
1- no cow have wing 2- even with wings flying cows would dump bullshit and you will find some on the roofs 3- you should find linear tracks of cows running to take-off This what cowboys science say, and there is no alternative. 2013/6/8 Harry Veeder <[email protected]> > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> Thanks. Take your time, but it would be nice to read the source. >>> >> >> The headings that set out the three "miracles" in his book are (pp. >> 111-13): >> >> 1. Fusion-rate miracle >> 2. Branching-ratio miracle >> 3. Concealed-nuclear-products miracle >> >> He goes into further detail on each of these, and I do not see a succinct >> summary anywhere. For (1), he is referring to the problem of overcoming >> Coulomb repulsion. For (2), he's talking about how you'd have to >> significantly decrease the rate of the d+d→3He+p and d+d→t+n branches, >> which are normally ~50 percent each, and increase the d+d→4He+ɣ reaction, >> which is normally minuscule (on this point I think he's mistaken). For >> (3), he's concerned about missing gamma rays, among other things. >> >> Eric >> >> > Does he classify them as miracles because he considers them impossible > or extremely improbable? > It seems to me if he was certain they were impossible he would > have explicitly mentioned violation of conservation of momentum/energy > since > modern physics considers that impossible in no uncertain terms. > > BTW, if a possible but extremely improbable event is miraculous, is an > impossible event monstrous? > > Harry > > >
