[Trinidad]

 helene_t, on 2014-March-10, 10:05, said:

Well there are organisations for people who do not wear clothes when swimming or camping. And for people who do not eat meat.

I (a little naughty) put the vegetarian in on purpose. It was easy for me since where you and I call meat "meat" my Indian friends call it "non-veg". One can make a negative out of a positive, but perhaps more important to remember: One can make a positive out of a negative.

For me the key thing is that on this issue I do not want to be positively identified as an atheist. I want to be negatively identified as "non-religious" or a "non-believer". Why? Because not only am I "not a believer", I am also "not an atheist". Perhaps you could call me an "I don't know and I don't care"-ist, a "God? What's that? And what do we need this for?"-ist or a "Live and let live"-ist. But of course, you would first have to find some Greek or Latin translation to these terms, otherwise it would all be meaningless.

Rik

[gwnn]

Be careful with that, Trinidad, what you describe is very close to apatheism

[Scarabin]

 gwnn, on 2014-March-10, 11:43, said:

Be careful with that, Trinidad, what you describe is very close to apatheism

or in other words, intelligent moderation.

[Trinidad]

 Scarabin, on 2014-March-11, 00:20, said:

or in other words, intelligent moderation.

I don't mind people calling me intelligent... or moderate for that matter.

Rik

[32519]

How many of you know what Axioms are, why they are needed, and who it is developing them?

[PassedOut]

 32519, on 2014-March-21, 06:57, said:

How many of you know what Axioms are, why they are needed, and who it is developing them?

Every educated person.

[gwnn]

They are in the Bible, they are needed as otherwise we would be committing genocide without divine mandate and we can't have that, and no one with out limited existence of sinful depravity can develop/modify them. God's divine, eternal Word created them the moment he and Jesus said 'Let there be light!'

what did I win?

[gwnn]

https://www.youtube....h?v=44ilZq3R900

[kenberg]

 gwnn, on 2014-March-21, 07:10, said:

https://www.youtube....h?v=44ilZq3R900

I was watching this with amusement. Becky, in the other room, was half listening: "What are you watching? You don't watch stuff like that."

[32519]

gwnn, PassedOut, Vampyr and mikeh

Come an explain to us in layman's term why the Standard Model was abandoned in favour of the BBT.

[Vampyr]

Both the Standard Model and the Big Bang Theory are the most accurate ways known to describe the observations they concern.

[the hog]

 32519, on 2014-March-21, 06:57, said:

How many of you know what Axioms are, why they are needed, and who it is developing them?

An Australian rock band from the 1960's.

[Trinidad]

 32519, on 2014-March-21, 06:57, said:

How many of you know what Axioms are, why they are needed, and who it is developing them?

32519

Rik

[gwnn]

 32519, on 2014-March-21, 22:19, said:

gwnn, PassedOut, Vampyr and mikeh

Come an explain to us in layman's term why the Standard Model was abandoned in favour of the BBT.

It was not abandoned. They are not rival theories.

[32519]

I have just found myself a new favourite theory! Check this one out, The Theory of Everything, or ToE.

[kenberg]

Here is my theory of everything: Any theory that explains everything is wrong.

[Vampyr]

 32519, on 2014-March-22, 01:45, said:

I have just found myself a new favourite theory! Check this one out, The Theory of Everything, or ToE.

Ummm... there is no need to check it out, because everyone else has already heard about it.

It would be so exciting watching you discover science, except for the fact that you then inexplicably hate everything you learn about.

[32519]

Seems like our fancy theorists have lined up work for themselves for the next 1,000 years. They have compiled this list to keep themselves in a job, List of unsolved problems in physics.

[kenberg]

 32519, on 2014-March-22, 10:01, said:

Seems like our fancy theorists have lined up work for themselves for the next 1,000 years. They have compiled this list to keep themselves in a job, List of unsolved problems in physics.

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Given an arbitrary compact gauge group, does a non-trivial quantum Yang–Mills theory with a finite mass gap exist? This problem is also listed as one of the Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics.

I was just asking Becky about this possibility this morning. She was busy fixing toast and eggs, but promised to work it out later today. I'll get back to you on this.

Actually I like the list. Baryon asymmetry is an old one of course. I seem to recall philosophical discussions about this as a teenager. I think we decided that there must be a parallel universe where anti-particles are dominant. Presumably they are not called anti-particles in that universe. My classmates suggested I shut up about this crap if I wanted to make it home.

[gwnn]

 32519, on 2014-March-22, 10:01, said:

Seems like our fancy theorists have lined up work for themselves for the next 1,000 years. They have compiled this list to keep themselves in a job, List of unsolved problems in physics.

Are there any unsolved problems with the Bible, too, perchance?

This is a relatively short list:

http://infidels.org/...sistencies.html

The difference being that the physicists never claimed that their papers are the perfect word of the creator of the universe, nor do they claim that it the current state of theory is complete.