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Randy
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USA
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 Posted - 10/28/2003 : 18:55:23
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
Better check it out! On this week.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 10/28/2003 : 19:52:44 [Permalink]
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| Thanks!!! I'll be watching. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2003 : 20:02:39 [Permalink]
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| Goddamn, I love that stuff. Altho, it's a lightyear or two over my head. Sounds like another part will be airing next week too. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
751 Posts |
Posted - 10/28/2003 : 23:39:27 [Permalink]
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I have to wait 'till it comes on line...
As with everything (except Star Wars and The Matrix) in Australia, we get it six months later....grrrrr
Looking forward to being bamboozelled (sp?) by astrophysicists....lol |
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 10/30/2003 : 08:02:37 [Permalink]
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Too bad that I live so far in the "boondocks" that I don't get PBS --- even though there are two PBS stations in the BigCity to the north and another in the BigCity to the south. Guess I'll have to stick with reading. 
By the way, I've listed links to several really good web-readings over in the psipog.net thread.
In other earlier threads, the question has arisen as to whether or not the extra 6 dimensions are really there or are just mathematical fictions. Burried in Randy's link is the following NOVA interview with physicist Edward Witten:quote:
Extracted from the interview:
NOVA: Do you think extra dimensions actually exist, or are they a mathematical device?
Witten: If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature.
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Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. --Falstaff |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13481 Posts |
Posted - 10/30/2003 : 20:33:52 [Permalink]
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This letter is from a fellow who calls himself Chuck Spurgeon. He writes to us often, unfortunatly. I thought I would post this one. The TF he refers to are transitional fossils that he believes are non existent.
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Chuck:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Maybe if we shrink down to say a billion times we could find a TF of one of
these string fellows from days gone by. Maybe we could find a link between
the open string and closed string?
Do the strings program themselves for a reason like our cells do?
To answer the gentelmens question, "YES" that means it is nothing more then
phlysophy.
I wonder where the strings came from?
And to think my tax dollars helped to produce this garbage! How sad! This
propaganda can not even fund itself. It must leach off unsuspecting
citizens. How sad! This is nothing short of government supported phylosphy
or religon.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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