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Thread: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
Post: RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling resul...
| (September 27, 2011 at 8:42 am)lanceromega Wrote: Or it can be that Neutrinos are in fact tachyons, back in the 90's several attempts to measure the mass of neutrinos yielded results that point towa... |
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lilphil1989 |
Physical Sciences
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September 28, 2011 at 4:17 pm |
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Thread: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
Post: RE: Speed-of-light experiments give baffling resul...
| Here's my two cents on the story.
Even if this is verified, does it mean that "Einstein was wrong", as the papers have taken great joy in saying? No, not at all.
Special relativity is built up from ... |
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lilphil1989 |
Physical Sciences
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September 25, 2011 at 2:39 am |
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Thread: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
Post: RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
| I don't think accusations of "creative cookery" would be justified really. It's clear that a SU(2) x U(1) gauge theory perfectly describes the weak interaction and electromagnetism. Since experiment s... |
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lilphil1989 |
Physical Sciences
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September 16, 2011 at 6:35 am |
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Thread: Probe pictures Moon landing sites
Post: RE: Probe pictures Moon landing sites
| The recurring theme I've come across with the conspiracy theorists is a real lack of critical thinking abilities.
To them, lack of evidence in their favour just proves how hard the guvmint is working... |
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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September 13, 2011 at 7:43 am |
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Thread: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
Post: RE: The Higgs Boson: what are the odds?
| I would say the odds are reasonably high for at least one Higgs' boson existing.
Otherwise, massive gauge bosons in a non-Abelian gauge theory make no sense at all. And they certainly exist in nature... |
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lilphil1989 |
Physical Sciences
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September 12, 2011 at 9:14 am |
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Thread: Faith healers that claim they can cure cancer.
Post: RE: Faith healers that claim they can cure cancer.
| Yes, there are scam artists. There are also plenty of faith healers who don't have a business and don't charge for their "treatments"
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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June 25, 2011 at 5:48 am |
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Thread: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out false
Post: RE: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out fa...
| (June 18, 2011 at 2:03 am)tackattack Wrote: You consider your position the null position, but I consider my experiences rational and valid and consider them the justified position.
Are you claiming ... |
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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June 25, 2011 at 4:37 am |
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Thread: Faith healers that claim they can cure cancer.
Post: RE: Faith healers that claim they can cure cancer.
| (June 22, 2011 at 3:18 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: These people are leeching off the most vulnerable people in our society. Better laws need to be put in place to prosecute assholes like this.
I think i... |
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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June 25, 2011 at 4:07 am |
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Thread: Pat Condell: Goodbye Sweden
Post: RE: Pat Condell: Goodbye Sweden
| I always thought that the Swedish press has a subsidy system similar to Press support system of Norway. Wikipedia agrees. He didn't say that papers were state-controlled, merely state-subsidised, whic... |
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lilphil1989 |
Media
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June 20, 2011 at 11:03 am |
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Thread: Q's from a theist
Post: RE: Q's from a theist
| (June 17, 2011 at 1:27 pm)frankiej Wrote: I have an interest in string theories. Wrapping your mind round it all takes some doing... but even with the lack of evidence it still makes far more sense ... |
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lilphil1989 |
Atheism
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June 17, 2011 at 3:09 pm |
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Thread: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out false
Post: RE: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out fa...
| (June 17, 2011 at 5:47 am)tackattack Wrote: And you have a point about denying the negative results phil. It would emphasize/amplify the effect quite a bit.
That implies there's an effect to amplify... |
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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June 17, 2011 at 11:31 am |
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Thread: For Tackattack
Post: RE: For Tackattack
| (June 17, 2011 at 2:41 am)Stue Denim Wrote: ...I don't know which god I'm arguing against yet
The problem is, neither do the majority of theists. |
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lilphil1989 |
Christianity
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June 17, 2011 at 3:58 am |
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Thread: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out false
Post: RE: Psychic prediction of mass graves turns out fa...
| (June 17, 2011 at 1:37 am)tackattack Wrote: There are plenty of studies..
Which are not repeatable, and often only publish the results that seem to support the hypothesis, thus suffering from confir... |
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lilphil1989 |
Skepticism & Pseudoscience
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June 17, 2011 at 3:55 am |
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Thread: For Tackattack
Post: RE: For Tackattack
| Quote:Are you interested or not?
You've already made it perfectly clear that you have no intention of producing your claimed evidence, so my interest or otherwise is irrelevant. |
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lilphil1989 |
Christianity
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June 16, 2011 at 9:00 am |
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Thread: For Tackattack
Post: RE: For Tackattack
| Quote:Somehow I don’t think I’m getting my point across.
I have evidence of something.
Show it to you? haha, don't be silly.
I have evidence.
I have evidence.
I know something you don't know, nyeh ny... |
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lilphil1989 |
Christianity
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June 16, 2011 at 8:41 am |
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Thread: Q's from a theist
Post: RE: Q's from a theist
| duck Wrote:I realize that there is a line that is drawn where science can go no further, and in my past responses I have been partly wrong for blurring this line. It is quite interesting to see how on... |
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lilphil1989 |
Atheism
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June 16, 2011 at 4:51 am |
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Thread: What part of Saerules is 'old hat'?
Post: RE: What part of Saerules is 'old hat'?
| Please break the mold. It's making the fridge smell. |
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Off Topic
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June 15, 2011 at 5:03 pm |
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Thread: Atheism and objective ethics
Post: RE: Atheism and objective ethics
| (June 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: They fail to get out the door with the argument.
It's usually more like repeatedly walking into the door face-first. |
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lilphil1989 |
Philosophy
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June 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm |
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Thread: For Tackattack
Post: RE: For Tackattack
| [Image: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfaino...o1_500.jpg]
Now I'm being rude. It doesn't happen very often, but given all the effort you're putting into aggravating people, I wouldn't want to di... |
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lilphil1989 |
Christianity
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June 15, 2011 at 4:50 pm |
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Thread: Q's from a theist
Post: RE: Q's from a theist
| That definition of the big bang theory is fine but for one point. The evidence suggests that in the past the universe was smaller, everything was closer together and the energy density was much larger... |
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lilphil1989 |
Atheism
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June 15, 2011 at 4:39 pm |
