RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 10, 2014 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2014 at 11:39 am by Jackalope.)
(June 9, 2014 at 10:14 pm)Godschild Wrote:(June 9, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: We can't directly see the supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way, but we nonetheless know that there must be an enormous unseen mass there because of it's effect on nearby stars.
Inference. Look it up.
The same goes for dark matter. We can't see it, we don't yet know what it is, but unless everything we know about gravity and relativity is wrong, there is *something*, a whole lot of something that we can't see.
You can't know that, it's physically unobserved.
GC
So when we observe stars orbiting the center of the galaxy in tight orbits, which under both Newtonian mechanics and relativity could only happen if there were an enormous mass there, that counts as not observation?
Gravitational lensing?
The list goes on.
GC apparently thinks he's got a better handle on physics than Newton and Einstein. Truly we are in the presence of genius. I bet he didn't even need to look up what inference is like I suggested.