RE: A Si Fi watchmaker.
March 19, 2015 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2015 at 8:19 am by Brian37.)
(March 19, 2015 at 7:52 am)One Above All Wrote: Sci-fi need not be more "sci" than "fi" and vice-versa. Don't like it, don't read/watch it. It's what I do with religious-themed books, atheism-themed books, romance novels, soap-operas, reality shows, cop shows, and so on.
If your brain can't - even for a brief moment - accept a hypothetical scenario just for the sake of amusement, I pity you. I hope your dream isn't working in any area of theoretical science, because you'll never achieve it like that.
If its and butts were candy and nuts we'd all have a party. Certainly scientists have to "imagine" but that doesn't give laypeople outside that level to twist metaphor and words to suit their own fantasies. In science there is a way to "imagine" and then there is fantasy.
I would highly recommend if you have not to watch the entire new series COSMOS with Neil. Saying "I don't know" and even "imagining" the possibilities still even at that level are subject to rules and issues of likelihood.
(March 19, 2015 at 7:52 am)One Above All Wrote: Sci-fi need not be more "sci" than "fi" and vice-versa. Don't like it, don't read/watch it. It's what I do with religious-themed books, atheism-themed books, romance novels, soap-operas, reality shows, cop shows, and so on.
If your brain can't - even for a brief moment - accept a hypothetical scenario just for the sake of amusement, I pity you. I hope your dream isn't working in any area of theoretical science, because you'll never achieve it like that.
OK, can you melt metal and mold a car engine and build one from scratch all by yourself? No? But I bet you can rule out that your car runs on pixy dust and you have a general knowledge of what makes a combustion engine run.
Now if you think I am being closed minded, Einstein poo pooed the idea of of QM, but I bet if he were alive today he'd be happy he was proven wrong even if he might feel his ego was bruised a little.
"Don't jump the gun" is not being closed minded. I suck at details of science, but I do listen to the experts when they say "don't gap fill" and don't twist metaphor to suit your own desires.
Scientists at that level have a hard enough time without the rest of us polluting what they say with our own personal fantasies. The have enough competing claims without the general public poisoning it with god claims or si fi woo.
