Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: March 18, 2024, 11:03 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Something/nothing/forever and cycles.
#11
RE: Something/nothing/forever and cycles.
I tried to catch up years ago by reading 3 books I highly recommend.  

The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur

Warped Passages by Lisa Randall

Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

It was great summer reading, and I almost kinda but still don't get it.
Reply
#12
RE: Something/nothing/forever and cycles.
(April 2, 2021 at 2:33 pm)Ranjr Wrote: I tried to catch up years ago by reading 3 books I highly recommend.  

The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur

Warped Passages by Lisa Randall

The Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

It was great summer reading, and I almost kinda but still don't get it.

When it comes to the detailed complexity of most math and science, I get lost. But when it comes to general concepts, one can drive a car without knowing how to build one. One does not have to be able to build a car from scratch to understand the general concept of how a combustion engine works. One can learn how to drive a car without knowing how to build one from scratch.

I think with evolution Dawkins described change over time in a very understandable lapersons example. He didn't like the "mixing paint" metaphor most people use. He described evolution more like a deck of cards beeing shuffled. You have the back of the deck, which is majority DNA all life shares, like the uniform back of a deck of Hoyle playing cards. The the slight changes of the face of each card, that shows the change between the King of hearts and the Qeen of Hearts and the Jack of Hearts and the shuffling over time.
Reply
#13
RE: Something/nothing/forever and cycles.
(April 2, 2021 at 2:43 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 2, 2021 at 2:33 pm)Ranjr Wrote: I tried to catch up years ago by reading 3 books I highly recommend.  

The Motion Paradox by Joseph Mazur

Warped Passages by Lisa Randall

The Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin

It was great summer reading, and I almost kinda but still don't get it.

When it comes to the detailed complexity of most math and science, I get lost. But when it comes to general concepts, one can drive a car without knowing how to build one. One does not have to be able to build a car from scratch to understand the general concept of how a combustion engine works. One can learn how to drive a car without knowing how to build one from scratch.

I think with evolution Dawkins described change over time in a very understandable lapersons example. He didn't like the "mixing paint" metaphor most people use. He described evolution more like a deck of cards beeing shuffled. You have the back of the deck, which is majority DNA all life shares, like the uniform back of a deck of Hoyle playing cards. The the slight changes of the face of each card, that shows the change between the King of hearts and the Qeen of Hearts and the Jack of Hearts and the shuffling over time.

Call your sponsor.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Something Star Trek Missed onlinebiker 44 3445 May 26, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Last Post: Sal
  Something to Look Forward To, Perhaps Minimalist 16 3928 May 7, 2018 at 12:33 am
Last Post: Minimalist
  Where did science originally come from ? Something Unusual maybe ? Thomas Kelly252525 333 29457 July 9, 2016 at 3:22 am
Last Post: Edwardo Piet
  Why groups of people can remember something that didn't happen GrandizerII 4 1566 January 4, 2016 at 7:03 am
Last Post: robvalue
  Something that has been on my mind dyresand 24 3384 December 4, 2015 at 10:22 pm
Last Post: Reforged
  Who Knows. Might Find Something. Minimalist 10 3338 October 25, 2015 at 2:51 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  A universe from nothing Lawrence M. Krauss dyresand 10 4530 February 25, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Last Post: Alex K
  "Time does not exist outside of the universe, so nothing can predate the universe." IanHulett 18 6932 February 22, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Last Post: ReptilianPeon
  Something to Look Forward to Minimalist 22 3499 November 12, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Reproductive cycles lifesagift 26 2554 November 1, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Last Post: Aoi Magi



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)