Cant we use dogs instead? It is interesting, I am into Science (im being serious) but bot as much as some of you it seems I watch stuff on science in all different aspects but I wouldnt go out of my way to read about it for instance
None of it can be proven empirically- it's all just mathematics. The same mathematics that proves that bees can't fly- except no-one told the bees. Schrodinger ( don't know how to do umlauts on my keyboard) used the cat in a box theory to show the absurdity of applying quantum theory to anything above the sub-atomic particle level. He never intended it to be taken seriously. But, surprise surprise, he was taken seriously, and his word was taken at face value. A bit like John Lennon saying the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
No we can't! Do you want to be burned as a witch, you ****ing Phllistine! Schroedinger said cats, so cats it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement Might have started out as a thought exercise in absurdity, but that's not how even Schroedinger thought it himself at the end. Truth of the matter is, at sub-atomic levels thing happen counter-intuitively (then again, Relativity was thought counter-intuitive at first).
Well if you never try new things...........thought you'd understand that of all people I say I wouldnt go out of my way to read about scientific things but I do, not about these sort of theories but science covers so much that thinking about it, actually read quite a lot on it
I'm pulling your chain DR, I read all the stuff (New Scientist -ace!) and watch all the stuff on Discovery, and about 1% sticks. But I'm full of awe and wonder, from the moment at nine when my dad, who'd just explained lightspeed, pointed to a star (can't remember which one) and said the light I was seeing had left that star when Jesus walked on the Earth. Unfortunately I was better at English, history and geography at school, and I was a dunce at maths and chemistry (wish Walter White had been my teacher) so I use humour to ridicule my own lack of understanding. It is all wonderfully absurd, and I think of what Gallileo went through and think you can either face that with an indignant rage at that vested ignorance of some - or you can laugh at that absurdity and your own limitation of understanding. And the thought of cats being gassed for science....
Allow me to recommend 'The Infinity Puzzle' by Frank Close. Great explanation of the Higgs Boson quest and the Standard Model that it completes.
"who'd just explained lightspeed, pointed to a star (can't remember which one) and said the light I was seeing had left that star when Jesus walked on the Earth" Its all mind blowing stuff Donga
Got a fantastic book on Nothing by Frank Close. Mind-blowing. We truly can not imagine nothing (as opposed to the absence of something), and can only express it mathematically. Mind-blowing.
Is it about 'the void' and quite a small inexpensive book? If so, I think I've read a review of it somewhere.
