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There's proof of electrons... Your screen. edit: there's also proof of quantum effect in the real world.

by erelde 10y ago

tankenmate 10y ago
My favourite one is that Mercury is a liquid at room temperature. It should be a solid, it doesn't form diatomic molecules in gas form, and it has far lower melting points and electrical conductivity; largely because it doesn't share it's valence electrons easily due to a mixture of relativity and quantum effects.
- waqf 10y ago
  I think you'll find Mercury is a solid at room temperature. You're probably thinking of mercury.
pbhjpbhj 10y ago
You say "your screen" like you imagine that there's more than one mind here .. and you imagine that mind isn't being fed sense-data from a malevolent aliens laptop for entertainment purposes. Being a bit more grounded there's a possibility that it's electron, not electrons too.
wtbob 10y ago
> There's proof of electrons There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice. I don't mind a little atheist boy proclaiming his disbelief in preschool, but I wonder how his father would feel about a little religious boy proclaiming his belief in that same school.
- erelde 10y ago
  > If you seek his monument, look around you This, is no proof. At best it's an argument from authority. You need a little leg up in rhetoric arguments. It has long been decided, by better logicians and theologists than us, that either there's no proof of a supreme being or that it doesn't exist. To borrow vocabulary from another domain, it's a closed issue. Either way is fine, and I've been careful not to disclose my beliefs. edit: I used an argument from authority, partly by sarcasm pedit: musing about languages and brains: I did 3 years of latin classes and was good at it, and although I could roughly understand the latin quote, translating it in English through my native tongue made my brain feel weird, so I took the translation found on wikipedia...

There's proof of electrons... Your screen. edit: there's also proof of quantum effect in the real world.

by erelde 10y ago

There's proof of electrons... Your screen. edit: there's also proof of quantum effect in the real world.

My favourite one is that Mercury is a liquid at room temperature. It should be a solid, it doesn't form diatomic molecules in gas form, and it has far lower melting points and electrical conductivity; largely because it doesn't share it's valence electrons easily due to a mixture of relativity and quantum effects.

waqf 10y ago
I think you'll find Mercury is a solid at room temperature. You're probably thinking of mercury.

pbhjpbhj 10y ago

You say "your screen" like you imagine that there's more than one mind here .. and you imagine that mind isn't being fed sense-data from a malevolent aliens laptop for entertainment purposes. Being a bit more grounded there's a possibility that it's electron, not electrons too.

wtbob 10y ago

> There's proof of electrons There's also proof of God: to borrow Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph, si monumentum requiris, circumspice. I don't mind a little atheist boy proclaiming his disbelief in preschool, but I wonder how his father would feel about a little religious boy proclaiming his belief in that same school.

erelde 10y ago
> If you seek his monument, look around you This, is no proof. At best it's an argument from authority. You need a little leg up in rhetoric arguments. It has long been decided, by better logicians and theologists than us, that either there's no proof of a supreme being or that it doesn't exist. To borrow vocabulary from another domain, it's a closed issue. Either way is fine, and I've been careful not to disclose my beliefs. edit: I used an argument from authority, partly by sarcasm pedit: musing about languages and brains: I did 3 years of latin classes and was good at it, and although I could roughly understand the latin quote, translating it in English through my native tongue made my brain feel weird, so I took the translation found on wikipedia...