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It's your choice to be dismissive and treat it like astrology. I don't care. "There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof again
by okareaman 5y ago
It's your choice to be dismissive and treat it like astrology. I don't care.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
- Herbert Spencer but most likely a derivative quote from William Paley.
- michaelmrose 5y agoSuggesting a local phenomenon is the result of a field we have no reason to believe exists carried by particles we have no reason to believe exist with no known characteristics or methods to detect it isn't an invitation to investigation. When such theorists have obtained at least a hypothesis they are welcome to advance it.
- okareaman 5y agoIf Hacker News lasts for hundreds of years, people may look back on this thread as an example of how some were on the right rack and some were heading to a dead end. "Leucippus and his pupil Democritus proposed that all matter was composed of small indivisible particles called atoms... They are constantly moving and colliding into each other." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism