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I find science and math really interesting without actually knowing anything deep. It's just like magic. There are these interesting ratio, numbers, series, an

by yeukhon 13y ago

I find science and math really interesting without actually knowing anything deep. It's just like magic. There are these interesting ratio, numbers, series, and functions appear in both nature and mathematics. Similar to how scientists praise Big Band, a lot of things are so well-defined, well put together with a precise amount (in the case of Big Bang a slight off amount might actually destroy today's universe). Sometimes I have to say and assume there is this powerful being God there writing this novel...

devx 13y ago
Well, for starters we only think it's so "precise" because that's the model we've constructed to understand the laws of physics. But once we fully understand what's happening at the quantum level, we might scrap the Standard Model altogether, and discard it as useless (for whatever we plan to make next with the new found knowledge). Plus, it may be this "precise" in the same way Earth has "exactly" the things it needed to create life, and ultimately us, humans. That's to say it wasn't precise or exact at all. It was just a potential combination of stuff, out of trillions and trillions of other combinations, which may or may not have resulted with the same things. So who's to say our universe isn't just one of the potentially trillions of trillions of other universes out there, and that other universes exist with life-forms that we can't even imagine (inter-dimensional/inter-universal beings, etc). We just turned out the way we did because that's what we "got" at the roll of dice (sort of speak).
- mratzloff 13y ago
  Well, I doubt we will scrap it altogether. There is still value in Newton despite Einstein.
cma 13y ago
I'm not reliegious, but even Thomas Aquinas disagreed at least as to math and logic, if not the universe: "Since the principles of certain sciences, such as logic, geometry and arithmetic are taken only from the formal principles of things, on which the essence of the thing depends, it follows that God could not make things contrary to these principles. For example, that a genus was not predicable of the species, or that lines drawn from the centre to the circumference were not equal, or that a triangle did not have three angles equal to two right angles."

by yeukhon 13y ago

devx 13y ago

Well, for starters we only think it's so "precise" because that's the model we've constructed to understand the laws of physics. But once we fully understand what's happening at the quantum level, we might scrap the Standard Model altogether, and discard it as useless (for whatever we plan to make next with the new found knowledge). Plus, it may be this "precise" in the same way Earth has "exactly" the things it needed to create life, and ultimately us, humans. That's to say it wasn't precise or exact at all. It was just a potential combination of stuff, out of trillions and trillions of other combinations, which may or may not have resulted with the same things. So who's to say our universe isn't just one of the potentially trillions of trillions of other universes out there, and that other universes exist with life-forms that we can't even imagine (inter-dimensional/inter-universal beings, etc). We just turned out the way we did because that's what we "got" at the roll of dice (sort of speak).

mratzloff 13y ago
Well, I doubt we will scrap it altogether. There is still value in Newton despite Einstein.

cma 13y ago

I'm not reliegious, but even Thomas Aquinas disagreed at least as to math and logic, if not the universe: "Since the principles of certain sciences, such as logic, geometry and arithmetic are taken only from the formal principles of things, on which the essence of the thing depends, it follows that God could not make things contrary to these principles. For example, that a genus was not predicable of the species, or that lines drawn from the centre to the circumference were not equal, or that a triangle did not have three angles equal to two right angles."