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Originally Posted by venus
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Thank you Venus for posting that link
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It gives me incite to why I can hold various conflicting emotional opinions about those fully engaged in mathematics..ranging from admiration of their ability to contempt for their stupidity
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Physics is ruled by mathematics which does not always lead one to acceptable conclusions yet given the proof before one and the wondrous minds that present "the facts" provide no option but acceptance
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It puzzles me how a theory can be proven to be so correct that it becomes a fact even in the absence of tangible proof
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The theory of black holes for example... all forget that this animal was born on paper, lives on paper yet it has become "real" still remaining unfound. Oh I hear the cries but we can look to see that their influence is present even in our own galaxy. yes indeed
if one is looking for unicorns fully established as a possibility īn theory" and then finds the outline of a foot print in the shape that a horse may leave does that entitle one to proclaim "the idea is correct for a unicorn walked upon this very spot".. all will say how crazy for you to say such
without thinking further about the human condition to which I point
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But for me until you have a unicorn in your stable that I can pat I will not accept such unsupported ideas
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But there are black holes!!!.. how long ago were they born, how eagerly humans wished for their existence, how happy they were when they found "tell tale"signs of their presence, happy enough to proclaim them as fact it seems
..yet there may be other explanations of the evidence happily seized upon to pronounce the theory as correct
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I say this is a premature conclusion based upon an expectation we were led to by a man playing with sums
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I think we could find and preserve two identical twin snow flakes before we conclusively prove the existence of a black hole
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AND my point finally is simply this... all things can be imagined and reasonable reasons presented as to why they should exist in the Universe but just because humans believe something to be so does not mean it will in fact be a tangible part of the real Universe irrespective of the sums or evidence provided by those eagerly expecting to find the object they seek
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A very thought provoking link Venus thanks again.
Alex