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Originally Posted by michaellxv
How did anyone prior to Newton know how to aim a projectile?
We don't have to fully understand something to use it.
I have a couple of theories.
Firstly dark matter/energy are just a place holder that kinda make the maths work for what we see. A bit like calling sqroot(-1) = i - when no such real number exists.
Next, the spacetime continuim is such that all times and places co-exist. Our conciousness just moves from one state to the next (should fit with quantum theory I reckon). Dark matter/energy is just all of that matter and engery which exist at times which are not now hence we cannot see it. All of this should make time travel possible when we do work it all out 
Unlike 400 years ago we at least acknowledge that we do not know everything. If you look at the increasing rate at which scientific discovery builds on previous work it should only take one more generation to work it out. 
Michael |
Michael I read your post a while back but have been unable to comment and compliment you on your insite.
I hope you are correct and that all knowledge is only a generation away... and I admire your belief there is more to come..that is the way it is... if only humans could understand what you have outlined I feel we could be better set up to embrace new knowledge and understanding.
Those who go before us are resentful that they give us a world we do not understand or appreciate... that is the way it is but the fact is when they are gone it is the new humans who take over.. are they better or worse???those who pass say the new kids know nothing but one wonders if that be so why does humanity move forward as it does..new humans that is why... all views of youth and their inexperience are never respected by those before them and yet it is the new humans that take us forward... That is why GR needs an update... how new humans can settle for science now near a century old is strange to me.. I can not accept that a new DrA can not take us further than that... so understand it is in your hands not those who ran before you...Use Dr A as your guide, your example, as your hero...he was nothing..a little little man... could not have won a pool comp. or flogged two men his better in a fist fight but he was a great and wonderful man who showed us that evfen if you were a complete nobody..a pattents clerk..that is not flash lets face it..you could do great things... someone that today each of us would push aside if he stood in the way of a feed or a pool game ..he went for it.. he achieved..with nothing behind him..a poor pupil and in the work world was only a clerk as low as you could get in the world of work and business..who would think someone so low in the pecking order could do zip ...yet he did stuff.. lots of stuff really... so is that man someone that can inspire you ..to me he is a hero... now think about it..anyone here probably has more going for them than Dr A ..everyone should expect to be more capable than him...he is regarded as brillant but he was a man who simply had a go...they have looked at his brain in a jar (rather stange and horrid and stupid to place him like some sort of human anomoly) etc but that was not where it came from...he simply had a go and was never put off by the fools around him... Irrespective of if GR works or not the man pulled a great act... he still has the audience captivcated so how good is that... I never think of him as brainy but as a man he was so cool.
alex