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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Ove38
Only subjectively. Only as far as you are concerned.
Your consciousness (or lack thereof) has no effect on my reality. So, enjoy your little corner of reality.
This really isn't bickering, even though it may have the appearance of that.
originally posted by: pikestaff
I do wish Phage and Over38 would take their bickering somewhere else...
www.space.com...
For the next few years, Halley traveled and made observations. He observed a comet in Paris in 1680 and worked with Giovanni Cassini to determine its orbit. In 1684, Halley, with fellow Royal Society members Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, visited Isaac Newton to discuss theories of planetary motion. Newton showed them his calculations. Halley persuaded Newton to expand his studies and allow him to edit the work. Halley paid all the expenses, corrected the proofs himself, and brought "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," often referred to as the "Principia") to print in 1687.
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Halley quotes
"Nearer the gods no mortal may approach."
— Preface, "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica," referring to Isaac Newton
The hypotheses can be tested by experiment. If you believe "My words change my reality" as Ove38 says, you could utter the words "gravity doesn't exist" and step off a tall building. If the result is something like the following photo, then that hypothesis is falsified.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
What phage and Ove38 have demonstrated is discourse, when two minds compare their realities with each other. And in the context of this thread, Phage "Believes" Subduction to be a "Reality" where Ove38 believes expansion to be a "Reality". Who is right?
I didn't claim she did. What I am saying is anybody who thinks doing so will result in a different outcome is free to try it as long as they tell me first so I can move my car.
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
a reply to: Arbitrageurlol lol
Maybe she just didn't utter the magic words, before she took her leap of faith...
No experiment can prove the effect of unicorn farts on the ozone layer either. But since there's zero evidence for unicorns and for "hidden forces of gravity" in our solar system, those aren't things a rational person would be wondering about.
it can not prove one way or the other as to the hidden forces of gravity
www.goodhousekeeping.com...
Unicorns are real - maybe just not that cute.
The so-called “Siberian unicorn” existed on the planet as recently as 29,000 years ago, according to a new discovery published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences.
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Elasmotherium ("Thin Plate Beast"), also known as the giant rhinoceros, is an extinct genus of rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during the Late Pliocene through the Pleistocene