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IQ does not reflect one's intelligence, but I get the joke.How did you know it was my ...
Oh, my last post.
LOL
That was a reference to my IQ.
Haha, yeah. I think ages 16+ here, my brother.They let kids post in here?
Your posting. So, yes!
Primordial soups, hot soups...when it comes to studying (i.e., making stuff up about) beginnings, scientists really love soup.After the Big Bang, the universe was like a hot soup of particles...
Thing is, I tried this as a schoolkid. A history teacher asked me "what were the causes of the First World War"? I said "Well there were these people, and these other people, and alliances, and it was kind of a soup".It is the well known souper power of science!
Probably because you didn't answer the question.Thing is, I tried this as a schoolkid. A history teacher asked me "what were the causes of the First World War"? I said "Well there were these people, and these other people, and alliances, and it was kind of a soup".
I did not get a good grade.
Which has nothing to do with the use of "soup" as a metaphor.Exactly.
Primordial soups, hot soups...when it comes to studying (i.e., making stuff up about) beginnings, scientists really love soup.
My point is that it's just a way of saying nothing, as when scientists and philosophers use the word "emergence". Okay, something emerged. <waiting for details>Which has nothing to do with the use of "soup" as a metaphor.
My point is that it's just a way of saying nothing, as when scientists and philosophers use the word "emergence". Okay, something emerged. <waiting for details>
There was a soup, and then something happened. <waiting for details>
We know what emerged from the "soup of particles" described in the article -- stuff, all the stuff. This is a solved problem.My point is that it's just a way of saying nothing, as when scientists and philosophers use the word "emergence". Okay, something emerged. <waiting for details>
Start by looking at primordial nucleosynthesis, large scale structure formation, star formation, galaxy formation, etc.There was a soup, and then something happened. <waiting for details>
Your problem seems to be the use of the "soup" metaphor. Would it work better if it said:Don't get me wrong. I'm not criticizing science for not knowing everything. Not knowing is fine. But I find fault with explanations based on wholly vague premises.
Perhaps the result would have been different if you said "There were these people who were ardently fond of French onion soup and these other people who liked saurkraut soup and some chef from the second group was shot in Sarajevo and everyone moved directly to the second course."Thing is, I tried this as a schoolkid. A history teacher asked me "what were the causes of the First World War"? I said "Well there were these people, and these other people, and alliances, and it was kind of a soup".
I did not get a good grade.
I thought there was a sandwich or a cafe involved in the success of the assassination. Something about the coincidence of delays for the archduke and the assassin bringing them together for the fateful moment.Perhaps the result would have been different if you said "There were these people who were ardently fond of French onion soup and these other people who liked saurkraut soup and some chef from the second group was shot in Sarajevo and everyone moved directly to the second course."
Then again, perhaps not.
To a layman like myself the use of "hot soup" makes a lot of sense when the full sentence is actually considered.Primordial soups, hot soups...when it comes to studying (i.e., making stuff up about) beginnings, scientists really love soup.
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