"Nothing" - Out there in space

[Cabal]

Note what I placed in bold, above.
Now you can't tell me that when you're having your final that you don't have that sense of competitive drive come over you, and that feeling of envy to note that other dude got the higher grade than you did. This phenomena is caused by intellectual pride.
Pride caused the competitive instinct, as it did the envy.
It will only get worse once you get your degree and enter the professional sphere.

Frankly, when I'm doing my exams, I care about getting firsts (top grade bracket). And I usually get them. Differences within that bracket are trivial.

And what exactly is wrong with competition? You assume competition and pride are inextricably linked. They're not.

My main and only real concern in physics is that mathematics takes the prominent role, and the cognitive takes a back seat. By "cognitive", I mean the sort of thought-experiment that created something like the general theory of relativity. Remember that? When Einstein ran the famous thought-experiment in 1906 when he was a patent clerk? It wasn't a mathematical mind that created such thinking, it was cognition and the inventiveness that stems from such thinking.

Ok, but even Einstein and Fermi wrote down equations after doing their initial thought experiments. I agree that that kind of innovation shouldn't be stifled, but physics classes tend not to do that, it's not all maths,maths,maths. And all the ones I've been in encourage you to understand what the equations are saying, in a physics sense. It's not rote learning.

And again, forcing one type of intelligence to be prioritised is simply a bad move.

We need instruction in thought-experiments and not equations. One produces results; the other generates intellectual pride.

Again, there hasn't exactly been a shortage of published papers recently. Now, you mightn't like adherence to existing theory, but as I said before, it gives us at the very least a focus to work towards (there's more than that of course, theoreticians have predicted some incredible discoveries well before the technology existed to create them experimentally), and also if our existing knowledge is linked together in a coherent theory, that makes it all the more noticeable when something is observed that contravenes it. You're not going to maintain this kind of structure if you force every student to starve their maths knowledge and sit around doing thought experiments. If they have an idea, they can discuss it with their teachers at anytime. But from what I've seen, most students prefer being taught from someone more knowledgeable than themselves.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

My main and only real concern in physics is that mathematics takes the prominent role, and the cognitive takes a back seat. By "cognitive", I mean the sort of thought-experiment that created something like the general theory of relativity. Remember that? When Einstein ran the famous thought-experiment in 1906 when he was a patent clerk? It wasn't a mathematical mind that created such thinking, it was cognition and the inventiveness that stems from such thinking.

Oh good grief. Do you even know what the general relativity is? Quantum mechanics? These are fundamental to our understanding of how reality operates, and they are heavily mathematical. Open any textbook on general relativity and see for yourself its mathematical foundation.

Einstein used mathematics and his understanding of the mathematical foundation of Newtonian mechanics to formulate his special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, explanation of Brownian motion, and explanation of the photoelectric effect, etc.

We need instruction in thought-experiments and not equations. One produces results; the other generates intellectual pride.

Urgh.

 

[r21c]

Paug, you definately said it about that little book. Anybody who claims to of seen miracles can't be telling the truth, or that god speaks to them. Its like Satan or ghosts. No proof.

There is werid rather sad women on youtube chatting about satanism it isn't what most people think. I sent a message to her about this subject, I got no reply.

Pitty ful stupid beliefs.

There are millions of things we don't know, just look at humanitys progress. Look how miserable life was back before the oil age, the age of serious comfort.

And an ignorant fake christian palin thinks she knows it all. Full of rubbish the lot of them, weridos. Ugly people!

Something like religion looks more like a control group, how can anyone support something like that vatican or that pope. Why did that pope guy meet with W?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Anybody who claims to of seen miracles can't be telling the truth, or that god speaks to them.

Why can't they be telling the truth? I'm not defending them, I just don't see why, potentially, they couldn't be genuine miraculous events.

There is werid rather sad women on youtube chatting about satanism it isn't what most people think. I sent a message to her about this subject, I got no reply.

It's hard to communicate when one has buried one's head in the sand .

Pitty ful stupid beliefs.

There are millions of things we don't know, just look at humanitys progress. Look how miserable life was back before the oil age, the age of serious comfort.

Agreed. Science has advanced human civilisation, nor religion. Indeed, though science began as the pursuit of evidence for the various events in the Bible (e.g., looking for evidence of a world-wide Flood), it quickly became apparent that the world was very different to how the Bible depicted it. But the pursuit of truth, of what really happened, continued. Finding out why the world is as it is and does what it does, regardless of the end conclusion, is, I think, the goal of science.

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And an ignorant fake christian palin thinks she knows it all. Full of rubbish the lot of them, weridos. Ugly people!

I don't think Palin is a 'fake' Christian, not that their gibberish has anything to do with their cosmetics. Hitchins was certainly no looker .

Something like religion looks more like a control group, how can anyone support something like that vatican or that pope. Why did that pope guy meet with W?

Befriending the Pope goes a long way to winning the Catholic vote. Since Catholicism is the single largest religious group in the world (moreso in Western countries, like the US), that is a substantial voter base.

 

[MorkandMindy]

...
I don't think Palin is a 'fake' Christian, not that their gibberish has anything to do with their cosmetics. Hitchins was certainly no looker ...

What is a 'real Christian?'
What is a 'Christian?'
What is 'Christianity?'
What evidence suggests Palin is a real Christian?

(these are genuine questions and I wouldn't be asking if I hadn't failed to come up with answers myself after trying for some time)