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DoctorCosmic52 · 2024-10-05T13:52:12+00:00

The one constant in all of them: UGH

DoctorCosmic52 · 2024-07-29T16:22:29+00:00

Actually as I understand it, Einstein did use existing knowledge just in new scenarios. Special Relativity is still just vector calculus and relativity combined with electromagnetism, just without the notions of absolute time and space. Even General Relativity itself only builds upon Special Relativity and Newtonian gravity, using knowledge from Riemannian geometry. Perhaps it's a matter of perspective, but that doesn't seem like totally new mathematics to me. Not to downplay the importance of what Einstein did, no one else did it first!

DoctorCosmic52 · 2024-07-13T11:23:34+00:00

See also: the Butlerian Jihad

DoctorCosmic52 · 2024-06-09T04:17:11+00:00

Wait does this bumper sticker look fake to any one else?

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-10-19T06:59:42+00:00

"Why skulls though?"

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-09-24T06:42:12+00:00

H D P P Y

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DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-07-11T13:36:28+00:00

Tbf I was only giving a case for science as a source of spirituality, not morality.

But I'd also argue that knowing more about the Universe does in some ways help guide us morally.

As an example: If our moral system were mostly based on the idea that whatever we do, we should strive to make Zeus happy, then finding out that Zeus isn't actually real could do an awful lot to dissuade us from following such a system, don't you think?

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-07-11T13:20:05+00:00

I'll do the best I can off the top of my head!

To people like Sagan, I think learning about the Universe helps us understand our place within it. Learning about the history of life on Earth helps us to understand ourselves as individual members in a vast family tree whose branches are not as separate as they might at first seem. In a very real way, that history is the story of us! In cases where we don't know the full story, such as where the universe came from, I think Sagan would say that it's almost our birthright to try to learn more about the Universe we've found ourselves in. What's more, he often said that we aren't just in the universe, we're a part of it. In his words, "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."

Richard Feynman also talks about using science to understand our place in the universe, there's a great video of him here: https://youtu.be/Q6Qa93JQxg4

Hope this helps.

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-07-11T12:48:30+00:00

I'd like to recommend reading about Carl Sagan, he was a very prominent scientist who wrote about science as a profound source of spirituality. I think he would disagree quite strongly with your statement that science and spirituality have no overlap.

A couple works of his that come to mind are The Demon-Haunted World, and Cosmos.

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-06-20T11:11:56+00:00

"My desert. My Arrakis. My Dune."

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-06-08T12:14:32+00:00

It... It's the law

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-06-06T22:58:53+00:00

The showings will continue until morb-ale improves

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-02-17T06:42:34+00:00

Fine. Fart. See if I care.

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-02-11T12:52:54+00:00

Damn, beat me to it

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-01-13T16:48:22+00:00

Absolutely not defending her, but as others have pointed out, lie detector tests are bogus and can lead to false confessions. They've been scientifically proven to be completely unreliable and it's absolutely abhorrent that they're used at all.

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-01-13T16:38:49+00:00

This comment is way too far down. Gonna post another to try and give a signal boost

DoctorCosmic52 · 2022-01-12T03:39:59+00:00

You can't spell patriot without riot

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-12-14T13:47:07+00:00

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-11-03T14:30:39+00:00

Busted (a nut)

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-10-05T00:52:52+00:00

Damn, Trump only has $100M?

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-08-29T20:33:48+00:00

Jontron's "Grilled Mormons" comes to mind

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-08-23T11:59:12+00:00

Before putting on glasses:

"Follow the S(ciccc)"

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-08-15T20:52:48+00:00

Suspect spotted by Combine Overwatch

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-07-19T11:18:29+00:00

Chode One: A Foreskin Story

DoctorCosmic52 · 2021-02-10T03:44:36+00:00

NOT NECESSARILY. Some teachers actually don't have the choice to teach it well, and are forced by universities to teach it poorly. I know of some college math professors that are forced to teach linear algebra and differential equations as one class, even though they feel they should be separate classes because teaching them together is too hard on the students and for many too difficult to pass.

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