NeoSound
Fractal Fanatic
It's all shit! Take it all down/out! Blow it all up!
Our species seems to be working really hard on that one!
It's all shit! Take it all down/out! Blow it all up!
Energy isn’t a flow, but it can cause things to flow. As for that 96% number (which varies, depending on who’s posting and what Internet article they read last), that’s a ratio between light and dark stuff. It doesn’t mean that the universe is packed 96% full with something.Energy = a flow of something to where there is an absence or lesser amount of that same thing present. When approaching equilibrium energy slows. When it reaches a balance point, it stops. If so much of the universe is filled with dark matter and dark energy (96%?) there would be very little space (4-5%?) to create a flow of anything. It would definitely be noticeable (and observable) as it tried to balance with that small void in itself.
All true. Science is a work in progress. Always has been.No matter how well someone has been schooled in mathematics or traditional theories, they still are human, have strengths, weaknesses and bias. Plus, all of these governing systems were designed by people. It's interesting to study but there are holes and patches everywhere.
There’s a lot that is simply still not known. Science is about discovery, so it spends most of its time at the frontiers of knowledge — the borders between what we know and what we don’t — chipping away at what we still don’t know. The really deep and mysterious unknowns don’t see a lot of progress until a Newton or an Einstein comes along with something that makes a deep incursion into unknown territory and reliably explains a big chunk of what we didn’t know before.There's a lot not talked about or just completely ignored because it can't be explained by accepted or traditional methods.
Tru dat.It's interesting to study but there are holes and patches everywhere.
It's all shit! Take it all down/out! Blow it all up!
Energy isn’t a flow, but it can cause things to flow. As for that 96% number (which varies, depending on who’s posting and what Internet article they read last), that’s a ratio between light and dark stuff. It doesn’t mean that the universe is packed 96% full with something.
Not much has changed.Haha! That could still happen, no?
I do like reading these threads because it reminds me of the COVID heydays where
you had to separate the science from the speculation, and the speculation from the
spectacle.
Tru dat.
Humans (and the mind) are very bad at seeing and recognizing all the holes and blindspots and patchworks. Our assumptions, thoughts and experiences all "fill the gaps" with meaningful or plausible (to us) answers or reasons or causes. If there is something unexplainable, the "god of the gaps" (e.g. religion or science or ideology) gives us a ready-made answer or place to try to answer it. We are general terrible at being neutral or agnostic or letting things be uncertain, ambiguous, or ambivalent.
Some Eastern philosophies frame mental constructs (and "dualisms") as both necessary and delusory, relatively true but not ultimately true. From this perspective the mind and its objects (both personally and culturally) are constructs, both useful (in certain contexts) and highly distracting (say from pure awareness or other possible states of consciousness).
In the West, we are still very "rational" cause-and-effect/mechanistically oriented. It has lead to modern technological wonders and accomplishments. Idealistic people (I used to be one) dream of fixing society or alleviating human problems and suffering with STEM without seeing all the holes and blindspots and unintended consequences.
Dark energy is when you crank up your guitar so loud that the universe expands at an accelerated rate.
Agreed.It's all pointless to try 2 understand "the universe" by us a pack of monkeys at this level of development we are now, with a limited life span, and with just a couple of centuries of real scientific discoveries...I mean come on... most of monkey population r still believing in mystical magical powers and live their life based on old books stories. We can all theorize about what might be out there..but our perception of our universe is limited by our limited sensorial capabilities and lack of observation and data. I do not believe humanity will be able to "get it" before extinction....or before simulation is ended.
Agreed.
For most people tho, none of this meta/physical speculation matters much anyway with the kids fighting, the wife agitated, and the next greatest FW to install...
Whatever works on this earthly plane...Haha! Then there are those of us diving into the Avatamsaka Sutra precisely because the
kids are fighting.
Yeah.. more firmware updates plsAgreed.
For most people tho, none of this meta/physical speculation matters much anyway with the kids fighting, the wife agitated, and the next greatest FW to install...
It's all pointless to try 2 understand "the universe" by us a pack of monkeys at this level of development we are now, with a limited life span, and with just a couple of centuries of real scientific discoveries...I mean come on... most of monkey population r still believing in mystical magical powers and live their life based on old books stories. We can all theorize about what might be out there..but our perception of our universe is limited by our limited sensorial capabilities and lack of observation and data. I do not believe humanity will be able to "get it" before extinction....or before simulation is ended.
This is some necrobump.
What ever gave you that impression? lol Let's stick with scientific empirical evidence shall we?I came into this thinking I was involved in a scientific discussion. Is it possible that this is actually a theological discussion?
When part of your car breaks, you don't destroy your car and build another one from scratch. And when new information comes in, you don't abandon your carefully-constructed and tested models without a pretty strong reason.