It was an awesome night of BBQ tukey burgers, fries, chips and drinks --
We played a few rounds of PIG, and a few rounds of gammon --
ryan - 2:1
ron -- 2:1
jack -- 2:1
Kozmo -- 0:3 <>
Monday, September 29, 2008
Backgammon in the backyard
It was an awesome night of BBQ tukey burgers, fries, chips and drinks --
We played a few rounds of PIG, and a few rounds of gammon --
ryan - 2:1
ron -- 2:1
jack -- 2:1
Kozmo -- 0:3 <>
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Richard Dawkins - The Strangeness of Science
There are more things in heaven/earth, than more that can be dreamed of in any philosophy
Quantum Theory must be true, but their assumptions are very mysterious
The worst thing you can say about it, is that it is wasteful -
What makes us capable for us to suppose? Will we always never know things about the universe? Ungraspable to any mind?
We are used to the idea of the earth spinning, its hard to imagine how shattering that revolution was.
Science taught us that solid things, are entirely composed of empty space
The hardest, solidest, denseness rock is empty space
Why do they look and feel solid? Our brains have evolved to help us survive, because we never evolved to see science
its useful for our brains to evolve ideas, because those notions help us navigate through the middle sized road, otherwise we would understand Einstein
It limits what we are capable of understanding because we are middle road thinkers
Our priority is gravity, but small organisms think about surface tension the most
Waves in a vacuum seem unreal, we find real matter comoforting as solids, where matter is more of a thing
We are more like a wave, than a permament thing -- like, our childhood memories of smell etc.
Matter flows from place to place, and momentry brings us together now.
Variety of "really's" depends on what we need to survive -- its regulated and adjusted by data, and constructed for dealing in the real world. A fly needs a different model then a swimming model, and has different software to its daily needs
Bats could smell in color .. Just as dogs and smell various fatty acids with their nose, much like we can tell you how long and thick a piano string is by hearing a note.. bats can smell to see the color
Middle road is the narrow range of reality, we consider normal --
A marble model could wave and say hi to us, and it could because the atoms are moving the whole time, and the atoms could move at the same time in the same way, and we could see it moving at us -- its not probable in middle world, but it could happen
There are 100 billion billion planets out there
If life only arise once, that planet has to be us. So we are allowed to postulate chemical events which have a really low probability .. but he thinks life is common, but it could be so rare that no form of life will encounter another
He argues that our kids, should start playing computer games to help develop middle brains to understand quantum physics
Mechanistic view of mind, we are wired the same way, but if our neural anatomy was different we would be different -- but we are incosistent, we act differently in situations
the reason we personify things, like cars etc .. we live in a social world. We are evolved to second guess the behavior of others..
Its a great way to model humans..
If the universe is so weird, is it because we programed our brains to think so? or can we train ourselves to break out of the box, or are there so things soo queer that not even humans can dream of?
Quantum Theory must be true, but their assumptions are very mysterious
The worst thing you can say about it, is that it is wasteful -
What makes us capable for us to suppose? Will we always never know things about the universe? Ungraspable to any mind?
We are used to the idea of the earth spinning, its hard to imagine how shattering that revolution was.
Science taught us that solid things, are entirely composed of empty space
The hardest, solidest, denseness rock is empty space
Why do they look and feel solid? Our brains have evolved to help us survive, because we never evolved to see science
its useful for our brains to evolve ideas, because those notions help us navigate through the middle sized road, otherwise we would understand Einstein
It limits what we are capable of understanding because we are middle road thinkers
Our priority is gravity, but small organisms think about surface tension the most
Waves in a vacuum seem unreal, we find real matter comoforting as solids, where matter is more of a thing
We are more like a wave, than a permament thing -- like, our childhood memories of smell etc.
Matter flows from place to place, and momentry brings us together now.
Variety of "really's" depends on what we need to survive -- its regulated and adjusted by data, and constructed for dealing in the real world. A fly needs a different model then a swimming model, and has different software to its daily needs
Bats could smell in color .. Just as dogs and smell various fatty acids with their nose, much like we can tell you how long and thick a piano string is by hearing a note.. bats can smell to see the color
Middle road is the narrow range of reality, we consider normal --
A marble model could wave and say hi to us, and it could because the atoms are moving the whole time, and the atoms could move at the same time in the same way, and we could see it moving at us -- its not probable in middle world, but it could happen
There are 100 billion billion planets out there
If life only arise once, that planet has to be us. So we are allowed to postulate chemical events which have a really low probability .. but he thinks life is common, but it could be so rare that no form of life will encounter another
He argues that our kids, should start playing computer games to help develop middle brains to understand quantum physics
Mechanistic view of mind, we are wired the same way, but if our neural anatomy was different we would be different -- but we are incosistent, we act differently in situations
the reason we personify things, like cars etc .. we live in a social world. We are evolved to second guess the behavior of others..
Its a great way to model humans..
If the universe is so weird, is it because we programed our brains to think so? or can we train ourselves to break out of the box, or are there so things soo queer that not even humans can dream of?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Spooky Physics -- Einstein Bohr Debates...
Our brains have adapted and evolved so we don't understand or comprehend high or low levels of thinking, just enough to know about survival and staying alive. A man's brain is never static, thus the world is never static as well.
Neutonian physics - holds true that with time and momentum, things on earth and the universe can be predictable by applying one principal to the many. However, in smaller quantas of energy, the theory breaks down.
Once you get a measure on either the electrons speed or momentum, you lose information about the other. the radar, or measuring device is changing either the electrons speed or momentum when it hits the electron, therefore you can never fully know where a single packet of energy is at any given time
The smallest bundle of energy, or proton is the smallest thing you can break down, just like a penny is the smallest currency. Nature decided that, which is why you can never fully know the location of a single electron (also known as Plank's constant)
This questioned Einsteins accomplishments of light being a wave. Is it a wave, or particle, or both?
The light experiment, done by Feynman in the late 1960's, shows that when you have 2 slits open, light acts as a wave and transmits through both slits, But when one dot is open, light acts as bundles of energy, and becomes particles to transmit itself
Schrodingers cat -- Particles can be in two positions at once. Like the cat experiment, the cat can be both alive or dead, you just don't know the outcome until you move the curtain, then you determined the state of the particles.
Objective reality -- does the moon exist if we aren't looking at it? Traditional quantum physicists say no, there is no reality beyond what we observe.
CHAPTER 2
Einstien - I dont like quantum physics, if we aren't measuing an atom, we know it is moving and spinning ... Therefore, if we aren't looking at the moon, we still know its there
"There was no phenomena, unless it is an observed phenomena"
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory must not have understood it"
Neutonian physics - holds true that with time and momentum, things on earth and the universe can be predictable by applying one principal to the many. However, in smaller quantas of energy, the theory breaks down.
Once you get a measure on either the electrons speed or momentum, you lose information about the other. the radar, or measuring device is changing either the electrons speed or momentum when it hits the electron, therefore you can never fully know where a single packet of energy is at any given time
The smallest bundle of energy, or proton is the smallest thing you can break down, just like a penny is the smallest currency. Nature decided that, which is why you can never fully know the location of a single electron (also known as Plank's constant)
This questioned Einsteins accomplishments of light being a wave. Is it a wave, or particle, or both?
The light experiment, done by Feynman in the late 1960's, shows that when you have 2 slits open, light acts as a wave and transmits through both slits, But when one dot is open, light acts as bundles of energy, and becomes particles to transmit itself
Schrodingers cat -- Particles can be in two positions at once. Like the cat experiment, the cat can be both alive or dead, you just don't know the outcome until you move the curtain, then you determined the state of the particles.
Objective reality -- does the moon exist if we aren't looking at it? Traditional quantum physicists say no, there is no reality beyond what we observe.
CHAPTER 2
Einstien - I dont like quantum physics, if we aren't measuing an atom, we know it is moving and spinning ... Therefore, if we aren't looking at the moon, we still know its there
"There was no phenomena, unless it is an observed phenomena"
"Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory must not have understood it"
Backgammon, 2
Ryan just got his new, sweet motorcycle a few days ago ... we had to celebrate by feasting on a surfer special at el burrito jr , and playing gammon at the beach. Another solid victory, defeating ryan 3 games to 1
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Backgammon, part 1
So I decided that we need to keep an ongoing tally of all backgammon played, specific to traveling backgammon. yesterday, Kozmo and I biked to Inn n out, where he got the best of me. Then, we brought it to seal beach, where a drunk guy in his 40's kept talking to us about how Backgammon is a lost art, and most people dont know how to play etc. I won, 3-2, and got a free slurpee (which he still owes)
Jack- 1
Kozmo-0
Owen Gingerich on Astromony, God and Jesus
The universe is easier to understand with purpose and design.
It would be silly to picture everything here, alive, and the universe without having a meaning
Its hard to prove, but it makes more sense to have ultimate purpose and reasoning
there's always a religious tension between science and the natural world. In the early part of the periodic table, there is no stable mass 5. Some say it is God's goof. If you make the elements from scratch, you will not be able to build up to higher elements.
Hydrogen links to everyone, but to build up Helium atoms (4 mass)
Carbon and Oxygen are the 2 most abundant elements after Helium, necessary for life.
If there was a mass 5, then you can zoom up to the heavier elements in the big bang.
So this goof, was necessary to creating life to have an abundance of the elements of life.
Anthropic principal -- when it was proposed as an idea, it was saying all these things are magnificent, it looks like the universe was designed to make life possible
When people got uncomfortable, people turned it around -- saying we wouldn't be here to speculate, so we have to find out the answer because we are here
there could be a master plan with a designer
2 - we are just in 1 universe, where we are in the one that happens to have this configuration
3 - the universe could be no other way, there are no alternative universes. To make a universe at all, it needs to be this way
Everyone is men of faith, even the skeptics have fallen for a belief system that ruled out the notion of God, but something you can't prove in any way.
It may make more sense for your, but it can't be proved there is no God.
Agnostic -- say you dont' know, you are open to arguments from both sides. Its hard to pin a tag of faith.
Eternity can embody all of time in it. Scientists think about eternity, you have to go outside of our measure of time. To learn before the big bang, time is only present if you have change and motion. If you have nothing, you dont have change and motion.
An eternity can be defined as something in which time is embedded, and other universes might arise that lack a dimension of time, or multiple dimensions of time. Its hard for us to fathom, because we think in term sof cause and effect, and as having a past that can be remembered, and a future that is not accessible to us.
Before the big bang, they aren't dismmissing themselves from time. What is happening is a time dependent notion.
christians talk about another universe, that we dont' have access to -- heaven
The image of God as the creater is hard to comprehend, and picture an image of God. If , he has this omnicipants and wants to relate to his creatures, then God has the power to come forward in different aspects --
whats the purpose? we hope we play a part, otherwise we can't philisophically understand our purpose. We think the purpose is to study and understand, in which God created a universe that allows us to examine and understand the universe, and use taht understanding to enhance the relationships with the creatures on the earth. (kepler said by studying the uinverse, he is glorified God)
It would be silly to picture everything here, alive, and the universe without having a meaning
Its hard to prove, but it makes more sense to have ultimate purpose and reasoning
there's always a religious tension between science and the natural world. In the early part of the periodic table, there is no stable mass 5. Some say it is God's goof. If you make the elements from scratch, you will not be able to build up to higher elements.
Hydrogen links to everyone, but to build up Helium atoms (4 mass)
Carbon and Oxygen are the 2 most abundant elements after Helium, necessary for life.
If there was a mass 5, then you can zoom up to the heavier elements in the big bang.
So this goof, was necessary to creating life to have an abundance of the elements of life.
Anthropic principal -- when it was proposed as an idea, it was saying all these things are magnificent, it looks like the universe was designed to make life possible
When people got uncomfortable, people turned it around -- saying we wouldn't be here to speculate, so we have to find out the answer because we are here
there could be a master plan with a designer
2 - we are just in 1 universe, where we are in the one that happens to have this configuration
3 - the universe could be no other way, there are no alternative universes. To make a universe at all, it needs to be this way
Everyone is men of faith, even the skeptics have fallen for a belief system that ruled out the notion of God, but something you can't prove in any way.
It may make more sense for your, but it can't be proved there is no God.
Agnostic -- say you dont' know, you are open to arguments from both sides. Its hard to pin a tag of faith.
Eternity can embody all of time in it. Scientists think about eternity, you have to go outside of our measure of time. To learn before the big bang, time is only present if you have change and motion. If you have nothing, you dont have change and motion.
An eternity can be defined as something in which time is embedded, and other universes might arise that lack a dimension of time, or multiple dimensions of time. Its hard for us to fathom, because we think in term sof cause and effect, and as having a past that can be remembered, and a future that is not accessible to us.
Before the big bang, they aren't dismmissing themselves from time. What is happening is a time dependent notion.
christians talk about another universe, that we dont' have access to -- heaven
The image of God as the creater is hard to comprehend, and picture an image of God. If , he has this omnicipants and wants to relate to his creatures, then God has the power to come forward in different aspects --
whats the purpose? we hope we play a part, otherwise we can't philisophically understand our purpose. We think the purpose is to study and understand, in which God created a universe that allows us to examine and understand the universe, and use taht understanding to enhance the relationships with the creatures on the earth. (kepler said by studying the uinverse, he is glorified God)
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Week 1 Posts..
These are the posts to the group website from week 1
Here's a cool website where you can look at any verse in the bible,
with all the various translations of the books of the bible.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Dave also talked about how many religions tend to defend, instead of
falsify their beliefs and teachings ... one of the best known
apologetics Christian books I know of is "Evidence that Demands a
Verdict" by Josh MdDowell. Here's a guys opinion of the book in review..
http://www.islandnet.com/~luree/evidence.html
Here's a cool website where you can look at any verse in the bible,
with all the various translations of the books of the bible.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Dave also talked about how many religions tend to defend, instead of
falsify their beliefs and teachings ... one of the best known
apologetics Christian books I know of is "Evidence that Demands a
Verdict" by Josh MdDowell. Here's a guys opinion of the book in review..
http://www.islandnet.com/~luree/evidence.html
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