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ReplyTo a comment on Recycled Stardust by Quarton.

?-Dave_Mysterious-?6 Jul 2004

You are a very silly person. Here is why:

"Science could be called systematic knowledge of the physical
or material world."

No, Science is the mystical black art of trying things out to see if they are true or not.

"It is "true" only to the extent that we
trust our methods of measurement and observation. Many people,
myself inluded, doubt that any real "truths" exist at the empirical level."

Everybody thought of that when they were about five. It is just a useful approximation to assume that things exist and that inference is reliable.

"In quantum mechanics, there exists a basic oneness that transcends the physical, more of an intuitive truth than a factual one."

What? A basic oneness? Do you mean that all wavefunctions must be normalized to one? That is just a statement of the conservation of probability.

Did you claim at some point to have a qualification in some kind of scientific discipline? Did your degree come off the back of a cereal packet or something?

Now go away and think about what you've done.