[Vision2020] News Article, Mental Illness, Fixation of Belief Discussion
Joshua Nieuwsma
joshuahendrik@yahoo.com
Tue, 20 May 2003 16:16:42 -0700 (PDT)
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Quantum Physics and Mr. Fox
there was once a fox that was very hungry. As he was walking along, he came across a bunch of grapes hanging from a vine above the road. He proclaimed to himself just how much he loved grapes, and proceeded to jump wildly at the bunch. But with each jump his jaws snapped shut on empty air. The fox grew more and more frantic, leaping wildly. But to no avail. The grapes were out of reach. So the fox declared to the world that he hated and despised grapes beyond all other created things, and went his way, still hungry. And the moral of this story, attributed to Aesop, was that it is easy to hate what one cannot get. Or in the case of Mr. Wayne Fox, what one cannot understand.
Lots of big words, Mr. Fox, lots of big words. But you fail to mention that even the great Quantum Theory scientists do not truly understand quantum theory, and they admit it too.
Mr. Fox has also forgotten that there are many paradoxes in Quantum Theory. What of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and Schrödinger's cat? Neither of these have been solved by science. And in their race to try to solve these paradoxes, physicists have clearly lost their grasp of reality and have gone off into their own little fairieland, except that instead of unicorns this one has "entanglements" and "flavors" and "retrospective causalities" and lots of numbers and symbols.
Mr. Fox, your statements about mental treatment for such believers threaten many a respected physicist in the secular community. Or anyone who has been an evolutionary biologist for, say, more than two weeks, and written any sort of article about the macro-evolution of anything. And perhaps they should be locked up for arguing that unicorns don't exist, but shape/type-changing monsters do (think of the drawings of the supposed reptile-bird creatures). By your definition, modern scientists come really close to being delusional for inventing things that cannot be tested empirically or observed as the Scientific Method dictates.
Mr. Fox, you must be completely unable to enjoy any sort of story, especially myth.
-joshua nieuwsma
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<DIV>Quantum Physics and Mr. Fox</DIV>
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<DIV>there was once a fox that was very hungry. As he was walking along, he came across a bunch of grapes hanging from a vine above the road. He proclaimed to himself just how much he loved grapes, and proceeded to jump wildly at the bunch. But with each jump his jaws snapped shut on empty air. The fox grew more and more frantic, leaping wildly. But to no avail. The grapes were out of reach. So the fox declared to the world that he hated and despised grapes beyond all other created things, and went his way, still hungry. And the moral of this story, attributed to Aesop, was that it is easy to hate what one cannot get. Or in the case of Mr. Wayne Fox, what one cannot understand.</DIV>
<DIV> Lots of big words, Mr. Fox, lots of big words. But you fail to mention that even the great Quantum Theory scientists do not truly understand quantum theory, and they admit it too. </DIV>
<DIV> Mr. Fox has also forgotten that there are many paradoxes in Quantum Theory. What of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and Schrödinger's cat? Neither of these have been solved by science. And in their race to try to solve these paradoxes, physicists have clearly lost their grasp of reality and have gone off into their own little fairieland, except that instead of unicorns this one has "entanglements" and "flavors" and "retrospective causalities" and lots of numbers and symbols. </DIV>
<DIV> Mr. Fox, your statements about mental treatment for such believers threaten many a respected physicist in the secular community. Or anyone who has been an evolutionary biologist for, say, more than two weeks, and written any sort of article about the macro-evolution of anything. And perhaps they should be locked up for arguing that unicorns don't exist, but shape/type-changing monsters do (think of the drawings of the supposed reptile-bird creatures). By your definition, modern scientists come really close to being delusional for inventing things that cannot be tested empirically or observed as the Scientific Method dictates. </DIV>
<DIV> Mr. Fox, you must be completely unable to enjoy any sort of story, especially myth. </DIV>
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<DIV>-joshua nieuwsma</DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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