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Post by dctim on Sept 2, 2010 4:37:32 GMT -8
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Post by joeyd on Oct 27, 2010 14:24:05 GMT -8
Via a computerized system that he has in front of him (sort of like high-tech chalk board with all the letters and numbers on it). He focuses on the letter he wants, blinks his eyes, and the letter pops up on a separate video screen, eventually spelling out entire sentences, paragraphs, and even books in his case! Tim, I am surprised at you, you seem like a smart guy and should be aware of this (for 2010) relatively prehistoric mode of communication. We have a young man who travels regularly through our checkpoint with one of these; after the first two times interacting with him, conversations are easy as long as you can read. Also, after my father had his strokes in the early 1990s, the only way to communicate with him was with a much lower-tech but still very effective form of this, a plastic letter-board with a white-board under it held by one of us. After literally one day of training, we kids knew what letter he was looking at, he blinked, and we wrote it down. Hours long conversations we had with my otherwise silent father with this low-tech device and we were glad to know what he wanted (I'm cold, I'm hot, how's school going? etc., in his last years with us). Hawkings is smarter than all of us put together on this board x1000 and he will not be silenced. Joe |
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Post by Douglass on Nov 3, 2010 13:46:22 GMT -8
Well when Hawking gets to the pearly Gates and they are locked and God says you have denied me he might beciome a believer but i doubt it
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Post by dctim on Nov 4, 2010 12:28:32 GMT -8
Hawking conviently does not address where gravity comes from. Perhaps it "evolved" from a lower (or higher) cosmic mathmatical equation.
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Post by joeyd on Nov 5, 2010 13:43:10 GMT -8
Well when Hawking gets to the pearly Gates and they are locked and God says you have denied me he might beciome a believer but i doubt it Thank you for the non-sequiter. I am sure Hawkings will actually be glad when he is "turned away" from the Pearly Gates when his time comes. Exactly my argument, you made it for me. You mad dog religous people only know punishment, fire/brimstone.com, "infidels" and condemnation of persons like Hawking who would dare disagree with the witchcraft and absurdity of modern religion, Christianity, Moslemism, Judaism and the like. I am glad I am a strident atheist, and don't have to doubt my every move, intention or thought. Joe |
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Post by joeyd on Nov 5, 2010 13:47:08 GMT -8
Hawking conviently does not address where gravity comes from. Perhaps it "evolved" from a lower (or higher) cosmic mathmatical equation. You hold Hawking to a higher bar than your average Christian Young- Earther nut? That's fine. But the Fundy Nuts DO have a very ready and capable explanation for gravity.............. it exists because God made it exist.  How simple. How very tidy. How very moronic. Joe |
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Post by warturtle on Nov 20, 2010 19:50:03 GMT -8
I hate to make my first appearance on this forum be on a religious issue, but here it goes.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."
It's easy to take this at face value, but I'd like to see some further explanation of this.
As dctim already stated, everything has to come from something, including physics.
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Post by Maxf1ex on Nov 21, 2010 7:13:11 GMT -8
I hate to make my first appearance on this forum be on a religious issue, but here it goes. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." It's easy to take this at face value, but I'd like to see some further explanation of this. As dctim already stated, everything has to come from something, including physics. QUESTION? What created the law of gravity? |
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Post by googoodan on Jan 23, 2011 15:43:04 GMT -8
Bringing this thread back from the dead....
Hawking's book basically says particles interacted with one another to form the universe.
DUH.
It doesn't address HOW it happened.... only that it DID happen.
Thoughts?
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Post by msguide on Jan 23, 2011 20:01:13 GMT -8
Not commenting on the thread, but I'm delighted to see you here, googoodan.  |
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Post by jon on Jan 23, 2011 20:15:42 GMT -8
Bringing this thread back from the dead.... Hawking's book basically says particles interacted with one another to form the universe. DUH. It doesn't address HOW it happened.... only that it DID happen. Thoughts? yep, I think he nailed it. what do you think |
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Post by googoodan on Jan 24, 2011 19:01:13 GMT -8
Not commenting on the thread, but I'm delighted to see you here, googoodan. Thanks, and same to you. yep, I think he nailed it. what do you think haha, of course he nailed it. I mean, when the logic is, "the universe formed because its components formed into something" then there's no arguing it. He still didn't address the matter of matter forming from energy. We know the opposite can happen (a la nuclear bombs). But matter from energy has never been accomplished. He never addressed the issue of breaking the law of conservation of energy by having -0- potential energy turn into all kinetic energy. What do you really think? |
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