Posted by Tyler BradleyBoy, we've sure gotten o of the on January 08, 1997 at 08:27:22:
In Reply to: Re: Science Education crisis posted by Stephen Charchuk on January 05, 1997 at 22:54:32:
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: : I do not take any of the "Big Black Book" as literal. I read it as literature; it is creative writing and poetry. There are a few examples in history where literary artists intuited the possible before science
: The value which I see in the Bible are its stories and parables when they are taken as such, not as literal truth of reality. As I've stated before is that one can lead a good and full life if one one wants to base it on the life lessons in the Bible, but one shouldn't take it as absolute truth about the world and the universe. Just because it has much actual history and locations in it doesn't mean that ALL of it is true or even accurate.
Yes, I wholly concur, except in a few cases like, "A man may not lay with his brother's widow". That does not foster human happiness if the two are in love with each other. There are other notions of sin that perplex me as well, and many have caused some harm to humanity.
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: : Actually, observatons in high energy physics has shown us that gravity was no present in the very earliest stages of development. Therefore matter was not either b/c matter is necessary to bend spacetime. The once the energy has cooled from adiabatic expansion several-fold, then electrostatic attraction of the fundamental particles forced the light elements of hydrogen and helium. So there is evidence to support the theory of pure energy at inception. As I had said, matter crystallized from it later on (still in the femtosecond order of magnitude).
: Matter and energy are just different states of the same thing. How about plasma? From what I've read is that it is the most common form of matter/energy where it is both and neither. Yet, it is rare on the surface of the Earth.
Absolutely, matter and energy are different faces of the same beast. This was the most important idea to pop out of E=mc[2]. You'll have to provide more evidence to me about the frequency of plasma in the universe; I'm not saavy on that one!
Boy, we've sure gotten off of the original topic of discussion haven't we?