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by JSS
Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:39 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

You cannot validly support any quantum theory of existence. I can and I have. Furthermore Planck's revelations from his research into black body radiation are too overwhelmingly persuasive to ignore. You haven't with me. And he is not the slightest bit persuasive to me. I note that you've made no a...
by JSS
Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:12 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

The philosophy of the quantum is unshakable on both physical and metaphysical grounds and your subatomic particles CANNOT POSSIBLY be quantum entities unless the universe is predicated on a transcendent cause, a la Plato. I would stall you in that debate. 8) You cannot validly support any quantum t...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 6:22 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

That is ALL that the entire universe is made of .. "affects upon affects". That is what that aether like, "BB stuff" is. It is only made of the changing of the ability to change. Well, call me crazy, but I think that stuff is actually stuff. I didn't say that it wasn't. I am tal...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 4:56 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: How close to reality can a scientific model get?
Replies: 23
Views: 7109

Re: How close to reality can a scientific model get?

Ummmm... because there is no such fundamental truth (nothing expressible in any language or at least nothing having the sort of laws amenable to any science). I am not making a claim that there is no fundamental truth ... :shock: :?: I only think that all of these, as well as far more optimistic pos...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 4:37 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

When two affects enter the same point in space, they add their affects. What else is there to say? Well, you could say how they affect. They merely change the existing affect that was already there (add to it or subtract from it). That is ALL that the entire universe is made of .. "affects upo...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 3:05 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

..."how it works" is that it causes affect. Physics gives no explanation. "it causes affect" is no explanation either. How does it do that? When two affects enter the same point in space, they add their affects. What else is there to say? How do they add? They add the same way a...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:51 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

Do you know the mechanism that allows energy to affect? My background is philosophy. I wouldn't claim to know anything other than that 2+2=4, all bachelors are unmarried men and as Descartes pointed out, there are phenomena. What is energy? Basically the amount of damage something will do if it hit...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:26 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

It seems to me that we are all pretty close to being on the same page with merely a few nuance differences.
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:21 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

I call that "stuff", Affectance . I know you do. My gripe with it is that you don't explain the mechanism by which affectance affects. Do you know the mechanism that allows energy to affect? What is energy? I explain the "mechanism" by which affectance affects by merely saying t...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:46 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

So is gravity. So is the speed of light. That is where we differ. Although those three have an association, they are not the same concepts. Gravity is an affect (usually erroneously referred to as a "force"). It is the otherwise uninspired migration of mass objects toward each other. That...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:21 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

You're overthinking this, the pair of you. Leibniz was right and Newton was fucking WRONG. There's no such thing as "space". Chuck this mathematical metaphor out of your overly-busy minds and all the ducks will line up in a neat little row. The universe is a continuum of time and gravity ...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:29 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

Well if you are speaking of points as locations, it only makes sense for them to move if you are a relativist. Relativists have no excuse for why spacetime is bending nor why such a bend would cause gravitation (spinning or not). Tell that to a relativist. My problem with general relativity is that...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:03 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: What does it mean "to Exist"?
Replies: 118
Views: 43007

Re: What does it mean "to Exist"?

...what a physicist would want and expect. Show us the beef and not merely describe how much better this whopper tastes than all the other ones out there seeking credibility. If you have such a powerful theory, why not take it beyond internet forums and present it for peer review by physicists? In ...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:00 am
Forum: Philosophy of Science
Topic: Measuring Existence
Replies: 133
Views: 26990

Re: Measuring Existence

So you are assuming that the "points" are being emitted by the Earth? For every "point" being emitted, there must be a point being absorbed (conservation of the mass). I think that would cancel the effect that you are talking about. Then I haven't explained myself properly. I am...
by JSS
Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:51 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: How close to reality can a scientific model get?
Replies: 23
Views: 7109

Re: How close to reality can a scientific model get?

It might well be that science can get better and better, at least in the sense of understanding and making fewer or less serious errors without ever getting closer to a fundamental truth about reality because there is no such fundamental truth (nothing expressible in any language or at least nothin...