Re: Earth's future alignment of doom?

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:41:12 -0500, Dave Typinski <möbius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Really? We wouldn't simply observe that c fluctuates randomly and
build that fact into our model of the universe?

What about Brownian motion?

What about an individual radionuclide's time of decay?

Wave particle duality?

The uncertainty principle?

Quantum entanglement?

But the randomness of these things follows statistical patterns that
allow them to be characterized. Even chaotic behavior yields to
analysis, and can therefore be described by scientific theory that
allows for testing and for prediction.

I know of no natural phenomenon that we've studied that behaves so
erratically that it can't be described quantitatively. The sort of
external meddling I'm proposing would be that way. We just see some
fundamental "constant" cease to be constant, and take random values at
random times, where the character of that randomness follows no
statistical pattern we can discern.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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