Re: Alchemy
From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 11/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:11:36 -0800
Gremlin wrote:
>
> I have a quick question that isn't technical in nature.
>
> In alchemy all things are thought to be composed of either Fire, Water,
> Earth, or Air... It seems whenever I am around introductory material on
> physics or chemistry they bad mouth these old concepts.. "Ooh no," they
> say, "Everything is made out of chemicals, not these four elements".
Vital Force Doctrine vs. "natural" ingredients and then
"nature-equivalent" FDA labeling requirements. People are stupid.
Bullshit floats.
> Well isn't it true that today we still think of 4 basic phases of matter?
> Solids, Liquids, Gasses, and Plasmas?
Liquid crystals (thermotropic and lyotropic; calamatic and discotic;
nematic, smectic, cholesteric); bosonic and fermionic superfluids,
bosonic and fermionic Bose-Einstein atomic condensates; bosonic,
fermionic, heavy fermion; s-, p-, and d- superconductors; gels;
quantum dots and wires; low-dimensional hole and electron gases; spin
glasses; jellium; Casimir etalons and the Scharnhorst effect... solids
with levels of structure such as Kraton thermoplastic elastomers.
> Can't physicists and chemistry
> authors see how these phases directly relate to the four elements? Solids
> are obvious earth. Liquids are obviously water. Gasses are obviously air.
> And fire with a little thought is obviously Plasma.. Lightning is made of
> plasma, so are candle flames.
>
> So much of modern science has been based in old philisophical ideas like
> these ones above, and so often other cultures have arived at the same
> conclusions are scientists have. Why don't these alternative views get the
> credit they deserve!?
People are stupid. Bullshit floats.
Science fits theory to observation. Religion fits observation to
dogma, with contradiction being a test of faith. Only one of them
gets you a workign flush toilet. Which one will you embrace?
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