Re: JOA's Luke and String Theory -- As If....

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Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:18:57 GMT

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:57:23 GMT, sbjensen@midway.uchicago.edu
(Steuard Jensen) wrote:

SNIP

>
>> Speaking of which, directing the question with a specific reference
>> to Steuard, who is one of the most gentlemanly posters on usenet,
>> might work.
>
>It just might. :) But then again, it seems that simply chanting my
>name (or rather, my URL) enough times can accomplish the same effect.
>(Thanks for the compliment, by the way!)
>
> Steuard Jensen
No compliment, just an observation. Unlike many people on usenet, you
have an odd tendency to answer questions in a straightforward manner.
It must make you disagreeable company <grin>

Apropos of the topic though, in your experience, what opinion do most
scientists have on the question of whether there is a god, supreme
being, creator of the universe model?

I am still at the point where if one postulates a cyclical big bang,
followed by eventual contraction to the point where there is another
big bang, it is as easy to postulate that this is a permanent state of
affairs as it is to postulate a point at which there was nothing
except a deity.

Also, regarding high school students, I knew a fellow who made a
computer for a science fair in the fifth grade (about 1970) and knew
several very smart people in high school (not in physics, but in other
areas, and while I lacked most fundamentals in math, I was reading
Alven and others and was interested in magnetohydrodynamics and on
antimatter (way over my head, but that was just me, someone with the
right tools might have made a real go at it.

Another factor, is could a tv scriptwriter write someone with more
knoweldge than he or she has in the sciences? I find myself equally
wondering about the plausibility of some of the tv show "numbers" and
how much of it is popular press science.

BTW, if there is a god, does he or she have wings? (And fluffy
slippers? <obscure tolkien reference, all others avert your eyes>) <g>

Regards
LaoWombat
AKA Sindamor Pandaturion
AKA Douglas Henderson

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