Re: Intelligent Design?


"The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> In sci.physics, T Wake
> <taswakeAt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:30:36 +0100
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>>
>> <macromitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Gravity is a push.
>>> The push has a limit.
>>
>> What is the limit?
>
> What indeed? Neutron stars can't get indefinitely big; at some
> point one gets a singularity. Even the fact that neutron stars
> exist at all is a limit; the Pauli Exclusion Principle apparently
> has failed at such stress levels, which is a little puzzling to
> me personally but presumably there's a theoretical physicist
> about that might be able to explain it... :-)

Probably not here :-)

>>
>>> We cannot fall at the speed of light.
>>
>> Prove it.
>
> No proof possible. We have reasonably good evidence, however.
> We're accelerating protons to the tera-electron-volt level
> and they're still not traveling fast enough. :-)

Very true. My main point is Nick has the, erm, tendency to make very bold
assertations (often contradictory and normally lacking in internal logic)
and when ever any one disagrees or points out his mistakes, his response is
to demand proof. He has stated himself that he lacks the basic mathematical
understanding which is why his conclusions are often suspect.

I suspect Nick thinks God is the reason we can not fall at the speed of
light and I would be interested to he explains himself.


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