Have you ever questioned the Big Bang theory? I have,in the sense that I pointed out it was our culture’s origin myth. Response I got was always negative in some way except from Christian creationists, with whom I don’t agree at all.
Rupert Sheldrake said this: “It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.”’17 The one free miracle was the sudden appearance of all the matter and energy in the universe, with all the laws that govern it.”
Now, suddenly, that ‘free miracle’ is being called into question. The James Webb Space Telescope is revealing, via its peek into the infra-red spectrum, new galaxies, older than they should be and in a different form.
Historian of Science Thomas Kuhn, who came out with the ‘paradigm’ shift concept about scientific revolutions, talked about the period before the shift when new data contradicts the standard theory and in response, rather than ditching the standard theory, great efforts are made, often ad hoc, often extremely unlikely, to try and resolve the contradiction.
Now, all of you who followed the Climate Change threads on this site, if the Big Bang seems to be a flawed theory should we not keep our skepticism level ALWAYS as high as possible? And to NEVER trust ‘scientific theories’ as the ‘TRUTH’???
Could some prankster have hacked the James Webb Telescope…?
I’ve no scientific basis whatsoever for this but the concept of a singularity, as the bit of magic from which the rest of the theory can be inferred, has always struck me as far-fetched too. I thought current orthodoxy was that the universe expands up to a certain point and then starts to shrink again. That could explain why very distant objects appear larger because they’re gradually getting closer again. But I’m on the Dougal level really…
GKH, should we put all the ‘climate change’ dissidents in re-education camps?
I live in a very rural area. I’m not just surrounded by nature, I’m in the middle of it all. I know all the wildlife around here; I mean that in the sense that I even give the regulars their own names. We have quite a big garden pond, which attracts animals, including deer, and lots of weird and wonderful birds that drop by for a drink and a bath. Also, lots of snakes slithering around (it’s a bugger when one gets in the house).
I also know the weather, and how it ties in with the animals.
In the summer it can be 40C and above here. In the winter 30 below. I’ve lived here for decades and haven’t seen any noticeable change in the weather.
I’m a vegan so wouldn’t make 'em eat bugs…but there is more to all this than just liberal sanctimony… imho people have lost the art of discourse…failing to understand that culture is the coinage of diplomacy…there is no “moral-high ground” as such…but when the alternative is “wokeness” what price righteousness?
GKH, ‘meat is murder’ is another tricky one. As well as all the wildlife our garden adjoins a cow field, which I think I’ve mentioned on here before.
They usually come for the calves mid morning, to be taken to the local slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse is a single storey warehouse-type building. It has brightly painted cartoon-like murals on its walls portraying happy farm animals. Surreal is not the word!
Anyhows, after they take the calves away the mother cows cry all day. It’s really heartbreaking to hear it.
It’s enough to turn you into a vegan or vegetarian (but I’m afraid I still eat meat).
Mum’s not so dumb perhaps? Un-cultured un-fermented soya is bad for you…such soya as a meat replacement is also known to increase oestrogen levels and lower testosterone…fanatics usually reveal themselves…there is no “one size fits all” solution… dialogue requires that all sides pay proper attention to each other…
"Another food I want to talk about in relation to good digestion is soy. More specifically, I advise you to avoid all unfermented soy products. Soy is widely touted today as a health food, mostly through slick food company advertising and marketing. The soy industry’s propaganda likes to point to the high levels of health in Japan, where soy is claimed to be a main component of the diet. But the truth is a little more complicated.
The types of soy popular in Japan are mostly variations of fermented soy, including tempeh, soy sauce, miso and natto* are better but still have isoflavones which can act as powerful goitrogenic or thyroid harming influences. So if you have issues with your thyroid you should not consume large quantities of these. Non-fermented soy products, including tofu, soy milk, soy oil, soy protein powder and soybeans present a more complicated picture, and in my opinion non-fermented soy is definitely not a health food and should be avoided.
Unfermented soy contains natural toxins known as “anti-nutrients”. Soy also contains other anti-nutritional factors such as saponins, soyatoxin, protease inhibitors, and oxalates. Some of these factors interfere with the enzymes you need to digest protein. While a small amount of anti-nutrients would not likely cause a problem, the amount of soy that many Americans are now eating is extremely high. Soy is also one of the most widespread GMO foods in America, with over 91 percent of all soy grown with GMO seeds. I consider eating GMO soy to be like taking part in a giant laboratory experiment, and I recommend you avoid unfermented soy for the anti-nutrient reasons and the GMO reasons if you want to be optimally healthy." https://healinggpnaturally.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/understanding-your-digestion-dr-mercola/
*I use tempeh and soy-sauce (gluten free), regularly, I also take soya yogurt “with active cultures” (make sure it says this on the label of any such soya “treat” -in it’s “inevitable” plastic wrapper-). Much of the time these days I rather use vegan Quorn (a vegan-ically cultured fungi). Remember that cultured products have, essentially, already been partially digested. Nb. None of soya I use is GM and none comes from the U.S!
The speed of light is, apparently, 186,000 miles a second; and, apparently, according to many physicists, nothing can go faster than that.
If this was true none of us would exist, because it creates a logic loop of human invention that doesn’t exist in nature.
Quantum mechanics does try to grasp this, but of course it’s been suppressed for the last hundred years because it goes against the orthodoxy.
GKH, we’re still here, millions of years later, living as omnivores. Don’t you find it strange that it’s only just recently that us humans are being told to radically change our diet?
It’s amusing to realise that in this case the orthodoxy is Einstein.
The capacity of some Well Known Viruses ( which don’t exist in the first place ) to be both deadly, and innocuous, depending on whether they are observed or not, and certain gene therapies to be Safe And Effective, yet useless too, also depending on whether they are observed or not, suggests that quantum philosophy has progressed quite well even if the Physics hasn’t.
I tried Schrödinger’s experiment on Herricka. However, she didn’t like the clicking geiger counter, and, using Newtonian physics, she quickly chewed her way out of the cardboard box I was using. Superposition put Herricka in the ditch by the side of the lane, where she started catching and eating rodents.
Feline thought experiments aside, superposition is real. It does really happen in the devices you are using to read these words. Without superposition a digital computer couldn’t work; but it does work, despite the fact that the process is still not widely understood.
I wonder if that’s the real Herricka chewing her way out of a box or some cunning simulacrum. All cats love boxes and would not fang cardboard. This was proved by some Lithuanian bloke absolutely ages ago.
One thing I would say about animals is, they don’t seem to inhabit the same sphere of consciousness as us humans do.
There are many animals that can sense things way beyond what humans can do.
ps. the French air force often like doing their stuff in the skies around here (they fly very low). Herricka’s ears will stand up a few minutes before the warplanes fly over. It scares the crap out of the sheep and cows in the surrounding fields, but for some reason the extreme noise doesn’t bother Herricka.
