13th July 2010, 3:07 PM
Darunia, for all your talk about rationality, you really don't actually "get" what being scientifically minded is all about.
It means taking things on existing evidence. Your whole "maybe everything we know about physics will be overturned" is a pathetic argument. You can literally use that argument to justify anything. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and we can travel backwards in time (a consequence of travelling faster than light by the way). Maybe everything we know gets overturned and we find out the universe was created by the milk of a celestial goat. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and perpetual motion machines will actually work. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and homeopathy will work.
It works for so much nonsense JUST AS WELL as for your dream of faster than light travel. Yes, that COULD happen, but BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE suggests otherwise. Don't just sit around day dreaming. If you want to say we'll someday go faster than light, DO THE WORK, and be willing to accept whatever result you get. Otherwise, you're just daydreaming and pretending it's serious.
It means taking things on existing evidence. Your whole "maybe everything we know about physics will be overturned" is a pathetic argument. You can literally use that argument to justify anything. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and we can travel backwards in time (a consequence of travelling faster than light by the way). Maybe everything we know gets overturned and we find out the universe was created by the milk of a celestial goat. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and perpetual motion machines will actually work. Maybe everything we know will be overturned and homeopathy will work.
It works for so much nonsense JUST AS WELL as for your dream of faster than light travel. Yes, that COULD happen, but BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE suggests otherwise. Don't just sit around day dreaming. If you want to say we'll someday go faster than light, DO THE WORK, and be willing to accept whatever result you get. Otherwise, you're just daydreaming and pretending it's serious.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)