Id like to introduce people to this talk titled The Higgs Boson and the Fundamental Nature of Reality by physicist and skeptic Sean Carroll. https://youtube/watch?v=Vrs-Azp0i3k In it, Dr Carroll explains that while there is still much left to discover about the Universe, the fundamental physics of everyday life is now fully understood, and he explains how we know that we know this. The result of this is that any claimed effect that happens in our everyday world (and not just in a particle accelerator or a supernova) and that also requires new laws of physics is automatically known to be false. So homeopathy, for example, is ruled out by the normal laws of chemistry and physics. The result Dr Carroll discusses means that that is the end of the debate; there are no undiscovered laws of physics that can save the hypothesis. (If you were suggesting that homeopathy worked only on colliding neutron stars, that might be different, but here on Earth, its dead and buried.) I hope everyone will watch the video, because its fascinating and entertaining and the result is truly remarkable. I dont expect that it will actually stop many arguments, but what it does mean is that we can say at precisely which point any given argument became, um, pointless.
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:00:24 +0000
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