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Post by Sarge on Mar 26, 2023 8:15:50 GMT
Yeah, one in particular seems to be completely ignorant of anything that happened post 1850. It wouldn't surprise me if this one denied a connection between electricity, magnetism and light. Wow, I didn't know Sarge was a physicist. Sarge never said he was a physicist, but he does watch lectures and physics videos to get the gist of what's going on in the world of science. There are some good resources out there nowadays. My only advice is making sure the person is educated in the same field they are speaking about and not a "science educator," although Derek Muller is pretty good. Sabine Hossenfelder speaks outside her expertise as a science educator but seems to do her homework. She's a theoretical physicist by trade but has a weekly science news podcast on youtube.
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Post by general313 on Mar 26, 2023 18:30:41 GMT
Yeah, one in particular seems to be completely ignorant of anything that happened post 1850. It wouldn't surprise me if this one denied a connection between electricity, magnetism and light. Wow, I didn't know Sarge was a physicist. One doesn't need to be a physicist to be knowledgeable in the field. For instance, I'm not a physicist but I did take a number of college physics classes, covering relativity and quantum mechanics, and I read articles on these topics on a regular basis. Sarge appears to me to have a good understanding of the field. The buffoon, on the other hand, clearly does not.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 26, 2023 21:39:16 GMT
Ergo, it's up to the sociopath to prove it isn't true. I did, but you are so unfathomably stupid you didn't get it. Let me repeat the salient paragraph: In fact, the vast majority of experiments aren’t even performed with people around actually participating—the experiments are typically automated and use random number generators to place or remove detectors. Any scientists “observing” the results are doing so hours or days later, looking at reports of compiled data on a computer or print out with no conscious input during the actual experiment.I'm not sure it matters when the observation happens but observation and measurement in physics are the same thing. You owe that person an apology.
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Post by faustus5 on Mar 26, 2023 22:21:51 GMT
I did, but you are so unfathomably stupid you didn't get it. Let me repeat the salient paragraph: In fact, the vast majority of experiments aren’t even performed with people around actually participating—the experiments are typically automated and use random number generators to place or remove detectors. Any scientists “observing” the results are doing so hours or days later, looking at reports of compiled data on a computer or print out with no conscious input during the actual experiment.I'm not sure it matters when the observation happens but observation and measurement in physics are the same thing. You owe that person an apology. You owe it to yourself to look at what was actually being disputed, put your thinking cap back on, and realize why my argument was just fine as is.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 26, 2023 22:39:12 GMT
I'm not sure it matters when the observation happens but observation and measurement in physics are the same thing. You owe that person an apology. You owe it to yourself to look at what was actually being disputed, put your thinking cap back on, and realize why my argument was just fine as is. I did, and I corrected you. Looking at results later does not invalidate the experiment. You still owe that person an apology. Why don't you assert something about the experiment itself, you claimed you could.
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Post by faustus5 on Mar 27, 2023 12:19:33 GMT
I did, and I corrected you. You don't seem like someone who would be suckered in by New Age pseudo-science, so possibly you looked at the exchange and simply dismissed the possibility that what was being suggested was as silly as it seemed, but it really and truly was. I never said it did. This is further evidence that you fundamentally don't understand what was being discussed. What I am disputing is the claim that the double slit experiments show that consciousness has a near-paranormal influence on the results. It doesn't. I did. You even quoted me when I did.
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