RPMiller Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Here we go: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=208945 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yeah, a colleague came in a minute ago and mentioned this stuff and having read it in the NY Times. We both have the despairing opinion that we know what we're going to have to talk to our barbers about for the next several months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Bah. Makes no difference to me. If my reality seems real to me, I'll act as if it were real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So I'll beat your barber to it. WTF, are they talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER People mucking about WAAAYYYY too far out in the theoretical boondocks, and then confusing some poor NYT writer into thinking that anyone else takes this sort of nonsense seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's philosophy, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's pretty much the resolution that I came to as well. Good to know that I am sane... relatively speaking anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, the counter to all way-out cosmology/theoretical physics fringe ideas is to ask: what possible observable consequences are there from these ideas? If you're greeted with shocked surprise, or rude dismissal, then the answer is "None". At which point it's exposed as just theoreticians w*nking away on some whacked-out idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Intellectual masturbation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Ah, well, they may be needing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wikipedia on Botlzmann's brains. Id est, a thinking being that has popped out of nothing. Yea' date=' I've seen those. There is more to it though. Something about we are all just illusions for one another and don't really exist...[/quote'] . . . That seems to be more Buddhism than quantum physics. Well' date=' Buddhism and quantum physics have lots in common. [/quote'] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Intellectual masturbation. Well the brain is the biggest sex organ. So they say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . No muscles in de brein, Bazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . No muscles in de brein' date=' Bazz. [/quote'] thjanks, I edited my psot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Y'know, the "Musings on Random Musings" thread is definitely catching up with this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We can't have that now can we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, Super Squirrel hasn't been pushing his thread much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's true. It's almost like he wants it to die or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well the brain is the biggest sex organ. So they say. Properly timed and delivered, that line can be a great insult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER That's true. It's almost like he wants it to die or something... Maybe he's found another game. Something like ... d20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Aargh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Or something to do with ... ninjas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Ninjes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER C'mon. Co-Eds and Bathtubs. Yeah' date=' but it's a Catholic school. Officially, that sort of thing is frowned upon. [/quote'] Just call it "Practice Baptism". Be sure to provide white cotton clothing beforehand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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