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JasonChin 
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Message 30 of 80 (162222)
11-22-2004 3:32 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by NosyNed
11-18-2004 7:36 PM


Re: Holding atoms together
It is the electromagnetic force mediated by photons being exchanged that holds molecules together.
Ridiculous.......after all, this exchange of information should obviously be collapsing the wave function (right, Crash?)......therefore, molecules don't exist.

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JasonChin 
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Message 31 of 80 (162223)
11-22-2004 3:38 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by jacketsfan4life
11-18-2004 7:15 PM


JacketsFan, a better question would have been what caused atoms to form in the first place.......because no scientists knows the answer to this. Apart from half-assed theories about once existant and now non=existant quantum gravity, which have no mathematical and certainly no empirical evidence to back them, no one knows how atoms form in the first place.

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JasonChin 
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Message 32 of 80 (162224)
11-22-2004 3:43 AM
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11-22-2004 3:38 AM


We don't know anything about why quanta do what they do......we know WHAT they do, just like primitive hunters knew the way a wolf hunted, but he didn't understand WHY......just like we don't. And we don't figure to.....in fact, it's the majority scientific opinion (the Copenhagen interpretation) that we won't.
But people still somehow claim that science can explain everything. I believe in science and I believe in logic, but basing all your assumptions on the belief that human logic can explain everything is simply an example of anthropomorphic bias.

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JasonChin 
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Message 34 of 80 (162265)
11-22-2004 7:10 AM
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11-22-2004 7:01 AM


Then science can't explain away God.......

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