Wed 9 Jun, 2010 09:04 am - [QUOTE=ughaibu;175002]There is no unifying theory, as far as I'm aware, so there are no experimental results that can confirm such a theory. In any case, a unified theory is not "the... (view)
Wed 9 Jun, 2010 06:34 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;174993]Do try to inform yourself about a subject before presuming to condescend to someone better informed than yourself. Ignorance and arrogance are both excusable, but their... (view)
Wed 9 Jun, 2010 06:17 am - [QUOTE=Zetetic11235;174942]Turbolung: I am asserting that the fact that you place theoretical physics above international affairs and global issues is nothing more than a personal preference.... (view)
Wed 9 Jun, 2010 05:23 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;174847]
Whether the world is made of atoms and, if not, what. Whether discovering a 'basic unit of reality' is philosophically plausible.
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Sorry, I am flabagasted... (view)
Tue 8 Jun, 2010 09:32 am - [QUOTE=Twirlip;174667]Please calm down.
I don't think that jeeprs (or anyone else in the thread) is siding with those idiots, as you rightly describe them, who see no point in doing... (view)
Tue 8 Jun, 2010 07:53 am - [COLOR=black][QUOTE=jeeprs;174595]Yes, Ernest Rutherford. Perhaps the long line of idiots you were referring to was Nobel winners? Because he was one of them. And I am saying that when the atom was... (view)
Tue 8 Jun, 2010 04:49 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;174586]I don't know anything about you, sir, but I suggest that if you have an encyclopedia, this might be a good time to refer to it.[/QUOTE]
Are you talking about the New... (view)
Tue 8 Jun, 2010 04:47 am - [QUOTE=jeeprs;174572]Somebody will say, the electron is a particle. And then I will say, actually it is also a wave. And a wave is not a particle.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I get it, you are confused with... (view)
Tue 8 Jun, 2010 04:43 am - [COLOR=black]Okay, so the Higgs Boson has not been found yet, but, physicists know it exists through mathematical equations and the way other particles work. From the extensive array of books I... (view)