Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

Douglas Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Wed Apr 6 13:55:07 UTC 2011


On 04/06/2011 09:28 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 6 April 2011 14:13, Charlie Derr<cderr at simons-rock.edu>  wrote:
>> On 04/06/2011 09:09 AM, donn wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2011 14:53, Liam Proven wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>> But there is a single right answer to the speed of light in a vacuum,
>>>> say.
>>> Bingo!
>>>
>>> /d
>> This did a fair job of convincing me.
>>
>> Some recent promising research postulates that the speed of light in a vacuum may (have) change(d) over time.  So it
>> might matter when you measure it.
> All right, a fair point.
>
>> How "important" any external reality is certainly depends on our ability to perceive it.  In my view, our perception is
>> actually then the more important thing.
> No, not really. You can of course choose not to be interested in
> physics or the sciences and that's perfectly fine and legitimate.
>
> But one can't say that they're wrong using a computer, say, because if
> they were wrong, there would /be/ no computers.
>
> If the world valued introspection more than science, then we would
> have no internet, no antibiotics and no electricity. We'd be sitting
> in the lotus position swapping mantras.
>
> To be honest, for all its flaws, I prefer this world.
>
Seems to me that everything is about cause and effect. If the speed of 
light is constant as it seems to be. This this might be an effect. 
Caused by what?  If it's just a hard fast rule or a cause who or what 
made it made it. Did Instiene Understand this? Who understands and can 
explain it?               Doug



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