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...in practise, people who understand quantum fields know exactly what they are. Would you not agree? "In practice" means, "not in theory," but rather "in action." What "practices" are you talking about? Measurement. Do you understand that the influence of qu...

You must be confusing gases with quantum fields. Nobody really knows what "quantum fields" are... Well we know they're not gases. For the purposes of mathematics and physics, they can be described very accurately as the influence one or more perturbations in a quantum field has on one or ...

And if the BB had a "cause," as current science seems to insist... It doesn't seem that way to me. There are hypotheses that posit conditions prior to the big bang, but what particular science seems to you to insist on a cause? ...and that maybe the cause was something like gasses free fl...

... a First Cause is necessary. Sweeping aside first term undergraduate, ultra Cartesian sceptic possibilities, and plonking for some version of yeah, there is a world with people in it, then yes, there is some event beyond which we cannot see - a first cause of everything that we can see. Now, aft...

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Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 8:53 pm Then that's that.

Well, until you trot out a version of your thesis that Francis Bacon invented the scientific method, refined as outlined above, and I will help you refine it further.
You're welcome.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 8:42 pm

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 8:38 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2026 1:11 pmI said Bacon invented the scientific method. He did.

No he didn't.

Well, we're going to disagree about that. What's next?

See above.

The " houris " you mean? Try try not to think of why there has to be 72. And try not to think of why they're "chained," or "restrained" or "guarded," (depending on the interpretation Islamists offer). And try not to think of why they're called "companion...

I said Bacon invented the scientific method. He did. No he didn't. Lemme help you out, Mr Can: the tack you should have taken when the penny dropped, was that Francis Bacon didn't invent the scientific method, but he was the first to write a book specifically about a scientific method. Welcome to y...

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 11:50 amI presume Micky and Will here have already converted, bowed and bent to Islam then?

Not worth the risk. You might be one of the 72 virgins.

Wizard22 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2026 8:52 am So are you Tom and Jerries going to close your borders...

Just as soon as you try to cross them.

It's all the information you asked for. And it's not coming from me, because you don't seem to believe me anyway. I don't believe you because your opinion that scientists follow Bacon's method is not true. That's not what I said. I said Bacon invented the scientific method. He did. I did not say th...

Well, if that's an answer: :roll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method It's all the information you asked for. And it's not coming from me, because you don't seem to believe me anyway. I don't believe you because your opinion that scientists follow Bacon's method is not true. As far back as...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 7:04 pm

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 5:20 pm How much of that is included in Bacon's method? Where is the measurement and calculation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Well, if that's an answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2026 6:16 pmHmm, I wonder what Comfort would say about fellatio.

I doubt that cocksucker has heard of them:
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