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Thread #131699   Message #2990600
Posted By: GUEST,josep
20-Sep-10 - 09:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
////Josef, here's an interesting article warning about putting too much emphasis onto consciousness and quantum mechanics.////

It looked to me more like an article about not letting new-agers bullshit you by cloaking their agendas behind QM. I never brought them up, I brought up actual experiments performed by people who were the prime formulators of QM. QM isn't like string theory. QM has been tried and tested, has plenty of math to back it up, has made predictions that came true and it is here to stay.

I read papers and books by qualified people. Deepak Chopra is not a physicist to my knowledge. I probably have far more nuclear training than him and I'm not good enough to be a physicist. But I know when I'm reading or watching bullshit. I laughed through "China Syndrome" which was so full of crap and I was working in a nuke plant at the time: "The generator tripped off the line causing the reactor to scram." Really? So if the generator needs to be repaired, we can't trip it off the line without scramming the reactor, eh? Well, that's a real problem and an incredibly bad design for a nuke plant. I wonder how it passed inspection because I would have failed it big time.

But who would believe a paper on nuclear physics written by a Hollywood script-writer?

But John Wheeler, Werner Heisenberg, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger, Yukawa Hideki--those are some heavy cats. REAL heavy cats.

Btw, Neils Bohr was knighted in Denmark for the Copenhagen Interpretation (which you REALLY should read up on) and have you ever seen what he chose as his coat-of-arms?

Neils Bohr's coat-of-arms