Knowledge, the big bang, and more

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  1. river

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    True

    But Knowledge does for the Evolution of Life . Survival . Intellect .
     
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  3. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Knowledge is not causal to Origin or Evolution of Life. Evolution of Life is causal to Survival, Intellect, Knowledge......

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  5. river

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    Disagree

    Knowledge is gained from Experience from the Environment . Fundamentally , the Beginnings of Knowledge .

    What is Fundamental to knowledge is Memory . Without Memory , Niether both knowledge and intellect would exist .
     
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  7. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    You just confirmed what I said. Read your statements again, critically.

    Natura artis magistra. Nature is the teacher of Art and Science. i.e. Knowledge.

    Experience comes before knowledge and memory. Think about it.
     
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    Nature just presents its self . Nature can be improved upon .
     
  9. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Noooooo........ any and all improvements (convenience) come at a cost. There is no free ride!

    Just look at Global warming, due to human"improvements" of Nature.
     
  10. river

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    So ..........meaning ?

    Its Okay to Learn from Mistakes . And Then Move On .
     
  11. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Just watch this movie and then decide if we can and have learned anything.

     
  12. river

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    So he gives a list of our failures ?
     
  13. river

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    The " brutal violence of rage " , Write4U , is that how the world started ?
     
  14. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    The universal reverberations and expansion of the BB, 13.8 billion years ago, are still felt today. I would call that a mega-quantum event where the entire potential of the universe was released in one place (singularity), all at the same time.
    A true state of chaos, from which order emerged, slowly, inevitably.
     
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    Rage Write4U , Rage ? The Universe in BB is the Periodic Table . Not life . There is No rage , just the Fundamental Elements of the Periodic Table doing its thing , in BB .
     
  16. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    No emotion, just violence. I don't think I cited the term "rage" anywhere.

    If you are referring to Hellstrom, he doesn't say "rage" but the brutal violence of "rape" instead of "love". A little poetic license, I'm sure......

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  17. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Part of the objective of our gravitational wave detectors like aLIGO and Virgo is to detect or infer gravitational waves from the BB . Not directly but by measuring the polarization of the CMBR.
     
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    What direction are these so called gravity going in , away from the source or towards the source ?
     
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    I should also start remembering the Japanese detector called KAGRA.
     
  21. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    So far around 23 detections have been made of BH colliding pairs, and Neutron stars.
    These incredible state of the art apparatus are frequently off line for modifications/updates and repair.
     
  22. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    It depends on the state of the object. If the object is in a stable compressed state, it's gravity goes inward toward the center of the source in the form of a spacetime warp. If the object is in a state of breaking apart (expansion), it's gravity goes outward from the center of he source in the form of gravity waves.
     
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  23. paddoboy Valued Senior Member

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    Actually river is forever asking that question, as if it should mean something.

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    The simple fact of the matter is that gravitational waves are analogous to throwing a stone into a still pond and watching the ripples propagate, then imagine that in 3 dimensions. They are simply ripples in spacetime.
     
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