Does the moon exist when no one is looking at it?

ольга said:
Pin, Dave meant that at high speeds, close to the speed of light, the proton is filled mainly with gluons, and there are significantly fewer quarks and antiquarks in it.
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What? No. I meant nothing of the sort. That's weird. You think that, at a high relative speed to me, a proton changes its makeup??
 
ольга said:
I wrote - "gravitates".
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I know what you wrote. The sentence is non-sensical because of the problematic word "simply".

You say "the Moon simply gravitates" - as if it does nothing else.

"When I am not online with Olga, she simply eats." - as if you are a simple object that only has a single property.

No, the Moon does everything in our absence that it does in our presence.


Note that nocturnal critters have been around for hundreds of millions of years, surviving by moonlight. The Moon's existence, appearance and properties have been around since Earth's childhood, no matter what New Age pseudo-science you want to spin.

If you are trying to argue this as philosophy, you're going to have to do a better job. I'm afraid "the Moon doesn't exist and can't be seen without consciousness - and besides, the Bible says so" is just not cutting it.
 
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Whenever people claim that consciousness is required for something to exist, I have to wonder how they test that hypothesis?

Just like when they claim that an observer is required. Do they test it by not observing??? How do they check the results?
 
DaveC426913 said:
What?

I suspect you meant to say "proton densities", but that is not a sentence, and therefore I cannot deduce what you mean by it in relation to quarks, gluons and relative velocities.
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In particle physics parton model is a model of hadrons, such as protons and neutrons, proposed by Richard Feynman.
 
gmilam said:
Whenever people claim that consciousness is required for something to exist, I have to wonder how they test that hypothesis?

Just like when they claim that an observer is required. Do they test it by not observing??? How do they check the results?
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Луна "светится" только для вас, потому что у вас есть глаза и мозги. Без них она просто гравитирует.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I know what you wrote. The sentence is non-sensical because of the problematic word "simply".

You say "the Moon simply gravitates" - as if it does nothing else.

"When I am not online with Olga, she simply eats." - as if you are a simple object that only has a single property.

No, the Moon does everything in our absence that it does in our presence.


Note that nocturnal critters have been around for hundreds of millions of years, surviving by moonlight. The Moon's existence, appearance and properties have been around since Earth's childhood, no matter what New Age pseudo-science you want to spin.

If you are trying to argue this as philosophy, you're going to have to do a better job. I'm afraid "the Moon doesn't exist and can't be seen without consciousness - and besides, the Bible says so" is just not cutting it.
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У ночных животных есть глаза и мозг, поэтому они и выживают. К тому же выживать можно и вовсе без света, как это делают некоторые животные, не обладающие зрением.
 
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