On 1/8/2011 11:26 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> I have been thinking that perhaps trying to find a unifying model is
>> futile because gravity and quantum mechanics are *not* related to each
>> other.
>
> I sometimes argue that perhaps the universe is not logically consistent,
> in exactly this sense, and I usually get shouted down. Maybe there isn't
> any mathematical way to describe everything in the universe, and
> depending on what you measure, you will *always* have errors due to the
> fundamental nature of the universe.
>
> Granted, I often raise this in the context of "scientists have faith
> that this isn't the case", in the sense that it would be very unlikely a
> smart scientist would give up looking, ever, for that elusive theory
> that applies everywhere.
>
The only problem with that is, it would have to only be non-logically 
consistent on a very small scale, since, otherwise, there is no evidence 
this would be the case. It also runs into the whole mess that *no* one, 
neither scientists, nor the religious (who love this argument as an "in" 
for their "faith"), would have any damn clue what is going on.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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