POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Molecular biology : Re: Molecular biology Server Time
4 Sep 2024 05:18:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Molecular biology  
From: Darren New
Date: 9 Jan 2011 22:44:17
Message: <4d2a8091$1@news.povray.org>
Patrick Elliott wrote:
> if the universe isn't logically consistent than science 
> would have to be wrong on a huge scale,

I don't think so.

> You would need to.. have an inconsistent universe, which 
> never the less, managed to be consistent on the large scale only. Like.. 
> statistically stable, but completely unstable on the basic level.

We have that already. It's called quantum mechanics. :-)

> Mind, this wouldn't preclude it being consistent, it would only mean 
> that events where not predictable on the smallest scale, but that the 
> law of averages/big numbers both made it consistent once you had enough 
> events to look at.

Again. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."


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