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[argonsagas]

Fascinating information from Smithsonian about early Earth

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-planet-slammed-into-earth-4-billion-years-ago-forming-the-moon-the-projectile-may-have-been-our-neighbor-180987740/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-moon-formation-theory-also-raises-questions-about-early-earth-180960077/?itm_source=related-content&itm_medium=parsely-api

There are more links on the site.....enjoy!

[rphillips]

Anybody realize anything figured out from 4.5 billion yrs, ago is a theory?

[dgates1]

A new study suggests...

[rphillips]

A new study suggests... Yep, another new theory.

[bccap]

Anybody realize anything figured out from 4.5 billion yrs, ago is a theory?

A theory is a hypothesis .... If you actually " figure something out " it's a fact ......

[rphillips]

If you "figure something out with actual proof" it's fact. If you figure something out but there's no actual proof, it's a theory... Actual proof 4.5 billion yrs. old would be quite scarce.

[LAB3]

A theory is a hypothesis .... If you actually " figure something out " it's a fact ......

A theory is a hypothesis that has ruled out other plausible possibilities in favor of one plausible, yet improvable possibility.

[argonsagas]

a minor adjustment offered:.

A theory is a hypothesis that has ruled out other plausible possibilities in favor of one plausible, but as yet unproven possibility.

I recall hearing that a German guy came up with a theory that a lot of professionals in his field considered totally ridiculous.

His ridiculous theory said that mass and energy are the same physical entity.
If we were to give that absurdity of a theory just a bit of credence today, one wonders, could we not somehow apply it to something useful?

[rphillips]

Synonyms for both Hypothesis & theory... assumption, conjecture, supposition, "GUESS".

[Grimly]

Stupidity has no mass.

[LAB3]

Stupidity has no mass.

Having been raised as a Catholic I can assure you that isn't always the case.

[argonsagas]

Stupidity has no mass.

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddling masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

[argonsagas]

Synonyms for both Hypothesis & theory... assumption, conjecture, supposition, "GUESS".

Lee Smolin: "the roots of science are curiousity and wonder"

[argonsagas]

Originally posted by Grimly View Post

Stupidity has no mass.

Having been raised as a Catholic I can assure you that isn't always the case.

One wonders: if masses of the stupid attend Mass, are they responsible for messages about massive messes in the Mass hall, or are they themselves massively messy....and do they play soccer Messi ly?

[argonsagas]

I recall hearing that a German guy came up with a theory that a lot of professionals in his field considered totally ridiculous.

His ridiculous theory said that mass and energy are the same physical entity.
If we were to give that absurdity of a theory just a bit of credence today, one wonders, could we not somehow apply it to something useful?

Before starting another thread on the subject of science, I thought it might be good to update this one.


The deprecative comments put forward regarding theory seemed to me just a wee bit suggestive of intolerance on the part of our gifted posters, but I also noted that no one responded to the quoted post so I will bring in a few more details as the "ridiculous" THEORY mentioned above later became fairly well known, as did that German guy who thunk it up




Even though the implications of his theory were vast, he expressed it rather simply as:

E=mc?