Your Name Here=Harvey wrote:


We don't have a comprehensive (ie. exact) understanding of all the
physical laws in the universe, and the ones we currently know, may not
be as watertight, as some think they are.
I'm no scientist - but it stands to reason, we know only 21st century physics,
whereas those zipping around the cosmos may be of the 23rd? 24th? and above?

Nothing is impossible.

Harvey



No one is "zipping around the cosmos" or they would have visited here.
Their absence is consistent with the conclusion that the speed of light
is a limit to all creatures. Since surely at least ONE of the billions
of highly advanced races in the universe would feel benevolence for
other creatures and would want to spread enlightenment and justice
everywhere. Scientists have been observing low-energy and very
high-energy interactions for decades now, and there is no hint of
anything that is not consistent with our current understanding of
physics. We have in fact reached a good general understanding of all
the physics that will ever do us any good. There is high-energy physics
that is not understood, but it is not faster-than-light, and it does not
violate conservation of mass/energy, or conservation of momentum, and it
never will.

One of the most inane things I ever hear is "nothing is impossible".
LOTS of things are impossible. A good, omnipotent, and omniscient being
is impossible because it contradicts the existence of evil. It is not
possible for "you" to split into 2 equal halves of eqaul mass and then
walk away in opposite directions. To say that anything is possible is
to say absolutely that there are NO physical laws. That's hogwash.
Grow up.


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Philosophy is a stage in intellectual development, and is not compatible
with mental maturity. -- Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, as opposed to science, springs from a kind of
self-assertion: a belief that our purposes have an important relation to
the purposes of the universe, and that, in the long run, the course of
events is bound to be, on the whole, such as we should wish. -- Bertrand
Russell

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions,
a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a
personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the
unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our
science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein in Albert Einstein: The Human
Side , edited by Helen Dukas (Einstein's secretary) and Banesh Hoffman,
and published by Princeton University Press.

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should
be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality,
deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how
despiceable an ignoreable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than
be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under
the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." [Albert Einstein]

"I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there
is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small
way or a large way." -- Mark Twain

"If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there
can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as
God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is
exactly of the same nature as the Indian's view, that the world rested
upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they
said, 'How about the tortoise?' the Indian said, 'Suppose we change the
subject.' The argument is really no better than that." -- Russell

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we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public." -- Theodore Roosevelt