The speed of light is NOT constant

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Just read about Non Stop . Did anyone see the Soviet film Solaris ? My imagination ran riot with it . On re-watching it my imagined version was better . I also love the later Hollywood version . I don't see it as grim .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(1972_film)

The film forced me to be a detective . The Russian helped as I had to observe and read subtitles . I was distracted and that makes it more realistic . I totally got the theory side right . I got some of the important events wrong . My version was better . George Clooney is excellent in the other version of the film . He seems more surprised than his Russian counterpart . One could say soviet life would prepare someone for anything . Solaris far more rational than most soviet tyranny .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(2002_film)
 
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I beg anyone to watch the film and stay optimistic as I feel that is what the film shows us . It also shows how 1972 Moscow was not totally loosing the battle to be modern . Lada cars were no worse than British cars of the period I feel ( Morris Marina ) . Notable exception perhaps a Rover SD1 .

I would go further and say the film shows how strength on mind wins any situation . I recommend Fahrenheit 451 also .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9n98SXNGl8
 
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I lifted this .

" What existed before the big bang? What is the nature of time? Is our universe one of many? On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers ".

If Chaos maths has anything to do with this we can not know . That is very reassuring . "( Yet )" , never ?

People say to me they can not imagine infinity . I answer I can not comprehend a finite thing , I find infinity far more comfortable .
 
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nigel pearson said:
"On the big questions science cannot (yet?) answer, a new crop of philosophers are trying to provide answers."
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Most philosophers don't even understand basic modern physics, so how are they going to contribute anything useful?

I was thinking a few years ago: is there a gap between physics and theology where philosophers have anything useful to contribute? My tentative conclusion is No, given that most philosophers know so little science and so little theology that they don't even understand the questions. Instead they substitute a mish-mash of classical science and liberal agnosticism, in some cases hidden by misusing terms from science and theology without understanding them.
 
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kevinahcc20 said:
Before the Bang would be expected to be unknowable...not of this universe.
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I guess,

You are spot on...maybe even more than you know..

This is complete scifi..

What if the laws of Physics can change?
ie everything we know is OK for now..

Talking stupid for a moment..

what if the laws were different in different parts of the universe..even "outside of it"..Then our universe would be subject to the outside laws more so than the laws inside..If the outside changed what if anything would happen inside?

How could you apply physics to a changing universe..where no laws are constant?

This is complete rubbish...however all theories would fall short of the big question..

Regards
M. Gregg
 
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I am off on holiday . I bought very cheaply a book on Philosophy . It is a bit like the books on electronics I bought when young and still treasure . Ones with recipes for coil winding etc . I picked this book up when looking for a cheap copy of Plato's Republic . Suddenly Philosophers I never heard of are available even if only for two pages . The book sets out to make one aware of how Philosophy is compared with Science and how the two can become strong mutually supporting disciplines . Basically to infer what can not be known by carefully saying what is unlikely and why .

Hey Ho .
 
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nigel pearson said:
I am off on holiday . I bought very cheaply a book on Philosophy . It is a bit like the books on electronics I bought when young and still treasure . Ones with recipes for coil winding etc . I picked this book up when looking for a cheap copy of Plato's Republic . Suddenly Philosophers I never heard of are available even if only for two pages . The book sets out to make one aware of how Philosophy is compared with Science and how the two can become strong mutually supporting disciplines . Basically to infer what can not be known by carefully saying what is unlikely and why .

Hey Ho .
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"Why is there air?"
"Every PE major knows; it's to blow up volleyballs with!"
Bill Cosby

So much for philosophy.
 
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