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skepticism, also spelled scepticism, in Western philosophy, the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of these claims by asking what principles they are based upon or what they actually establish. They have questioned whether some such claims really are, as alleged, indubitable or necessarily true, and they have challenged the purported rational grounds of accepted assumptions. In everyday life, practically everyone is skeptical about some knowledge claims; but philosophical skeptics have doubted the possibility of any knowledge beyond that of the contents of directly felt experience. The original Greek meaning of skeptikos was “an inquirer,” someone who was unsatisfied and still looking for truth.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Might want to look up what skepticism means.
Here, I'll make it easy:
skepticism, also spelled scepticism, in Western philosophy, the attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of these claims by asking what principles they are based upon or what they actually establish. They have questioned whether some such claims really are, as alleged, indubitable or necessarily true, and they have challenged the purported rational grounds of accepted assumptions. In everyday life, practically everyone is skeptical about some knowledge claims; but philosophical skeptics have doubted the possibility of any knowledge beyond that of the contents of directly felt experience. The original Greek meaning of skeptikos was “an inquirer,” someone who was unsatisfied and still looking for truth.
www.britannica.com...
It's amusing you keep trying to insult my intelligence though.
Shows a lot.
And again, infinite is still misspelled.
And it's you're.
HarbingerOfShadows
Though I'll point out, what we call "splitting the atom" may not be any "splitting" at all and in no way "proves" the existence of atoms.
But a new theory is a whole lot more intriguing. Julian Barbour, at the University of Oxford, has proposed a theory that says a low-entropy early universe is inevitable because of gravity, and ultimately that’s what gives time its arrow. They tested the idea with a basic model with 1,000 particles and the physics of Newtonian gravity, to see how it worked. Here’s Scientific American’s take on the findings:
The system’s complexity is at its lowest when all the particles come together in a densely packed cloud, a state of minimum size and maximum uniformity roughly analogous to the big bang. The team’s analysis showed that essentially every configuration of particles, regardless of their number and scale, would evolve into this low-complexity state. Thus, the sheer force of gravity sets the stage for the system’s expansion and the origin of time’s arrow, all without any delicate fine-tuning to first establish a low-entropy initial condition.
To take that a step further, the study also shows the “simulated Big Bang” actually happened in two directions — meaning if the real Big Bang followed the same rules, it would’ve created a mirror universe where time essentially runs in reverse from our universe. Basically, time would run backward there.
Here’s how Barbour described the potential findings, in what almost sounds like the pitch for a high-concept sci-fi flick:
“If they were complicated enough, both sides could sustain observers who would perceive time going in opposite directions. Any intelligent beings there would define their arrow of time as moving away from this central state. They would think we now live in their deepest past.”
www.blastr.com...
originally posted by: ecossiepossie
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Could this mean we are indeed quantum entangled with everything in all universes?
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