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The Quantum World in Crazy Detail
serf
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Tools of science are getting ultra sophisticated with these bags of tricks! I would even imagine firearms getting new permanent layers of friction reducing properties. Nanotechnology is going to change the world.
serf
New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail
https://www.wired.com/story/new-microscope-shows-the-quantum-world-in-crazy-detail/?CNDID=49801132&mbid=nl_092118_daily_list1_p1
But the ultimate goal of such experiments isn?t merely to study the materials. Eventually, scientists like Scott want to turn atoms into Legos: to assemble them, brick by brick, into brand new materials. But even tiny changes in a material?s atomic composition or structure can alter its function, says Scott, and no one fully understands why. The microscope images can teach them how and why atoms lock together.
serf
New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail
https://www.wired.com/story/new-microscope-shows-the-quantum-world-in-crazy-detail/?CNDID=49801132&mbid=nl_092118_daily_list1_p1
But the ultimate goal of such experiments isn?t merely to study the materials. Eventually, scientists like Scott want to turn atoms into Legos: to assemble them, brick by brick, into brand new materials. But even tiny changes in a material?s atomic composition or structure can alter its function, says Scott, and no one fully understands why. The microscope images can teach them how and why atoms lock together.
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Tools of science are getting ultra sophisticated with these bags of tricks! I would even imagine firearms getting new permanent layers of friction reducing properties. Nanotechnology is going to change the world.
serf
New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail
https://www.wired.com/story/new-microscope-shows-the-quantum-world-in-crazy-detail/?CNDID=49801132&mbid=nl_092118_daily_list1_p1
But the ultimate goal of such experiments isn?t merely to study the materials. Eventually, scientists like Scott want to turn atoms into Legos: to assemble them, brick by brick, into brand new materials. But even tiny changes in a material?s atomic composition or structure can alter its function, says Scott, and no one fully understands why. The microscope images can teach them how and why atoms lock together.
I heard a theory about a supreme being, one that has always been, always will be, all knowing, all powerful etc.
I'll bet he would know what's going on. [}:)]
i figure that if maybe there were a supreme being he would be so fed up with stupid humanity he would turn it all back to the animals ....
I didn't say he cared LOL, just knows.
quote:Originally posted by serf
Tools of science are getting ultra sophisticated with these bags of tricks! I would even imagine firearms getting new permanent layers of friction reducing properties. Nanotechnology is going to change the world.
serf
New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail
https://www.wired.com/story/new-microscope-shows-the-quantum-world-in-crazy-detail/?CNDID=49801132&mbid=nl_092118_daily_list1_p1
But the ultimate goal of such experiments isn?t merely to study the materials. Eventually, scientists like Scott want to turn atoms into Legos: to assemble them, brick by brick, into brand new materials. But even tiny changes in a material?s atomic composition or structure can alter its function, says Scott, and no one fully understands why. The microscope images can teach them how and why atoms lock together.
I heard a theory about a supreme being, one that has always been, always will be, all knowing, all powerful etc.
I'll bet he would know what's going on. [}:)]
The Golden Age of scientific knowledge.?? I have been blinded by science!
serf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=lZfaoZkb2Tk
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-hidden-prime-crystal-like-materials.html
St. Thomas Aquinas:
The Existence of God can be proved in five ways.
Argument Analysis of the Five Ways ? 2016 Theodore Gracyk
The First Way: Argument from Motion
Our senses prove that some things are in motion.
Things move when potential motion becomes actual motion.
Only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into an actual motion.
Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect (i.e., if both actual and potential, it is actual in one respect and potential in another).
Therefore nothing can move itself.
Therefore each thing in motion is moved by something else.
The sequence of motion cannot extend ad infinitum.
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
The Second Way: Argument from Efficient Causes
We perceive a series of efficient causes of things in the world.
Nothing exists prior to itself.
Therefore nothing [in the world of things we perceive] is the efficient cause of itself.
If a previous efficient cause does not exist, neither does the thing that results (the effect).
Therefore if the first thing in a series does not exist, nothing in the series exists.
If the series of efficient causes extends ad infinitum into the past, for then there would be no things existing now.
That is plainly false (i.e., there are things existing now that came about through efficient causes).
Therefore efficient causes do not extend ad infinitum into the past.
Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.
The Third Way: Argument from Possibility and Necessity (Reductio argument)
We find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, that come into being and go out of being i.e., contingent beings.
Assume that every being is a contingent being.
For each contingent being, there is a time it does not exist.
Therefore it is impossible for these always to exist.
Therefore there could have been a time when no things existed.
Therefore at that time there would have been nothing to bring the currently existing contingent beings into existence.
Therefore, nothing would be in existence now.
We have reached an absurd result from assuming that every being is a contingent being.
Therefore not every being is a contingent being.
Therefore some being exists of its own necessity, and does not receive its existence from another being, but rather causes them. This all men speak of as God.
The Fourth Way: Argument from Gradation of Being
There is a gradation to be found in things: some are better or worse than others.
Predications of degree require reference to the ?uttermost? case (e.g., a thing is said to be hotter according as it more nearly resembles that which is hottest).
The maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus.
Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.
The Fifth Way: Argument from Design
We see that natural bodies work toward some goal, and do not do so by chance.
Most natural things lack knowledge.
But as an arrow reaches its target because it is directed by an archer, what lacks intelligence achieves goals by being directed by something intelligence.
Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.
http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web publishing/aquinasfiveways_argumentanalysis.htm