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whodat wrote:
> 
> On 12/12/2022 1:07 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > whodat wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/12/2022 12:28 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>> whodat wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12/11/2022 9:29 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>> whodat wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 12/11/2022 3:50 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> >>>>>>> Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 2022-12-11 19:20:37 +0000, The Starmaker said:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Nature
> >>>>>>>>> spends
> >>>>>>>>> a lot of time
> >>>>>>>>> making sure
> >>>>>>>>> your
> >>>>>>>>> science
> >>>>>>>>> your
> >>>>>>>>> physics
> >>>>>>>>> Your
> >>>>>>>>> Laws
> >>>>>>>>> match the universe.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> You've missed the point. The laws of nature have always been there. The
> >>>>>>>> job of physicists (of whom I am not one) is to find them.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> There are no places in the Universe where these Laws exist, excepy only
> >>>>>>> in the mind.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You are wrong. Predictability of/in natural events (the sun will rise
> >>>>>> tomorrow) proves that laws of nature exist. Put the bong away.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You won't (another correct prediction of nature.)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The sun does not rise or sets.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you always have to be an asshole?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The fact is...The sun does not rise or sets.
> >>
> >> Wonderful, now you're knowingly defending being an asshole who
> >> is incapable of having a discussion in normal parlance. What is
> >> this need you have for one upmanship? Are you the Mook the local
> >> whops keep beating up for being a chooch?
> >>
> >> http://solar-center.stanford.edu/AO/sunrise.html
> >>
> >> Of course the sun doesn't rise and set, it looks that way to
> >> humans who inhabit the earth and it is described and discussed
> >> that way by normal humans;
> >
> >
> > Well, this is about what people 'perceive' Laws of Nature are..
> >
> > when you wrote "the sun will rise", I was wondering what Laws of Nature
> > are there
> > with "the sun will rise"...was it Sunrise Laws?, Sunst Laws??, Sunshine
> > Laws? Sunny Laws?? I
> > didn't know of any. But,
> > you seem to be taking about...'people observations' from standing on the
> > earth and
> > looking at the sky...what law of nature is that one? Doesn't it DEPEND
> > on your zipcode?
> >
> > Like for example: zipcode 995??
> >
> >
> > Maybe, just maybe...you have no idea the definition of 'Laws of Nature'
> > mean.
> >
> > Does the Law apply everywhere, or just from your window at the funny
> > farm where you live?
> 
> ibid.

In Alaska there are times they don't see a sunrise or a sunset. 





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 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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