From: Bill Ward on
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:51:49 GMT, "Archangel"
<Archangel(a)nulldev.com> wrote:

>
>"Bill Ward" <bwardREMOVE(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
>news:44000af6.43954547(a)localhost...

<snip prior posts>

>> Looking backward, at some point it seems to me there will
>> always be an unanswerable question, where science must end
>> and faith begin. Right now the unanswerable question seems
>> to be, "Why are we here?"
>
>
>well most of us with an IQ of more than 100 are here to laugh at Tom.
>
>A
>
Whatever keeps your mind occupied. He doesn't seem very
concerned about it.
From: Meltdarok on


"Bill Ward" <bwardREMOVE(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:44000af6.43954547(a)localhost...

>
> Looking backward, at some point it seems to me there will
> always be an unanswerable question, where science must end
> and faith begin. Right now the unanswerable question seems
> to be, "Why are we here?"
>
>

In the beginning, God was sitting around, being cool, being God, and He was
all there was. Then one day, (well for God, it is always now, but anyways)
God decided to have a thought. So He thought His thought. After He thought
His thought, He felt very sad. And being God, when He was sad, He was
perfectly sad. So He decided to speak, and when He spoke He said,
"B*O*R*I*N*G !" And when God was bored, He was perfectly bored. Of course
being God, He already knew what to do. He looked around, and there was only
Him, for He is everything. There was silence and blankness. So He spoke
again, and thus He said, "Naw, somethin's got to move." And it did. Today
we call it the universe. This universe is, yet is not, God. It is God,
since God is all that there is. Yet, it is not God, because He created it.
Then God said, "I'll create Me a slammin' system." And the next thing you
knew, here we are. And every now and then, (that is to us, since with God
it is always now) God says to us, "Yo Dudes, what's happenin'? I can help
you. It is good." And when God says something is good, it is perfectly
good.

--
meltdarok
http://hometown.aol.com/meltdarok/


From: Scott Nudds on

"QCD Apprentice" wrote
> Not mass, energy.

Yes.. Yes.. A silly brain fart on my part.


Correcting...
> > I see no reason why the total energy must be constant, and I see no
reason
> > to arbitrarily assign as negative the energy of the infalling particle.

> > The process - if it occurrs at all, probably causes the black hole
mass to
> > increas at the expense of lower ZPE density around it's surface.


"QCD Apprentice" wrote
> > Because Casimir is not a field that originates from an elementary
> > particle, but a force that originates from space itself.

"QCD Apprentice" wrote
> No, the Casimir force most certainly is the result of having
> elementary particles.

No, it clearly isn't. It's a result of uncertainty in the energy momentum
tensor of free space.


> The entire original argument was based upon virtual photons and the
boundary
> conditions imposed on two flat plates.

That's true. But other methods of arriving at the same conclusions exist
that don't need to have the vacuum field quantized at all.

From: Scott Nudds on

"Tom" <askpermission(a)comcast.net> wrote
> What you borrow has to be given back. So it's not free. You said free.
> You didn't say borrowed.

When do the Republicans plan to pay back the 8.2 trillion they have
borrowed in their effort to impoverish the AmeriKKKan people?


From: Scott Nudds on
You are a spectacularly energetic public Liar Tom.