Re: Vista beta vs. OSX

"ed" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1134492572.610211.118210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/13/05 9:49
AM:

>> If ID happens but is impossible to detect, does it really happen? If a
>> tree falls in the forrest and nobody hear it, does it make a sound?
>> Let the philosophers argue over it.
>
> so your position is that if we can't observe something directly, it's
> not worth discussing scientifically?

Where did you get *that* idea? He stated if something is *impossible*
to detect and you jumped to the idea of observing something directly.
That is a huge jump.

> that's just bunk. take theoretical physics- think superstring theory and
> their 10 dimensional worlds; those folks are coming up with some out-there
> theories that are NOT detectable, and they don't even yet know HOW it might be
> experimentally detectable. last i read about it, they were thinking they
> could maybe detect one part of the theory (supersymetry), and the main goal
> right now is to see if it contradicts existing theories or experimental data.



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