Re: Smith and Jones science (Was: Doctor Who progressive or interlaced?)

On 7 Apr, 08:55, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On 7 Apr, 07:14, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


They've found _theoretical_ evidence relating to superstrings and
stuff. But as no-one's ever actually seen a superstring with their
own eyes, they don't have any real physical evidence.

Well of course they have not seen them with their own eyes. Human eyes are
designed to be sensitive to photons not superstrings.

On the other hand particle detectors which are designed to see things other
then just photons have detected evidence for their existence.


Particle detectors have detected things that some scientists choose to
believe are superstrings.

But as they can't see the things for themselves, they _can't_ be
sure. Like anything else about quantum mechanics, it's a matter of
personal faith whether you choose to believe it or not.

I'm talking about the theory that electromagnetism can behave _very
differently_ in certain special circumstances. According to this

If it's the same theory then it always behaves the same way otherwise it
would not be the same theory. What exactly are you referring to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction


theory, those circumstances haven't happened since around the time of
the Big Bang, so electromagnetism _appears_ to always act in the same
way.

The conditions you are referring to have been produced inside particle
accelerators, and they confirm that the theories work.


Have they? Well, that just proves my point.

Now, I'm not 100% certain that I believe this theory. But you asked

Which theory. There are lots of theories.


I'm still talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction

Like I said, I don't pretend to believe or even understand it myself.
But physicists do, and that's what matters for you.

Choose to believe about what? How does this justify the nonsense RTD wrote
about an MRI machine projecting a 50 kT magnetic field at the planet Earth
and wiping out all life in one hemisphere?

Well, if physicists can choose to believe that under certain real-life
circumstances electromagnetism can behave in strange and unfamiliar
ways, then RTD is justified in choosing to assume that under other,
fictional circumstances, electromagnetism can also behave in other,
fictional ways.


If it were changed then it would not be electromagnetism.

What exactly is going to kill of all life on half the Earth, a magnetic
field or something different?

It's a fictional variation of electromagnetism, like the electroweak
force is believed to be a real-life variation of electromagnetism.

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