Re: general relativity is useless


Nashton wrote:
Bill Wayne wrote:
snex wrote:
has general relativity ever saved a life? no! therefore it is clearly
false.

Yeah! And non-Euclidian Geometry,

"non-Euclidean Geometry is any geometry that is different from Euclidean
Geometry. One of the most useful non-Euclidean geometries is Spherical
Geometry which describes the surface of a sphere. Spherical Geometry is
used by pilots and ship captains as they navigate around the world.
Working in Spherical Geometry has some non intuitive results."

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~joel/NonEuclid/noneuclidean.html

I'll concede the point about Spherical Geometry. However, I was
referring to purely theoretical constructs, like Poincaré disc models
and Hyperbolic Geometry. Sure, we've calculated Mercury's orbit with
it, but how does that help humanity? ;)


Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle,

It's Heisenberg, btw. And you must be joking. Do you have any idea how
useful this principle is in solving problems?

Yes, but only with subatomic particles. Which, as I've mentioned
before, haven't saved any lives. Therefore, it's useless and no longer
a theory.

Schrodinger's cat

You mean Shrodinger's equations, don't you? Cats are usually very
useless creatures. I never had any use for them.



, and all of philosophy don't exist either.

Philosophy is extremely useful to mankind. Ethical debates, *the way we
think of ourselves and the universe*, whole political systems have been
based on philosophical principals.

Evolution also helps mold our view of the universe.


Nashton, you are a genius.

I didn't think that making flavors for the food industry was so
important to you.

My apologies.

Not particularly, but knowledge is. Should knowledge not be persued
even if (assuming you *are* right in the first place) there's no
practical application at this moment?

Under the same reasoning, we would never have delved into quantum
mechanics. We wouldn't have looked outward and studied space. We would
never have learnt what a wonderous thing the sun, and all stars, are.
Hell, we wouldn't have known about anything smaller than the eye can
see. Why learn about atoms if we can only harness them a century later?
And why would Anton van Leeuwenhoek have studied creatures with his
microscope?

We persued knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Therefore, millions of
lives have been saved from antibiotics and proper surgical techniques.


Bill




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Nicolas

Bill


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