[extropy-chat] PLAIN OLD PHYSICS

[Dirk Bruere]

On 11/29/05, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
>
> "Damien Broderick" <thespike at satx.rr.com>
>
> > Until a bit over a century ago, scientists would have scoffed at
> > the idea of RADIOACTIVITY.
>
> A century ago some scientists did scoff that new physics was required to
> explain observations, but certainly not all! Using the Physics known at
> the
> time the sun couldn't be older than 50 million years and was probably
> less than 10, perhaps less than two; there was just no energy supply that
> could make the sun last longer. However Geologists and Biologists
> absolutely insisted the Earth was at least 500 million years old.
> There is no such contradiction between theory and observation in
> the case of intelligence or Qualia.
>

Mainly due to lack of theory, I suspect...

Dirk
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