<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anna Taylor</b> <<a href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">femmechakra@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do you believe that there are some things that can't<br>be explained?</blockquote><div><br>Any rational person would have to answer this "yes" at this time.<br><br>For, even when you take all the theories of how physics really works and wrap them up in a big ball, you can still not answer the very simple question...
<br> "Why did the big bang happen?"<br><br>You can propose some interesting hypotheses but there is no way IMO to prove or disprove them. Without creating hundreds of universes you cannot get to the p < 0.05
which is the benchmark of scientific "certainty". So one would generally have to accept that the existence of the universe (and therefore "us") cannot be explained.<br><br>Now, where you are skating on the edge is when or how you argue that things from the "unexplainable" realm (
e.g. how or why the universe began) are leaking into the "explainable" realm (e.g. all things we currently observe must obey known laws of physics -- and therefore ESP can only be explained in such terms -- and if it cannot be explained in such terms (which most ESP fans don't even bother to attempt) then it is a fictitious concept.)
<br><br>One cannot, as Picard so often did "Make it So". You have to explain why or how it is so. We are no longer cave persons subscribing to the most recent theory of the local witch doctor. In the old days you could make up anything and simply sell it to people (the success of an idea depended in large part on the seller) -- now-a-days the idea has to have some throw weight (because I am no longer that naive cave person).
<br><br>Robert<br><br></div></div><br>