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DominionSeraph
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Message 9 of 81 (303349)
04-11-2006 7:48 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by 1.61803
04-11-2006 2:56 PM


1.61803 writes:
Gotta love them empiricist. They were the ones that came up with the concept that causality can not be linked to observations of events. More than 250 years ago. Just because I drop an anvil above my foot does not mean it will fall on my foot and break it. The two events are separate. I drop the anvil. My foot is broken by it. But I do not know this will happen.
And we solipsists do it one better: You don't know that either the anvil or your foot exist.

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DominionSeraph
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Message 38 of 81 (303747)
04-13-2006 4:39 AM
Reply to: Message 35 by simple
04-12-2006 9:30 PM


simple writes:
When the spiritual is seperated from the physical, the physical only part looks just like this!
Same goes for when the Star Wars part was separated from the mundane part. The X-Wings, Super Star Destroyers, Galactic Empire, and Jedi all went bye-bye. All that was left was this universe, which is boring in comparison.
What you're doing can be expressed by a pretty simple formula:
X+Y-Y=X
You arbitrarily add a Y to the universe, then arbitrarily remove it.
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DominionSeraph
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Message 53 of 81 (304030)
04-13-2006 5:42 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by PurpleYouko
04-13-2006 4:58 PM


Re: Not now, not ever
PurpleYouko writes:
It was the time warp fairies that put the photons there about 6000 years ago and gave them a smack in the right direction.
No, silly! Here, I'll explain it:
When a ship engages its hyperdrive, the light from the stars elongates, but it [i][b]doesn't change its frequency![/i][/b] (Check out the footage from the Millennium Falcon.) So, we had all these X-Wings, Y-Wings, B-Wings, A-Wings, Mon Calamari cruisers, Lancer-class frigates, Victory/Imperial Star Destroyers, Super Star Destroyers, etc., zipping from star to star, stretching out the light.
Now, when the Star Wars universe separated from the mundane universe, this stretched light remained. This is why we can see stars that are further away than we should be able to see. And, as the frequency isn't changed, you can't tell the difference between hyperdrive-stretched light and light that ain't stretched.
Come on, this is kid's stuff!
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