The Science Thread

[Fenn]

Sorry for my brief absence. I'm glad to see it's still alive.

Kodos you're welcome to use this thread as an astrophysics thread. I'm totally down for that, I'd participate.

And Slurpee unfortunately I did not know about that. What was it about?

[ram]

Erm, no. A scientific theory is an assortment of facts that are testable and repeatable that arrive at a conclusion that enables predictions. Its strange why religious folk bad mouth theories because they aren't 'facts' all the while being ignorant of the fact that a theory is made up of facts. Dear oh dear. Also, I suspect the reason you don't wanna debate on a forum is because you can not support you're position, with or without google. And, no, debating in real life isn't any different at all, unless you need google to help you.

i might have over reacted on that comment before because of my anger on some certain subject so i apologize. I don't really mean all theories but there are ridiculous theories out there. it's just that.

but i have to react on the debate part. i just pointed out google as an example.
you see you can't really know if i am serious of what i'm talking about cause were all just talking monitor.

and i might be laughing right now and you won't really know, you can't see my reaction and i can't see yours,
i'm saying that there are too many advantages in debating in forum and google is just one part of it.
and the biggest advantage is "it's internet".

[Harvester_Of_Sorrow]

No need to apologise. But I still don't think you understand what a scientific theory is. If you class any scientific theory as ridiculous then you are calling all the mountains of supporting evidence and predictive ability of that theory ridiculious also. Please would you give me an example of a ridiculous theory?

And, yes, I do see your point about an internet debate being just talking monitors, however I dont see why that should deter you from having a debate with someone online. If we were debating evolution, for example, and all of you're arguments came from bogus sites who have a vested interest in spreading falsehoods about evolution, then I would easily be able to spot that and call it accordingly. Just because you have the internet as a tool, does not mean you will win a debate. Mostly because your oppenant also has the internet as a tool, so its even. Plus we can all tell when people are just typing 'evolution' into wikipedia and then passing off that knowledge as their own.

[ram]

I just don't enjoy debate in forum. that's all there is to it guess, so i take back what i said about forum debaters being coward and i take back what i said about theories. i guess your right about me just can't support my position in debating so I apologize.

I don't really know why you put up with me, your just making a fool of your self cause your talking to someone who don't know what he's saying.

[Harvester_Of_Sorrow]

Wow, now I feel like a bully...

[Gedeon]

People i just want to ask what do you know of black holes..?

[Delphinus]

They're big, they go sucky sucky, and when stars go sucky sucky because they're too fat they become big sucky holes themselves.

[Kodos]

They're not necessarily big, but they are necessarily massive. Important distinction.

[Fenn]

They're not necessarily big, but they are necessarily massive. Important distinction.

So they're like my chatterbox threads?

I'm not even sure HOW certain we are black holes exist. I know it's backed by substantial theoretical evidence and indirect observation, but how confident are astrophysicists?

[Sylux]

Pretty much certain from what I've gathered. Just my layman's observation, though.