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Newton - The Last Of The Magicians

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Native said:
And the fact that the entire Solar System is orbiting another assumed "gravitational center" in the Milky Way, is entirely indifferent, you think?
On the scale of the solar system and to the level of accuracy that we can achieve? yes.
You are aware that the Solar System orbits the galactic center as its "gravtiational" center, aren´t you?

Native said:
I already admitted that the calculations are just fine
Good. That ends the debate because that is all that is required.
Citing out of context is not very scientific as an argument and it just shows you´re having a very bad case.
Guess which viewpoint wins in a scientific discussion? Hint: it isn't the second one.
Guess who´s viewpoint is more belieable, yours out of context or my full sentensed and logical text :)
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
No your grandmother cannot. You see one must be able to do the math.
Obviously you didn´t knew my Grand Mother :)
You should at least be able to do the math so that you can understand Newtonian mechanics.
Newton´s followers should be able to understand that Newtons celestial knowledge is directcly contradicted in galaxies - and most of his followers probably are familiar with math, apparently to no use at all in this case.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Here, on this forum, you, or anyone, can post all kinds of BS "theories". We have no standards. But in the real world, ya gotta know what you're talkin' about.
@ecco,
I consider you by know to be just an untrustworthy waste of space and time. One cannot even relay on your interest of readig a text befoer you reply. You even don´t read the links and one cannot even be sure that you understand what you´re reading at all.
 
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Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Obviously you didn´t knew my Grand Mother :)

Newton´s followers should be able to understand that Newtons celestial knowledge is directcly contradicted in galaxies - and most of his followers probably are familiar with math, apparently to no use at all in this case.
And that led to the hypothesis of dark matter which has evidence for its existence elsewhere. Meanwhile there is no scientific evidence for your beliefs. And you have as much as admitted that.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
And that led to the hypothesis of dark matter which has evidence for its existence elsewhere. Meanwhile there is no scientific evidence for your beliefs. And you have as much as admitted that.
First: You are plainly skewing what I have admitted or not. Bad argument :)

So you are relying on invisible matters? This is pure metaphysics don´t you know?
If you se a ghost one place you automatically concludes ghosts are everywhere?
 

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
Native said:
And the fact that the entire Solar System is orbiting another assumed "gravitational center" in the Milky Way, is entirely indifferent, you think?

You are aware that the Solar System orbits the galactic center as its "gravtiational" center, aren´t you?

I'm aware that the solar system as a whole orbits the galaxy. How does that contradict what I said?

Native said:
I already admitted that the calculations are just fine

Citing out of context is not very scientific as an argument and it just shows you´re having a very bad case.

How did I site it out of context? You admitted that the calculations from the standard theory are good and match the observational data. My point is that is all that is required.

Guess who´s viewpoint is more belieable, yours out of context or my full sentensed and logical text :)

Hint: it isn't the second.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
First: You are plainly skewing what I have admitted or not. Bad argument :)
So you are relying on invisible matters? This is pure metaphysics don´t you know?
If you se a ghost one place you automatically concludes ghosts are everywhere?
Not really. You do not understand what you have argued.

Since the presence of dark matter is testable in more ways than one it is not relying on ghosts. You should be learning why physicists accept it. Testable concepts are key to the sciences.

Here is a very important question for you:

What reasonable tests or observations could possibly refute the EU?

What reasonable tests or observations could possibly confirm the EU?

These tests would need to be done on observations that are not known now. For example the Big Bang was confirmed when the cosmic background radiation was observed. It was predicted long before it was observed. If you can't answer those questions then EU is not a theory, it is not even a hypothesis. It is only a non-scientific ad hoc explanation and those are worthless in the world of the sciences.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
@ecco,
I consider you by know to be just an untrustworthy waste of space and time. One cannot even relay on your interest of readig a text befoer you reply. You even don´t read the links and one cannot even be sure that you understand what you´re reading at all.

Well, now, you are just making up stories to slander me. Let's recap:
  • You made some assertions and posted a link to an article that you implied lent support to your assertions.
  • You did not specify which portions of the article supposedly lent support to your assertions.
  • I went to the article. I read through it. I searched on keywords you had referenced. If memory serves, one was "light". There was no reference to "light" at all in the entire article.
  • I responded to you with my results.
  • You then posted a link to another article. Once again you did not specify which portions of the article supposedly lent support to your assertions. I originally responded that I wasn't going to play your silly game again.
  • But, what the heck, I did look at the article. I went through the same process and had the same results as I did with the first article. There was no support for your arguments.
Then you asserted I was intellectually lazy because I didn't find any support in your articles for your nonsensical claims. That's your fault, not mine. You were claiming your linked article would support your "fiery light" ideas. In the first article, there was no mention of the word "light" at all - fiery or otherwise. It looks like you didn't even read the article before you linked to it.

Now you claim I'm untrustworthy. Well, if that means you cannot "trust" me to find support for your beliefs when there isn't any - OK.

Judging by the convoluted grammar and spelling in your above-quoted post, it seems you are getting agitated. That's understandable. I've refuted every claim you've made from support for "fiery lights" to you calling me intellectually lazy. Maybe you should chill for a day and see if you want to continue to attack me.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
Here...
...is one of many apps that shows where the planets are, where they are going to be, and where they were in the past.

These programs use the formulas of gravity to calculate the motions and past and future positions.

Astronomers who take pictures of the night skies can easily verify the correctness of, at least, where planets were in the past.

A test of the correctness of EU would merely involve someone writing a program showing past and future planetary positions with all calculations based on EU instead of gravity.

Surely, among the many believers in the Thunderbolts Project, there must be a few people trained in writing computer programs.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
I'm aware that the solar system as a whole orbits the galaxy. How does that contradict what I said?
It doesn´t, but it also reveals that you don´t connect the dots regarding the very formation of the Solar System and thus also WHY the planets mowes as they do, which is NOT because of the Newtonian gravity model and ideology.

How did I site it out of context? You admitted that the calculations from the standard theory are good and match the observational data. My point is that is all that is required.

No, it is all what YOU and your fellow "newtonians" require, but it´s not sufficient for me and for the real explanations of WHY they mowe as they do as I write above too.
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
No, it is all what YOU and your fellow "newtonians" require, but it´s not sufficient for me and for the real explanations of WHY they mowe as they do as I write above too.

It's actually all the the scientific method requires. Hence, by your own admission, you're not interested in science.

If you simply ignore correspondence with reality (being able to make accurate predictions) then what objective method are you going to use to decide what's (most likely to be) right or wrong?
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Not really. You do not understand what you have argued.
What kind of an argument is this stupid comment?
Since the presence of dark matter is testable in more ways than one it is not relying on ghosts. You should be learning why physicists accept it. Testable concepts are key to the sciences.
Have you found any "dark matter"? You assume this to exist and when you speak of "tests" you of course cannot test anything else but your idea and it´s calculations, can you?

And everytime the newtonian ideas are contradicted or cannot explain a cosmologcal motion or the abundance of matter in the Universe, you just adds "dark this or that" in order to get your ideas and calculations to fit the theory and its calculations.

Oh, I fully understand why the physisists accept it. Because they are far out in the nothingness when it comes to understand what is going on out there, thanks to the Newtonian gravity ideology and it´s castrated "fundamental force".

Here is a very important question for you:
What reasonable tests or observations could possibly refute the EU?
What reasonable tests or observations could possibly confirm the EU?
If you like to tests these issues, you of course have to understand basic ideas in the EU before you can judge any tests at all. I haven´t yet seen any clues of you understanding the basics in the EU.

As as starter, you can begin to think of electromagnetics on the Sun and the Earth magnetic field.
These tests would need to be done on observations that are not known now. For example the Big Bang was confirmed when the cosmic background radiation was observed. It was predicted long before it was observed. If you can't answer those questions then EU is not a theory, it is not even a hypothesis. It is only a non-scientific ad hoc explanation and those are worthless in the world of the sciences.
This is outrageous! Make your own damn scientific test on the Big Bang singularity before you demand other to make it! I´ll look very much forward to see your test.

I´m very pleased that you know of the expression: "It is only a non-scientific ad hoc explanation and those are worthless in the world of the sciences".

This will indeed help you analysing all the standing cosmological models, especially the Newtonian one with all it´s "dark this and that" ad hoc assumptions of cosmological ghosts.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Judging by the convoluted grammar and spelling in your above-quoted post, it seems you are getting agitated. That's understandable. I've refuted every claim you've made from support for "fiery lights" to you calling me intellectually lazy. Maybe you should chill for a day and see if you want to continue to attack me.
Regarding "grammar": I would like to see you writing in the Danish language after having a three year ordinary school semester of learning the language. That could be very interesting and it quickly would shut you up regarding criticising your fellow debaters.

Yes I really am a bit agitated over debating myths with a fellow who regard the myths of creation to be just psychological fairy tales even when a myth speaks of factual celestial objects.

You can offer me nothing at all in a debate, so just don´t reply.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Native said:
No, it is all what YOU and your fellow "newtonians" require, but it´s not sufficient for me and for the real explanations of WHY they mowe as they do as I write above too.
It's actually all the the scientific method requires. Hence, by your own admission, you're not interested in science.
I know. And this is why the consensus scientific method isn´t working. It´s apparently enough for the Newtonian model just to put calculations on observed objects - which anyone interested in math can do without any knowledge of gravity - and then never mind WHY the objects moves as they do.

A "scientific practice" which just adds "dark ghost" into its theory when contradicted, isn´t a scientific method at all. It´s just pure guessworks and metaphysics.

I am very much interested in all science. I just have my focus on the examples where the cosmological science isn´t following the scientific method and where the standing cosmological science is far out in the nothingness with nothing more than unnatural speculations.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
What kind of an argument is this stupid comment?

Have you found any "dark matter"? You assume this to exist and when you speak of "tests" you of course cannot test anything else but your idea and it´s calculations, can you?

And everytime the newtonian ideas are contradicted or cannot explain a cosmologcal motion or the abundance of matter in the Universe, you just adds "dark this or that" in order to get your ideas and calculations to fit the theory and its calculations.

Oh, I fully understand why the physisists accept it. Because they are far out in the nothingness when it comes to understand what is going on out there, thanks to the Newtonian gravity ideology and it´s castrated "fundamental force".


If you like to tests these issues, you of course have to understand basic ideas in the EU before you can judge any tests at all. I haven´t yet seen any clues of you understanding the basics in the EU.

As as starter, you can begin to think of electromagnetics on the Sun and the Earth magnetic field.

This is outrageous! Make your own damn scientific test on the Big Bang singularity before you demand other to make it! I´ll look very much forward to see your test.

I´m very pleased that you know of the expression: "It is only a non-scientific ad hoc explanation and those are worthless in the world of the sciences".

This will indeed help you analysing all the standing cosmological models, especially the Newtonian one with all it´s "dark this and that" ad hoc assumptions of cosmological ghosts.
When you can begin to do the math then you can claim to understand the EU. I could give you a simple problem, do you think you could solve it.
 

Native

Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
When you can begin to do the math then you can claim to understand the EU. I could give you a simple problem, do you think you could solve it.
You cannot solve any problems at all if you don´t have the overall natural philosophical ideas set correctly and this cannot be set with just math. It demands cosmological pondering and thinking and and lots of it. So get starting.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
You cannot solve any problems at all if you don´t have the overall natural philosophical ideas set correctly and this cannot be set with just math. It demands cosmological pondering and thinking and and lots of it. So get starting.
please stop accusing others of your shortcomings.
 

ratiocinator

Lightly seared on the reality grill.
I know. And this is why the consensus scientific method isn´t working.

Except that it obviously is working. It's making accurate predictions.

It´s apparently enough for the Newtonian model just to put calculations on observed objects - which anyone interested in math can do without any knowledge of gravity - and then never mind WHY the objects moves as they do.

Except that anybody looking at the Newtonian equation of gravity will immediately see that it involves a force between any two masses. You can't divorce the mathematics from what it is saying about how things move, and why.
 

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
It doesn´t, but it also reveals that you don´t connect the dots regarding the very formation of the Solar System and thus also WHY the planets mowes as they do, which is NOT because of the Newtonian gravity model and ideology.

Only because any further influence isn't shown in the data. The Newtonian calculations work to such an extent that no other influences need be taken into account given our level of accuracy.

No, it is all what YOU and your fellow "newtonians" require, but it´s not sufficient for me and for the real explanations of WHY they mowe as they do as I write above too.

Once you step away from testable hypotheses that agree with the data and are used to make specific predictions, you are stepping away from science. The *reason* the planets move as they do is because of gravity. If you want to deny that, you have to present a theory that gives at least as accuracy along with the detailed calculations establishing that.

NOTHING you have presented gives any indication that this is possible based on your ideas. And untilt hat is done, your ideas will be and should be ignored by cosmologists.
 

Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
Native said:
No, it is all what YOU and your fellow "newtonians" require, but it´s not sufficient for me and for the real explanations of WHY they mowe as they do as I write above too.

I know. And this is why the consensus scientific method isn´t working. It´s apparently enough for the Newtonian model just to put calculations on observed objects - which anyone interested in math can do without any knowledge of gravity - and then never mind WHY the objects moves as they do.
For the Newtonian approximation, you use F=GMm/r^2 and F=ma. Those two equations, proprly used, will give accurate predictions of the motions of the planets. The discrepancies for the planets closest to the sun are dealt with by General relativity.

Notice that the Newtonian description gives a force, F that is caused by mass and decreases with distance. The equation F=ma tells how other masses respond to that force. This *is* a description of the causes for planetary motion. In the Einsteinian description, G-8(pi)T tells how space and time are curved by mass and energy and the geodesic equation tells how planets or light move in the resulting curved spacetime. Again, this is dealing directly with the causes of planetary motion.

Furthermore, as you have admitted, the calculations done agree with observations to within the accuracy of our measurements.

On the other side, you have the EU theory. As yet, you have given *no* reason to think it can do detailed calculations giving the specific motions of the planets in the solar system. In fact, it can't even do detailed calculations for the motion of stars in the galaxy. It only gives vague claims that E&M is dominant without the calculations and tests to back up that claim.

Guess which one wins? Hint: it is not the second one.

A "scientific practice" which just adds "dark ghost" into its theory when contradicted, isn´t a scientific method at all. It´s just pure guessworks and metaphysics.

Simply false. Here's an example.

After Uranus was discovered, it became clear after a while that its motion wasn't agreeing with the predictions of Newtonian gravity. Some people said that Newtonian gravity needed to be changed or given up. But, instead, a couple of men did some calculations based on Newtonian gravity and said that the problems with the motion of Uranus couldplained if there was another planet even further away from the sun that was affecting its motion. They were able to use Newtonian physics to predict where in the sky to look for that planet. When others actually looked, they found Neptune.

Now, here was a case where it could be argued that Newtonian gravity had failed. The predictions for Uranus simply didn't work out in detail. But, instead of being a failure, it actually became a dramatic success because they were used to predict the 'dark planet' that we now know of as Neptune.

The same type of thing is happening with dark matter. The disagreements with observations are such that *one* addition to the system is enough to resolve the differences. Furthermore, that *one* addition can be tested in other ways and in other contexts and the predictios made have been verified by actual observations.

We are now able to give fairly extensive maps of where dark matter is. This would not be possible if the 'new addition' didn't represent something real and 'out there'. Like Neptune.

I am very much interested in all science. I just have my focus on the examples where the cosmological science isn´t following the scientific method and where the standing cosmological science is far out in the nothingness with nothing more than unnatural speculations.

Sorry, but if the calculations done are giving accurate predictions that can be tested in several independent ways, that *is* the scientific method. What you seem to want is to replace that system that *works* with one that doesn't make any specific, detailed, predictions and to do so only because it aligns with your ideas about how ancient civilizations had some spiritual insights.

Sorry, but that simply isn't the scientific method.[/QUOTE]
 
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