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Originally Posted by mercuryrising  What is matter made up of? |
Um, atoms.
Atoms are made of particles that only have a probablistic chance of being in a given location. That's about as far as those implications go, though.
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Originally Posted by mercuryrising And yes, it does have philosophical implications. Just because you refuse to look for those implications doesn't mean they don't exist. |
Hmm, a bit over-defensive just because I'm pointing it's not as abstract and new-agey as one might like? Your idea of energy is different from the scientific idea of energy. Which is fine, but it means that the scientific idea doesn't support your philosophical idea.
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Originally Posted by mercuryrising Is it possible for you to respect other people's perspectives while giving your own? |
I don't see how I did anything different. Simply trying to say that the scientific perspective was misstated. You're free to hold any philosophical perspective you like, but currently science doesn't support it.
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Originally Posted by mercuryrising And since, this has become another exercise in circular logic, I'm done. |
*looks around* Where's the circular logic?
Just trying to bring it back to earth.