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Arryn · #1 March 4th, 2004, 01:47 AM

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
That would be what happens when you have a game community that is composed of people sufficiently erudite to actually have heard of and maybe worked with these concepts, as opposed to a game community composed primarily of 12 year olds.

Some of us, such as myself, actually majored in physics. Astrophysics in my case, rather than particle physics, but string theory bears on cosmology, so I'm fairly well-acquainted with it.

OTOH, I have no idea how Gandalf derives a connection to so-called "intelligent design" (aka creationism) from string theory.

Ctennyson · #2 March 4th, 2004, 03:26 AM

Where would one find a game community composed of 12 year olds? Is this like...posting on a Playstation 2 board, or something?

LOL.

Gandalf Parker · #3 March 4th, 2004, 04:17 AM

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Originally posted by Ctennyson:
Where would one find a game community composed of 12 year olds? Is this like...posting on a Playstation 2 board, or something?

LOL.

XBox plays Online with a net address.
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Gandalf Parker · #4 March 4th, 2004, 04:40 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Arryn:
Some of us, such as myself, actually majored in physics. Astrophysics in my case,

Reminds me of a system admin we had at our Last ISP who had a degree in astrophysics. The owner used to love to make jokes about "its not like this is rocket science" and "not all of us are rocket scientists"

OTOH, I have no idea how Gandalf derives a connection to so-called "intelligent design" (aka creationism) from string theory.

I am NOT desiring to open that can of worms here but if you are really interested here are some cliff notes.

Arryn · #5 March 4th, 2004, 06:25 AM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Reminds me of a system admin we had at our Last ISP who had a degree in astrophysics. The owner used to love to make jokes about "its not like this is rocket science" and "not all of us are rocket scientists"

I've gotten my share of that as well. You may note from my sig that I live in Houston. I *have* worked as a rocket scientist ...

Lord Hammer · #6 March 4th, 2004, 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by Ctennyson:
Where would one find a game community composed of 12 year olds? Is this like...posting on a Playstation 2 board, or something?

LOL.

Unreal Tournament etc...

LordArioch · #7 March 5th, 2004, 12:18 AM

I'd say Warcraft 3, but after hearing about how bad those forums are and actually looking...
I don't even know how they manage to use a web browser or feed themselves most of the Posts are so painfully stupid. I'm not sure what age you'd have to be to make Posts like that.

And I'm not quite sure I agree with some of the things in your linked text file there...I won't get into a detailed argument, but I don't think quantum theory has "moved things from understandable provable scientific rules" Now admittedly quantum systems behave in a way very much out of the realm of everyday experience so they cannot be understood by simple analogies. And quantum theory is just as provable as the rest of physics...if it wasn't it wouldn't be a theory. Admittedly we can't know exactly if things work like the theory says they do, but the results we get conform with experiment, and that's how we came up with gravitation and everything else.

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