The Expansions Cult

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Let's remember, (verified by Janet, hooray'd by Stewart)..
supermarket milk is nasty. You must use gorilla milk or anything else besides cattle milk, since Janet was a milklady and was disgusted.

[Mercy Now]

PointFive-C ,

Having grown up rurally, with two farming grandfathers ,one at one point being a dairy farmer, and many farming relatives, I would say that organic cow's milk is okay,  but I couldn't, in good conscience ,recommend  the pasteurized regular stuff that is on the grocery shelves. It's full of  injected hormones and chemicals to start with . The conditions under which these animals are kept ,in order for the  farmer to make a profit ,aren't desirable either. 

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When nothing else is available, well, you know.

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I like this one:

One time I asked Stewart about gravity - he gave me something about centrifugal force.

THEN

Sometime later, he said science does not understand gravity.


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[Richard]

I thought I heard that too that science doesn't understand gravity. Just like they don't understand electricity.

[Octahedron]

I thought I heard that too that science doesn't understand gravity. Just like they don't understand electricity.

And much more ...


alchemy, magnetism, magic, esoterics, time travel, teleportation, levitation, reincarnation ... 

But the "Law of Gravity of Isaac Newton" is "scientists' " biggest hoax.

Poor Newton, he was misinterpreted totally by his fellows.

So, no personal blame on Newton here.

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[Mercy Now]

icon_lachtot You are so waaay off Octahedron. Using your examples one could accept that Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are real.

To use gravity as an example...

Is it both a “Law” and a Theory ? We can look at Sir Isaac Newton’s math on gravitational effects and see how the word ‘LAW’ applies. The results of identical tests are the same and predictable for the EFFECTS of gravity. What gravity is, what it is made of, all of those interesting things that we don’t yet know about gravity are THEORY, maybe not even theory, maybe just HYPOTHESIS.

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/...ngrav.html

Before the 19th century, scientists and mathematicians were caught up in the Enlightenment fever of figuring out nature’s “laws” as Newton did in Principia and since much of what high school education teaches in science class was discovered in this time, students grow up with the idea that there are inviolable “laws” in science.

What happened in the 19thC was the discovery of several paradoxes in mathematics which made mathematicians realize that their “theorems” (which is basically what “laws” are called in mathematics) must be rigorously proved. Before this, many discoveries in mathematics were done in the same way as science, i.e, by observation. As any decently educated math major can tell you now, no matter how many billions of cases in which an idea may hold, that does not prove it. To prove a theorem requires a rigorous proof which eliminates the possibility of that theorem being wrong.

 

from Wikipedia....

“In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists “theory” and “fact” do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behaviour are Newton’s theory of universal gravitation (see also gravitation), and General relativity.”

[Mercy Now]

It is more accurate to say...

Scientists don't fully understand gravity or electricity.

 IMO....SS saying  what he said implies that he,the Wizard, does fully understand. Bullsh*t.
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I don't have a source on this one, but I'm told Stewie picks all the marshmallows out of the cerealbox and eats them before anyone else gets any cereal. He also his own carseat with a four-point safetybelt installed in the backrow of their Hummer, with shooting stars sewed into the design work.

[Richard]

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