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Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors
I mean I'm reasonably sure they didn't just build the thing for no reason. You don't spend that much time building one machine to answer only one question. That does not make any logical sense. Fact of the matter is that the thing exists and it took 40 or 50 years to build and a crap load of money to build. No one does that, for a single question. No one approves the loan for that for a single question.
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I don't have faith in man being rational, but obviously there are multiple questions that can be answered from research. That's a no brainer.
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High level physics isn't hippie mumbo-jumbo. There are college courses on it, people go to school for this sort of thing. To discredit that would be like to discredit people who go to college for music.
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1. I'm not dismissing the research, I'm dismissing your faith in as of now unsubstantiated theories on the Higgs Boson being some kind of spirit particle that separates us from the apes (also not a very Darwinian premise there if you think about it).
2. Have you met people who went to college for music? The majority of them either have terrible philosophies of music or are painfully mediocre and uninteresting players. That doesn't discredit the value of music theory either.
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People are typically either motivated by Fear, or Aspiration, and that all of our actions and reactions, are subject under Fear and Aspiration. That's how our society functions. Our civilization is sort of founded upon those two things. But I also believe largely in the Socratic Paradox, in that I know that I know nothing. The thread was about Fear, and so yeah, that potential I find rather discomforting and scary. I think that thing is supposed to be discomforting and scary though. Anything that fishes around in the unknown is meant to do that, that's that way for a reason. Fear is good, it's part of what keeps people alive sometimes. I like solutions, is the thing. I'm more afraid of not knowing, than knowing.
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Congratulations.