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Author Re: religion
Oliver Wong

2006-01-09, 6:59 pm


"Defaultuser" <defaultuser@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fHAqf.161$bd.85@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
> Maybe they have invented mass-less anti-energy. And then if something
> else breaks, they'll invent something else (or change their expected
> predictions ex post facto which they do a lot) ....Physicists - they ares
> kind of like the Dell helpdesk.


Ideally, they will be discovering, rather than inventing, new types of
particles (or other stuff) in the quest to understand the origin of reality
and the universe. As for changing the expected predicition, yes, they do
that a lot. I've done it too, on occasion, when predicting the behaviour of
programs I've written.

"Well, yeah, we *could* run it now to see, but it's just gonna crash
because this pointer is null."
[Runs it, and it doesn't crash, but instead prints out a bunch of zeros]
"Umm... hmm... Oh, right, yeah, that makes sense. 'Cause, see here, on
this line, we're using Java's auto-unboxing feature, and Integer object
references, when they're null, get converted to the primtive value '0'."


> Of course - if you take all matter and anti-matter do you end up with
> nothing? Or do you disappear back into totally symmetrical mexican hat
> universe....just waiting for a rebel Higgs particle to say "Te veo más
> tarde"...as he heads off to find the real God particle - and the cycle
> begins....
>


Umm... The first one.

- Oliver


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