Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, May 12, 2014

Supersymmetry

I've read a couple of science articles about supersymmetry ("SUSY") and I am pretty baffled. SUSY seems to have something to do with a relationship between the subatomic particles that can be observed using very powerful particle accelerators and their "superpartners", which the theorists think exist but haven't been found. They're planning to crank the Large Hadron Collider up to full power by 2015 to look for the superpartners.

The thing is that if no proof for SUSY is found, then physicists will wander off and develop other hypotheses for how the Universe holds together.

Which highlights the difference between religion and science, in that in science, when the facts contradict the ideas, the ideas are rethought. In religion, the facts are denied.
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3 comments:

Sarah said...

Not always.

"If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview." -- Dalai Lama

5/12/2014 8:13 PM
Andrew S said...

If only it were so. Dare to suggest that our climate models are woefully inaccurate and you get tarred and feathered like you just nailed just south of 100 heretical essays to a church door.

5/13/2014 6:36 AM
Boonton said...

Andrew S

Nonsense, there are plenty of people who dissent on climate models. And as you unwittingly admit when you use the plural ("climate models" rather than "the climate model"), there's already plenty of people who point out inaccuracies without giving any business to merchants selling tar and feathers.

5/17/2014 12:07 PM

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