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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (19648)	1/16/2012 11:20:29 PM
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If true, the known cosmos may instead "be a tiny part of the aftermath of 'our' big bang, which is itself just one bang among a perhaps-infinite ensemble," Prof Dr Rees writes. Even more intriguing is that different physics might prevail in these different universes, so that "some of what we call 'laws of nature' may ... be local bylaws." Ah, many universes , many big bangs and we are just in one small part of a vast whole ....that's alot of territory even for a itinerant charismatic rabbi 2000yrs ago to have created even with the help of his ever absent deliquent "Dad" . Continental drift was just a theory they had only guessed at the turn of the last century , not until the newer theory/science of plate tectonics starts to evolve in the 1950s and then congeals elegantly out of published data collected from seismologic stationsin the South Pacific all the way finally by 1968 .(and a lot of help from Navy mapping of ocean sea floors for subamarine warfare )

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (19648)	1/16/2012 11:33:58 PM
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Little steps , our knowledge grows by little steps but notice there's not shown the slightest interest by these fellows on what are nominated as some of the most elegant theories of science you just posted . The following one below i find intrguing only because have been just seeing it for myself lately as the polititics moved on into the mighty South Carolina's Baptist bastion and the right wing religious group mentality that persists to this day there . (all one million of them ) Also explains nicely the phenomenon we get to enjoy here of the our right wing"Texas minded" pov hating on *"those dam librals"* and certain rapturist pockets up in central Canada that like to pop in nightly ... that reinforce their beliefs even more radically as they go, without any real interest in what new science & research has been moving on into . * Psychologist David Myers of Hope College Mi. finds "group polarization" a beautiful idea, since it explains how interacting with others tends to amplify people's initial views. In particular, discussing issues with like-minded peers -increasingly the norm in the United States, where red states attract conservatives and blue states attract liberals - push people toward extremes. "The surprising thing is that the group as a whole becomes more extreme than its pre-discussion average," he said in an interview. Very true indeed that we should all heed Kurt Vonnegut's advice : *"'We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.'"*