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Old 04-06-2011, 01:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Potus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
No but you see, someone discovered the Photon and called it a Photon. Before that, no one would have called something a Photon, the same way no one would have called Thomas Paine a Socialist before the idea had even been published and the term "Socialist" coined.

You should watch Back to the Future, it's got very few black people in it and it explains the whole "TIME" thing. It's very simple, I'm sure you'll grasp it after repeated viewings.
Also, nobody discovered the photon, it was predicted (Newton got the word out, Fresnel/Huygens owned him) then Planck brought it back full circle predicting light as a particle. In physics, discoveries are made in the lab, but things like the photon, or any other construct of the mind, are not discovered but merely revealed by experiment. Experiment drives construction of a theory, that is why the Stern-Gerlach experiment revealed quantum mechanics' beauty. Only when the experimentalists and theorists have close discourse can progress be made.

This lack of communication and common sense between socialists is astounding. Unfortunately, socialism (a beautiful construct of the mind) has been revealed to fail, experimentally. Thus it only works in the confines of a cranial ivory tower. Interestingly, the socialist's skull is their ivory tower (ivory prison), for they have never ventured into the real world to see that their crackpot theories fail.

You and OP need to stop using something as beautiful as the photon to discuss socialism/(current trend of US liberalism). GTFO! You demean science in doing so.

Also, offhandedly insulting Back to the Future is reprehensible. That movie is fantastic. Only newbs say otherwise.

/trying to derail thread
Last edited by Toehammer; 04-06-2011 at 01:52 AM..