Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Cosmology

What's the best cosmological theory?
I think Einstein is old fashioned
bye bye

 I think Einstein is old fashioned
The age of a theory is irrelevent. It is the experimental soundness of a 
theory that counts.
Bob Kolker

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Hi Bob, how are you?:)
What do you think about M-theory?
bye
Franco


      What do you think of this?
 
http://www.lyndonashmore.com/pressrelease.html
 
http://www.lyndonashmore.com

 theory that counts.
Please remove it.cultura.linguistica.inglese from future replies, as the
subject is OT for that group.
Thanks,
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Mary

 What do you think about M-theory?
I don't know that much about it. Has it produced any empirically 
testable results? If not, I am not particularly interested. Theories are 
nice. Experiments are better. Facts rule, theories serve.
Bob Kolker

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Keep your temper please.
Try to read the "manifesto".
And put me into your fillfile:)

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Do you think that our universe is finite or infinite?
Bye Bob
Franco

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It's not just him that thinks that Einstein's cosmological theory is old
fashioned, but physicists in general. And that has already been going on
for ages. In fact, Einstein thought that the universe is static and
immutable as well as Aristotle did. Of course, the Theory of Relativity is
quite another pair of shoes and it has been proven and applied in
experimental physics long after Einstein had formulated it, both in
particle physics and in astrophysics. Therefore, it appears pretty wrong
to state that Einstein is or not old fashioned: it depends on what part of
Einstein's theory and thoughts we are considering. Among other things,
Einstein thought that "God does not play dice" when interrogated about
quantum mechanics, so that is another issue in which he might be regarded
as 'old fashioned'. One thing alone is clear: there no more room for a
Newtonian view of the universe like a clockwork in which everything can be
pre-determined, but possible interpretations of phenomena are becoming to
appear even more visionary than some religions. Let's just think of
travels through time and the arising paradoxes, or the matter which can
simply come out of nothing according to quantum mechanics, or the
indetermination principle. For this reason a good sceptic believer in
science who does not support religion cannot, in my opinion, be exactly
the other way round, that is an atheist: he could at most be an agnostic.
We are at the moment absolutely unable to know what we cannot perceive by
our deterministic means, what lies in the Thereafter and what will become
of our conscience after death. And what this universe, or the universes
connected through wormholes or whatever they are, means at all.
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particle physics and in astrophysics.
"another pair of shoes".
E' un idioma coniato da te o l'hai   traslato dall'italiano all'inglese?
O scherzavi?:)
Ciao
Franco
p.s. fa attenzione a non postare in crosspost, quando scriviamo in italiano.

 O scherzavi?:)
ricordo di averlo letto in un dizionario Italiano-Inglese, ma
effettivamente non l'ho mai sentito usare. Se avessi voluto tradurre
l'espressione dall'italiano avrei detto direttamente "another pair of
sleeves"
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 O scherzavi?:)
http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/1133.html
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Dio wrote:
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I do not know. I don't think the idea is inherently contradictory, but 
we have no experimental evidence indicating the universe is infinite 
either.
Bob Kolker

 particle physics and in astrophysics.
O.K. I thought he meant Einstein's theories as opposed to Einstein 
himself. Yes, Einstein was stuck in several ways. He could never accept 
quantum theory except as a defecient approximation to reality. His 
opinions on locality have been refuted by experiment etc. etc..
Indeed Einstein made mistakes, but the product of his mind, the General 
Theory of Relativity, brought up to date and buffed up with more modern 
mathematical methods is a potent tool of cosmology.
Bob Kolker
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> O scherzavi?:)
Ora chiediamo un parere al ng inglese.:)
Ciao
Franco

of our conscience after death.
Notavo il tuo uso del termine "conscience" che come saprai si rende anche
con "consciousness" or "awareness".
Sia consciousness che awareness indicano la "consapevolezza" cioè il sapere
di esserci, il sentire et cetera.
Conscience a tuo avviso potrebbe essere assimilato alla "coscienza" intesa
in senso morale? Cioè la ambiguità(o meglio la plurisignificatività) del
termine è resa anche in english oppure no?
Se hai i miei stessi dubbi possiamo chiedere a bionet.neuroscience. Loro
usano spesso questi termini.
Ciao
Franco

 termine è resa anche in english oppure no?
proprio in quel senso, sì. Ad es. guarda qua
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=16288&dict=CALD
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Allora a mio modesto parere andrebbe meglio "consciousness" visto che parli
di vita dopo la morte.
Ti pare?
Cmq "another pair of shoes" a quanto pare non esiste. Evidentemente ti sei
confuso.
Prova a leggere il thread che ho lanciato proprio su questo tema.
Ciao
Franco
p.s. al liceo non c'erano i madrelingua e i ng inglesi:)


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Until recently, the best hope for a theory that would unite gravity with
quantum mechanics and describe all physical phenomena was based on strings :
one-dimensional objectc whose modes of vibration represent the elementary
particles .
In 1995, however, strings were subsumed by M-theory. In the words of the
guru of string theory, Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, N.J., "M stads for magic, mystery or membrane, according to
taste."
New evidence in favor of this theory is apearing daily, representing the
mosto exciting development since strings first  swept onto the scene.
What do you think about?
Bye Bob
Franco

 Prova a leggere il thread che ho lanciato proprio su questo tema.
già fatto. Ma a questo punto mi chiedo chi abbia ragione, il dizionario o
quelli che ti hanno risposto.
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quelli che ti hanno risposto.
Come hai visto ci hanno risposto madrelingua(anche Mary Cassidy) piuttosto
informati.
Io penso che si possa usare ma evidentemente sarà un idioma caduto in
disuso.
Tra le altre cose sto notando che molti idiomi sono o stanno per cadere in
disuso. Infatti il thread che ho lanciato lo sta mettendo in rilievo.
Saluti
Franco