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re: "Watch him squirm"

I don't know. His explanation sounds pretty good to me, given that explanations can only go so far when the entirety isn't known.

If you've never been to the next state over, you can still speculate on it based on what you know of your own state, and I think that's reasonable. But, it's only speculation and probably fraught with errors.

That's what Feynman is trying, better than me, to say. We probably have 1% of the physical universe reasonably well understood. Outside those boundaries, all we can do is extrapolate based on what we DO know.

And then, invariably, someone asks if we really know anything. Maybe it's all an illusion, they wonder. Yes, maybe so. But that's a pointless avenue of thought, isn't it?
 




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Re: Want to Slow Climate Change? Stop Having Babies
By: faul
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Sun, 25 Sep 16 10:15 PM
Msg. 11496 of 47202

One of the top 10 scientists of all time......Richard Feynman
explains how Magnets work lol........Watch him squirm being
asked what you would believe such a simple question......
My point is they really don't know......But they are great
at solving mathematical equationsSmile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2RaDVkylY

"So I'm not going to be able to give you an answer to why magnets attract each other, except to tell you that they do. And to tell you that that's one of the elements in the world of different kinds of forces. There are electrical forces, magnetic forces, gravitational forces and others, and those are some of the parts. If you were a student I could go further: I could tell you that the magnetic forces are related to the electrical forces very intimately. That the relationship between the gravity forces and the electrical forces remains unknown, and so on. But I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you're more familiar with. Because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with."
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