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Originally Posted by Talented_Amateur
Where exactly did I state the universe is unknowable? To say humans haven't clue as to the nature of the universe is hardly the same as claiming the universe is unknowable.
Also, I'm well aware of what Hawking was talking about and the fact that none of you were claiming to know the beginning of the universe. I was pointing out that, for now, even the great minds of our time don't know the full truth...hence the title Theoretical Physicist.
As for the recent discovery comment. Yes, a few well educated individuals were aware of a spherical Earth, but they kept that knowledge to themselves for fear of being burned at the stake for going against the mainstream view of a flat Earth. Funny, not much has changed.
By the way Neverfly, thousands of years are really nothing considering exactly many millions of years we our species spent in the stone age. We really are only just beginning to figure things out, but as always our massive egos get in the way, causing us to puff up like angry gorillas.
Any way, I see no point in further correspondence. I assumed this was an environment like my university...a place to toss around a few ideas without others feeling the need to prove their superiority (do I hear the sounds of fists beating down upon a mighty chest?) and telling someone they might fit in nicely in the BAUT forum. Yes great and wise moderator, you can rest easy in the knowledge that your condescension didn't go to waste...you really are the alpha male.
Good-bye and good luck and try to pull yourselves away from that computer once in a while...there's big world out there.
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You are all kinds of wrong at this point.
Speaking of pride and ego- Check yours.
Tossing ideas around is fine- and if you were looking for a place to do such- This is a great place to do it.
However, that does not mean throwing a fit everytime someone shows that you are wildly incorrect.
No one here has given you or shown you a superiority complex.
There is a difference between making knowledgable assumptions and educated guesses...
And spinning ideas out of the ether.
Antoniseb commented that you can fit right in here.
And you can.
But first you need to get your emotions and ego in check.
So far, myself and others have tried reaching out to you- and when you couldn't handle being told that you were simply wrong, you threw a temper tantrum.
Incidently, not a few. A great many cultures, civilizations and groups knew the Earth was round. It was actually more on the recent scale (within hundreds of years) that religious suppression ensured it was not common knowledge as they sought to emphasize the ignorant view.