Yesterday's gods were using general relativity to bend space closer to their trone, and today they start learning about quantum non-locality from popular magazines and try to think how to use it in order to gain more control of world (which does not go by their will, but strictly by logical mathematical rules which we happen to historically call natural laws). Despite, by the way, the fact that non-locality strictly obeys Heizenberg uncertainty.

Are those Santa-gods always behind each and every civilization in Milky Way? Or they read human popular literature only, and do not pay attention to more advanced civilizations around because humans are probably the last left to be fooled easily (due to poor education in US)?

And why some humans have ignorance so great that they deny the fact that EVERYTHING in universe goes by itself, strictly as math prescribes without any need of any Santa? Or they simply do not know that yet (despite that physics textbooks are full of explanations). Well, why don't they take some classes then to educate themselves BEFORE they say something stupid about nature (like gods controlling every molecule and every cell)?

Or are we (well, some of us) growing yet and thus still NEED those Santas - as 4-year child who does not know where toys come from needs Santa to explain that phenomenon and also "just to feel better"?

• Education - stormcrow - September 5, 2001 - 17:43 UTC
  • If they're so stupid how come they're so rich? - aurino - September 5, 2001 - 18:58 UTC
    • To be reach you do not to be educated. Vice versa. - alexander - September 5, 2001 - 20:26 UTC
      • I don't live in the US Alex - aurino - September 6, 2001 - 17:29 UTC
    • I'm an American, Aurino - stormcrow - September 5, 2001 - 22:12 UTC
      • I never thought otherwise - aurino - September 6, 2001 - 17:44 UTC
        • Well, - stormcrow - September 6, 2001 - 23:03 UTC
  • Education problem. - alexander - September 5, 2001 - 19:31 UTC
    • You nailed it! - pmartin - September 5, 2001 - 20:08 UTC
      • Is there a way. - rggarfinkle - September 6, 2001 - 01:56 UTC
    • Not always true - yanniru - September 5, 2001 - 23:00 UTC
      • True, true. Here are some data about US education. - alexander - September 5, 2001 - 23:46 UTC
        • Aarrrrrgggghhh!!! It makes me sick! - pmartin - September 6, 2001 - 00:06 UTC
          • Depressing - stormcrow - September 6, 2001 - 00:53 UTC
            • Yes, I'm afraid it's a slippery slope - pmartin - September 6, 2001 - 01:07 UTC
        • cience is done by the very best students - yanniru - September 6, 2001 - 12:31 UTC
    • There's a silver lining to this story - harvey1 - September 10, 2001 - 21:11 UTC
      • I think you should credit our Founding Fathers - pmartin - September 11, 2001 - 00:28 UTC
• Other galaxy aliens ahead of earth elders? - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 00:05 UTC
  • Are you admitting to being an alien - yanniru - September 6, 2001 - 12:27 UTC
    • mistakes? what mistakes? - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 22:00 UTC
      • Is there any math behind your words - yanniru - September 6, 2001 - 22:29 UTC
        • Maybe I use different words to you. - dolphin - September 8, 2001 - 02:41 UTC
• scientists playing catch-up to Religion? - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 01:40 UTC
  • No, no nonononono. No, no. No. - stormcrow - September 6, 2001 - 02:04 UTC
    • Um, sort of yes, yes, yesyesyesyes, yes yes! - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 11:46 UTC
      • This statement is wrong - yanniru - September 6, 2001 - 12:38 UTC
        • Even double wrong. - alexander - September 6, 2001 - 23:04 UTC
          • Who takes the Bible literally? - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 23:09 UTC
            • Fundamentalists - stormcrow - September 6, 2001 - 23:12 UTC
              • Typo - stormcrow - September 6, 2001 - 23:14 UTC
              • Bible falls apart any way you take it: literally or not. - alexander - September 6, 2001 - 23:22 UTC
                • I should have checked - dolphin - September 8, 2001 - 02:43 UTC
                  • True - stormcrow - September 8, 2001 - 02:50 UTC
        • I knew I was skating On thin Ice - dolphin - September 6, 2001 - 23:05 UTC
          • Very thin ice: how about false vacuum and Higgs field? - alexander - September 6, 2001 - 23:34 UTC