Category: Definitions
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Transubstantiation, atoms, scientism…
Non-believers are baffled by Christians believing they eat the blood and body of Christ during transubstantiation. We can accept it as a metaphor, but not as something "real". We cannot literally accept that we eat the blood and body of Christ. What are we taking "literally"? We see food and we think it is solid.…
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Absolute temperatures, efficiency > 100%, definitions, “limits”…
What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero. Physicists…
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The greatest scientific discovery of 2013... WIMP!
Yes. We have seen it before. We give something a name and suddently we are able to "discover" it. WIMP (as in hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem) is the new "Higgs boson". As in... here. Or... here. And we used to laugh at people who believed in aether...
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