Author: Jong KimJong Kim Date: Oct 2, 2007 04:18
"Tim" wrote:
> "Jong Kim" wrote:
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> Did you have a point or did you come here just to thump your babble?
The following excerpt from Herbert Spencer's Victorian anti-Christ treatise
*First Principles* (1862) is what first came to my attention:
Matter then, in its ultimate nature, is as absolutely incomprehensible as
Space and Time. Whatever supposition we frame leaves us nothing but
a choice between opposite absurdities.*
<* To discuss Lord Kelvin's hypothesis of vortex-atoms, from the scientific
point of view, is beyond my ability. From the philosophical point of view,
[No difference between true science and true philosophy, for
they are one and the same, or the religion of Jesus Christ.
Neither you or I am capable of quantitative philosophy as Kelvin could.
Nonetheless, if we are intellectually honest, we can understand these
things at a conceptual or qualitative level, God willing.]
however I may say that since it postulates a homogeneous medium which is
strictly continuous (non-molecular), which is incompressible, which is a
perfect fluid in the sense of having no viscosity, and...
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