Posted: Mar 11, 2011 1:15 am
Zwaarddijk wrote:hackenslash wrote:Hang on...
First event... that happens countless times every second?
How the flying fuck does that work, then?
That sounds like a rather poetic explanation of randomness in quantum mechanics (that is, things in quantum mechanics that essentially don't happen for any reason, unlike in classical physics). That's maybe the *least* mistaken notion to all this guy is writing.
Errr, no. 'Random' doesn't mean 'for no reason' or 'by no mechanism' in physics, it means 'statistically independent'.* Moreover, if something happens countless times every second, there is no sense, poetic or otherwise, in which it would be deemed the 'first event'. Only one thing can be deemed the first event, and in reality, especially in light of such things as QM and the laws of thermodynamics, it is pretty much inconcievable that there could be any such thing.
It could be argued that it is among the least mistaken notions presented by this poster, but that gives us a very interesting scale, because it is at the very least horribly mistaken. I would hope that this was among his more mistaken notions, because it's so horribly wrong that anything more wrong than this if frankly as wrong as a wrong thing on wrong juice, and that doesn't bode well, not that anything this poster has given us thus far bodes well.
*It occurs to me that I may have to defend this statement. I hope not, but I can see how it might be misconstrued. I'll wait and see.