Rebecca Boyle – Uncommon Descent

Solar system formation

At Quanta: Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets

Observations of faraway planets have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of how our solar system came to be.

JVL Relatd: What? Industry – with lots of money – could not afford to install scrubbers on their smoke-belching smokestacks. Why?... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd JVL at 134, 100% fake. Nothing emerges from anything. Everything has properties and potentialities. Period. These are built-in and predetermined... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Relatd: Why do some metals combine to form alloys while some cannot? The alloy has properties of the combined metals.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Origenes at 131, It's totally fake. The laws of physics apply. In my kids' chemistry set, I got two clear... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd JVL at 130, What? Industry - with lots of money - could not afford to install scrubbers on their smoke-belching... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes Relatd@ I think “emergent” is a fake idea. When you mix 2 Blue and 1 Red, the color Purple *emerges*.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: What happens to an ecology when a species is introduced that is superior to all the others in the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd JVL at 127, Why do some metals combine to form alloys while some cannot? The alloy has properties of the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Origenes: It makes sense to say that a statement about the system as a whole must come from a position... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Relatd: This is a subatomic/quantum effect. And not explainable as emergent anything. Well, I think water does exhibit properties not... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL I'm not sure we've latched onto the real notion of axiom, at least in mathematics. Again from Wikipedia: An axiom,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Origenes at 180, A strong desire toward simple, but elaborate sounding, explanations doesn't explain anything. Human beings have been trying... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB Ted Bundy’s immoral actions are NOT a direct result of something made by God. Ted Bundy is made by... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd JVL at 123, A little chemistry lesson. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water. If you take a tank with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes PM1What Gödel did was prove that, for a specific class of formal systems, there will be statements constructed in that... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: If anything actually emerged, it would destroy itself in a very short time. Nothing more has to be said.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
JVL Jerry: It’s an old computer (Apple laptop) but with most recent system for it. Me too; two different Macs in... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 Addition to my 118 The rules of a game tell you what is a legitimate move in the game. In... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd "anti-physicalist"? Seriously? Elaborate arguments confuse the issue. There is no "emergent" anything. It is fiction. As in fiction. [said with... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd What a horrible, horrible article. As a working editor, I would have had a long talk with the writer about... – And another thing: Evolutionary biology is...
PyrrhoManiac1 @116 If “strongly emergent” means “caused by the physical anyway even though it cannot be explained by it”, then the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...