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Scientific terminology is generally more precise (and occasionally less precise) than lay terminology, meaning that if you use the wrong word, you mean something you did not intend. However, you probably have no idea exactly how much a scientist is already translating their discussion into a version more generally digestible unless you spend time listening to him/her in discussion with colleagues. Compare a paper and the press release based on it sometime and you will have an inkling of how much translation is already going on, between the terminology and trying to express math in words. Some of the burden has to be on the audience to gain some scientific literacy if they want to participate in the discussion.

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! Moderator Note If you have a new theory to share, it should be posted in the Speculations section

Either that or it limits itself to searching posts made/threads started under the new software. I have a vague recollection of noticing this when we switched.

exploration has been banned for breaking the rules and then throwing multiple tantrums when called on it.

Hal has been banned for being an insufferable troll, continuing along the path of insulting members (for which he had already been suspended), culminated by an inappropriate foreign-language poem.

What are the approximate coordinates of the cache? That usually helps. The coordinates given on the cache page are usually close to the actual cache, so the degrees of lat and long are typically the same.

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! Moderator Note Religion debates should be made in the religion forum. However, telling people what they must or must not believe is probably not going to fly. Please make sure you are familiar with the board rules. No need to respond to this note. I don't see how it can be viewed as anything but evidence for common ancestry. The debate has to be about whether it is "enough" and genetics is not the only evidence.

If they are part of currently accepted paradigms, post in the appropriate sections. If it contradicts current paradigms, post in speculations.

Since Farsight has returned from his self-imposed exile and immediately resumed posting his pet theories in mainstream threads (rule 10 violation), he has been banned.

If you want to discuss it, it belongs in its own thread.

! Moderator Note Responses moved to new thread http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/58908-herschel-space-telescope/

But then you'd have to be banned, too, for posting those links.

Hal has been suspended for making some unfortunate comments in violation of rule 1 (civility/personal attack) and then blatantly ignoring the staff by continuing along that path.

Didn't Sanborn confirm the solutions to parts 1-3?

All well and good, except that the first three panels have been deciphered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos So the contention that nothing is encoded can't be true.

So a rigid structure that I can describe with a mathematical function is in fact moving?

Sure it is. He has to show his claim works within the framework of QM. Klaynos and I have objected because his claims were solely based on classical models. Motion and trajectories take on a very different meaning (or are abandoned altogether) in QM systems No it doesn't. Motion implies a variation in time, not position. If there is motion, what is the speed here? what is dx/dt?

y = sin(x) represents motion? How so? Your claim, your burden of proof. It's not my job to teach you QM, nor is math without experimental support sufficient to show anything; your math so far has been describing classical physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_atom#Wavefunction Where is the motion?