phonon
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Joined: Nov. 2006
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Our most trusted weapon is the most advanced missile, isn't it?
The foundation is cracked by missile attacks!
Your out-of-date weapons cannot match ours.
ACLU, the radical liberal group
James Clerk Maxwell, the creationist
whaaa?
| Quote | | It was through those divine Maxwell’s Equations of electro dynamics that Einstein formulated his famous theory of relativity, and it was through Maxwell’s Equations that the modern world is what it is today. |
Divine equations? I guess god sent them in a vision?
No god wrote them, Sal believes, because of the praise of Boltzmann. And they must have been written by god, because they are quite literally good for the soul.
I guess that's the problem with childish minds. They take everything so literally. From Genesis to Goethe, it's all literal.
And google provides some nice little tidbits like the Darwin Model for Maxwell's Equations, which is apparently an algorithm for numerically calculating complicated electric fields.
| Quote | | In many cases, the numerical resolution of Maxwell's equations is very expensive in terms of computational cost. The Darwin model, an approximation of Maxwell's equations obtained by neglecting the divergence free part of the displacement current, can be used to compute the solution more economically. However, this model requires the electric field to be decomposed into two parts for which no straightforward boundary conditions can be derived. In this paper, we consider the case of a computational domain which is not simply connected. With the help of a functional framework, a decomposition of the fields is derived. It is then used to characterize mathematically the solutions of the Darwin model on such a domain. |
And this page talking about creationists' dishonesty (no!) about certain scientists that were Darwin's contemporaries.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/MaxwellMoleculesAndEvolution.html
The page tries hard but it doesn't make its point very clearly.
| Quote | | No theory of evolution can be formed to account for the similarity of molecules, for evolution necessarily implies continuous change, and the molecule is incapable of growth or decay, of generation or destruction. - Maxwell |
Wow, how wrong could he be? A molecule is incapable of decay, generation, or destruction? Wrong-o.
Maybe what he meant was atoms? And even then he's still wrong.
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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