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Originally Posted by alatar
Very probably; or at least in regards to this thread. Science observes what is, not what we 'want it to be.' Keep in mind who's the poet in this discussion, and whose imagination is sparking my own.  |
Ah, but any poet worth his salt is dealing in words, which in the Greek =
logos which is the same root word from which we derive logic. A good poet has to be a good logician. The same is true of a good composer. In other words, anybody with a reasonably educated intelligence can think and talk about scientific phenomena profitably. All it takes is informing oneself.
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Originally Posted by alatar
Sorry; I'm too limited. Suppose there are these megalightning strikes between planets, suns, etc. Do they work in concert to maintain the orbit of the planets - some pushing one way, some pushing the opposite so that nothing moves closer or away from the sun?
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Well, I misled you and myself by concentrating on the magnitude of lightning bolts. The lightning bolts themselves are only the results of things going on in plasma fields. It's all about interaction of various electrically charged bodies in space, depending upon their size, the intensity of their electrical charge, etc.
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Originally Posted by alatar
And I keep tripping over that F=ma equation I learned sometime back (force = mass times acceleration). If we assume that the mass of Venus is constant, then to move it from the outer to the inner part of the solar system is going to take some big-time F to get the ball rolling, and then again to get it to stop, especially if we have only so much time to do this in. More time, and we can accelerate/decelerate more slowly, and so less force is required (if I have that right). But we have only a few thousand years. So if this big force exists, why haven't we seen any large planet-sized bodies move in the last few hundred years?
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There's no doubt that it exists. The question is, why is it not being studied? We might find out a lot of things that we currently are not aware of if we were to admit that this force exists on a galactic scale. But yeah, it would be "fun" (in a strange way) if a planet-sized body was seen in a chaotic path through the sky (but I wouldn't want its journey to affect earth). Then again, there are comets. Though not so large, these are chaotic "planets" (planet = wandering star in Greek); if they were acknowledged to be, not balls of ice, but large chunks of rock with magnetic charges, what might be learned from them?
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Originally Posted by alatar
Doesn't it ever bother anyone that all of the fun miracles and myths occurred when the data resolution was less than we have today? Why do those dragons live only on the edges of maps?
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Yes. It does. Which is why I can't get enough of studying them.