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In reply to the discussion: Why is the Universe Comprehensible? [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)19. Can they see color?
I think your dissatisfaction with this article may be blinding you.
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That's not the issue, we can't see the entire electromagnetic spectrum, only a small part of it...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#31
Is a well understood phenomenon, we have been able to measure its strength...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#36
If you are talking about dark matter, I did say there are unknowns, that doesn't mean its..
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#38
I think we agree, except that I would emphasize that we comprehend "up to a point".
eomer
Feb 2014
#45
Gravity is a curvature of spacetime caused by the presence of mass in the Universe...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#55
I see, thanks. But I don't think top relativity scientists think they've explained gravity.
eomer
Feb 2014
#59
Was thinking, from memory, that the double-slit experiment wasn't fully explained.
eomer
Feb 2014
#64
But is that something we can never understand? You are placing limits, artificial ones at that...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#75
You can give a person a meter that tells him a particular object is reflecting light ...
Jim__
Feb 2014
#71
Butterflies can see more colors than we can, by the nature of their eyes.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2014
#72
My example was of a conversation contrasting 2 colors. You didn't address the conversation at all.
Jim__
Feb 2014
#74
You say, "Not at all," but do you understand that knowing the information that goes into a ...
Jim__
Feb 2014
#84
You can call it anything you want, what you're doing is demonstrating your ignorance.
Jim__
Feb 2014
#89
The device only exists *NOW* if people are willing to trade color blindness for legal blindness.
Jim__
Feb 2014
#93
No doubt our small brains cannot entirely comprehend the full, complex universe
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#14
The classic high-theological style, equivocates between belief and unbelief
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#21
Happy to hear that any initial, possible ambiguity, was subsequently disambiguated.
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#30
"Seidensticker" is a techie, moonlighting in religion; his stuff seems pretty amateurish and quirky
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#13
The quote from Bill O'Reilly at the end is what is truly incomprehensible
Fortinbras Armstrong
Feb 2014
#15
Our brains can comprehend the Universe because our brains are part of the Universe.
tridim
Feb 2014
#51
True, but dogs also can't design or build computers and other mental tools...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#76
My response was to post #51. It had to do with what is entailed by being part of the universe.
Jim__
Feb 2014
#78
I would say that a universe conducive to life evolving within it would have to be comprehensible...
Humanist_Activist
Feb 2014
#95