And a sub-rant that I have been wondering about: If the Big Bang theory has been, in essence, proven thanks to the experiment with the microwaves and the pidgeon crap, why is it still a theory and not a law? I wonder.

Because there isn't enough paper in the world to write out all those violation tickets that the religious right wingers would rack up.

Rob

Not a nerd...a brane!

You're totally right that Einstein was a significant contributor to quantum mechanics. Even that EPR paper we mentioned in the soapbox (Einstein-Podolski-Rosen), which tried to argue that it wasn't that nature was undetermined, but that we just didn't know what was there, ended up being the basis for further confirmation of the probabilistic nature of QM. Kind of ironic that he contributed so much to an area he ended up not liking; but also a tribute to his brilliance, that even when he was wrong, his thinking still ended up advancing the field.

Sorry about the bad day for your CC team! But now you have the raw emotional material to make up sad country music.

I think that it would still be a theory. It remains a theory until you can reproduce it, full scale. Just my 2 cents worth.

Not a nerd...a brane!

Bad pun. Such a bad pun.

And the sad country music thing...I'm thinking I'll call the song "Like shit we ran and the shit hit the fan." It has this great banjo part, too.

Maybe you're using the fundamentalist's definition of theory, rather than the scientific one, as in "Evolution is just a theory," like that means it is a wild-and-crazy hypothesis.

And the sad country music thing...I'm thinking I'll call the song "Like shit we ran and the shit hit the fan." It has this great banjo part, too.

But would you be doing this while on the phone?