Universe 'too queer' to grasp

[DoYouEverWonder]

12 July, 2005

Scientist Professor Richard Dawkins has opened a global conference of big thinkers warning that our Universe may be just "too queer" to understand.

Professor Dawkins, the renowned Selfish Gene author from Oxford University, said we were living in a "middle world" reality that we have created.

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Because different species live in different models of the world, there was a discomfiting variety of real worlds, he suggested.

"Middle world is like the narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum that we see," he said.

"Middle world is the narrow range of reality that we judge to be normal as opposed to the queerness that we judge to be very small or very large."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4676751.stm


Oh my, the world is 'queer'? What will the fundies think?

[Demeter]

1. They'll Agree; and then Push for Remedial Legislation

Legislating science--shades of the Vatican!

[punpirate]

2. It's science...

... the fundies will not understand... in the worst possible manner.

Dawkins is suggesting that our understanding of the universe is skewed by our vantage point and our means of measurement, I think. The fundies will choose to treat his remarks as science promoting homosexuality, or something equally absurd.

I don't think anyone can predict the details of how the fundies will react. One just knows that they will, and with the greatest possible misunderstanding. *sigh*

[moggie]

3. Unless I've misunderstood

He's saying we're all gay hobbits.

[truthisfreedom]

4. brilliant!

stop posting nonsense about brilliant scientists.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. What nonsense?

This was published by the BBC.

[Moderator]

5. article is more than 12 hours old

:-)

[Flammable Materials]

7. Get ready for ...

... www.godhatestheuniverse.com

:evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. So does this mean

god is queer?

BTW: your link is broke

[Flammable Materials]

10. joke link n/t

[DelawareValleyDem]

9. Reminds me of the JBS Haldane quote

"My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose"

[jim3775]

11. To paraphrase the HHGTTG

Some people say that as soon as we fully understand the universe it will be replaced by something even more strange and confusing.