I just got home from a “mini family reunion thing.” One person I was with is a creationist/psychic believer/science hater, and one of the first things she did was to ask me “what’s the fastest speed possible?”. I blindly said “the speed of light” and she started lecturing on how science is wrong yet again. Apparantly, the speed of light has been accelerated by directing a laser into a specific gas, rather than a vaccuum. I haven’t read any articles on this occurance, and know little of it, but I do know that some scientists are unsure whether or not this test really depicts faster light speed. Instead of looking up the info on the net, I figured I should just post it in the GQ and see what I get back. Hopefully I’ll have something to say to the woman that continually makes pathetic attempts to bash science. Come on all you physicists, help me out here.
Hmm…now that I look closer, I see that Johnson already posted this question…oh well.
Demigod, just let me talk to her for awhile. Send her my email address. I will have her touting science in a matter of days. Or I may just have to drown her.
Manhattan, aren’t you the moderator? Feel free to kill this redundant thread. Burnett, she wouldn’t email you. She doesn’t believe me when I inundate her with facts and laws…and common sense. I gave her an astronomy textbook of mine after she told me that earth has been around “forever”…She told me she wouldn’t read it, but I saw that she did read something in it. I normally don’t care when people make stupid comments, it’s just that she tries to force them on others. Her mother is 73ish years old and believes that the world is monitored and controlled by aliens.
I know its hopeless trying to argue with people like this, but maybe you could ask her if “Science” is wrong always, how did “Science” perform the experiments where they accelerated a light pulse faster than c? Why does she accept one scientific experiment and not the other?
However, if I may paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke, “You can always reason with a Creationist. For that matter you can always reason with a barnyard animal, for all the good it will do you.”
Larr, you know she’s only looking for what helps her appear right. She believes heavily in supernatural forces, and to her, science laughs at that. When a scientist says “there’s no higher power,” she says science always contradicts itself. When a scientist with ties to a corporation says that the latest fad food machine will add nutrients and help prevent cancer, she’s all over it.
Frblk: Oh, shit. It seems the old one has found us out.
Breeflat: Indeed, Sub-Kreflaq Frblk. Should we prepare the Carbonic Hyper-Randomizer, sir?
Frblk: Nah. The Bi-nano PredictorLog says she’s gonna get squashed by Elvis’ landing pod next week anyway.
Breeflat: Oh, yeah. I foremembered that.
I am. Oddly enough, however, I am not on these boards 24/4. I apologize that my thread-closing skills are not equal to your use of the search function. Or your use of looking at the friggin first page of the forum. This thread is closed.