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Kalister1
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18 Jan 2008, 3:49 am

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Dead energy, though. What makes it energy in the first place is that it has light behind it. Light is energy.


I think you need to take a course in basic physics. :lol:
Mass-Energy is the most concentrated of all the forms of energy.


Err.. light behind it?



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18 Jan 2008, 3:58 am

Light can be solid. Completely solid. Mass-energy. :P

The other stuff solid is not good. It is evil, it is barriers preventing pieces of light from getting to each other.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:01 am

Er.. how is it a solid? If you mean it can behave like a particle, then yes. I'm pretty sure you meant it in a different way, but I'll give it to you.

Er.. The Universe is not evil, there is no evil in the universe.

Read "Beyond Good and Evil", basic philosophy.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:05 am

I see that I have failed to communicate properly. If I hadn't everyone would agree with me.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:10 am

Ana54 wrote:
I see that I have failed to communicate properly. If I hadn't everyone would agree with me.


8) Maybe Im just confused.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:22 am

And btw, a particle of something can be any size.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:33 am

Ana54 wrote:
And btw, a particle of something can be any size.


Im pretty sure a photon has to be a certain size.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:34 am

From what we've SEEN.

Forget it; I need to think of a way to communicate better.



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18 Jan 2008, 4:40 am

Ana54 wrote:
From what we've SEEN.

Forget it; I need to think of a way to communicate better.


:lol: Hehehe. From what we've seen? Quantum Physics has hundreds of man years in research. Hahaha.



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18 Jan 2008, 3:59 pm

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that sounds interesting. what is the pomo-socio-perspective?


Oh, sorry. PoMo is just a nickname for postmodernism or postmodern.

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i read through the wikipedia for 'social constructionism' and it seemed like an academic marriage of social philosophy and cognitive science. going beyond, or behind, the concept of 'social constructionism', what would be a postmodern theory or sociological observation as it might be presented to the general public as opposed to academics? i'm imagining something like 'people eat fast food hamburgers excessively because dada is dead.', but i'm pretty ignorant in the ways of sociology.


In sociology, social constructionism is basically rooted in the interactionist (also called interpretivist) paradigm. Some of the Wikipedia articles on the subject, however, confuse social constructionism, a sociological perspective, with constructivism, a cognitive psychological perspective. In practice, there are only superficial similarities between them.

Social constructionism is rooted in the social phenomenology of Peter Berger and in the poststructuralism of Michel Foucault. The emphasis is on how people, in interaction, socially construct reality (including knowledge and power). If what we call reality is constructed, it can also be deconstructed (and reconstructed). For instance, in my own research, I tend to be a postempiricist (or postpositivist). In other words, I recognize that different methodologies may produce (i.e., construct) different, even contradictory, results.

Psychological constructivism focuses on how individuals construct belief systems to make sense out of their experiences. The emphasis is on the individual, not on processes of social construction.


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