The Islamic Golden Age did bring many advancements in science when Europe was backwards and going through its early middle ages. But their success comes from basing their science on early Greek, Roman, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Egyptian, and Phoenician texts that were translated into Arabic. It was like an Arabic version of Renaissance.
The main point here is that your claim "all of what we call science today came from muslims" is quite simply put wrong. I'm not...
No, today's science has roots in ancient Greece, more specifically the Ionian enlightenment which in turn has roots in ancient Egypt and Babylonia. Check out Hippocrates, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras, Thales, Archimedes...
This tradition was rediscovered in the dark middle ages when Greek intellectuals fled the suppressive Islamistic rule of conquering Ottomans.These Greek scholars settled in Italy and were in key role initiating the Renaissance.
For a more le...
Einstein's seemingly "otherwordly" theories have a long history of important technical applications. For example, nuclear energy is rooted in his energy-mass equivalence equation (E=mc^2). His theory of stimulated emission gave us basis for laser. Einstein's concept of time dilation must be used to correct GPS satellites in order to coordinate with systems of Earth.
And so on and so forth.
If American Moon landings were hoax, I would think that China and Russia would be eager to use their technology (lunar satellites, rovers etc.) to reveal it to the world. The fact that there's no suggestions of a hoax coming from the space administrations of those nations should be a clear indicator that the Moon landings really happened.
Why roads? The optimal temperature for photovoltaic panels is about 20 degrees Celsius. Roads get insanely hot in the summer so this would seem to be a really bad idea.
Someone care to explain?
When I'm looking for someone to interact with, that's always the thing I think about first.
It looks more like dust than aurora borealis.
It's obviously God farting. Blessed be the brown haze. Let us build a rocket in His honor and travel to Mars to fill our lungs with that divine flatus.
The big bang refers to the beginning of the expansion of the universe and since observations show that the universe is still expanding, the big bang is basically still going on.
I downloaded the paper at question from arXiv.org and this new theory is actually not completely different from the Big Bang model in that it also has a very dense past and further cosmological evolution but the authors make the point that using so called quantal Bohmian trajectories, the paths of par...
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Ok, I was wrong. "Only" 97% of the people in Afganistan think religion is important part of their lives. But in Somalia it's 100%.
In Sweden, that number is 16.5% and in Japan 23.5%.
All I'm saying is that a high percentage of agnostic atheists in a population correlates quite we...
I disagree. The supreme architect has ever less space in the gaps of our knowledge as those gaps become smaller. Currently he resides in the gaps related to fundamental physical theories and prebiotic chemistry but I can't see a possibility that we won't make big breakthroughs in those fields. (unless perhaps, a giant asteroid were to hit Earth)
Even great thinkers have got it wrong in the past. For example, Isaac Newton thought that a divine being has to fine tune th...
Well, to say that one *needs* a purpose is not a scientific argument for the existence of an entity that gives purpose. One can believe in many different non-existing things that bring meaning in life. A kid may believe in Santa because it brings meaning to their christmas and make their behavior a bit better around December but that's not an argument for the existence of Santa.
I find it interesting how often the morality issue is brought up though because the most secul...
The word 'probably' shouldn't belong here.
Mankind has yet to even determine what kind of architecture a machine would require in order to be truly intelligent. Most probably it would have to operate on the edge of chaos like a human brain and that might mean it would also be share similar drawbacks.
"Superintelligence" might not be an evolutionarily stable strategy nor the most efficient strategy to gather resources around the universe ...
If the police spread rumors about you being a rapist and drug dealer, what would you do? Go from door to door on your neighborhood with a smile on your face telling that you're not?
That is a fascinating issue. Just imagine the possibilities for Hollywood movie makers.
Since regular gasoline powered vehicles blow up in films like they were loaded with TNT, then the hydrogen vehicles must have the potential to become weapons of mass destruction.
The big dog was made by Boston Dynamics, which used to work for DARPA but is now owned by Google.
Do you have some favourites you might want to share?
I might add that with the HDR Camera app, I just use the option to save the original pictures ("Save original frames") taken with different exposures, transfer them to my PC and create the HDR merges with a better software (Photomatix Pro). It's just good to use the HDR Camera app because it takes the 3 differently exposed pictures at once, when compared to the normal camera where one has to fiddle with the se...
My top 5 so far (free apps):
1. Aldiko (eBook reader/bookshelve thingy, I mostly download free classic books from the internet. Auto saves the page progression for each book.)
2. Pulse (the news hub service)
3. HDR Camera
4. Chess Clock for Android (I play timed chess from time to time)
5. Light Alarm Clock
Yeah, there's a huge difference between sapphire glass and gorilla glass. Gorilla glass is 6.8 on Mohs scale but since the Mohs scale is logarithmic, it means that sapphire glass (9) is actually over 100 times harder than gorilla glass.
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I don't hold the Islamic world in high regard when we're talking about the eras before and after the Golden Age.
If the Ottoman empire had succeeded in conquering the whole of Europe, I doubt there would have been any Renaissance.