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In reply to the discussion: You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. [View all]roguevalley
(40,656 posts)41. Hugs, catzies. I wish you well and I agree. This was a beautiful thread
and I thank the OP greatlly. I wish you well with your loss, honey.
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And if that's too speculative for you, how about the fact that the world is a different place from
patrice
Dec 2012
#1
Right on! Very like so much else, these are the products of pushing the phenomenal
patrice
Dec 2012
#6
Me too! because it suggests that love isn't a fairy-tale, it's a property of the physical world that
patrice
Dec 2012
#48
Time is an illusion. Even though I can't wrap my brain around it, I know it's all
gateley
Dec 2012
#53
As my son said for his father's eulogy, "Life and death are words that we made up."
patrice
Dec 2012
#8
I would be interested in the physicist's theory as to what (or who) caused the Big Bang
Nye Bevan
Dec 2012
#9
actually, it doesn't absolve you. It lets you know that if you don't get yours
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#37
Energy may not be destroyed, but it can sure as hell dissipate in the vastness of the universe.
Bake
Dec 2012
#10
and it is beautiful, Whovian. I have a poem that got me through two deaths ten
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#38
I would love to know how that is true. People say things are gone when the lights
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#39
That's what this neurosurgeon thought, too, but he's changed his mind after experiencing
gateley
Dec 2012
#59
A belief in after life, more than a belief in god, is what propels the nastyness in religion
FarCenter
Dec 2012
#60
Yes! to the world & which can be the source of all the passion one could possibly want.
patrice
Dec 2012
#27
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen galaxies 13.9 billion light years distant.
tclambert
Dec 2012
#20
As someone who lost their only sibling a year ago this week, this speaks to me right now. Thanks for
catzies
Dec 2012
#35
Conservation of energy is not verifiable or consistent across space and time.
Fantastic Anarchist
Dec 2012
#43