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I have been going to seminary for a while, and Heyward is very knowledgeable as well. We want to answer any and all of your questions concerning the tenets and beliefs of Christianity: Who Christ is, why suffering exists, who God is, what is the nature of God, why Jesus had to die, is the Bible accurate, what does the Bible say, etc.

We want you to be comfortable with talking about Christianity, we will not try to argue our assert our beliefs upon you, we will just state them. Anything you want to ask, we will answer without judgement. If we don't hold up to our promises here, I am sorry.
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light exhibits light and particle like behavior, it's not really either. particles and waves are macroscopic phenomena and can't really be applied on the quantum scale
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don't bring my beloved science into this if you're gonna get it wrong a_a
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How did Noah's Arc survive a flood for...what was it, over a month with all those animals on it weighing things down?

I remember hearing something a few years ago where there were some master shipmakers that also tried to make a ship out of wood, and these people were really good at their craft, and they were only able to make it about the third of a side that the ark was supposed to be, and it barely made it out into the water, and sank pretty quickly. So it makes me wonder how something with such a grand scale of the Arc was able to survive for such a long period of time with all the cargo that it had on it.
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May 6 2015, 08:32 PM
js
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light exhibits light and particle like behavior, it's not really either. particles and waves are macroscopic phenomena and can't really be applied on the quantum scale
js

don't bring my beloved science into this if you're gonna get it wrong a_a
Don't think you've done your homework. Look up the Wave-particle duality of light, as well as of an electron
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May 6 2015, 08:44 PM
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May 6 2015, 08:32 PM
js
physics time
light exhibits light and particle like behavior, it's not really either. particles and waves are macroscopic phenomena and can't really be applied on the quantum scale
js

don't bring my beloved science into this if you're gonna get it wrong a_a
Don't think you've done your homework. Look up the Wave-particle duality of light, as well as of an electron
what do you think I have a degree in.

it exhibits phenomena of each.
it is not either.
it's a simple way to apply macroscopic behavior and concepts to something else entirely.
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May 6 2015, 08:48 PM
KingJason001
May 6 2015, 08:44 PM
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May 6 2015, 08:32 PM
js
physics time
light exhibits light and particle like behavior, it's not really either. particles and waves are macroscopic phenomena and can't really be applied on the quantum scale
js

don't bring my beloved science into this if you're gonna get it wrong a_a
Don't think you've done your homework. Look up the Wave-particle duality of light, as well as of an electron
what do you think I have a degree in.

it exhibits phenomena of each.
it is not either.
it's a simple way to apply macroscopic behavior and concepts to something else entirely.
Then what is it?
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they're not really either.
a wave is systematic motion of a medium, a particle is a localized amount of matter. light isn't either.
it certainly has properties of either
but it's not one or the other.
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once you get to a quantum mechanical scale, things start to get messy because the uncertainty principle comes into play (the statement that you cannot know exactly all of the information about a particle. think of it like a probability distribution, it has a certain probability centered around a point where it could be or what it's energy is or what it's momentum is or a lot of other formulations. in theory it could be anywhere, for a split second an electron normally associated with your body could be on the moon or jupiter or another galaxy.)
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May 6 2015, 08:57 PM
they're not really either.
a wave is systematic motion of a medium, a particle is a localized amount of matter. light isn't either.
it certainly has properties of either
but it's not one or the other.
also
once you get to a quantum mechanical scale, things start to get messy because the uncertainty principle comes into play (the statement that you cannot know exactly all of the information about a particle. think of it like a probability distribution, it has a certain probability centered around a point where it could be or what it's energy is or what it's momentum is or a lot of other formulations. in theory it could be anywhere, for a split second an electron normally associated with your body could be on the moon or jupiter or another galaxy.)
I believe the metaphor can still stand. Does a photon show properties of both at the same time?

What about triple point, it's a little weaker of an analogy, but eh?
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KingJason001
May 6 2015, 09:04 PM
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May 6 2015, 08:57 PM
they're not really either.
a wave is systematic motion of a medium, a particle is a localized amount of matter. light isn't either.
it certainly has properties of either
but it's not one or the other.
also
once you get to a quantum mechanical scale, things start to get messy because the uncertainty principle comes into play (the statement that you cannot know exactly all of the information about a particle. think of it like a probability distribution, it has a certain probability centered around a point where it could be or what it's energy is or what it's momentum is or a lot of other formulations. in theory it could be anywhere, for a split second an electron normally associated with your body could be on the moon or jupiter or another galaxy.)
I believe the metaphor can still stand. Does a photon show properties of both at the same time?

What about triple point, it's a little weaker of an analogy, but eh?
dont try and argue with someone who majors in a topic that you have very little knowledge compared to them it makes you look foolish
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they keep deleting my questions.

can god melt steel beams
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