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[Kaylan-R]

I like to read about philosophy and watch stuff on the history channel on FOXTEL and I think philosophy is cool,but none of my frinds do.
They're into cd's lip gloss and nothing important that actually matters.
Does anyone feel the same way as me and admires philosophers and wants to create a theory one day?
Or am I just Insane?

[Brownie]

I recon that it would be awesome for me to create my own theory, but I don't recon I have the brain power for it.

[Cat-Eyes]

I think I am therefore I am.

[Lix]

sophicles yes? or not. no i think not. arr cant remember the names of greek dudes. i know it wasnt aristophanes coz it had nothign sexual in it

[~Dani~]

I like philosophy and everything, but I don't think I could create a theory. What if it was wrong or something!!

[avra]

Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle...

[brydie]

ah, i love that song...

[Elspeth]

daninnle said:

I like philosophy and everything, but I don't think I could create a theory. What if it was wrong or something!!

But that's the beauty of it - if you say it's so, then people must believe you. They might end up thinking you're wrong, but you know you're not, so you aren't. If you're lucky, it'll all get caught up in a circle that makes people's brains hurt, so in the end, they'll just give in and accept your theory.

[Kaylan-R]

I think that too.I mean,if It's totally new then nobody could tell you that you were wrong!

[Lix]

The Latin phrase cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") is possibly the single best-known philosophical statement and is attributed to René Descartes. Cogito ergo sum is a translation of Descartes' original French statement, Je pense, donc, je suis.

well there u go. he wasnt greek
must have thoigh of sophicles coz i was looking at the cat (she's called ismene)

[Maeve]

i love philosophy, that's y i took it as a subject.
i think i'm well up to criticising thoeries, if only to find logical faults, but not up to creating something entirely new.
Kaylan i think it would be brilliant if you tried tho! i mean the fact that you seem to want to find a sort of scientific/philosophic theory like Newton is cool!
i have no grounding in science whatsoever so the theories i love are more to do with the abstract (tho i do like ethics and philosophy of language as well). i would recommend Plato's republic to anyone interested in philosophy, alot of it is the groundwork for democracy, as it deals with social issues but the last few chapters on the nature of the good is great, as is Decartes Meditations coz he has a really abstract take on the soul/mind and God- i love it!

[Kaylan-R]

i want philosophy as a subject now!
I'm jelous!
I read a lot of philosophy books,i know everything about Troy,I know stuff about reletivity and theories and stuff like that,but I don't know how to furthur my education in the subject.

[Min]

If you want relativity - get into physics! Philosophy is one thing - the physics will get down to why scientists have deduced what they think is the history of everything.

Of course there's always string theory, which is still under great debate. You could be the first person to come to a conclusion about it ;D

[Kaylan-R]

wow,Min.
I never thought about that.

I will go into physics when I'm old enough then.
Thanx!

[Dark One]

min said:

Of course there's always string theory, which is still under great debate. You could be the first person to come to a conclusion about it ;D

I've read lots of stuff on string theory, though not for a while. I think i'll go and find my books again

[Min]

I can't remember anything I learned about string theory, bar that it exists in something like 21 dimensions, and every time they can't prove something if they add an extra dimension it works

*sigh* that's science though...

[Dark One]

From what i remember, it was 11 dimensions.

Hmm.. I've just done a web search and found this:

String theory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
String theory is a physical model whose fundamental building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that were the basis of most earlier physics. For this reason, string theories are able to avoid problems associated with the presence of pointlike particles in a physical theory. Detailed study of string theories has revealed that they describe not just strings but other objects, variously including points, membranes, and higher-dimensional objects. As discussed below, it is important to realize that no string theory has yet made firm predictions that would allow it to be experimentally tested.

The term 'string theory' properly refers to both the 26-dimensional bosonic string theories and to the 10-dimensional superstring theories discovered by adding supersymmetry. Nowadays, 'string theory' usually refers to the supersymmetric variant while the earlier is given its full name, 'bosonic string theory'.

Interest in string theory is driven largely by the hope that it will prove to be a theory of everything. It is one viable solution for quantum gravity, and in addition to gravity it can naturally describe interactions similar to electromagnetism and the other forces of nature. Superstring theories also include fermions, the building blocks of matter. It is not yet known whether string theory is able to describe a universe with the precise collection of forces and matter that we observe, nor how much freedom to choose those details the theory will allow.

On a more concrete level, string theory has led to advances in the mathematics of knots, Calabi-Yau spaces and many other fields. Much exciting new mathematics in recent years has its origin in string theory. String theory has also led to much insight into supersymmetric gauge theories, a subject which includes possible extensions of the standard model.

Read more about it here: String Theory