"... Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. ..."
-Conan
"... Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. ..."
-Conan
Awesome quote is awesome.
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"... Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. ..."
-Conan
I had something to say...but this quote is so much better than anything I could respond with.
I thought we were 11-dimensional?
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I thought we were 11-dimensional?
I thought we were still on a BIG maybe with that. Of course I have not been keeping up.
Hmmm lets see.
Tries to fit shoulders into MRI. Nope.
Turns the other way, tries to fit into mri. nope.
Therefore 3 dimensional.
Is it cool to know? Are the folded dimensions crucial to our existence? Does knowing require fat stacks of math? Yes to all of the above.
To put it another (vague) way, Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth circles the sun. Did it make him less of a detective?
..., Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth circles the sun. ...
To put it another (vague) way, Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth circles the sun. Did it make him less of a detective?
Or to add a little bit more to that...
Baring some ancient greeks that might have figured that out, Copernicus had pretty much proved it in the late 16th century. Sherlock holmes was born in 1854, so the heliocentric model had been well established for a looooong time by that point.
To put it another (vague) way, Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth circles the sun. Did it make him less of a detective?
Or to add a little bit more to that...
Baring some ancient greeks that might have figured that out, Copernicus had pretty much proved it in the late 16th century. Sherlock holmes was born in 1854, so the heliocentric model had been well established for a looooong time by that point.
I take it you haven't read A Study in Scarlet.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
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To put it another (vague) way, Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth circles the sun. Did it make him less of a detective?
Or to add a little bit more to that...
Baring some ancient greeks that might have figured that out, Copernicus had pretty much proved it in the late 16th century. Sherlock holmes was born in 1854, so the heliocentric model had been well established for a looooong time by that point.
I take it you haven't read A Study in Scarlet.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
Yes Holmes was purposely ignorant of any issue which did not involve his profession. He goes on to explain it that he would immediately forget this fact as it did not matter to him.
Personally I say yes it makes him a worse detective, because if anything did come up where any fact of this nature would be useful, he just wouldn't know.