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Post by rbobatar on Dec 4, 2006 10:43:30 GMT -8
RBOB HAS HIS FINAL EXAM IN THE COURSE HISTORY OF SCIENCE TONIGHT AT 7PM AND HAS FAILED TO ADEQUATELY PREPARE. CONSIDER:
RBOB ATTENDED 1/3 OF THE LECTURES
RBOB MISSED THE REVIEW CLASS
RBOB HAS FAILED TO BEFRIEND ANYONE IN THE CLASS WITH WHICH HE CAN PARASITICALLY STEAL THEIR NOTES
RBOB DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE EXAM QUESTION
THE EXAM CONSISTS OF TWO ESSAY QUESTIONS. THE FIRST IS A SIMPLE ONE DETAILING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION BUT RBOB IS UTTERLY AT A LOSS OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THE SECOND. BEHOLD
"PHILOSOPHY IS WRITTEN IN THIS GRAND BOOK THE UNIVERSE WHICH STANDS CONTINUALLY OPEN TO OUR GAZE. BUT THE BOOK CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD UNLESS ONE FIRST LEARNS TO COMPREHEND THE LANGUAGE AND READ THE LETTERS IN WHICH IT IS COMPOSED. IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LANGUAGE OF MATH, AND ITS CHARACTERS ARE TRIANGLES, CIRCLES AND OTHER GEOMETRIC FIGURES WITHOUT WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBL ETO UNDERSTAND A SINGLE WORD."
-GALILEO
DISCUSS THIS PASSAGE WITH REFERENCES TO THE WRITINGS OF PLATO, ARISTOTLE, EPICURUS, COPERNICUS, BRAHE, GALILEO, KEPLER, DESCARTES AND EINSTEIN.
NOW RBOB IS UNSURE OF HOW TO APPROACH THE QUESTION AND HAS FAILED IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT THE PROFESSOR OR ANY CLASSMATES AND IS MOST DESIROUS OF A B+. ANY THOUGHTS ARE MOST WELCOME.
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Post by technohawk on Dec 4, 2006 12:13:45 GMT -8
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Post by rbobatar on Dec 4, 2006 15:09:13 GMT -8
THAT IS NOT RELAVENT IT MUST BE ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ARISTOTELIAN AND PLATONIC VIEWS OF REALITY IN REGARDS TO MATH. GALILEO REINVIGORATED THE PLATONIC VIEW THROUGH HIS WORK. 4 HOURS PEOPLE COME ON GET TO WORK
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Post by technohawk on Dec 4, 2006 17:29:56 GMT -8
I only took the History of Biology course(4th year) and not the History of Science course. So I'm at a loss for what else to say. I guess all I can say is good luck!  |
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Post by rbobatar on Dec 4, 2006 18:01:19 GMT -8
f**k
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Post by rabidgecko on Dec 4, 2006 18:10:50 GMT -8
ALMIGHTY RBOB!
i am sorry my meagre mind is not capable of producing the fruits worthy of your labour, but i am yet a lowly grade 11-er who does not yet have the intellect to grasp and wrestle the topics and issues RBOB'S INDEFATIGABLE mind deals with, and puts into total submission
my services would be offered if they were anywhere near the level of superiority RBOB maintains over all others, even at this moment of temporary, not weakness, but lack of peons, slaves, do finish your bidding!
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Post by PhoenixFlare500 on Dec 4, 2006 18:24:02 GMT -8
Well, I don't know anything about the philosophical views you gotta write about, but here's my input anyways: All religions as I see them, attempt to reach perfection, be it heaven, spiritual enlightenment, ethnic cleansing???  Math is the only perfect science in its entirety (or somewhat? maybe?). I read a book about the Golden Ratio, if you know what that is. It talks about how nature is built upon some number that I forgot now, and it relates to the Fibonacci sequence and other stuff. Anyhoo.... Math is perfect. 2+2 = 4 all the time, it always has been 4, always will be (like a verse about Jesus in the Bible that I don't have the reference to right now but most people reading this probably will ignore this piece anyways 'cause it contains the words Jesus and Bible  ). A mathematical circle is perfectly round, any tangent to the circle will only ever touch the circle at one tiny little point. The angles of a rectangle always add up to 360 degrees. The angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. (*Disclaimer I'm really tired right now so these numbers could be completely off, but just so you know I'm not a raving lunatic (yet...)). Aside from any spiritual, philosophical beliefs, and looking at just physical things, math is the one perfect system in the universe. (Math is allegedly captured in physical processes, so said that book, and I just realized pre-calculus may have applications to you if you would like to someday be a philosopher, or a mathematical biologist or something like that). So, I guess to understand and attain perfection, one must understand what is already perfect, namely math. I know this is quite vague and probably won't help you, but I'm trying to write an essay and I'm really really bored from it. |
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Post by rabidgecko on Dec 4, 2006 18:57:55 GMT -8
the golden ratio is mention in the davinci code, is that the book you are referring to and as for 2 + 2 = 4 ...you obivously haven't read 1984 |
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Post by PhoenixFlare500 on Dec 4, 2006 19:26:55 GMT -8
No... the Da Vinci Code is full of bad information. Dan Brown actually had to edit some of the information to make it fit (Like something about number of triangles in some French building or something like that).
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Post by LostPeon™ on Dec 4, 2006 22:44:01 GMT -8
Well, how'd it go, rbob?
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Post by rbobatar on Dec 5, 2006 10:11:28 GMT -8
RBOB DID DECENTLY WELL ALTHOUGH HE THOUGHT THE EXAM WAS ONLY AN HOUR LONG AND TURNED OUT TO BE THREE HOURS LONG AND RBOBS BRAIN WAS TURNED TO MUSH BY THE END OF IT. FIGURITAVELY OF COURSE. THEN RBOB PULLED AN ALL NIGHTER AND JUST GOT OUT OF HIS GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE EXAM WHICH WAS GAY BECAUSE GREEK TRAGEDY IS STUPID. HOWEVER RBOB PROBABLY PERFORMED EXCELLENTLY DESPITE ATTENDING EVEN LESS CLASSES OF THOSE. HE DID HAVE A FRIEND IN THAT CLASS FROM WHICH TO BORROW NOTES
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Post by tyrantisius on Dec 5, 2006 11:49:57 GMT -8
Heil RBOB, defeater of the meager UVic exams
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Math is the only perfect science in its entirety (or somewhat? maybe?). I read a book about the Golden Ratio, if you know what that is. It talks about how nature is built upon some number that I forgot now, and it relates to the Fibonacci sequence and other stuff.
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