Things that are true that you dont believe

hank scorpio89

I was talking to a friend earlier and we somehow ended up in a debate about snowflakes..you no the old no two snowflakes are the same theory.
His basic argument was its science.my argument was i fail to believe 2 identical snow flakes have never fallen before.how can science even prove this ..got me thinking what other things are suposedly true that you dont beleieve ???

12gauge dave

That we evolved from primates, i just cant believe that one, if we evolved from chimps why is there still chimps?

Surreptitious

That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

hank scorpio89

Surreptitious wrote: »

That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

Thanks for the warm welcome back 😉

longshanks

Margarine

Ten of Swords

12gauge dave wrote: »

if we evolved from chimps why is there still chimps?

We didn't evolve from chimps. Chimps and Humans both evolved from a common ancestor called Hominin

Surreptitious

hank scorpio89 wrote: »

Thanks for the warm welcome back 😉

Hanks for the memories.

NIMAN

That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

Baffling.

Jawgap

NIMAN wrote: »

That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

Baffling.

Flann O'Brien had it sussed.....

“Now take a sheep,” the sergeant said. “What is a sheep, only millions of little bits of sheepness whirling around and doing intricate convolutions inside the sheep? What else is it but that?”

“Atomics is a very intricate theorem and can be worked out with algebra, but you would want to take it by degrees, because you might spend the whole night proving a bit of it with rulers and cosines and similar other instruments and then at the windup not believe what you had proved at all. If that happened, you would have to go back over it till you got a place where you could believe your own facts and figures and then go on again from that particular place till you had the whole thing properly believed and not have bits of it half-believed or a doubt in your head hurting you like when you lose the stud of your shirt in bed.”

Barry Badrinath

The landing on the moon thing

aaronjumper

That it's not butter.

hungry hypno toad

Michael D Hobbitt

Your Face

There is no meaning to life.

Footoo

Your Face wrote: »

There is no meaning to life.

Asked and answered............42!

osarusan

That Limerick FC are a poor team.

Pherekydes

Some people believe the world is flat.

Mena Mitty

NIMAN wrote: »

That everything is made up of tiny particles that have other tiny particles floating around them.

Anytime I try to look at things in life, just plain old normal things, like making tea with a tea bag, or me typing this on a PC, looking at the characters on the screen, the person sitting opposite me, my hands etc......thats its all made up of atoms, molecules, protons, electrons etc etc.

Baffling.

Such loose talk (just kidding) has me thinking of all the parasites living within my body and the microscopic creepies I can't see.

Wibbs

Mena Mitty wrote: »

Such loose talk (just kidding) has me thinking of all the parasites living within my body and the microscopic creepies I can't see.

It gets weirder when you consider that taking your body as a whole, your cells are about the same number as the bacteria living in and on you. You're half "microscopic creepies". We're as much an ecosystem as an organism, which I think is cool myself.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Santa Claus.

Afrston

Is science a proof? Really? What about sectio aurea? There are many flowers, plants, shells that are very similar or the same. But flakes are made by human and I don't know any source of scientific research about that

Wibbs

Afrston wrote: »

But flakes are made by human and I don't know any source of scientific research about that

Dravokivich

Footoo wrote: »

Asked and answered............42!

Nope. That's the answer to the ultimate question. Which we know not what it is.

frag420

No two cornflakes are the same....

D3V!L

I still dont know what a tracker mortgage is



wait......

am I doing this right ?

hungry hypno toad

frag420 wrote: »

No two cornflakes are the same....

No two corn crakes are the same either.

valoren

Surreptitious wrote: »

That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

Scorpio!
He'll sting you with his dreams, of power and wealth.
Beware of... Scorpio!

crubbeens

Surreptitious wrote: »

That someone could spend 7 years on a forum and only post 25 times.

9 years, 12 posts!

valoren

crubbeens wrote: »

9 years, 12 posts!

crubbeens!
He'll sting you with his dreams, of power and wealth.
Beware of... crubeens!

:pac:

DavyD_83

That Pi never repeats itself, how can you have infinite arrangements of a finite number of digits (1-9).

Also, that the odds of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 coming up in the Lotto are the exact same as the odds of any other random specific set of numbers.
I don't play the lotto, mostly because I'm very aware of how long the odds are, but if I did, I'm never picking the first consecutive set of numbers, or any other consecutive set.

mahamageehad

For me it's the birthday thing. If you put 23 random people in a room there's a 50% chance 2 will have same birthday. If you put 75 people, that rises to 99.9% possibility. I've seen the maths, I know it's true, I still don't believe it though.

Link: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/

sparksfly

That its not butter

yeppydeppy

I find it hard to believe that people are that stupid, they believe in reiki, astrology, psychics, gods, spirits, ouija boards (started life as a board game) and all sorts of other bull**** and they believe it without proof, on the word of someone else. I mean come on are you really that feckin' thick?

Alun

Wibbs wrote: »

It gets weirder when you consider that taking your body as a whole, your cells are about the same number as the bacteria living in and on you. You're half "microscopic creepies". We're as much an ecosystem as an organism, which I think is cool myself.

Over time, there have been many estimates of the ratio of bacteria to cells, I believe until recently it was considered to be 10:1 in favour of bacteria, but recent research suggests it's roughly 4:3.

angryIreGamer

this statement is a lie.

jimgoose

DavyD_83 wrote: »

That Pi never repeats itself, how can you have infinite arrangements of a finite number of digits (1-9)...

That isn't quite what's meant - when it's said that Pi never repeats itself, what's meant is that it never gets into a pattern that repeats forever. If it did, it would be a rational number, and it isn't. That's the real point, and it's why 22/7 is only an approximation - Pi can never accurately be expressed as a fraction.

Mickeroo

I don't think science definitively says "no two snowflakes are the same", that's just a colloquial take on it. I think it's more a case of "snowflakes are so complex that it is highly unlikely to ever find an identical pair".

jimgoose

Mickeroo wrote: »

I don't think science definitively says "no two snowflakes are the same", that's just a colloquial take on it. I think it's more a case of "snowflakes are so complex that it is highly unlikely to ever find an identical pair".

Indeed. When you get down to the atomic level, the probability of finding two identical is in the vicinity of 10^18/1 against, because of the small amount (1 molecule in ~5,000) of deuterium in water.

b318isp

Mickeroo wrote: »

I don't think science definitively says "no two snowflakes are the same", that's just a colloquial take on it. I think it's more a case of "snowflakes are so complex that it is highly unlikely to ever find an identical pair".

I suspect that is true of any crystalline structure, such as salt - or even grains of sand. The 6 axis close up of snowflakes we often see don't actually show the microscopic variations.

Timberrrrrrrr

Still can't believe Trump is president

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MadamRazz

That we built the pyramids.............but at this point in the Big Bang Theory seasons its mostly just to annoy my OH

Skylinehead

MadamRazz wrote: »

That we built the pyramids.............but at this point in the Big Bang Theory seasons its mostly just to annoy my OH

They're alien landing pads.

nelly17

The whole Trump thing - clearly the world has gone mad

Arghus

Spooky Action at a Distance.

And Trump.

PARlance

hank scorpio89 wrote: »

I was talking to a friend earlier and we somehow ended up in a debate about snowflakes..you no the old no two snowflakes are the same theory.
His basic argument was its science.my argument was i fail to believe 2 identical snow flakes have never fallen before.how can science even prove this ..got me thinking what other things are suposedly true that you dont beleieve ???

Scientific theories are constantly being disproven. So there's a good chance you may be proven correct, in time. Think it's called pessimistic induction.

QI had a piece on it before. ~10% of their facts will have been disproven within a year of the show airing iirc.

jimgoose

PARlance wrote: »

...QI had a piece on it before. ~10% of their facts will have been disproven within a year of the show airing iirc.

...in accordance with Stephen Fry's First Cromulence Theorem.

seamus

mahamageehad wrote: »

For me it's the birthday thing. If you put 23 random people in a room there's a 50% chance 2 will have same birthday. If you put 75 people, that rises to 99.9% possibility. I've seen the maths, I know it's true, I still don't believe it though.

Link: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/

To be fair, the link there actually explains why you have trouble believing it.

In a room of 23, do you think of the 22 comparisons where your birthday is being compared against someone else’s? Probably.

Do you think of the 231 comparisons where someone who is not you is being checked against someone else who is not you? Do you realize there are so many? Probably not.

The fact that we neglect the 10 times as many comparisons that don’t include us helps us see why the “paradox” can happen.

In other words, you're looking at room of 23 people and thinking "that's 22 birthday comparisons. Versus 365 days in the year, of course the odds are tiny".

Imagine you have 23 people in a room, and you want to make pairs (11 pairs + 1 spare). There are 253 different combinations of that; 253 unique pairs of people. That's where the 50:50 comes from; not numerical trickery, but the bias in our own heads to only consider things from our personal perspective.

Mena Mitty

Alun wrote: »

Over time, there have been many estimates of the ratio of bacteria to cells, I believe until recently it was considered to be 10:1 in favour of bacteria, but recent research suggests it's roughly 4:3.

Now my brain cells are all confussed about the sums and that.

But things are looking up, the 2017 All Ireland Autonomous Bacteria Deathmatch final is on tomorrow...Big Bad Bacilli versus the one and only..there can be no other.. Machete Spirochete the referee for the day will be fairplay man...The Great E.Coli Esq.

DrumSteve

That space is unending.

And if it's not, what's outside it?

DavyD_83

jimgoose wrote: »

That isn't quite what's meant - when it's said that Pi never repeats itself, what's meant is that it never gets into a pattern that repeats forever. If it did, it would be a rational number, and it isn't. That's the real point, and it's why 22/7 is only an approximation - Pi can never accurately be expressed as a fraction.

I understand what it actually means, it just still didn't make any logical sense to me. If truly infinite the has to be a point where the first x numbers is the same as the next x numbers.
I think one of us may have misunderstood the point of the thread.

con___manx1

Saint patrick isn't irish