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Think of it this way. Imagine a much easier scenario. Let's pretend someone was trying to create a stable system that rested inside one...

I do not need to know anything more about what it does or how it behaves beyond the fact that it is an uncontrolled explosion...

There are really really excellent reasons why this line of thought has been understood to be a fallacy for longer than anyone has...

We are repeating ourselves. Those six bodies wouldn't have been the only six pieces of debris sent there in such an explosion -...

It is not merely a mathematics problem. The mathematical difficulty reflects something true about reality itself, namely that extremely...

No. I am simply applying a single definition of knowledge to both cases. Knowledge means knowledge. Foreknowledge means prior...

That is a LOT easier to say than it is to do.

It would have lit up the sky like a Christmas tree. The biggest meteor showers recorded in history would have paled in comparison...

That depends on relative velocity. If two large bodies collide from unrelated trajectories at high relative speed, then yes, they tend...

Your third option isn't precisely the same as the second but it is little more than a modified version of it and it would fail for the...

I don't know how any of you tolerate interacting with him.

My post was too short and conveyed hostility that wasn't intended. The simple fact is that neither of us is making any progress toward...

We're done.

Oh, yes it does! Pluto and its five moons would have had to leave the Earth together, in close proximity with each other and in just...