hello there

[Devin]

hello there,

my name is devin cesmecioglu. you can just call me devin, of course.. i was "surfing" on the internet and exploring the exciting properties of my new web browser -opera- and guess what i found.. the theory of everything! yes, i mean the website. since i'm out to be a physician (i'm a physics undergraduate at istanbul technical university, turkey) i found it very interesting. i also have the dream of discovering (or is it "inventing"?) the theory of everything, after all. i think it would be nice to share ideas, make new friends, get to know people who are also interested in physics as much as i do...

[Guille]

hi devin, welcome here.

Actually, the fact that we don't decide upo previous things such as "discovering or inventiong?" or "philsophy or maths?" are part of the reasons of why we haven't come out with actually valuable TOEs.

I believe a theory is created. Not invented because invention is for things with physical bodies and practical use. And not discovered because the equations weren't there yet, or the arguments, or he observations, they weren't there before. But of cours,e nature was there before. So actually the theory is not totally created, it's a mixture of creation and discoverment. Nature does't know that E=mc^2 but it acts like that, under that rigor. So we can say that actually the reality of E=mc^2 was always there, but the idea of E=mc^2 wasn't there until Einstein... so, basically it's this: reality of nature (everything) has always existed, has always been there, but the truths, whcih are the interpretation of the interpreters (humans) about the interpreted (nature), are there since humans are there, jsut like the concpets and percepts.

[Devin]

Hello again.

In fact I couldn't decide if the physical laws are whether discovered or invented. But for theories, since they are some thoughts which are not yet proved, we might be able to say invention. Anyway...

Thank you for your welcome. Now that we are introduced, I can ask my first question(and I ask this for I am really curious about your answers):

Is it that necessary to study on science and technology considering the benefits of them both and what they take away from our lives?

Thank you again.

[Guille]

Hummm.....this question you give, is according to me, absolutelly dependent on ethics and morality. And I lack both of these (if there is actually any difference between the two). And anyway, any answer you can get will be very very subjective, because it is a questions that talks about a theme on which the answer with little difference can derive into extremelly different theories and conceptions about the positions of religion, science and the occupation of these in the human mind and community.