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| − | '''What is REAL?'''
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| − | a. Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verifiable existence: real objects; a real illness.
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| − | b. True and actual; not imaginary, alleged, or ideal: real people, not ghosts; a film based on real life.
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| − | c. Of or founded on practical matters and concerns: a recent graduate experiencing the real world for the first time.
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| − | http://www.thefreedictionary.com/real
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| − | '''What is REALITY?'''
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| − | 1. The quality or state of being actual or true.
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| − | 2. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: "the weight of history and political realities" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.)
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| − | 3. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.
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| − | 4. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.
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| − | http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reality
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| − | == ''Day the Universe Changed: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality'' ==
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| − | Everyone has their own structure for what reality is.
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| − | You make everything fit that structure.
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| − | What our brain expects to see is what we see.
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| − | Role of interpretation - Each person has their own version of seeing reality.
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| − | '''Frame of reference'''
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| − | Organizes, evaluates, and explains experience
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| − | Gives bases for beliefs, judgments, values, morals and ethics
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| − | '''Purpose of structure of reality'''
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| − | Your view of the world dictates what you do.
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| − | It dictates how many questions you ask
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| − | Structure controls haw science progresses. The rules of the structure control investigation until there is a detail the structure can’t handle, then a new structure is created.
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| − | The only structure in the changing face of nature is the one we impose on it with our theories.
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| − | '''Why structures change'''
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| − | Discoveries
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| − | Science get effected by expectations
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| − | When details don’t fit
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| − | Science is what the people think is important
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| − | == ''The Grand Design''
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| − | Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow ==
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| − | “There is no picture or theory-independent concept of reality. Instead we will adopt a view that we will call model-dependent realism: the idea that a physical theory or world picture is a model (generally of a mathematical nature) and a set of rules that connect the elements of the models to observations. This provides a framework with which to interpret modern science.”
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| − | “A model is a good model if it:
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| − | 1. Is elegant
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| − | 2. Contains few arbitrary or adjustable elements
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| − | 3. Agrees with and explains all existing observations
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| − | 4. Makes detailed predictions about future observations that can disprove or falsify the model if they are not borne out. “
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| − | Return To[[ Day the Universe Changed: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality]]
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