QQC 4

Quote: "His evidence was based on alchemy-natural, spontaneous, scientifically credible, and wholly non-occult, but alchemy nonetheless."

Question: What evidence? What was so convincing about it that had not been as convincing in previous debates? What was so amazing about it?

Comment: This line made me really curious about what the evidence was, exactly. I understand that it has a lot to do with alchemy, but it really gets my mind reeling when I try to imagine how another human being's mind works around all of these hypotheses and such, using all their logic to the point where they're sure that it is true. It's interesting to me because some people figure these sort of things out, and so many others can't wrap their minds around it--much like me.

QQC 3

Quote: “Today, scientists have at their disposal machines so precise they can detect the weight of a single bacterium and so sensitive that readings can be disturbed by someone yawning seventy-five feet away, but they have not significantly improved on Cavendish’s measurements of 1792.”

Question: Why is it that they haven’t improved? Because it’s so complex? Because they don’t feel it’s very important? How did they make these machines?

Comment: The part about someone yawning from 75 feet away reminds me of Chaos Theory, since it’s such a small change that changes a reading drastically, like what happened when they rounded a number to predict the weather. Seems like chaos theory connects to a lot of what I’ve been reading.