Poll: Is Anything Possible?

[thePyro_13]

I dare anyone to disprove ANYTHING, if you factor in magic, other planets, and alternate dimensions. My logic is that we can't prove that something definitely doesn't exist/ happen somewhere out there. That is the one thing that is impossible. But by all means, try to disprove something to me.
P.S. anyone trying to disprove something visual I?m sick of repeating my self so here goes, maybe x is happening, you just don't realize it.

Which is why our society works by proving that something is real rather than proving that it isn't.

Circa, prove the giant invisible, scientifically undetectable flying spaghetti monster isn't real. We know it isn't, but you can't prove it.

This logic would allow the spaghetti monster to exist.

Instead, I cannot prove the spaghetti monster exists(and if it leaves no evidence of it's existence then it had might as well not exist, makes no difference). So we can go on with our lives without worrying about pirates and their effects on global warming.



In the OP's scenario, yes anything is possible, but since the OP cannot prove that he is NOT a reincarnation of Hitler, out to use this thread to do evil. I say we don't trust him.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Of course there is magic


In seriousness, you cannot absolutely disprove something unless it and some other condition are logically mutually exclusive.

If x cannot exist at the same time as y, and you prove y, x cannot exist.

Otherwise, you can't disprove something. I can claim the solidity of evolution makes it to where I don't need to believe in a god, but there would be nothing stopping a god from creating evolution so proving evolution will not disprove a god (x can exist at the same time as y).

In short, you can't disprove magic, the lochnes monster and alien brain slugs, but I don't see that as adequate reason to believe in them.

 

[cheese_wizington]

In the multi verse I guess so.

Otherwise, pshhhh.

 

[The Austin]

Lick your elbow.

 

[antipunt]

Uhh...can God make a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it?

edit: slightly off topic, but WHAT?! 55% of the Escapist said -yes-? ....why......

 

[MagicMouse]

If anything is possible then something being impossible is possible.

Sorry if you got brain juice on you monitor now....

 

[SantoUno]

My logic is that we can't prove that something definitely doesn't exist/ happen somewhere out there.

We don't have to. If you cannot prove that something exists, then it already does not exist, so you can't go trying to make a comeback by saying that you can't prove it doesn't exist.

Just to make it clear this is in context with me telling my gf why God doesn't exist.

 

[Bourne]

Your question is unfair; just because you can't prove something isn't possible doesn't mean it really isn't.

Also, as all engineers, scientists, and mathematicians are aware, nothing will ever be completely proven or disproven. Even the theory and the existence of gravitational acceleration is technically "up in the air" due to the inability of humans to prove anything, but do you question it?

I am a male, but how do I prove it? We define what it is to be male, so it is subjective, and therefore impervious to proof. We assign designations to everything to that we can communicate them with each other, and in doing so render them obsolete to anything or anyone that doesn't speak our language.

Is anything possible? I don't believe so, not in the lexical sense. It is impossible for a gas to be a solid, because, according to our definition of both, one cannot exist as the other. It is impossible for a triangle to be a rectangle. It is impossible for black to be white. It is impossible for a 1957 Chevy Pickup to be a 2009 Chevy Silverado. And so on.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Anything in this world is possible as long as you believe it is possible.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

To my knowledge, I currently do not possess the ability to float on air. Maybe in an alternate universe I will. However, in this one I sadly cannot. So with regards to this current membrane, the ability to float is not currently available for me.

 

[mechanixis]

Given all those factors, it is impossible to imagine the unimaginable or think the unthinkable.

Ba-BOOSH.

 

[Ryank1908]

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

This is a silly thread with silly logic and some silly people far too eager to entertain it.

Also, you cannot prove that something is impossible. If it is really impossible you will have no knowledge of it, or it will be physically impossible to demonstrate the ramifications of said impossibility actually occurring.

 

[googleboy]

The laws of physics dictate an infinite number of universes. Logic therefore dictates an infinite number of possibilities. In one of those, anything must be possible. Thus, anything must be possible.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I Don't Exist. Simple fact of the Universe. But it's possible for me to exist, and so, quantumly, I do. And, since I existed quantumly, once I was observed, I became.

 

[Velvo]

The existence of nothing is an imaginable circumstance. There is something, thus there cannot be nothing. Thus, not everything is possible.

 

[Velvo]

I Don't Exist. Simple fact of the Universe. But it's possible for me to exist, and so, quantumly, I do. And, since I existed quantumly, once I was observed, I became.

What made it possible for you to exist? What made existence? Is that a silly question? Did it ever begin? What observed you? Circular logic simply moves the problem, it does not solve it.

 

[Velvo]

The laws of physics dictate an infinite number of universes. Logic therefore dictates an infinite number of possibilities. In one of those, anything must be possible. Thus, anything must be possible.

Well, physics doesn't necessarily dictate infinite universes, though it does mildly imply a "multiverse" made of many connected universes that perhaps have always existed, spawning off of each other from singularities, or similar entities in whatever laws of physics might exist in other universes.

Is it possible, in another universe, for that universe to never have existed? Is it possible for this universe to never have existed? Is it possible that existence itself never to have existed? I dunno.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

I Don't Exist. Simple fact of the Universe. But it's possible for me to exist, and so, quantumly, I do. And, since I existed quantumly, once I was observed, I became.

What made it possible for you to exist? What made existence? Is that a silly question? Did it ever begin? What observed you? Circular logic simply moves the problem, it does not solve it.

The possibility of existence of a defined form means it can exist. It's similar to showing an animal a mirror--the animal might exist (for sake of argument, it does), and to it, it's twin in the mirror also exists, but only when it is in front of the mirror. Therefore, when the animal is looking in the mirror (an idea observing itself, in metaphorical terms), both the dog and it's reflection exist. In this case, I was observed by my peers, colleagues, parents, random passersby, and my Bill collectors. By their adamant belief in my existence (made apparent by their acknowledging my presence as the formative bits of existence), I exist.

 

[Corax_1990]

In the words of LICD, with there being almost infinate stars and planets and dimensions, it makes me happy inside to know that somewhere, Jesus is Batman.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

There are many things that can'e happen by definition, like having a 13 inch foot, or a circle with 4 corners.

The former can happen if we change the definition of a foot(when I am king of everything I will do it to scare the triscadecaphobians). The latter is logically inconsistent so you are right.

Sorry, but you can also change the definition of a circle. When I will be king of geometry I will propose and succeed in swapping the definitions of circle and square. But lets not cheat, so if no changes of circle definition, no changes of foot definition either.

I dare anyone to disprove ANYTHING, if you factor in magic, other planets, and alternate dimensions. My logic is that we can't prove that something definitely doesn't exist/ happen somewhere out there. That is the one thing that is impossible. But by all means, try to disprove something to me.
P.S. anyone trying to disprove something visual I?m sick of repeating my self so here goes, maybe x is happening, you just don't realize it.

You failed to say, if there are deities, in that case anything is possible, should they grant us.

There are many things that can'e happen by definition, like having a 13 inch foot, or a circle with 4 corners.

The former can happen if we change the definition of a foot(when I am king of everything I will do it to scare the triscadecaphobians).

We will not even have to change definition. Because lenght is relative. A 13 inch foot exists, as long as the observers are moving at sufficients speeds relative to eachother.

What does speed have to do with lenght in this case?! Relativity is an ilusion and leads to measurement errors of time and space, but the real/absolute time and space keep the same. But the position (or its variation, or both) of the observers distorts their reading of reality. And because light or any other kind of physical information output don't travel instantly from point A to any other giving point, neither are we standing still in the universe, our reality, including our measurements, are always distorted.
So what you meant is that an object or absolute space interval with 12 inches (1 foot) length can be "correctly" measured 13 inches if the observer is moving at an "appropriate" speed, from a given starting point and in the "right" direction. But then the measurement would be 1 foot and 1 inch.