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 Discussion on answer by Glen O: Was L…

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John Dumancic
Apr 13, 2021 15:05
I do not mean to imply that you do not have a desire to perform exegesis.
John Dumancic
Apr 13, 2021 15:01
I can pull out more than just Ramban and Aquinas. This has been interpreted rather consistently by folks who were fluent in the language for the last three thousand years, only really challenged in the last hundred years or so. It seems to me that the current trend of trying to read in other interpretations is due to a desire to synthesize the Bible's commands with whatever society is currently touting as moral, rather then a desire for a straightforward exposition of the text.

The Septuagint says, "and with a man you shall not lie in bed in the feminine way, an abomination for it is" whic…
John Dumancic
Apr 13, 2021 06:21
From my reading of the Hebrew, the traditional translation seems quite warranted. The "as" is there because the Hebrew translated in your translation as "lyings of a woman" is actually a construct chain of two nouns, "beds of a woman," (here a euphemism for sexual intercourse with a woman) and this is the object of the sentence. From my understanding, "lie" is an intransitive verb, and thus we insert a preposition, "as", to make a coherent English sentence. The meaning remains the same.
John Dumancic
Apr 13, 2021 06:21
The Septuagint also reads it in the traditional manner. Furthermore, older Jewish and Christian scholars consistently interpret the Hebrew in the traditional sense (i.e. Ramban on Lev. 18:22 "Now the reason for the prohibitions against lying carnally with a male, or an animal, is well-known..." Aquinas, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind", etc.).
 

 Discussion on answer by pglpm: Why is…

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John Dumancic
Dec 13, 2020 21:48
I took the "you can't measure both simultaneously and precisely" from chapter six of Leonhardt; now I'm a tad confused, ha.
John Dumancic
Dec 13, 2020 21:48
@ggcg I think you are both right. All this answer is saying (I hope!) is that one cannot measure position and momentum simultaneously and precisely; however, one can most certainly measure position and momentum simultaneously and imprecisely (this is effectively the concept behind a wave packet; a compromise on position and momentum measurement). It might be nice to spell that out nice and clear in your answer, OP, perhaps in a TL;DR at the top.
 

 The h Bar

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Tesseract
Jan 22, 2020 20:26
My favorite bit of science humor was when a physicist put his cat as co-author of a paper because he wrote in the plural the entire article and didn't want to change it to the singular
Tesseract
Aug 15, 2019 02:07
A quick question: I think I found a new way to normalize the energy eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator by directly computing the integral analytically. Is that worth writing up a paper?
Tesseract
Jun 1, 2016 17:09
@0celo7 All I can say is what the heck
Tesseract
Jun 1, 2016 17:07
@0celo7 What did you search?
Tesseract
Jun 1, 2016 17:02
:)
Tesseract
May 28, 2016 01:44
:)
Tesseract
May 28, 2016 01:34
Only thing I'll understand.
Tesseract
May 28, 2016 01:33
@Bernard Hopefully.
Tesseract
May 28, 2016 01:30
@Bernard :)
Tesseract
May 28, 2016 01:28
:)
 

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Tesseract
Dec 20, 2019 19:20
@Akiva Thank you!
Tesseract
Dec 20, 2019 19:18
@akiva What maze game?
Tesseract
Dec 7, 2019 02:43
On the subject of Lovecraft, try "At the Mountains of Madness".
 

 The Periodic Table

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Tesseract
Feb 21, 2017 00:39
This conversation is definitely about chemistry. Very informative.
 

 The Biosphere

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Tesseract
Jun 1, 2016 17:05
@terdon Hello