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| S Jun 21, 2022 at 16:45 | history | suggested | user985366 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2022 at 14:24 | history | edited | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2022 at 14:20 | comment | added | anna v | @AndrewSteane sure, I was religious when young, and a physicist. I am talking of the hoi poloi believers. | |
| Feb 13, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | Andrew Steane | The phrase 'religious people' covers quite a large cross-section of the human race, many of them expert in scientific as well as other forms of knowledge and understanding. So what 'religious people' think is that Maxwell's equations give a good model of electromagnetism and thermodynamics applies to the atmosphere and so on. At least, that is a fair description of a significant fraction of this group called 'the religious people'. | |
| Feb 13, 2022 at 11:44 | comment | added | anna v | @ilkkachu well of course if one goes to psychology, But I am answering in terms of physics, where metaphysics is what future physics we do not know. I would vote for the religious motivation, as the bell towers are attached to the church and call the believers for worship etc., which allows me to treat it as a metaphysical experiment.: believers pray "the storm will not come here" | |
| Feb 13, 2022 at 11:20 | comment | added | ilkkachu | Not sure if it's metaphysics, or just plain old psychology. There's probably some confirmation bias and placebo effect involved in warding off a storm using the bell. Being told it helps and doing it might make people feel better about being in the storm, and they might be more likely to remember the times when the storm went past or came down more lightly after the bell was rung than all the times when there was a heavy storm regardless of the bell. | |
| Feb 13, 2022 at 5:28 | history | edited | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2022 at 5:03 | history | answered | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |