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michel123456

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  1. 20 hours ago, Time Traveler said:

    Human observer perceives the surrounding world usually through photons that have the maximum speed known to us .... which is not necessarily the maximum speed in the Universe.
    Due to the perception of the environment through the photons we have this impediment to not observe in "'direct" but in "' resumption"

    Changes are continuousos.....the speed of change can tend to 0

     

    You may like my concept of how Time works

    Link deleted

  2. 14 hours ago, studiot said:

    The Subtle Knife is book 2 in Phillipp Pullman's fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials'

    I expect your students can tell you all about it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

     

    The Ockham quotes came from the prolegomena (what a word!) of

    Variational Principles in Dynamics and Quantum theory

    By Yourgrau and Mandelstam

    An interesting mixture of the Philisophy, and Mathematics of the Calculus of Variations.

     

    Sleep well.

    It means Prologue.

  3. On 1/13/2021 at 6:16 PM, michel123456 said:

    IMHO the issue with Moderation may arise when the Lawmaker, the Policeman, the Prosecutor and the Judge are the same and one person.

    In the list I forgot to mention the executioner.

    Yes this Forum is most generally well moderated, I have to concede that.

    However my feeling is that, like many elements over the Net, the construction of a civilized virtual society is still under its way.

    The several  Forums that exist on the Web, this one included, do not have a structure comparable to the outside world (as I know it): imagine if the policemen (the Mods) were not paid, as if the lawmakers (the Staff) were inventing laws by sniffing their fingers, as if politicians (the Owner) were not ruling at all, as if members (the Members) had no right at all, as if free speech (what is that) were to be invented, etc.

    At this point of History, the Net is organized more like a middle age Kingdom, ruled sometimes by an enlightened monarch, sometimes by a brutal dictator. The French Revolution has not arrived yet on the Internet.

  4. 15 hours ago, Phi for All said:

    May arise?! The opportunities happen every day. It's always a temptation when it seems so efficient (I see the spider, capture it, and toss it out of the house), and I know my intentions are good, but we all know how fallible we are alone.

    Most of our rules don't require us to separate these roles. We've reduced the number of judgement calls significantly over the years. In some instances, we even feel free to participate in threads we've moderated (for instance, if a thread needed to be moved to a different section). In most cases though, we try to keep moderation and participation in discussion separate.

    In very few instances are mods allowed to call out an infraction and punish it all on their own. We do that if we get a drive-by troll, or if somebody flips out during an off time, but most times when we ban or suspend or even give a warning point there have been 3-4 staff members conferring about it behind the scenes. 

    Honestly, I think some folks get bent out of shape here because they don't understand their own ideas enough to recognize the difference between the membership scientifically refuting it and being told (again) that it simply won't work. The leeway our rules give us helps compensate for that, I think.

    Nice clarification, thank you.

    Maybe more transparency would be nice too.

    For example; "this ban has been agreed by 3 Mods & 1 Expert & 3 Members of the Jury" or something like that.

    In order to avoid fury toward a specific Mod, as has been seen lately (and erased quickly)

  5. 22 minutes ago, Tinacity said:

    Any idea @wtf , why this post has received the third highest number of views on this part of the forum?

    image.thumb.png.df14cc39df769a67f44c256a5ade2c79.pngthis topic has

    Probably because the title has 3 words that may appear easily in a search (Firts, Post, Prime). It may even happen that some viewers are bots.

    See here

     

  6. Research Article in ASTRONOMY
    The arches of chaos in the Solar System by Nataša Todorović(1), Di Wu(2) and Aaron J. Rosengren(3)
    1. 1Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade, Serbia.
    2. 2Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
    3. 3Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
    1.  

    Abstract

    Space manifolds act as the boundaries of dynamical channels enabling fast transportation into the inner- and outermost reaches of the Solar System. Besides being an important element in spacecraft navigation and mission design, these manifolds can also explain the apparent erratic nature of comets and their eventual demise. Here, we reveal a notable and hitherto undetected ornamental structure of manifolds, connected in a series of arches that spread from the asteroid belt to Uranus and beyond. The strongest manifolds are found to be linked to Jupiter and have a profound control on small bodies over a wide and previously unconsidered range of three-body energies. Orbits on these manifolds encounter Jupiter on rapid time scales, where they can be transformed into collisional or escaping trajectories, reaching Neptune’s distance in a mere decade. All planets generate similar manifolds that permeate the Solar System, allowing fast transport throughout, a true celestial autobahn.

    See article:

    https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabd1313

     

  7. 18 hours ago, Bufofrog said:

    I worked on installing a manufacturing line that needed 12 workers per shift to run.  20 years ago a line that produced the same volume of product would have employed 50 to 60 people per shift.  My job after helping to install the line was to eliminate 5 of those jobs.  The stated goal of the corporation that I worked for was to have 'dark' factories.  In other words since there are no people working the lights aren't needed.  I have seen what the current level of automation is and I am not as confident as you that there is no issue.

    I have visited in Switztzerland an entire manufactory of sanitary equipment that was fully robotized, very impressive. The only workers were maintenance staff for the robots. It was mentioned that out of each set of 4 robots one was in maintenance. Fortunately the design team was not robotized (yet), but that was in 2015.

  8. 16 hours ago, iNow said:

    An interesting hypothesis, but one which strikes me as extremely unlikely given the way the text editor is handled by forum software. Either way, I'm only able to speculate at this time as to root cause and have no way of validating. 

    Anyway the browser pays no role. I logged in with IE, Chrome & Mozilla & it changed nothing.

  9. On 12/7/2020 at 5:00 PM, iNow said:

     

    Our options are different. I've confirmed now on several browsers. The button is there for me on each of the following: Chrome, M$ Edge, and Safari.

    This might be as simple as you attempting to clear cache. Or, when refreshing attempt a hard refresh instead of a quick one (ctrl+F5 on windows or Command+R on iOS).

    Sorry I can't be of more help, but our views of the editor window options are definitely not the same. The button is still there when I test.

    I had the button once. It disappeared lately. I wonder maybe it is related to the fact that moderators have restrained my posting abilities: I cannot post in the Relativity subforum.

  10. 14 hours ago, iNow said:

    Is available on my screen so is likely local to your browser. The icon looks like a chain link beside the smilies and quote option. Try refreshing your browser. 

    If it still fails, just manually wrap the text in URL tags in the following syntax (no spaces):

    [ url=www.link.com]hyperlink text here then close URL tag[ /url]
     

    Here’s how it renders once you do:

    hyperlink text here then close URL tag

    Thx.

    Yes it used to be somewhere near the smilies button. Now it appears as a <>"code" button. See screenshot below.

    820634661_ScreenShot12-07-20at10_29AM.JPG.63e17018ef76fa5c947eaf7eabcd5e44.JPG

  11. On 11/26/2020 at 2:46 AM, MSC said:

    Having read the constitution and finding it kind of open to interpretation how the pardon power works, I'm no closer to finding a good answer for this.

    Can a President pardon themselves? Is one question.

    Can the next President revoke that pardon? Is another.

    Obviously we are only talking about pardons of federal charges. 

    Can Trump even pardon himself for a federal charge that has not been formally filed yet? 

    If so, where does it end? Why shouldn't every president end their time with giving themselves a pardon for any federal crimes they may have committed while in office? 

    It all seems so confusing to me. If it is the presidential office giving out the pardons, what is to stop Biden from revoking any pardon given by Trump to himself or others?

    There was a scenario in which Trump resigns. Then the vice-president becomes the President & eventually could pardon him.

    This would be awkward. Not to say how can you pardon someone before this someone has been convicted by a court of justice.

  12. 15 hours ago, Halc said:

    It's the same effect as my washing machine where the resonance really shows.  It is never balanced well, despite its effort to distribute the load evenly.

    At very low speed, the imbalance has little effect as the forces are not large enough to move the machine.  At medium speed (when it first attempts a moderate spin) it shakes like crazy, sometimes throwing the dryer next to it off the pedestal they're on.  At high speed (1200 RPM), it's smooth as can be, but when it coasts back down to a stop, it has to pass through that moderate RPM place that makes it shake everything to death.

     

    Most probably the axis of your washing machine is broken, you need to call the service for repair.

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