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Well I think they're icky...

Only a matter of time, I for one welcome our cephalopod overlords!

Well at least they haven't waged war on us, yet... 😉

I have to agree, we can only see it from our own biased perspective, from our perspective its provocative but it could be much more simple. On the other hand the octopus could be our intellectual superior and thinks of us as animals who are relatively smart but can't really understand true communication via chromatophores.

There are at least two reasons why this isn't true. One of them is that long enough ago (which is automatically implied by "far enough away" as you should understand if you want to do cosmology and astrophysics) the universe was opaque to radiation. A little farther beyond it was opaque to neutrinos even. And also there's a kinematic horizon, as Swansont explained. Photons from so long ago and so far away get redshifted into total invisibility. 🤣

I think his point is, the octopus had it's reasons and the woman put her own interpretation on the event; in the parlance of a ghost denier, she was primed, she knew the octopoid show intelligence. It could be a simple as, "this is where I get fed by humans, so where is it bitch?". Absolutely, such hubris this is the test for self awareness "Harry, bring out the mirror and if they can't see it, they're either blind or stupid." Sorry I didn't read the second paragraph before my reply, kinda hammered it home though. 🙂

It is much more likely that more of them are located tangentially rather than radially, because there is only one radial dimension but there are two tangential dimensions.

There are gauge bosons (particles mediating the interactions) that acquire mass via the Higgs mechanism though. The W and Z bosons of the weak interaction are the famous example, because they were the first particles for which the Higgs-Kibble-Anderson-etc mechanism was proposed. Back in the '60s it was known they shouldn't be fundamentally massive on account of a very important symmetry --called the gauge symmetry-- being broken if they were. They must be acquiring mass from something that's dragging them. Another field. Thereby the Higgs. People knew they must be massive in practice, as the weak interaction is short-ranged. So it's kind of peculiar that some of these mediating particles (gluons and photons) don't acquire mass via the Higgs mechanism, while others (Ws and Zs) do. At least I find it so. I think that's a very good question, btw.

The accelerating expansion has been discovered observing the Type Ia supernovae. I think that is unlikely to have these supernovae at the same distance from the CBH or located tangentially to the Earth.

There's always a relationship between those involved in the game. Are you talking about the tyranny of choice? What exactly do you mean by relationship? Taken on the face of it, I don't think so, for instance, why would a draw be a problem at all?

What about a galaxy that was on the same path as us, some distance away, but a similar distance as these other galaxies? edit: xpost with Genady

However, objects located tangentially rather than radially from E would be accelerating toward E.

In my first post I've drawn the four bodies aligned. If the angles between S1, S2 and the CBH are too large, as in my previous wrong figures, S1 and S2 are too far away from the Earth, therefore we cannot observe them because they are out of the range of our telescopes.

The speed of light is constant and it is never at rest. Here is one more thought experiment . The distance 3x10e8m travelled in 1 second could be used as a reference distance to confirm is the the object of system 2 in relative motion to reference point A. As you can see sped of light c is constant . Time t1 for both systems is 1 second. The system one is light clock with distance between mirrors L=3x10e8m And system two can be train,space shuttle, road The light clock is used as a range/speed finder device So I would call this thought experiment light clock as a range /speed finding device . If we apply The Dunning-Kruger effect DUNNINO-KOUSER occurs when a person's lack of knowledge and skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence. By contrast, this effect also drives those who excel in a given area to think the task is simple for everyone, leading them to underestimate their abilities. May be we can call this thought experiment Dunning -Kruger’s effect of speed of light

Yes. Why wouldn't you draw all four bodies aligned? If you did, S1 and S2 would certainly be accelerating away from E.

I've heard some bad things about organic mercury compounds, a minuscule amount resulting in a slow, but inevitable, degenerative death?

A stupid mistake made late at night. The problem is that the angles between S1, S2 and the CBH are too large. Are the following figures correct ?

It's a matter of definition. Looking at "number of people killed" I think alcohol and nicotine do pretty well. I guess there's a case for "the DNA of the malaria parasite". Water is surprisingly high up the list when you consider skidding on wet roads or collisions due to fog. (I think drownings are relatively rare but even that's not zero) Things like fluoroantimonic acid are obviously bad for you, but since sulphuric acid is strong enough to burn holes in skin, there's a limit to the point of making stronger acids if that's your game plan. I suspect an equal volume of HF would do more damage. The toxicity of fluoride and antimony are also contributors there but I doubt magic acid has actually killed anyone.

Let me take this one piece at a time. My answer to your opening question is...both. I do not perceive individual enhancement through advanced technology, on the one hand, and using advanced technology to further the evolution of the whole species as being mutually exclusive. My comments regarding our intelligence or consciousness eventually merging with that of AI, and thus making us many times smarter, come from reading all of Ray Kurzweil's books, a book by Michio Kaku in which he discusses it, and following Elon's company Neuralink closely, with each iteration of their brain computer interface getting advanced. It may take quite some time, but I do believe that one day such an interface will exist, and then, given that our greatly enhanced intelligence will be able to address the deepest questions in math, physics and the other sciences, the sky will be the limit. Not sure I agree with you about technology historically making some people smarter and other people dumber, the reason being you are attributing the responsibility of availing oneself of new technology so as to further oneself to the technology. That both makes no sense and I am someone who believes if you want to learn something new, get a new skill set, get a higher paying job, etc., it's up to you to do that. I enjoyed the touching insouciance of our banter, the almost inflatable swimming pool toy of it all. Sigh...Oh this, oh that... I know there are a bunch out there. Probably like you, I have seen models that allow disabled people or those suffering from loss of mobility due to neurodegenerative disease to regain some of that function. I remember the very first iteration from Elon's Neuralink being used to do research into neurodegenerative diseases via direct brain stimulation, i.e. applying electrical current to the affected neurons. The telepathy one was incredible. A woman who was one hundred percent paralyzed, had locked in syndrome, stared intently a computer monitor for a bit, which had what appeared to be a Microsoft Word document open, and then suddenly a perfectly grammatically constructed sentence appeared on the monitor. Then yesterday, I think, Neuralink came out with another iteration, this one looking like a small sugar cube. Incredibly, in an out-patient procedure, the cube is installed below the skull, above the part of the brain where there is a problem, but not in the brain itself. Again, a man who had lost mobility due to a disease was able to regain a good deal of it this way.

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whoa Thank you, that was unexpected, evidently I did understand the video, I was so sure the video had to be wrong.

No the Higgs field does not interact with gluons nor does it interact with photons. Both being massless particles.

I would like to ask if Gluons are affected by the Higgs field in the same way as atoms. I've watched PBS video about the possibility that the Higgs field doesn't engage all particles equally but the specifics weren't clear.

Because this is how "toward" and "away" are defined.

I recently re-joined Facebook and have been doom-scrolling endless animal videos by amateurs, and I have to say that there's more to many animals than meets the eye. Animals are not robots, completely driven by instinct.