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Seconded. If I may add to this, a good entry point is a YouTube channel called Crash course that has a philosophy course. I also found oxfords philosophical dictionary to be very useful. There is a Cambridge philosophical dictionary too and I've tended to find both in large public libraries@Genady I'd say the crash course is best for really enhancing an understanding of some of the hard to grasp concepts. Case and point; when I was first studying philosophy it took me a few months before I realized that my understanding of supervenience was completely back to front, so I literally thought someone was trying to say that the brain relies upon the mind for change and not the other way around.

The objects near the black hole have a spiral motion. I think that the accelerations are more or less like the ones shown in the following figure: Therefore S1 is accelerating away from S2. Another hypothesis is that, as I've written in my previous post and in my blog, the acceleration of the objects is influenced by the presence of other CBHs, as shown in the following figure:

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Thanks, that’s a very useful summary of the possibilities. It was actually a recent exchange with @Orion1 that triggered my enquiry. Perhaps option 4 fits that particular case best. There does not seem to be any spamming or malicious intent, but some of the responses seem to be highly verbose (in the kind of way that would be marked down by a good teacher for "padding") and curiously devoid of any insight.

Here is your picture with an object added, visualising the challenge. Our observations of the expanding universe shows that the distance (d, the purple arrow) between objects S1 and S2b is increasing. Your model seems to claim the opposite, a decreasing distance d:

I do not claim to know but I'll add some opinions. It is technically feasible to have an LLM that interacts with a forum and to drive this behaviour by other means than in response to a user prompt. For instance by using plugin infrastructure that some vendors provide. But I'm not sure of there is enough value for an LLM provider to allow the LLM to start conversations with the internt to harvest data. When I look at the quality and volume of the answers to the posts that looks like generated by "automated generative AI" there is not much to harvest, compared to just scrape conversations between (non-AI) members. So what drives the behaviour that we see on the forums? A few ideas. Note that I would require forum data not accessible to members, logs etc, to confirm anything so these are best guesses based on experiences from working with IT and some AI models and systems: 1 Spam. It takes time for spammers to manually build reputation before spamming and some may use generative AI to create a few "Science-looking" initial posts. This means the spammer cuts & pasts between an LLM and the forum 2 Spam-account as a service. Bots that, given a login account, tries to build reputation by using output from an LLM . Then, based on the level of interaction the bot's posts created these accounts, with their track record, can be used for spam. Or traded for others to use for spam. 3 Automated spamming. Bots that have a queue of commercial material to promote and selects an account from no 2 above. In this case the "reputation" built in step 2 drives what content step 3 selects to promote. 4 experiments. Individuals or teams trying various LLMs against the forum members evaluating the outcome. There are emerging possibilities to run "small scale" LLMs outside the large well known vendors' control. Lower grade hardware usually means a less performant LLM which could explain some of the more surprisingly bad posts in the past. (This aspect of generative AI, locally hosted LLMs, is something I investigate currently) 5 sabotage. Disturb the forum and the community I do not find it likely that well established software vendors are actively working as described above, it would likely be nice players, possibly with malicious intent. The list is not meant to be exhaustive.

As I've written in my blog and in my posts, I don't think that galaxies and other astronomical objects are orbiting the CBH, but rather that they have a spiral motion towards the CBH. As I've written in one of my posts, I'm not an astrophysicist, physicist, mathematician or scientist. Someone else could estimate the mass of the CBH, its distance from the Earth and other data but, if he wants to publish the results, he must refer me (and my blog) as the original author of the idea. I've added two other ideas at the end of my blog (https://max70blog.blogspot.com/) that I report here below: Note also that, if in the universe there is more than one CBH, the motion and the acceleration of the astronomical objects that we observe, including galaxies and supernovae, may be influenced by the gravity of the other CBHs. Another idea, that could solve the cosmological constant problem, is that the discrepancy between the observed value of the vacuum energy and the much larger theoretical value of zero-point energy may be due to the gravity of the CBHs: part of the acceleration caused by zero-point energy could be deleted by the acceleration caused the gravity of the CBHs.

No, not familiar with it. But on a first glance it may be a good entry point. However you take the risk of taking a too deep dive in academic philosophy. Philosophy also has its technical concepts, sometime using words borrowed from daily language (e.g. 'intentionality'). What I like is that in nearly every main topic a few references to introductory sources are given. That could be a good start. Just take care not to declare an article as nonsensical before you really understand what an author is trying to say, and in what discourse she is presenting his text.

I agree.👍 But we can work on it. I agree.👍 But we can work on it.

It seems strange for me, why the American Civil War happened in the 19th century. I mean that, as far as I can see, civil wars and “Smuta” are an attribute of an authoritarian society, not a democratic one. I understand the mechanism of the Time of Troubles in Russia in 1612 or the Three Kingdoms in China: this situation occurs because any aristocrat wants to become a monarch, and the legitimacy of power is determined not by elections, but by the fact that the ruler is in power. Why then did turmoil also occur in the USA? My question is: when the southern states seceded from the northern states and mobilized, was that the decision of the people of those states? Did people in these states vote to secede? Or was secession simply the decision of the ruling governors? I heard that the American Civil War was in some sense the second American Revolution, please clarify this.

I'm so sorry!!! Black Hole Stars existed 0.1 to 0.5 billion years after the Big Bang. But they don't exist now. Thanks for your input. I'm 8 years old and happy to be on this forum to learn.

Thanks for the reply. What about settlements built into the ice? I'm thinking that people might want to build deep into the ice, maybe hundreds of meters down, taking advantage of all that space. Or would it simply be so much easier to build on the surface, put a foundation on the ice and then build the settlement on the foundation, and then cover the settlement with a layer of ice for radiation shielding, maybe even dome the whole thing over, that it just would not be worth bothering with deep ice tunnels and warrens? One factor here is that people would want to build elevators down to the subsurface oceans, especially if they find life there. But I imagine it is a lot easier to insulate a couple of elevator shafts than an entire town. It sounds like the critical factor is insulation...as long as you keep the heat away from the ice, it is much less likely to melt, shift, etc.? And this can be done with a platform or some other kind of insulating layer(s). Am I getting this right? Thanks!

I've downloaded it and will be very interested to see how it performs. I don't actually need much help in identifying a diederik cuckoo visually, but if the app picks up the die-die-diederik call I'll be impressed. I'll be even more impressed if it spots the very convincing local kestrel call the diederik makes when mobbed by the species it parasitises.

On a side note, Merlin developed a novel way of identifying bird songs which had always been very difficult to do. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/whats-that-bird-song-merlin-bird-id-can-tell-you/#

I use Merlin all the time. Absolutely love it. For identifying plants and trees I use PictureThis. Sky Guide is a very good app for identifying stars, planets, constellations. You just start the app and hold the phone up pointing at the star you want to identify. You can also point it in any direction (say, below the horizon or straight down) and it will show you the stars there too.

There are no stars that are a million times as massive as the sun. Dark matter does not create stars. AFAIK there is no astronomical term 'black hole star', so you need to define this term if it is something you made up. The 'explosion' is the supernova. Black holes are never inside of a star.

What’s the evidence that galaxies are orbiting the CBH? What are the value of the accelerations in your scenario, and can you show how much mass the CBH must have? The distances involved?

That is not the only evidence. Did you try drawing a picture? I can provide one if needed

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. I don't exclude the existence of the dark energy, but also this idea has problems, in particular the cosmological constant problem.

Lets try another approach the you may find helpful. Look at the following picture you provided: 1: What happens if you use two dimensions, as in a galaxy disk? In a galaxy there are other objects around CBH, at the same distance from CBH as S1, E and S2. If everything is accelerating towards CBH then objects must get closer and closer as the radial distance decreases?

Downloading now. Thanks. Why didn't I know about it yesterday, the Bird Count Day here?

I use PlantNet on country walks, which is a free app that works on iPhones and can identify species from leaves, flowers, fuit or bark, or so it claims. With leaves and flowers it seems to work most of the time. I have not tried fruits or bark so far. Certainly adds interest to the walk.

I'm not an astrophysicist, physicist, mathematician or scientist. I've invested in this idea only a part of my free time. Someone else could make these estimates but, if he wants to publish the results, he must refer me (and my blog) as the original author of the idea. I don't deal with the expansion of the whole universe but only with the accelerating expansion of the part of the universe that we have observed until now. Maybe billions of years from now, the part of the universe that we have observed will be sucked into the colossal black hole. Now the part of the universe that we observe is expanding because the astronomical objects closest to the colossal black hole have accelerations greater than the more distant objects.

I was just made aware of a bird call identifier called Merlin. Last evening a friend used some (name unknown to me) app to identify a plant; I used to have one on a previous phone, and newer iOS devices can leverage visual lookup to do so. In the past I’ve used an app to identify insects (bug identifier or picture insect) I also have a sound meter app. What else is out there for nature and science buffs? Preferably free, and stand-alone — nothing that needs to be plugged in to the phone.

! Moderator Note This doesn't seem to be working at all. You keep trying to explain something that others have found flaw with. You need to address the flaws mentioned instead of trying to say it in a different way.