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I'm no expert too but I would speculate that the sun is putting out a whole lot of radiation outside of the visible spectrum, the earth's atmosphere is blocking most of it leaving visible spectrum and some UV.

Phew. If not for that „rarely” I’d think you’re one of those geeks on a science forum on the internet

Today I learned there is a hip hop music genre caused by and dedicated to benzodiazepine (Xanax) kids who abuse the prescription drug. California Lil Xan whos stage name derives from the drug, born 1996 peaked nr. 64 on the Billboard hot 100 in 2017 with one of his songs. I remember reading short scifi stories in the 80’s with scenarios like that, we’re living in a cheap scifi short.

You are the one doing the insulting, not Strange. Since your perception is so shallow that you assume Strange is a kid when in fact he is not, then you sure need to work on your investigative skills before you can do any successful investigative work on (supposedly) ancient scripture. Loose the f words and start behaving in a civilized manner, you will be banned if you do not do so.

Correlation is not causation but I want you to know that I just got a splitting headache

I can agree with that to a degree. I haven’t studied consciousness and I’m not planning to, I wouldn’t want to end up stating something as ridiculous as this:

So what do you think is so special about consciousness that calls for endless debates on it? I’m by no means a great mind but the way I see it, is that our brain capacity advantage in comparison with other species makes us so full of ourselves that we decided that we’re special because consciousness... to a point that some of us decided that other species are conscious too and that consciousness is somehow relevant to nature. Its not, not in any remote way other than like any other advantage a species has which is ofcourse completely insignificant on the cosmic scale. The fact that I can learn relativity or use sarcasm or ask philosophical questions about the meaning of life or do any other things that other species can’t, makes me feel lucky not special. Consciousness is a set of mental traits that we humans have which some of us insist on being glorified. I don’t think that our minds should be glorified in this way...we humans should be proud of our achievements and abilities but glorifying consciousness is just being a dick. Besides of what has already been stated in this thread about what a god is - god is also a product of people needlessly glorifying their place in nature.

Quite obviously, you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about - again. It’s up to you to decide if you want to learn some physics. If you decide you do, I suggest you pay attention to what Strange is posting. There is no space without time, spacetime is inseperable.

It doesn’t look like a glare or lens flare, You can make sure by taking a different pic to see if the spot isn’t an artifact coming from a faulty lens or camera sensor. If you can see it with your eyes in the sky it most probably is Venus.

But you don’t get run over every time, don’t you. Sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t, thas why probability works - it wouldn’t without time dividing the events. Probably someone who likes to see me spend a saturday being force fed every 20 minutes while listening to 2 dogs bark chasing a parrot.

I don’t use emoji’s when spending a saturday at mother in law’s.

Intuition can be useful when you have a high level of knowledge and are dealing with an exremely complex issue. But that intuition has to be trained, backed by mountains of experience so its not really intuition. I think Edward Witten once said that he sometimes depends on his intuition when working with strings but thats a different kind of intuition/comkon sense from what Vril is saying. If you have a framework where there are potencial ~10^-600 possible solutions to a problem you might as well try using intuition to point and shoot...if you’re a genius like Edward Witten that is.

I can add to swansont’s and StringJunkie’s posts that common sense is deceiving not only in physics but in various orher areas of science and technology. We evolved to have a well working common sense only concerning the stuff that we obseve around us with our senses like rocks flying when thrown, skin burned when you touch fire, etc. Time dilation, lenght contraction, spacetime being a single construct are not things that we observe in every day life with our senses and common sense does a horrible job at judging them.

Relativity tells us thats not true. Besides thats not the point, time prevents everything from happening together in the context that there is a past, present and future, without time there wouldn’t be causality.

In Euclidean geometry a point has no dimensions, no volume or area. A good practical example of this is a focal point on a camera lens - it has no size so it's not a unit of space but it's very much a point. In QM an electron (point particle) cannot be spatially localized because Heisenberg...and its size is zero...but it has mass so it has volume. Only interactions of electrons can be localized so in that context a point can be a unit of space - kinda but not really because super-strings...but the bottom line is that we don't know if spacetime is pixelated at it's smallest scale.

I agree. My gripe is with this being a simulation at least in the Neo/Matrix sense, it's hard for me to accept that nature would go into so much trouble to create such a construct - reality which we observe is much more elegant.

You went to the pub with Dim without me. I want you to know I will not forget this.

Friday night approaching, I sense more posts being deleted/trashed/hidden

Thats the crux of my analogy, I think they’re never wrong and they never will be wrong. When Einstein came up with GR it didn’t render Newton wrong, GR openned another door which just enabled a broader view. When we open a new door (which Im sure we will) it will not render GR wrong. As for the simulation „theory” its so unsatisfying that its really unlikely its more than a glitch in the mind of physics (or rather philosophy)

I think its reasonable. My take on this is that whatever we don’t know has to correlate directly with what we already know. An analogy would be Newton and later Einstein - both models are correct but the later is fuller and more accurate. We can’t just say that Newton was wrong. It wouldn’t be logical in my opinion to assume that this Newton->Einstein mechanism doesn’t apply to other aspects of nature which we don’t have yet insight on. Unless the universe changes its rules to decieve us there is no reason to believe that we can’t know whats going on. Complexity is a different ballgame though, there might be so much of it that we will never get all the answers. As for the simulation theory, as far as I know it stems from the holographic principle by Hawking and Thorne in the 70’s and 80’s later twisted into this weird mixture of mumbo jumbo we get now from Elon Musk and other celebraties trying to build fuss around their high profiles. Deepak Chopra and alikes love to thrive on this kind of „science”, frankly I have enough of „simulation” and „quantum” in all the popscience around, it’s just getting more and more deceiving.

So not only the universe is simulated but also state of the art compression algorithms are used to keep a real time database of...everything That sounds far fetched even for Elon Musk’s thinking. Assuming physics still works in the simulated universe, we’d also need energy for the ”storage” - lots of energy, more than the whole universe contains. Lets assume a crazy idea that theres a high speed connection between every particle in the universe and spacetime serves as the infrastructure providing the connection and bandwidth - how do you setup a distributed database working in real time containig data about everything without anybody noticing it? Plus how would you explain what/who built the simulation? These simulation ideas get more and more far fetched in my opinion.

I think you got the context wrong, I wasn’t lecturing nor being condenscending, actually I was trying to do the opposite - be sincere and try to point out that a kind, not self centered attitude would render a lot more effective for Jack on this forum (or any forum)

Well, the good thing is that you’re not aiming to be a moderator on this forum

Dim is currently teaching the next Llama in between bike riding and pubs

I’m curious to see what this is about, first time I’ve heard of this.