exchemist

The thread is about bread, not pancakes. And most of the rest of the world does not eat pancakes.

Looks as though Honest Bob has just shown up, at last.😁

Thanks all for the advice. I’m having a second look at bluetooth, as it appears one can get long range bluetooth now that can send a signal >50m. If true, and if it can get through a brick wall, that may work. These transmitters seem to be fairly inexpensive, though I would of course need to buy bluetooth active speakers to receive the signal. Any comments on this?

I don’t think we are. But the media? Yes, possibly, at least in the UK where the journos mostly seem to be arts graduates. My impression from reading le Figaro on hols is that French media are a lot more science-literate. They seem to write on science assuming readers have at least A level understanding and don’t talk down to them. It may be that British media are an outlier. Britain seems still not to have quite shaken off the old notion that science is all a bit working class: a discipline in which one has to do things with one’s hands, my dear. I do think many popularisers of science tend to stress knowledge: that we now know the way things really are, rather dogmatically. Not many of them speak of models and the use of alternative models to fit the situation at hand.

Yes, I now rather regret having introduced action into the discussion. Because, instead of simply acknowledging a typo or error in the units of his OP - an innocent mistake anyone can make - he has seized instead on the red herring of action and tried, absurdly, to pretend that is what he meant all along, even though it makes no sense whatever in this context, digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole. In my opinion this ludicrous pretence is posting in bad faith.

A bacon flattener. Now that's a really good idea. I'm actually amazed my mother never had one. She was into 1970s kitchen gizmos in a big way. I had to dump a lot of rusting or broken relics of some of them when I cleared the family house. I once had to the replace our fish slice, when we had a nanny for my son so my wife could get back to work, and said nanny bent it by flattening bacon with it too vigorously. Not much point now: it's only me in the house and I only make a bacon butty once in a blue moon.

Well not really, any more than if you use an iron for making toast.😁

Well done! That is indeed very close to your claim, at least in your translation. So you weren't making it up. I apologise. My Jerusalem bible has something a bit different: "Yahweh your God has allotted these to all the other peoples under heaven". Neither of these asserts that God made the heavenly bodies for that purpose though, i.e. for these other people to worship.

Rice's whales. Named after someone called Rice.

As I say, I think you have made that up, or possibly you are imagining it. Provide the reference and I will believe you. But not otherwise.

TACO.

Christ almighty. I’m out.

I have told you: action has dimensions of energy x time. Its energy may be constant but its action won’t be. Because of the x time. Action is a concept used in Lagrangian mechanics.

If you wait for 10 years the action has increased rather a lot, because its dimensions are energy x time.

Ah, the light dawns. You have completely misconstrued the meaning of this. What it says isGod gave them (i.e. the disbelieving people) over to the worship of the sun etc. That means God gave up with them and let them go back to their previous primitive pagan ways. (Acts 7:42 in My Jerusalem bible has "God turned away from them and abandoned them to the worship of the army of heaven".) It emphatically does not say or imply that God "made the moon for people to worship", which is what you originally asserted.

Yes I think is the yeast having time to digest the gluten that makes traditionally proved bread more digestible. Since Chorleywood came in, half the country seems to have developed gluten intolerance!

But that's the point. To speak of action implies a duration. And it also implies potential energy. If you just talk about a stream of particles, you have specified neither. It's meaningless. You're just bullshitting.

You have absolutely no idea what are talking about, have you?

J.s has dimensions of action. How can a stream of particles have the dimensions of action? I can see how it could have dimension of J/s, i.e. the rate of energy flow past a given point, thereby defining the size of the stream. But action? How can that work?

Your question is not a complete sentence. Typo? Can you try again?

I am not a baker but my understanding is the second rise gives the yeast time to "digest" the flour properly, giving a more chewy and resilient crumb when the bred is baked and improving its taste. In the UK, almost all commercial bread is now made by something called the "Chorleywood Process", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process , invented after the war and relying on much more yeast and violent mechanical mixing, followed by a short single rising time before baking. In consequence most modern British bread is horrible: a weak texture with little resilience and which dries up rapidly, a kind of biscuity taste - and rather indigestible. One of the reasons why boutique "sourdough" bread is now becoming popular (even I have reluctantly succumbed) is because that is made slowly and avoids these faults.A lot of young people now think that this is a feature of sourdough. It isn't. Properly made bread by the old method is just the same - without the sour taste. As recently as the 1980s one could still find local bakers, even in places that were not very prosperous, that made excellent bread. But almost no one makes it any more. This, as I say, is just my understanding as a consumer, not a baker, but one who, due to years of rowing, has always really enjoyed good bread - and hates the bad stuff. Someone more knowledgeable may contradict some of what I have written. You will need someone with baking experience to answer your other questions.

No my question is what authority Trump has for firing the existing incumbent. Can the president just do that, if he feels like it?

What then would be Trump's authority for firing the head of the bureau of labour statistics, as he just has because he didn't like the numbers?

Yes, the Exodus thing seems to be instructions for a form of ritual worship rather than praise per se but I see what you mean.

Do they demand praise, though? My knowledge of the OT is admittedly a bit sketchy, but as I recall it is people in the bible who exhort others to praise God, rather than a demand from God himself. I don't know about Islam.