exchemist

There is no evidence for the notion that "souls" have different frequencies or wave patterns. So this is just another Wild Assed Guess (WAG) on your part, isn't it? What is the point in you posting this stuff? We can all dream up imaginary ideas like this. Why are yours worth sharing, if there is no evidence for them? And I notice you persist in your wrong-headed notion of energy, as if it is some kind of invisible substance. It is not. It is a property of a physical system. This is science forum. Please learn a bit of science.

Why would you need people at all, on board?

But you have a taste for necrophilia, I see.😁

Yup, and this stuff has subsequently proved to be a disaster, as it fails after a few decades, often without warning.

I’ve no doubt it has played a role in encouraging altruistic behaviour in lots of ways, up to and including self-sacrifice.

Still playing the same tedious cracked record, I see. As far as I can see, the only person at Toyota allegedly promising an all electric Hilux truck (there is already a hybrid) is the president of their Thailand operation, who is reported to have said he expects it to be in the Thai market by the end of 2025: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60306784/electric-toyota-hilux-coming-2025/ I cannot source even this to any direct Toyota source, so it may not be an official company statement. I learned, from this site: https://ccleasing.co.uk/news/99-the-best-electric-vehicles-coming-to-the-uk-market. that there is an issue of payload if one attempts to produce an EV version of an existing light truck design, due to the higher weight of the batteries potentially reducing the max. payload of the truck. Consequently, the electric light trucks now on the market - and there are already quite a few - tend to be all-new designs. The Toyota Stout (not Scout), which you refer to, is rumoured in some corners of the motoring press to be due to make a comeback as an all-new EV, at some point in 2025. So far as I can see, nobody says January and nobody says in the USA. Some details here: https://lexusandtoyota.com/2025-toyota-stout-ev/. (This is not a Toyota company site.) So this thread looks like yet more deliberate disinformation from you, once again trying to diss the shift to EVs. But indeed, it is more of a challenge for trucks than for passenger vehicles, due to the weight of existing battery technology for higher power outputs.

I'm sorry but this is bullshit. "A fundamental state of infinite field" is just meaningless. What sort of field? Sure, you can have a potential (energy) due to various kinds of fields, but you can't just have "field" without defining what the field is: electric, magnetic, gravitational or whatever. You can't have a field of just "energy" either. I've explained to you previously that energy is property of a physical system. It is therefore meaningless to speak of energy unless you say what system it is a property of and what type of energy you are describing. "Pure potential" is nonsense. And I most certainly did not say there is not scientific exploration (explanation?) for for unscientific people. What I said is that anyone scientific will find whatever you are trying to convey mysterious. That's because at the moment it makes no sense.

Sure but my point was that a "3σ fit" means it's not just a "speculative idea", as Carroll dismissively calls it, but supported by evidence, even if that evidence is far from conclusive at this stage. As Markus's post makes clear, the idea itself is not new. What's new is a fitting of actual data to a model of this type. At least, that is my reading of it.

There seems to be a certain amount of woo here. “Pure potential” is meaningless, as is the idea of a dimension, which is a mathematical concept, “living”. And your equation is also meaningless. It’s not surprising you think it’s mysterious: it’s certainly pretty mysterious to anyone trying to see any science in it.

Yes but this is more than mere speculation, surely? The paper is about fitting data from something they refer to as the SNe Ia dataset to their model. Here is the paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647?login=false Not being an astronomer I don’t know what this dataset is, but it seems to be something used to estimate cosmological distances. So it would seem to be based on evidence, not just theory.

Looks as if Night FM got 86ed on 7th Nov. I agree about the doubtful theology. That poster seemed to be yet another tiresome product of Bible Belt Christianity, which I found bizarrely naïve and narrow-minded during my 2 years in Houston.

That link is a beautifully readable summery of the concept. I actually think I understand it now. 🙂 Perhaps we are moving into an era in which, for the first time, enough observations can be accumulated to validate the choice of assumptions and see if it can really work. I wonder where this would leave the proponents of a connection between dark energy and zero point energy of the vacuum, though.

That's a bit too glib. Politicians have known for decades how to control inflation: Be aware if you are "printing money" and use the central bank interest rate to damp it out. Geoffrey Howe and Thatcher did that in the UK back in the early 80s.

This article gives you some background on the economic situation in Argentina: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm55yv0g0veo The country has for a long time been spending beyond its means and printing money to finance that, while trying to maintain a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar. Venezuela is just disastrously badly run, with rampant corruption, inefficiency and capricious decisions by government. Pointless to try to analyse it rationally.

Very good. This nutcase has actually published a book: https://authorfrankdimeglio.blogspot.com/2013/06/author-frank-dimeglio-is-real-agenda-of.html The link is quite funny. After several tirades from Frank, somebody else shows up to ask: "Are you a real person?".😆 And that is the sole comment from anyone other than Frank.

This sort of ill-considered, threatening shit is what we are all going to have to put up with, on a daily basis, for at least the next 4 years. It's terribly wearing. Most of it won't see the light of day, as the Pentagon or whoever will point out it's utterly mad and impractical. But some of it could be Trump's idea of a kind of protection-racket negotiating ploy. Give me something (whatever it may be) and I'll stop threatening to annex part of your territory, kind of thing. Trouble is we don't know what is a ploy and what is just mad or a brain fart. So everyone gets sleepless nights, all the time. What an arsehole. And what's worse, elected by the American people, knowing he's an arsehole.

Vapour pressure of IPA is less than ethanol so should be OK too. I’m not sure what people use meths for nowadays. It used to be used in those glass coffee percolators that had a spirit burner. My grandmother had one. But they went out decades ago.

In the UK the standard material is methylated spirits. This is mainly ethanol but with addition of methanol and methyl violet dye, to make it recognisable and unsuitable to drink. Just keep it in the screw capped bottle you buy it in and it will be safe. The vapour from small amounts of ethanol at room temperature is not going to create an explosive atmosphere. Something like methylated spirits is available in other countries too, I believe.

Surely, if the laws of physics were not the same throughout the cosmos, that would call for an explanation. I’d have thought it is more natural to assume they would be the same, seeing as modern cosmology has the universe expanding, more or less uniformly, from an initial small state. So I’d say they “got everywhere” because “everywhere” grew alongside them - and, actually, under their direction - as the universe expanded. Aren’t you inventing needless problems to solve here?

More Bach arranged for different instruments, this time parts of the C Minor Lute suite played on the harp: There's a certain restful gentleness to the harp version: good to listen to last thing at night.

I suspect it is because American Big Pharma sees there is so much money to be made from cancer drugs. People will pay a lot to keep it at bay and, as the population ages, more people have time to get cancer before they snuff it from something else. So it's lucrative. I notice the UK spends a disproportionate amount compared with others too. But then there are some notable Big Pharma companies based in the UK, too.

I'd be tempted myself to take a more direct approach. First, who deems life to be "impossible" without supernatural intervention, and on what basis? There are many highly complex structures in the universe, both at macro and micro scale, for which we have good models accounting for their formation. Why should life be uniquely different? Is there a logic to this judgement, or is it just the Argument from Personal Incredulity? Such statements are normally made by people without any knowledge of the relevant pre-biotic chemistry, so there is at the very least room to question whether they should think themselves authorities on the matter. Second, science is in fact making a lot of progress in understanding how life may have arisen. So, although abiogenesis is probably the hardest unsolved problem in modern science, it has by no means met a brick wall. There is every reason to have faith that science will in time uncover one or more likely pathways by which life may have arisen. Unlike people promoting a naïve religious agenda, science is patient: the fact we have no answer yet does not mean there won't be one in time.

Thanks. I've now done a bit of investigation on the web and its seems a number of suppliers now only use biodegradable components. Apparently even the glue used to seal the bags can be an issue, as you say. Perhaps this example gives us an insight into just how pervasive plastic materials have become in modern life, and how much attention to detail is required to reverse out all the myriad ways they are, innocently but thoughtlessly, used. Afterthought: I've just had a look at cans (tins) used for food and drink and, yep, they have plastic liners that can leach microplastics too. So before I get too smug about brewing loose leaf tea, as I aways have, I need to pay attention to tinned tuna and sardines, and the tinned anchovies and tomatoes that I use for pasta sauces. The steel for cans used to be coated, electrolytically I presume, with tin to prevent corrosion by the contents, something known as tinplate, hence the British English terms "tin" and "tinned" where N Americans say "can" and "canned". Perhaps we should go back to tinplate.

Heh heh. But, back on topic, where is plastic used in teabags? I thought the casings were made of perforated paper?

OK yes the lips.