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Bufofrog

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  1. Evil is a human construct, and I don't think it has too much impact.  I think humans do have a big impact on evolution due to the level of extinctions that we are causing and will cause.  But evil such as wars don't have the impact that the general human population does in habitat destruction and pollution to the worlds animal populations.  Looking at the big extinction events of the past I don't know if humans can top those, but time will tell.

  2. 2 hours ago, sstman said:

    What I meant is that the external halo is prevented from collapsing in, not the galaxy.

    I still do not see why a material that has anti-gravity characteristics would be drawn to a galaxy.  It should be repelled by a mass and therefore should be no where near a large concentration of normal mass.

    2 hours ago, sstman said:

    The  problem is that stars on the edge of galaxies are rotating faster than the calculated mass of the galaxy would seem to allow.  A halo of antigravity material outside the galaxy solves that problem.

    Well again thinking in terms or Occams Razor, it would make more sense to posit a normal mass that simply does not interact with light (much like a neutrino) instead of invoking a material with properties never seen and having it form a halo which would be a counter intuitive thing to happen.

  3. 50 minutes ago, sstman said:

    BufoFrog: I am not referring to the existing theory on a dark matter halo inside the galaxy, which might hold it together from within.  Existing theory on dark matter is that it is just another form of normal matter, with gravity in the normal sense.  My idea is that it is actually a source of anti-gravity, and would have been pulled in over time after the galaxy had begun to form. 

    Oh, ok I see.  If dark matter is anti-gravity, why would it be pulled in by the gravity of the galaxy?  It seems to me if I had a hand full of material that exhibited anti-gravity and I released it that it would shoot away from earth and not be attracted to earth.

    56 minutes ago, sstman said:

    The gravity from the galaxy pulls it in and holds it in place, but the anti-gravity from the halo pushes against the galaxy (and itself), keeping it from collapsing toward the center.  I hope that made sense, and thanks for reading, btw

    There is no need for a counter force of gravity to keep the galaxy from collapsing in on itself, just as there is no need for a counter force in the solar system to keep it from collapsing.

  4. 5 hours ago, Bond777 said:

    Could someone explain it in details and for dummies why is it so if it is true?

    I cannot explain why it is true, because unfortunately it isn't true.  I have seen the profits rise in my old factory as workers were replaced by robots.

  5. 12 hours ago, sstman said:

    And just as matter pulls everything closer, dark matter pushes everything away.  So what you end up with is a dark matter halo surrounding galaxies that pushes in toward the center of the galaxy.

    It looks like you have misinterpreted what the term dark matter halo means.  Your idea that a halo of dark matter is pushing toward the center of the galaxy assumes that the dark matter halo is denser around the outside of the galaxy.  That is not what is meant by halo in this case, in this case the density of dark matter increases as you move towards the center of the galaxy.  So if dark matter actually pushes things away that would mean that the dark matter would be pushing the galaxy apart, not pushing it together.

  6. 36 minutes ago, martillo said:

    For me is just curiosity now to know who really consumes all that amount of energy as an entire country...

    This has been answered.  The miners pay the electric bills.  You can mine for bitcoin, buy an expensive computer, with an expensive (powerful) video card and run your algorithm to guess the number that will allow you to claim some bitcoin.  To increase your chance of guessing correctly you could run 10 computers 24/7 at full capacity.  At the end of the month you have to pay the electric bill for your energy usage.

    As has also been mentioned that because the miners are eating up all this energy it can cause energy prices to increase.

  7. On 4/28/2021 at 12:24 AM, MPMin said:

    To help me understand this better, if you were able to shine two beams of light with exactly the same frequency, if you were to shine one of the beams of light from Jupiter to an observer in feee space and the other identically produced beam of light from a place with no gravity to the observer, would the beam of light from Jupiter be red shifted from the observer’s point of view? 

    You have asked a form of this question multiple times in this thread and have received the answer of 'yes' multiple times.

    Are you looking for a different answer or not reading the answers?

  8. 40 minutes ago, kai00 said:

    So I have been trying to make sense of what space-time is from a practical point view. I thought of sharing with you some thoughts that came to my mind. 

    1). The fabric of space must be made out of the smallest wave-like phenomenon. Since this is so tiny, think of it as the smallest particle. These particles (or let's call it a field), fill the entire universe.

    There is no fabric of space, you seem to be confusing an analogy with the real thing.  Space is a volume so saying it is made of particles makes no sense.  Since your idea is based on this idea of a nonexistent fabric the rest does not make sense either.

  9. 4 minutes ago, MPMin said:

    Aside from time being considered as  part of the standard model of ‘space time’ is there any reason why as an alternative hypothesis that time could not be attracted to gravity? 

    It makes no sense.  It is the same as saying length is attracted to gravity.  

  10. 55 minutes ago, Sargon Torchrise said:

    Do engineers, scientists, physicists, MIT students, Caltech students, and STEM professionals in general despise geeks, nerds, eccentrics, and introverts and want to fire them?

    No.  When I hired someone for a technical job I didn't care if they were a classic nerd or if they looked like leading man actor, what I cared about is did they seem like they would do the best job.  

  11. No matter how small the distance is to something if you only go half way you won't get there, right?  Say you are 10 ft from your goal and you go half way, now you are 5 ft away.  Now you go half way to your goal and you are only 2.5 ft away.  You never will reach your goal because no matter what the distance is you only go half way there, never all the way.

  12. The speed of light is c in all inertial frames as you seem to know.  That means an observer would 'see' both beams moving at c.  That further means the closing speed would be 2c.  In other words, if the 2 beams were 2 Ls apart, after 1 second they would pass each other, but of course nothing is actually exceeding c.

  13. 7 hours ago, Bill McC said:

    They challenged him to fly a kite in an electrical storm, and he did it easily, as can any Universal scientist today.

    There is a reasonable chance that doing so would be the last experiment the scientist ever did.

  14. Have you talked to a health professional about this?  As you stated this seems fantastical.  There could be any number of reasons for you to misinterpreting what is going on.  I highly recommend that you consult with your doctor.  Maybe you are experiencing a prescription drug side effect or having an allergic reaction to something.  Good luck.

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