paulsutton

Isn't that the case for a lot of things? Military applications come first as they seem to have more money, but technology developed can migrate to civilian areas. Paul

I guess on a simple level a physical illness is visible to others in many cases, whereas a mental illness can be hidden and can manifest itself in different ways. But as @MigL said, we will hopefully realise that mental illness is due to the brain and is therefore also physical. Paul

I am not sure if this is the right answer, but companies seem to leave or arrive when the taxation and other systems are in place to make more attractive or changed so they are less attractive. May not be related, but BP have pulled out of the North Sea due to it being less viable. So a change of government and then policy on a range of issues can either attract, deter or force companies to move. I know the National Insurance rises for employers in the UK is causing a good few issues with regard to recruitment.

If it goes to court, trying to find a 12 person jury where no one knows anything about the case could be interesting, given the media coverage. Something similar has been said about the US case where the mother killed her 3 children, now ruled a mistrial if there is a retrial they would need a neutral jury, easier said than done.

I guess the endpoint will come when we no longer seek answers to questions or seek new questions to answer, so long as we remain curious, then science will keep going. WRT the above I think eletrons are leptons so if they have a charge of -1 then for a proton to have a charge of +1 would the UUD quarks need a charge that adds up to +1 to maintain a neutral charge?

Reading some media outlets, such as the UK dailyfail (dailymail) website you would think they had won in the whole of Germany and not simply in a region in the former East Germany. Interesting point is about low immigration, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, West Germany would have benefitted from immigration, joined the EU etc, this brought culture, much needed skills etc. Meanwhile East Germany probably lost out (or was their free movement within what would I think have been the USSR?. So a few questions, I was only 12/13 when the wall fell, so I have some memories of this being on the news, but also that I may not have understood the full implications at the time. After the Berlin wall fell and Germany was unified, what happened? Did the same anti immigration / xenophobic sentiment linger on? Did they find a way to benefit from immigration bringing in skills etc? Was their free movement within the old USSR? If the Former East Germany got left behind was this a problem of their own making?

Perhaps with the "white_people_blocked_from_jobseeker_schemes" We should perhaps look at the context, who are these jobs schemes aimed at, what location are they in, who are the employers, what are their client / customer bases. What other schemes are available, that white people CAN attend. Also, I find with these stats reporting there is a rather inconsistent use of percentages, and fractions so you may have 50 percent of x and in the same article cite 2/3s of y, within the same report, hardly easy to make a comparison. People reporting seem to pick and choose what they want. Paul If they are a minority in 1 in 4 schools, then surely they are not a minority in 3 in 4 schools. Paul

Cool thanks, that makes sense,

Hi I found a link to this the other day, I think there was a link on Mastodon to a press report, so I looked up some more useful info. However what I found interesting about the diagram is it shows s,c,u,d quarks but no top / bottom quarks. Hidden fifth dimension could tune dark matter resonance, new theory proposes https://phys.org/news/2026-07-hidden-dimension-tune-dark-resonance.html Link to papar (pdf) https://phys.org/news/2026-07-hidden-dimension-tune-dark-resonance.html How do others interpret the absence of top and bottom quarks., I guess the fact that Up / Down quarks are there, is important as these make up protons (udd) and neutrons (ddu). Paul

Is there not a window of opportunity here, to decide what we as consumers want going forward. Slight tangent discussion on Mastodon about in Japan products being wrapped in plastic. My response was to suggest that to the generation brought up with this, wrapping everything in plastic is normal, same for the current generation seeing mobiles as normal, there is no frame of reference to the time when phones were attached by wires. So back to AI generated movies or AI actors, once this takes over and we also have AI actors to a whole generation this will be normal, they won't know any different. So I think we need to engage in a multigenerational way to decide what we want, debate pros / cons and decide the future. AI can help us do stuff that was not possible before, I think we will still have model makers, at least in the sense we want a spaceship in a movie so someone will fashion one to get an idea of what is needed, that hands on physical model can be very useful. This can then be reproduced in a movie, if we then want 1000 ships then AI can make this possible.

Great work, thanks for posting this. Paul

I agree about our assumptions on 'sentient' beings, also didn't NASA find fungus growing on the outside of the ISS. There is also a reason why space probes are made in sterile environments to reduce the risk of contamination of planetary bodies. It is possible we have already had visitors to Earth, this could explain why there are depictions found on different continents. I think on the ST voyager episode Tattoo (season 2) the inhabitants of the planet the crew visited said they took several generations to travel to Earth.

Sorry for the delay in this. The book I have is : Structural Mechanics Second Edition Ray Hulse & Jack Cain ISBN: 978-0-335-80457-5 palgrave.com

Yes, Nature does have a canny ability to throw a spanner in the works of current thinking, Even the JWST is re writing our understanding of the universe early history, so as you said nature has many things that don't fit. Once we reach the moon, we will probably end up re-writing everything on stress based on what we learn in micro gravity on the moon. Different environment will throw up more problems, just that the stakes will be much higher i guess, as we can't evacuate a moon base. As we are talking about materials and stresses, what do people make of this?77 'It's crazy' - villagers mystified as river dramatically changes course https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxlv7x1527o Would there be a connection, it does look like human intervention by land owners may have had unexpected consequences.

I found a book in a charity shop on Structural Mechanics which seems to cover some (or may be all) the topics @studiot is covering so I I will give that a read too.