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And yet you keep coming to this website and engaging in extended conversations with us on a vast range of issues and interests. Odd.

Worthless? Now, now, perhaps it runs on zero point energy. Why let a basic QM violation stop us from releasing some ZPE? 😜

Dear malignant manchild of the United States, Thanks for your gross violation of the memory and legacy of John F. Kennedy, by putting your name above his on the Kennedy Center. Though you are an inflamed ass pimple on the Presidency, you have shown your superiority to JFK at petty and puerile political games and narcissistic posturing. In this very narrow category of achievement you are a BIG WINNER!! However, I would ask you to honor the basic concept of a memorial dedication of a building by kindly dropping dead. Thanks!

Which is the problem I referred to with Russell. Physical spacetime is expected to be quantized because physical coordinates are slightly noncommutative, right?

OP seems like something related to Zeno paradoxes. Bertie Russell, based on Cantor, offered a solution known as the "at-at theory of motion". It has problems too.

ESP all, o clod in a spot - sue firey Walmart, ram lawyer, if EU stops an idol collapse.

"Weight down upon the Swami raver...."

Seems like an imaginative sci-fi pastiche of Robert Sawyer (see his "Wake" trilogy) and JL Borges. Some day maybe.

One could distinguish between knowledge and information, however. Infinite universes would require infinite information to describe every particle, field, and state, yet that could be reducible to a finite algorithm. This gets into Shannon's information theory and probably for another thread. With recursion and looping, it could be in principle a possibility that all those universes of knowledge could be compressed to some lines on a single sheet of paper. Whenever you wanted to turn your attention on, say, Percival Shmeebly in Universe #3456790, you would just run the algorithm and then decompress the resulting Shmeebly History string. So there could (again, in principle, not necessarily in reality) be vast inhuman minds somewhere which can in principle become Percival Shmeebly whenever they cast their attention that way and want the full realistic Shmeebly experience. Basically you don't have to know everything all at once in order to attain infinite knowledge. Sincerely yours, Percival J. Shmeebly

You're still stuffing photons from everywhere (including a hot radio telescope) back into the star and splitting helium. Metaphorically speaking. As KJW and Swanson keep pointing out, our causality is asymmetric. My problem with trying to imagine some reverse causality with gravity is that it's like trying to have Ricci curvature "the other way." Scorched shuttle parts rising up out of the Australian Outback and going up into space. With something like beta decay it's much easier, with a distant neutrino and an electron from my Geiger counter converging on a more stable nucleus in some radioisotope lump. Still makes no sense thermodynamically.

As with other waves, so take the analogy of EM for example: observation is of light moving away from a star, but not photons out of nowhere converging onto a star, splitting helium into hydrogen in the core. Both are valid solutions but....well, thermodynamics. Entropic arrow.

Brilliant. But wonder what chilling Rhine water will do to riparian and deep water ecosystems. Many flora/fauna are temperature sensitive. They being Germans, I have some hope they worked this out, maybe the volume of water used and chilled isn't enough to make a significant difference. ETA: it looks like the fraction is tiny. Rhine flow rate gets up to over a million liters/sec along the Upper Rhine where Mannheim sits. And near three million at the Nordsee. (BTW, do not trust Google AI on river flow rates - go directly to technical sources)

If you're planning to be naked, probably best to choose the Amazon rather than Alaska. Heh.

Also prepared for conspiracy theories to blow up all over, so long as we have no information on who murdered Rob Reiner yesterday, a prominent Trump critic. ETA: As I typed this, I checked the newsfeed and now see they're arresting Nick, their son, as a suspect, so maybe this won't get spun out so much. Still a horrible thing. I so admired his movies and his political activism and just him as a really great guy. ETA: If you are a decent human being, and have any hypertension tendencies, do not read the utterly vile and sickening SM post from Trump today on Reiner's murder. I couldn't finish reading it. And the White House official website REPOSTED it.

I should remember to tell our damp mop and brooms how much we love them. Don't want them rising up like in that Fantasia scene.