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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.

By all reports Nye still sports bow ties, Even during a marriage not wise Like a raging Godzilla Blair dowsed his garden with weed killah And hacked his emails with unflattering lies. https://www.bostonherald.com/2007/11/21/bad-chemistry-for-ex-lockhart-lover/

I am speechless! And in need of duct tape myself* before I say something excessively flattering about your niece. But really, that is serious talent, and skillful prestidigitation. * Not that duct tape is terribly effective at stopping keyboard use.

That IS interesting. I knew it was standard in the smaller and domestic species (leave a new empty box sitting anywhere in our house and there will be a member of Felidae there within five minutes), but hadn't thought about the big cats. Leave a refrigerator box out on the savannah, see what happens...😀 TIL the origin of "bellwether." A wether is a castrated sheep. Put a bell around the neck of the lead wether and you can hear where the herd is going even if they're out of your line of sight.

Yes, that can he a big adjustment. In my neighbor state of Minnesota, there's a large Somali diaspora and, aside from the overall climatic shock of being in one of the USA's coldest and snowiest locations, an issue with vitamin D absorption. (Generally, my impression is that the places with forbidding winters are often the most welcoming in the US - perhaps because the winters reinforce the idea that we all depend on each other and general good will in order to survive?)

Also a huge problem here. I call them "border problems." With fifty states so many people are only an hour or two from another state with potentially different restrictions. In one state I lived in, the border was fifty minutes away from the two largest cities and there were enormous stores right on the border selling dangerous (as in, children regularly losing fingers and eyes) fireworks that were illegal in our state. This is the sort of craziness that eventually spurs Washington to step in and make a federal law.

Because it's a site setting and not a global one. Probably somewhere back there in the mists of time you got some prompt or query that asked if you wanted to have an offline copy of the homepage. If you go to browser settings, there should be some kind of site settings menu choice - I think. I don't know much about Apple browsers. Speculating here.

Heehee. My interest is (harrumph!) purely scholarly and it's entirely coincidental that I happen to focus mostly on the traits of pretty women. When I observe these phenotypic traits, I do so to better understand the complex interplay between.....sorry, I forgot the topic.

Yeah, there is a lot of slop, when you have five types of RS, and then also half a dozen types of soluble fiber and insoluble fiber all interacting with the gut colony in various ways. I recently was aware of some friends who were swearing off FODMAPs, as if that was a longterm diet, and I had to warn them that a lot of FODMAP foods are really good for you and you curtail them only temporarily (working with a physician ) to get relief from serious IBS symptoms. After that, the strategy is to work with probiotics and prebiotics and mechanical roughage and vitamins, etc to normalize your intestinal colony and redevelop a tolerance for FODMAPs. I used to work with a food chemist and nutritionist who related an experience treating gut problems in an Alaskan population and finding that vitamin D supplements wrought improvements in people who weren't eating fatty fishes and so were especially deficient (Alaska not being big on sunshine) in a vitamin now linked to a healthy gut microbiome. That's just one example of another component in the complexity of gut health and where they're only beginning to understand the molecular signaling pathways with vitamin D, the gut barrier, microbiota, and the development of IBD. (Nigerians: you probably have less need to worry about vitamin D...)

It's downloading the homepage automatically because you have (inadvertently?) set the browser to create an offline page copy when you open a page. That's why the file is called Main Page. You can open your browser settings and turn off this automatic response.

We located a jade taco, Lew.

Yep. Some RS foods have a fair amount of galacto-oligosaccharides, which lead to really opposite outcomes depending on the gut - prebiotic for some, nasty irritant to others who are FODMAP sensitive and have IBS. Beans are a classic double-edged sword, among the RS foods.

Yes. I like how he would incorporate physics into his plays. The exploration of entropy in Arcadia, of course, and that scene's comic reference to a Newton's Cradle in RaGAD.

Wow! If only this thread had had a first page where this was extensively discussed.

Is the Kessler syndrome theory unpopular, or just that most people who haven't seen that Sandra Bullock movie are unaware of it? I would imagine that any theory that posits things can go to hell real fast would be quite believable to most humans. That said, I don't suppose many politicians are going to run on a Stop Kessler Syndrome platform if they hope to win. Hopefully there would be natural economic pressures that would eventually lead to safer sat deployments and maintenance - no one in the space biz wants a cascade nightmare.

Yup - probably related to alterations in our dentition and how food is chewed - some sort of leverage thing with the muscles. Also possible sexual selection involved. So it could have started out as a spandrel (in the SJ Gould, Lewontin sense) and then later on various cultures fostered an aesthetic of prominent chins in men as indicative of virility (also would make beards, a secondary sexual characteristic, stand out more). There's also the longer noses, which I've heard as relating to migration out of the tropics and finding it useful to have a longer nasal passage to warm very cold air. And again, there could be some sexual selection effect, too. What about moustaches? Soup strainer?

Green banana and cooled tatos are a tonic To our microbial friends colonic; Like Ruminococcus bromii, It's fatty acids show me why, Starch resistance is not mere histrionic.

A bit confused. Didn't you earlier say we'd all be healthy and happy if we submitted to Jesus? You seem to be strongly recommending one individual's ideas, specifically a Galilean carpenter.

Not a problem. The acidity of such wood pulp processing is low, and is only a residue sufficient to oxidize the paper/cardboard very slowly. That said, it never hurts to just put the electronics in a plastic sealed bag. This reduces dust, invasive humidity and/or urban air pollutants.