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Genady

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  1. Yes, I see how clean democracy protects majority against a privileged elite. But I don't see how it protects an underprivileged minority. If it does not, then it's not "for all."
  2. What is it? This what I've learned in school: socialist society equality - from each one according to their abilities, to each one according to their work communist society equality - from each one according to their abilities, to each one according to their needs How the abilities, work, and needs are measured have never been specified.
  3. The first question perhaps is what of this look is on the world and what on the beholder.
  4. I understand that it is not expected to be color charged hence it doesn't interact strongly. It is expected to interact in some "weak" way, but I don't know what it means. I don't know if anybody does. I'm looking forward to a better answer, too. Supposedly, the galactic halos don't end, and there is no specific intergalactic DM: (Missing dark matter located: Intergalactic space is filled with dark matter (phys.org))
  5. AFAIK there are no studies of effects of lionfish on Bonaire reefs. All I have is personal observations, mine and other professional divers', over many years, before and after the "invasion." And of fishermen, too. The article you linked is obsolete. CIEE does not exist several years already. Most active volunteer hunters don't do it anymore. STINAPA does not push the efforts anymore. The situation underwater does not show any difference.
  6. Like @studiot said, the letter does not matter. In this case, scientists and mathematicians call it "i" while engineers call the same number, "j".
  7. It may not because there is no friction to hold it there.
  8. Just as an example, even such an "obvious" thing has its caveats. Thanks to advancements in medicine, J. Stalin lived very-very long. There are/were millions of people for whom it was very bad. There were thousands more for whom it was just in time that the medicine failed when it did. I'm sure you can come up with lots of examples like this.
  9. Genady replied to sanjibseo's topic in Religion
    I don't think we need a specific reason to doubt our teachers, or anything. Skepticism is a default state. BTW, I didn't know about the negs, and none of them is mine. Although, I did (mis)understand that post as an insult.
  10. Only if this society and this consensus exclude Onge, Jarawa and many other peoples who cannot vote anymore.
  11. If we're not talking about the "best" or the "most important" (re: OP), but rather about a list of generally good things, sure. Perhaps, a very long list.
  12. Now I understand what you mean by "ontology". I'm not sure it is a common understanding of this word. But with this understanding, I fully agree with you. Re Feynman, doesn't matter, just a quote. The partner is Nature.
  13. I don't understand how it can be useful in such situations. Could you give an example (rather than a metaphor)?
  14. I understand that democracy is a rule of majority. It is inequality then.
  15. I believe that such a thing does not exist. There are many different "bests", for different groups of people.
  16. Which proven law does definition of imaginary number "i" follow?
  17. I think that the difference between physics and mathematics is that - paraphrasing Feynman - in physics we got a partner.
  18. Is it a proven law? I think, this equation is incorrect. For example, x*log(x)→0 when x→0 and log(x)→-∞.
  19. I'm with you here 100%. However, Isn't thinking about ontology another substitute for physics?
  20. There is a big range between "only one direction" and "all directions". No photon emitted from the opposite side of a star reaches us. (Ignore BH and alike.)
  21. The "state of cat" is entangled with the "state of bomb" as well as with states of everything else the cat interacts with. To separate the "state of cat" from all this mess, one needs to sum up (integrate) this entangled state over all variables describing all other parts of the entangled system. The resulting "state of cat" is not a pure quantum state, but rather a mixed state with classical probabilities, something like "50% chance it is dead and 50% that it is alive." This is not unlike "50% heads and 50% tails" of a coin before we check it. Nothing paradoxical here.
  22. It might be useful to investigate, why it doesn't have these effects in the waters of Bonaire.
  23. The wave is not canceled. Its shape changes. Fewer particles appear in some areas while more particles appear in others. With the same total. There is a destructive and also a constructive interference.

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