Everything posted by Genady
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Alien life in Universe: Scientists say finding it is 'only a matter of time'
I think it's an exaggeration. They are different in many respects. Perhaps, there were other forms, different, mixed, and intermediate, that did not survive for us to know them.
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Why does fine-tunning for life suggest a multiverse?
P ( A | A ) = 1
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Free will or Predestined
Free will or Predestined Both.
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Evidence of NO design
If the OP in this thread, https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/127224-artificial-consciousness-is-impossible/, were correct then consciousness would be such a characteristic. (Just a note, no need to discuss.)
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Measuring the distance to the Moon from a photo of a solar eclipse
Here is another way. The distance to the Sun and its angular size let you find its diameter. Now you have two unknowns, the distance to the Moon and its diameter. You need two equations. The picture gives you one equation based on the equal angular sizes of the Sun and the Moon. If you can measure the time between the Moon touching the Sun and the moment in the picture, it gives you time that takes the Moon to move the distance equal to its diameter. We know how long it takes the Moon to move the entire length of its orbit around the Earth. Comparing these two times gives you the second equation. Then you solve two equations with two unknowns.
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Why does fine-tunning for life suggest a multiverse?
Can you provide something in writing? I can't discuss a video, and also the forum rules require so.
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Measuring the distance to the Moon from a photo of a solar eclipse
Sun diameter = 1.392x10^6 km Moon diameter = 3475 km Earth to Moon distance = 152036000 / 1.392x10^6 * 3475 = 380000 km
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Experimental attempt to prove Photons/Electrons are 4D Torus shapes
- Artificial Consciousness Is Impossible
The current state of affairs: Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 (nature.com)- Evidence of NO design
I was not responding to you.- Evidence of NO design
To me, the presence of vestigial structures and genes is strong evidence of no design.- Possibly good news for coral reefs.
Another project to fight macroalgae in order to help corals: Florida’s coral reef is in crisis. These crabs can help. - Vox- Anecdotes from science
Thus, in a roundabout way this story fits very well this thread. Thank you.- Anecdotes from science
Lord Kelvin - Wikipedia disagrees: The "Two clouds" speech:- Anecdotes from science
The physicist–philosopher Ernst Mach (1838–1916), who spoke of “the artificial hypothetical atoms of chemistry and physics,” never accepted their existence. As late as 1916, shortly before his death, he declared that “I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.” This goes to show that a scientist can maintain his own principles, bravely holding out against a wide consensus of the scientific establishment, and still be wrong. Weinberg, Steven. Foundations of Modern Physics (p. 58).- Alien life in Universe: Scientists say finding it is 'only a matter of time'
It is good for public support and perhaps for funding.- Anecdotes from science
Three. Years 1-4, 5-8, and 9-10. All three were good and different.- Anecdotes from science
This is very good point. Unfortunately, most people (in my anecdotal experience) have this image of math thinking being 'algorithmic' / 'logical' / 'sequential' / 'linear' / etc. Regarding the trial and error, my math teacher had rules of working on math problems, such as: - don't use notebooks, use loose sheets of paper instead, so you can spread them around on the desk or on the floor to see and to come back to your trials, errors, and partial or intermediate results; - use only one side of a sheet of paper, so you can see all your work without turning a page; - never erase what you tried; use a pen, not a pencil; ...- What is really the total energy of particle? Also an interesting physical quantity f = mc^2/h
The down quark field interacts with the up quark field and the W-boson field transferring to them its energy and momentum.- Anecdotes from science
I wouldn't know about it if not for this footnote in Zee, A., Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell:- Anecdotes from science
Here is the Newton's original drawing, which the banknote artist has copied: How is your Latin? Anyway, the artist has added the background and in it, he placed the Sun exactly in the center of the ellipse, where the major and the minor axes intersect (the point C). This is where the Sun cannot be. By the Kepler's first law, and per Newton as well, the Sun is in one of the foci (the point S). PS. In the earlier hint ("Hint: focus on the geometric drawing.") the word "focus" was the hint.- Anecdotes from science
Simpler, simpler. Where is the Sun?- Anecdotes from science
- Anecdotes from science
Sorry, if you mean the angles between the orbit's planes, you're right, they are too wild for the real planets in the Solar system. Still, there is something else, more fundamental wrong.- Anecdotes from science
No, something else is wrong. (The orbits might be viewed at the angle.) Hint: focus on the geometric drawing. - Artificial Consciousness Is Impossible
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