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Genady

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  1. What is a critical mass of nothingness?
  2. So, new "laws" stopped being added in physics, chemistry, and biology sometimes in the beginning of the twentieth century, but continued to be added in geology, geography, economics, linguistics, sociology, etc. at least into the last quarter of that century. Is it correct?
  3. Not all the DNA, but only a DNA in a gamete. Perhaps a DNA in some ovum or a spermatozoon thinks, "My host needs eyes", modifies itself, and prays to be the chosen one.
  4. If Teresa's daughter is my daughter's mother, then what is my relationship to Teresa? After you answer it, I will describe a little experiment with ChatGPT that sheds light on how it works.
  5. THIS is the essence of my OP question, rather than some epistemological definition.
  6. Now you have added yourself to my Ignore list. Bye-bye.
  7. No, not philosophy. Speculations.
  8. Then, this thread should be not in the Evolution forum, but in the Speculations forum. Which I ignore.
  9. Yes, I am wondering the same. Can't find an independent source of it.
  10. What do you think of Llinás's law - Wikipedia? I never heard of it before this discussion and don't know what its scientific status is.
  11. What do you think was the last "law" in biology?
  12. It seems to me that the Hubble's law was the last one that fits this description. (Thanks for the list again, @Jez. +1)
  13. Actually, the wave function describes probability amplitude, a complex value. The probability distribution is a squared modulus of the wave function and contains less information about the state of the system.
  14. I also don't think that the body rises more slowly when the wall moves. But I think that there is another term in the equation that needs to be taken in account, namely, the kinetic energy of the fluid replacing the volume occupied by the body. When the wall does not move, this fluid has to come from above the body down to under the body. But when the wall moves, part of the replacing fluid comes from the side, horizontally, because the volume there decreases. Thus, less replacing fluid comes from above, which, I think, reduces the kinetic energy of the moving fluid. IOW, when the wall moves, the energy of the impact of the body and the barrier is the same, but the thermal energy produced by the moving fluid, is smaller. I am guessing here. Does it make sense?
  15. LOL. Thank you. Interesting list. I've started to look at these laws from bottom up and immediately found - attention, OT - that Llinas's law points to a fundamental difference between the neuron in neuroscience and the "neurons" in DNN used in AI. In DNN, all neurons are interchangeable, and the only difference is in the weights assigned to their connections. Quite possible. Here is an anecdote: "I have an equation; do you have one too?" Paul Dirac, on meeting Richard Feynman. He didn't say "a law".
  16. It seems plausible, but how important is a visual detection from below with today's war tech?
  17. Yes, no entry for, e.g., Mendel's laws either. I don't think that the Stigler's law would pass a statistical test.
  18. How does the Stigler’s law of eponymy apply to, say, Kepler's or Newton's laws?
  19. I think that these more recent laws are called "laws" for marketing purposes.
  20. Thank you. Perhaps I better narrow down the question and limit it to "precise sciences" (or whatever they are called) like physics and chemistry. Otherwise, we find things like "Tobler's first law of geography", (Tobler's first law of geography - Wikipedia).
  21. Every "law" has a name. What is a name of this law? Is it "iNow first law"?
  22. For several hundreds of years important statements in natural sciences were called "laws". But some time ago new "laws" stopped to appear, and the important statements now seem to be rather called "principles" and "equations." Is it so? If so, what was the last "law"?
  23. Genady replied to M.Ross's topic in Relativity
    What do the length of the arms and the duration of the clap have to do with the question?
  24. Yes, just a bit... +1 BTW, ChatGPT didn't have this deception as the problem has been presented in a text. It didn't help.

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