StringJunky

Have tried you resetting the computer? It will keep your files if you want it to. Assuming you have Windows 10: Type: "reset" in the Search box > Click on "Reset This PC" > Click "Get Started" > Choose "Keep My Files" or "Remove Everything". Follow the prompts from there. I think it's usually quicker to just put a new Windows on than faff about for some unknown time (probably hours or days) trying to find the problem and its solution. You'll likely have Windows updates to do again.

Is the phonon energy mechanically conducted? If one observed a single atom with a phonon, would it retain that excitation in vacuo permanently?

This phenomenon is part and parcel of everyday life in the pharmaceutical industry. The stakes are very high .but the rewards are as well. It can take decades to develop a drug then only for it to fail in human testing...cost... billions. A 2014 article:

The AI needs a library of words or sentences that it is programmed to ignore and not use in its response algorithm. It's early days for AI.

Gravity is a centripetal force, which means that two objects will tend to move towards each others centre of gravity, that is assuming equal velocity (same motion and same direction). The greater the ratio in mass between the two, the more force is exerted by the larger object on the smaller one, leading to the smaller object ‘falling’ faster towards the larger object, relative to the larger object ‘falling’ to the smaller one. As the ratio between the two rises, this increases the relative ‘weight’ of the smaller object - as measured on the surface of the larger object. A 1Kg weight on Earth weighs about 1/7th of that on the Moon... it falls relatively slower towards the Moon’s centre of gravity compared to on Earth.

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Thanks. Sorted.

I don't think one should just consider the death rate but also longterm complications. I found a contemporary report (link below) of the 1963 England, Wales and Scotland measles epidemic, which, by its account, was a very mild year compared to previous years. It will probably give you an idea of its significance. You will note that this report even mentions that some medics doubted the need for a national vaccination program because it was only a "mild" disease. As you probably know, it was considered fairly normal to catch measles, mumps, rubella at some point in ones childhood. I caught measles in 1966 at 4 years old. I was lucky and was unscathed by it... I think! Link to PDF direct download: Frequency of Complications of Measles,1963

No, the onus is on the compromised person in that situation. It's not relevant to the epidemiology of disease. Every person not vaccinated for measles, can become a host for the continued evolution (mutation) of that pathogen into a greater variety and more resistant forms. This increases the chances of it affecting the vulnerable. It's called social responsibility. The trouble is that measles isn't prevalent anymore because of the success of the vaccination program. This is now reversing because some short-sighted people, not old enough to have experience of the MMR epidemics, now think the risk from the vaccine is greater than the risk from the disease. Can you not see history repeating itself? Do we have to wait until the unenlightened generations see brain damage, deafness, death etc before they start getting concerned enough to get vaccinated?

Also, one must consider the risk to people who can't be vaccinated because they are immuno-compromised. In the overarching principle of vaccination, responsibility lies with an individual to their society as much as to themselves and their family.

In an interaction, what photon properties can alter?

You'll certainly hardwire yourself for mental maths if you get to the end of this. Everything like that after will be a breeze. Eddy Izzard has just done 27 full marathons in 27 days I think you'll gain something from it, even though at first sight it seems pointless. Sustained concentration and focus are good traits to acquire.

Can photons pass through glass unperturbed? Can the properties of the photon be altered if they do interact with an atom once re-emitted?

Yes, I think only the Africans are truly indigenous.

Interesting, never heard of that before. Had to check it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon

That's OK, I thought you might possibly gain something from that subject... it's well worth going into depth with it and researching. A lot of nature's complex systems and human experience/perception is based on it. A description I have found useful for grasping the idea of emergence is: something that is greater than the sum of its parts. In effect: 2 + 2 = 5. I shall bow out at this point and somebody else might advance the conversation further.

My apologies, I suppose I am being economical in wanting to cut to the chase. I might suggest you read up and learn about emergence which is what 'life' is,as far as science knows... there is no single component in the brain that is the 'point of existence'. http://necsi.edu/guide/concepts/emergence.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence I shall not say anymore..

It seems to me, that you think that there is an internal extant self who is distinct from all the information that makes you as you are...that would be metaphysics.

bear1 bɛː/ verb verb: bear; 3rd person present: bears; past tense: bore; gerund or present participle: bearing; past participle: borne 2. support; carry the weight of. "walls which cannot bear a stone vault" synonyms: support, carry, hold up, prop up, keep up, bolster up; Tanks are out but bazookas, grenades etc should be allowed under the judge's definition. I refer you to:

When's the next funeral... in the next hour... or two?

As long as the posts keep within the realms of known empirical/observable science there isn't a problem here, as it has up to now. If you think it will end up philosophical, Which is the 'why' of things,it is perhaps better in Philosophy. If you are leading to your own novel ideas then Speculations would be more appropriate. I should leave it to the mods to decide.. It depends how long after cloning, when he dies, that will determine how different they become. If he was cloned and then very shortly after died, she wouldn't notice any difference because there had been negligible experiential change between the two Depps. If she was unaware of the clone, and her husband died unbeknown to her, their life would likely continue, more or less, as though nothing had happened. The point is that both versions are her husband, neither is more valid than the other; assuming perfect replication. This where you and I diverge because, essentially, you are just information. which can be immortalised by continuous replication through time. There is nothing special about that which is 'you' in the body that you are now. Your 'program' can be moved. If you were replicated just before you died, your life/program would continue in another faithfully programmed body. Ask the replicant anything about his life and he will reply exactly the same you... you haven't died. Death is when all the information is lost.

Yes, it would be a different perspective but to Depp's wife it is the same person and that new Depp, the other perspective, would respond as she expects. The new Depp would also think it exists and experiences love for her. As we are in a 'proper' science section of this site, the only answer can be your scenario B, I think, and I happen to think this is the case based on what I have learned so far:

No, of course not, 'you' would be two separate instances of yourself, at the moment the clone was made. After that the clone, with passing time and new experiences, becomes it's own consciousness and objectively differentiable in terms of behaviour... think of when a zygote splits to make identical twins... the situation is the same. One point of existence becomes two.

I wouldn't put passed him, He's got a lot of 'front'.