michel123456
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20 hours ago, Time Traveler said:
Human observer perceives the surrounding world usually through photons that have the maximum speed known to us .... which is not necessarily the maximum speed in the Universe.
Due to the perception of the environment through the photons we have this impediment to not observe in "'direct" but in "' resumption"Changes are continuousos.....the speed of change can tend to 0
You may like my concept of how Time works
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14 hours ago, studiot said:
The Subtle Knife is book 2 in Phillipp Pullman's fantasy trilogy 'His Dark Materials'
I expect your students can tell you all about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials
The Ockham quotes came from the prolegomena (what a word!) of
Variational Principles in Dynamics and Quantum theory
By Yourgrau and Mandelstam
An interesting mixture of the Philisophy, and Mathematics of the Calculus of Variations.
Sleep well.
It means Prologue.
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On 1/13/2021 at 6:16 PM, michel123456 said:IMHO the issue with Moderation may arise when the Lawmaker, the Policeman, the Prosecutor and the Judge are the same and one person.
In the list I forgot to mention the executioner.
Yes this Forum is most generally well moderated, I have to concede that.
However my feeling is that, like many elements over the Net, the construction of a civilized virtual society is still under its way.
The several Forums that exist on the Web, this one included, do not have a structure comparable to the outside world (as I know it): imagine if the policemen (the Mods) were not paid, as if the lawmakers (the Staff) were inventing laws by sniffing their fingers, as if politicians (the Owner) were not ruling at all, as if members (the Members) had no right at all, as if free speech (what is that) were to be invented, etc.
At this point of History, the Net is organized more like a middle age Kingdom, ruled sometimes by an enlightened monarch, sometimes by a brutal dictator. The French Revolution has not arrived yet on the Internet.
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15 hours ago, Phi for All said:May arise?! The opportunities happen every day. It's always a temptation when it seems so efficient (I see the spider, capture it, and toss it out of the house), and I know my intentions are good, but we all know how fallible we are alone.
Most of our rules don't require us to separate these roles. We've reduced the number of judgement calls significantly over the years. In some instances, we even feel free to participate in threads we've moderated (for instance, if a thread needed to be moved to a different section). In most cases though, we try to keep moderation and participation in discussion separate.
In very few instances are mods allowed to call out an infraction and punish it all on their own. We do that if we get a drive-by troll, or if somebody flips out during an off time, but most times when we ban or suspend or even give a warning point there have been 3-4 staff members conferring about it behind the scenes.
Honestly, I think some folks get bent out of shape here because they don't understand their own ideas enough to recognize the difference between the membership scientifically refuting it and being told (again) that it simply won't work. The leeway our rules give us helps compensate for that, I think.
Nice clarification, thank you.
Maybe more transparency would be nice too.
For example; "this ban has been agreed by 3 Mods & 1 Expert & 3 Members of the Jury" or something like that.
In order to avoid fury toward a specific Mod, as has been seen lately (and erased quickly)
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22 hours ago, Tinacity said:
And you feel this would account for such a large number of "views" within two months of a post?
You asked for an idea. Since WhosTheFool (wtf) did not answer, I couldn't resist the temptation to drop my idea. What is your's?
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22 minutes ago, Tinacity said:Any idea @wtf , why this post has received the third highest number of views on this part of the forum?
this topic has
Probably because the title has 3 words that may appear easily in a search (Firts, Post, Prime). It may even happen that some viewers are bots.
See here
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My opinion is that even if you get the correct statement (the sun is at the center of the solar system), it may not be recognized as true immediately. The history of science is full of such examples where, when a discovery has been made, it appears that the one or the other had discovered the same thing several years earlier but was dismissed or ignored.
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39 minutes ago, joigus said:
No human-made temple is remotely comparable to this
Similar situation where monks decided to build their monasteries, the meteora in Greece. The natural beauty enhanced by baffling human creativity.
Meteora net lift, 1908 by Frédéric Boissonnas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Boissonnas
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Some time ago, I learned about the "screaming skeletons", or why archaeologists uncover ancient skeletons & mummies that look like screaming in horrid agony.
Your jaw bone ascends toward the back (almost at a right angle to the horizontal line of the teeth), ending in a rounded protuberance (the condyloid process), which fits into a shallow groove in your temporal bone on the lower part of your skull. (For more, see Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, especially the sections "Articulation of the Mandible" and "The Mandible (Lower Jaw)".
(...) The nature of this joint is a key to understanding why mummies scream. Physician Trisha Macnair explains in "Human decomposition after death" on the BBC Health website.
"This temporo-mandibular joint is fairly loose.... Unlike the tight ball-and-socket linking the leg and the hip, the jaw and cranium are held together only by ligaments and muscles. If unimpeded--by the position of the body, wrappings, or very fast desiccation--the jaw will drop down as the muscles relax and decompose after rigor mortis."
See full article "the screaming mummies"
https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/screaming_mummy/
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11 hours ago, swansont said:!
Moderator Note
Hijack has been split to the appropriate thread
https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/72263-is-nature-playing-fair-with-krauss-object/
It was a continuation of post #4 in this same thread but whatever you say.
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20 hours ago, Strange said:
Today I learned that not only do cells incorporate retroviral RNA and pass it on, but they can exploit the retroviral genes for various functions. There is one that is essential for creating long-term memory and has been tamed, to produce virus like particles synapses. This allows one neuron to control protein synthesis in another neuron at the opposite side of its synapses.
But also, some viruses have developed from retrotransposons (DNA sequences that can copy themselves around the genome). And retrotransposons have come from retroviruses.
Forget that "tree of life" nonsense.
that seems interesting but it goes far over my head. Could you expand about your "Forget that "tree of life" nonsense."?
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The entire Neil Young archives free for streaming.
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Matter travelling faster than speed of light
in Astronomy and Cosmology
How?