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  1. And relativity recognizes that the distances between points - including the time interval - is important, because relative motion affects the distance interval or time interval, such that the total is the same for both stationary and moving observers.
  2. ! Moderator Note This is a science discussion site. It’s not about what you believe. It’s about what the evidence shows. You need to be discussing science If you want to vent, go do it on social media
  3. Night FM has been banned for persistent fallacy use and repeatedly and consistently failing to engage in good faith arguments
  4. ! Moderator Note Advertising your other threads is frowned upon, and you can shill for bitcoin elsewhere
  5. Anecdote from social media, but I suspect we will see a lot of things similar to this from a complacent and under-informed electorate as reality sets in
  6. But, to the point of the OP, was this an advance of the foundations of biology? Or was it the exploitation of new tools that became available after the new foundational issue had been discovered (DNA) . I’d argue the latter, much like the last 100 years of physics have seen an exploitation of QM after its discovery, expansion (e.g. QED, QCD) and refinement.
  7. kawiusz banned as a sockpuppet of Bart, bart2, ravell, exuczen
  8. swansont replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    Perceptions are not facts
  9. swansont replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    Oh, please. Stop with the trolling.
  10. ! Moderator Note By not naming and discussing them to establish this, it becomes a fallacy of unwarranted assumption, violating rules 2.4 and 2.12.
  11. Which is why we want the receipts, and several people have provided them. Can’t help but notice that all you did was offer up the lamest of examples, which you have not bothered to defend.
  12. Wrong = falsified You said electron. It’s true that in a composite system lime an atom you can absorb a photon, but the rules aren’t as simple as you suggest. Math is required. The problem is that without the rigor that comes with math, the predictions are too vague and it’s too easy to start tap-dancing. It ends up being a big waste of time (which we’ve seen before). That’s why the rule is in place. This isn’t the WAG forum. You want to ask questions and learn? Fine. But if you want to propose some new science, it has to be sufficiently formed as to merit discussion. You can re-introduce the topic when you’ve gotten there.
  13. “specific” means quantifiable. A lot of your ”predictions” are things already known, so they aren’t really predictions. At least one of them was falsified (that a free electron could absorb a photon and have more angular momentum)
  14. Then how can you make specific predictions, as we require?
  15. Yes, exactly. Your charge pair twists must give us the electric field of the photon. The fields can’t cancel out. You need to show this mathematically. Pictures do not suffice.
  16. Searching for topological dark matter with atomic clocks https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3137 Axions https://inspirehep.net/literature/1736720
  17. But you are always close in your model. If you weren’t there would be no field. No field, no photon. Can’t have it both ways.
  18. The thing is, some of these models are being eliminated or constrained by experiment. I recall seeing axion and dark matter talks at conferences, where atomic clocks played a role in the experiments. This is kinda the norm. There were e.g. a bunch of models of the atom back in the day, but we don’t learn about them because they lost out once there was enough data to test them. There are competing hypotheses everywhere that get forgotten because they ended up being wrong. ArXiv just makes it easier to notice the current ones.
  19. The field from the charges do cancel in atoms; they are neutral. You have to get close to them to see effects of a charge distribution. In the nucleus there is no cancellation, since there are only the positively-charged protons. Why haven’t we detected these particles? How would that affect photon propagation? It should be harder to “twist” This is one of many issues where having math is important.
  20. ! Moderator Note I think posting to advertise your site is against the rules, so I think I will delete the link. Content for discussion is to be posted here.
  21. swansont replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    That could be from SCOTUS destroying rights and the do-nothing Republican house. The only poll that matters today is in the voting booth
  22. And yet it’s YOUR THREAD, so whose fault it that? So all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others?
  23. So someone who lives in a sparsely populated state should have their vote count more than someone in a populous state? Is that consistent with “everyone gets a vote”?
  24. swansont replied to MSC's topic in Politics
    I won’t say who I voted for, but I did not select any nazis. There was more than 1 on the ballot.
  25. Gravitational waves were part of GR, though. Confirming a prediction. But as more data comes in, it might reveal a lot. Neutrino mass, OTOH, is not part of the SM AFAIK. So theory lags there.

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