swansont
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Curious device
The work done is provided by whatever or whoever is holding the magnet. The magnet does not move into position where it can lift by itself.
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Curious device
Magnets are another example of redirecting; magnetic forces are perpendicular to motion, so they do no work.
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ECA stacking in weightloss experiment
! Moderator Note Countries not banning it is not evidence of safety, the information about adverse reactions including death are easily found with a search, and it is not for you to set the limits of what can be consumed.
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Curious device
So the input is where the work is done. And the work will be done by you in moving the magnet - it takes more effort to move a magnet in the presence of another than it does in free space. That’s you doing work, not the magnet.
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Curious device
Magnetic forces don’t do work. If you built this, you would see that it doesn’t run on its own. If you stop cranking, it will cease motion.
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Curious device
The work in this system would be provided by whatever is turning the input rotor. Nothing inside the device is supplying energy; there are only losses to be found there.
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Introducing Edge theory. It's like String theory, except...
! Moderator Note This is very much the forum for getting testable predictions. It’s a requirement. Teasing that you’ll get to “the meat” is something we’ve seen before, and it never pans out. You’ve not given any indication that this will be different, and if you don’t deliver (and soon) the thread will be locked. A journal? With peer review? Are you going to make preprints available? I don’t understand. What are “these problems”? How are they growing larger? How do you conclude that standard physics won’t solve the problems? Cosmology isn’t a huge slice of physics, though it’s more visible (as it were) than other areas.
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zip file with password on mobile devices?
The second side was not brought up in the OP, which was simply asking if there are ways to password-protect files.
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zip file with password on mobile devices?
I’ve had documents sent to me that were password protected. Microsoft docs and pdf files
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English nick suggestion?
I hope H didn’t stand for “Hugh”
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English nick suggestion?
To me a shortened version of a first name is not a nickname. i.e. I don’t consider ”Tom” to be my nickname. Nicknames I’ve had are Swanny (grade school) Stouffer (college), Puft (navy OIS), none of which are gender-specific. SNL had a series of sketches about gender-neutral nicknames. The lead character was Pat, and nobody knew their gender. Also mentioned are Terry and Chris, and homophonic names like Frances/Francis, Jean/Gene
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Intuitively, why doesn't always picking unpopular integers lower Probability of winning lotteries?
It’s random - any pick has the same odds of winning. Picking unpopular number increases the odds that, if you win, you will be sole winner, or at least have to share with fewer people, as your quote says. So the expected payout increases.
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What if humans were to have not otherwise evolved as male and female in separate bodies?
Animals (specified in the OP) ≠ organisms Plants can be male & female Where does the other genetic material come from if the individual self-fertilizes? If there are two, then you’re doing what sexual reproduction does, so it it’s an advantage, then it’s an advantage. And AFAIK most hermaphroditic animals are invertebrates so there might be some limits on that mode of reproduction.
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Sunshine on Titan
It describes a magnet in terms of the torque the magnet would feel in an external field A magnetic dipole (e.g. a bar magnet) with moment u in a magnetic field (B) feels a torque of u X B (u is a vector) The magnetic moment of a wire loop with area A and current I is u = IA (with a direction given by the right-hand rule)
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What if humans were to have not otherwise evolved as male and female in separate bodies?
Genetic diversity. You’re getting genes from two different individuals each generation, or possibly each instance of mating.
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Why is the sun moving so fast in this solar eclipse video?
There’s no fixed reference, so how can you say the sun is moving at all? Or are you referring to the green crescent, which is due to an internal reflection in the lens? That moves because the camera is moving.
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We are tricked by our brains
I think it’s “perturbed” and it’s from pointing to issues that we already know about and account for as if they are unknown, and somehow a problem. You might be befuddled by the ramifications of a finite speed of light but I assure you that others are not.
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Introducing Edge theory. It's like String theory, except...
(multiple threads merged) How is your idea testable/falsifiable? What specific predictions does it make?
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We are tricked by our brains
In physics we use instrumentation when it’s needed, which avoids the issue. Eyesight is exceedingly nonlinear and not easily calibrated. In areas where eyesight is used it’s generally where delay issues have no impact. None of this is unknown, nor unaccounted for.
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Microscope second hand to see living microorganisms
A number of sites say at least 400x is needed to see cells and cell structure
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Simple logical mathematical reasoning why time can not exist 'outthere' in the reality of the noumena
Which is irrelevant to the proposed issue of consciousness If time doesn’t exist, how can anything have a duration? How can such a notion exist, without time? How can your post exist, for me to respond to (now) if it did not exist in the past? There is an order to (causal) events, which tells us that time exists.
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We are tricked by our brains
Wasn’t the notion that the brain does a bad job of assessing simultaneity below some level of precision your argument? If not, perhaps you can clarify what your argument is. My point is that your brain is only giving you as much truth as you need to have a chance to stay alive, as a result of evolution and within the limits of biology, chemistry and physics. We know it “lies” to us. It doesn’t seem to matter with regard to simultaneity, and we have imaginations and dreams, which are probably a positive rather than a negative. If you think it should give you more truth, you would need to explain how that would happen within the constraints we have.
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Simple logical mathematical reasoning why time can not exist 'outthere' in the reality of the noumena
Sounds like one of Zeno’s paradoxes. This, of course, has nothing to do with consciousness. There’s plenty of evidence that time passed without the benefit of conscious entities being around. But don’t let facts get in the way.
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Over 95% of this year’s US planned electric capacity is zero-carbon
“For the first time since the mid-20th century, over 95 percent of this year’s planned new electric-generating capacity in the United States is zero-carbon.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2024/04/11/the-next-phase-of-electricity-decarbonization-planned-power-capacity-is-nearly-all-zero-carbon/
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Biomimetic robots run off of proton sources (as humans do, as opposes to batteries based off of electrons) -- New power sources (weight and cost competitive versus Lithium-Ion batteries) use protons
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