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I was awaiting the results of the diagnostic.

I've copied most of Moo's post from elsewhere to start a new thread to discuss this I respect Moo's opinion on this, but I have to disagree to some extent. As I see it, political statements have a large basis in fact and/or logic, rather than being solely opinion. Discussions here rarely stop with a simple subjective statement; often there is an attempt to justify that position. "Vanilla is better than chocolate" is an opinion. "Vanilla beans come from the moon, which is why we must support the manned moon exploration part of NASA's budget" is not. It sounds like one, because supporting NASA's budget or not is an opinion, but the presence of vanilla beans on the moon is an objective fact, which can be falsified or supported. Further, the justification of a manned mission to harvest these purported beans is a matter than can also be discussed, because there is a logical element to this: other methods of exploration/harvesting exist. If someone were to challenge the fact of vanilla beans growing on the moon, or to point out alternatives for manned retrieval (better still if supporting that with a cost/benefit analysis), these are not inherently personal attacks. I may not like that my argument has been shot down, but that is not an excuse to let the argument degrade. One needs to differentiate between opinion and the combination of facts and logic that sometimes masquerade as opinion. Opinions can differ and those differences must be respected. But, as the saying goes, while you are entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts.

Purpose? I don't think that enters into the discussion.

"Be more explicit in step two" There's a huge leap from making muonium to super-heavy isotopes making gravity waves, and then a another huge gap to superluminal travel. LIGO and accelerators are looking to confirm specific predictions made by theory. You offer nothing here but the waving of hands. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged That's so original series. A tachyon field resonance in the power couplers has overloaded the isolinear chips and caused the phase inverters to destabilized the warp field. Run a level-3 diagnostic.

There are three objects moving. Only looking at two of them isn't going to let you apply conservation of momentum. There's nothing new here. The previous thread on this topic was locked; this action is not an invitation to start a new thread

“Health insurer profits account for less than 1 percent of every health-care dollar.” That's the wrong metric. First off, Wellpoint's profit margin is 4%, so to be true for Wellpoint, the statement must include a significant amount of money that's not part of the insurance coverage. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=WLP Second of all, and more importantly, waste and inefficiency don't show up on the books as profit, but they are an expense.

It is absolutely necessary to recognize this, because otherwise you are prone to selection bias, i.e. "remembering the hits and forgetting the misses"

"Boat going at 10m/s" is relative to what? Is that the speed the boat is going relative to the sea, or relative to the ground?

But what would this be, and how could we not notice? Interactions involve the exchange of energy, and the basis of all of the exchanges are atomic/molecular interactions. These are electromagnetic in nature, and this is borne out by theory and experiment matching up. So any purported telepathic energy is living way down past the thirteenth decimal place of agreement (or wherever the experimental uncertainty appears) of QED. Otherwise we'd see a problem.

1. I fail to see the direct connection between this mini-rant and the OP. 2. Saying "I don't know" is not the same as saying "Nobody knows." The former is an honest admission of ignorance, while the latter is presumptuous for someone without expertise in the subject. I can easily imagine that there can be illnesses associated with eating raw Alaskan wild-caught Keta salmon, much like trichinosis is associated with eating raw pork. I'd prefer to hear details from someone with some expertise in the matter.

Any particle/antiparticle pair can do this. The vacuum does not have zero energy, it has [math]\frac{1}{2}\hbar\omega_n[/math] for each mode. However, this is generally ignored, since you can't tap into it. What is important is the difference in energy between states, and in most cases the zero-point terms all cancel out.

What do you mean "not applying a force?" Striking a baseball or tennis ball changes their direction of motion, so there is an acceleration. A force is most definitely applied.

Um, perhaps biologists familiar with the species?

The engine has merely become an entropy generator. All waste heat, no work.

We went over this already — there are many processes that depend on the speed of light. If c changed, without a scaled change in all other physical constants (if that's even possible), something would be different, such as the strength of atomic or nuclear forces.

cyberphlak, please take an opportunity to review the rules, specifically 2.5 and 2.10, regarding off-topic and non-mainstream posts.

Responses to posts should reflect mainstream science. "Alternative" explanations, even nudges, should only appear in the Speculations forum, and only in a thread dedicated to discussing them.

Conservation of energy stems from the time translation symmetry of the laws of physics.

People spend money studying Reikkei, acupuncture and homeopathy, too. Doesn't mean there's evidence showing that they work as advertised. The existence of telepathy is speculative, at best, given the lack of evidence for it. The mechanism for it is thus also speculative, since it can't be tested. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged If one can change it, then it isn't a law of nature.

If they could find them on a map, I think they'd not be too surprised to learn that they were more socialist than the US. They're still "furriners," so the American arrogance is all part of that. And it's been going on for a lot longer than 8 years, I think. The problem is on both sides; I think this is just another example of "I hate you and what you stand for, so I'll just make stuff up to justify that hatred"

D H is correct in pointing this out. A post which simply asks a question would remain in a science forum. However, a post which attempts to answer, outside of mainstream science, is speculation. If the supporting argument proves to be supported by mainstream science, a speculative thread can be moved back. Widdekind, please keep this in mind. Also, please review the rules, specifically rules 2.5, 2.8 and 2.10.

Telepathy is a logical thing to test, to see if the brain can do these things. But, as you and others have stated, there is no scientific evidence to support the claim. The reasoning used to support telepathy has been debunked. The claim that telepathy is real, despite the inability to measure the mechanism or the results, is illogical.

What's your point? As I posted earlier, the deification of Einstein is in popular writings, not within physics itself. Things are not accepted simply because Einstein said so. he is recognized because of some very important contributions; it's not just the equations, but also the concept underlying them. Nobody (within the science community) is claiming he was infallible. You have failed to convince anybody of your position because you start from a false premise, your reasoning is incorrect and supporting evidence is lacking. That dubious trifecta is the reason this thread is now closed

I'm not understanding what you mean by "how can I measure it?" You can measure a distance and an elapsed time. The ratio gives you the speed. If, hypothetically, all of the constants were scaling at the same rate, such that these measurements of any invariant didn't change, we wouldn't notice. But why would it matter? And I'm not familiar enough with all of the dimensionless constants — it may be that this cannot happen.