Everything posted by swansont
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Problem in Taylor and Wheeler's Spacetime Physics
At such a low speed the difference between the results would be negligible
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Relativity Crisis
How does one observe a relativistic phenomenon using this alleged near field light if the object is more than a wavelength away? But you say that relativity holds in the farfield. So using EM radiation with a wavelength of a meter vs a micron, for an object 10 cm away, you’d get conflicting results. If relativity is an illusion, how do you explain all of the experiments that agree with it? The Hafele-Keating experiment, for example.
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Oscillatory nuclear fusion hypothesis
You said “the interacting nuclei are maximally immobilised and are held near the equilibrium position not by a magnetic field, but electrostatically” and I’m telling you you can’t immobilize a nucleus with an electrostatic field.
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Transgender athletes
And it isn’t based simply on what chromosomes you have.
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The Official JOKES SECTION :)
Harrison Ford tells the broccoli joke
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What draws the line at life?
You could ask questions and learn, instead of proposing new science based on insufficient knowledge
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The Campbell Isotope stability spectrum
Physics tells us otherwise
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The Campbell Isotope stability spectrum
We have a fairly successful model for why fission happens. “The equation goes toward zero, and whenever it goes past zero, something significant in the atom changes.” isn’t particularly rigorous. Post better science, and your reputation will improve.
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The Campbell Isotope stability spectrum
Any proposed experiment has to be possible in principle. Out of the many thousands of experiments that have been done, surely you can glean some supporting data.
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Transgender athletes
Chromosomes alone does not indicate any individual’s ability at sports. So any alleged biological advantage has to go beyond your chromosomes. It’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
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What draws the line at life?
I had a career as an atomic physicist, and never once did I think of atoms as alive, nor would that fiction have helped my understanding. It might have impeded it. But I can only speak for myself. We have QM interpretations to aid in understanding. But you’d need to lay out a case for why this would be helpful to someone. We have a framework in physics for understanding why certain states are stable, and it’s based on energy, and having a pathway to another state.
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Transgender athletes
Even before that, for this thread (or perhaps another, since this one is supposed to be about gender), we need to have participants acknowledge the reality that the notion of sex is more complicated than what chromosomes you have, or what your visible genitalia are.
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Transgender athletes
Except they aren’t necessarily based on biological sex. Some of them are based on gender. Cis males, on average, outperform cis females “biological” determination can be based on chromosomes, or by the visible reproductive organs. And, as has been noted a number of times, either is only a very coarse description - there are a number of biological attributes if you look closer.
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Oscillatory nuclear fusion hypothesis
Earnshaw’s theorem tells us that you can’t confine a charge with static electric fields.
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The Campbell Isotope stability spectrum
These equations need to line up with reality, meaning that they need to be confirmed by experiment. What experimental evidence can you give us?
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The Campbell Isotope stability spectrum
You need to show how this can be tested - how does this match up with real evidence?
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split from Will Silver Sulfide Dissolve In Saline?
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Rumpelstiltskin theory
The more pertinent question is does the model predict anything? Theories do more than explain behavior. They must have some kind of predictive power. They have to be falsifiable.
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Rumpelstiltskin theory
And no matter how many neutrons you have, it’s an isotope. So “Atoms would rather not be isotopes” is a non-sequitur
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Rumpelstiltskin theory
But beta decay happens. Certain isotopes “want” to become other isotopes. For beta decay, it’s because there are too many neutrons, or too few, compared to the number of protons.
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bad quality bluetooth and cancer
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Is it ethical to research human behavior?
We already do Such observation is anecdotal, and probably of limited help. Observation by trained professionals - who know what to look for - is probably more helpful. Analyzed? Probably not unethical, if users had consented to it, and you aren’t profiting in some secret way. Consent would be required. Research where you are risking some sort of harm without consent would be unethical.
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Transgender athletes
I can’t work it out for myself. I can’t fathom why a woman who has been artificially inseminated to have a child with her partner has any bearing on this conversation.
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Transgender athletes
Why don’t you answer the question? What is the point of noting that this couple has a child? (Caster Semenya is legally a woman. The “wrongly assigned” notion is your own.)
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Transgender athletes
Yes, and? What significance do you think this little blurb holds? It’s not like this is the only same-sex couple to have kids.