Everything posted by swansont
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Climate Change Tipping Points:
Yes. I don’t see where it says what you claim it says. “Where are you getting this?” is a request for specific passages from your article. There’s nothing in that passage indicating that anything was omitted. It gave the max temperature, and the time it was recorded, for that one day. Your supposition isn’t based on anything said in the article.
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Climate Change Tipping Points:
Where are you getting this? And this? You seem to be adding context to the article that’s not actually there. In this case, a plural from a single reported instance. That’s not a valid extrapolation Reporting a high temperature at 9AM on a particular day does not mean that the 9 AM temperature is always recorded as the high. I would think it’s unusual, since highs usually occur in the afternoon. But if a massive cold front moved in, then you could get such an anomaly.
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Observe a Falling Charge Radiate
The emission has to happen in the rest frame of the particle, too. Synchrotron radiation is associated with large speeds because that correlates to a large acceleration. Are you going to provide your calculation of the wavelength of the emitted radiation?
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Existence is...the Absolute Singularity.
! Moderator Note “prove me wrong” doesn’t cut it. The one making the claim owns the burden of proof
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Banned/Suspended Users
fredreload has been banned for repeated bad faith arguments and soapboxing
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Funneling sunlight...
AOM elements are small and can’t handle high power. Efficient free-space coupling (80%) requires good beam quality, and they only handle a limited wavelength range. I don’t see the connection to the 2nd law.
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Delta variant, breakthrough infections and related consequences
Unfortunately they don't actually break down the numbers of vaccinated vs unvaccinated people in the hospital, and dying. This article says 59% of the patients are vaccinated. If my math is correct, this means that being unvaccinated means you are ~2.75x more likely to be in the hospital as a vaccinated person.
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What is Justice?
Nothing is going to be perfect, which leaves us with "lock them all up because we can't be 100% sure" There is no such thing as a 100% safe society, so where do you realistically draw this line? This is a matter of acceptable levels of risk.
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What is Justice?
But you also cite (paraphrasing) "this is what society wants" and the two are not synonymous. Society's psyche contains an element of revenge. There's a reason the affronted do not get to decide what the punishments is for a crime. Our elected leaders should be implementing a system that does not pander to the baser instincts of the constituents, and instead does what is in society's best interests. Saving society from itself.
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Inherent error in IC engines (split from Making Cars More Efficient)
! Moderator Note Please don't wast our time with claims you can't or won't support.
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Two objects going [near] the speed at light(Relativity)
! Moderator Note I said none of that. Eversion was a topic of another thread, which was closed. You don’t get to bring it up here. By making this connection, this becomes an argument in bad faith.
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Two objects going [near] the speed at light(Relativity)
I know that’s an idea that’s been kicked around by some. I don’t know how to evaluate it.
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Two objects going [near] the speed at light(Relativity)
To distinguish between how nature behaves and fantasy? Yes, that's one reason.
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Cosmic Engineering /Custom built universes
A black hole might fulfill the reverse of this. I don't know if someone inside a black hole (for however long they could continue to exist) could see outside, and we can't see in. So if there was some inverse of this situation, possibly.
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Two objects going [near] the speed at light(Relativity)
Light doesn't leave or enter the universe. We are inside forever.
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Two objects going [near] the speed at light(Relativity)
There is nothing we can interact with outside of the universe. It is inaccessible to us.
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Could the real size of the universe be infinite?
Inflation and expansion are not the same thing. Inflation is an accelerated expansion (i.e. it's a particular form of expansion) Having no central point is associated with expansion in general, not just with inflation. No, not so much. As above, changing scales is a feature of expansion, not just inflation. A meter isn't worth any less owing to expansion. Remember that expansion is only apparent where systems are not gravitationally bound to each other.
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Strange rocky material fell from the sky with odd surface features and microbiology inside it
! Moderator Note Similar threads merged
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New chemistry and astrophysics book
6 quarks (up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) have been identified and confirmed, but none of them were discovered at the LHC. You haven’t done your homework. Your errors are legion, and I doubt anyone is going to rebut all of them
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The Genesis System of Atoms
I don’t understand the question. It’s the column number. The actinides and lanthanides require an addition dimension, as it were, because you are now filling an additional shell. Or a much wider table, since you’d need 14 more columns, that would apply to only 2 rows. What is their “correct” position?
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Existence is...the Absolute Singularity.
! Moderator Note Not if they are part of your argument. Only as reference material, or to support the details of your claim. People shouldn’t have to click on a link to participate.
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What is correct calculation for Moon's brightness?
What is that first distance? How is it chosen?
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Observe a Falling Charge Radiate
Can you link to where you showed the calculation for the synchrotron emission wavelength or frequency?
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In the words of Joni Michell
Updates always remove a feature that you liked. It's the nature of software updates, because in some software engineer's mind, different is needed to justify the update, and so different is considered better. In the user reality, different is automatically worse, because there is a new learning curve involved, and losses of function.
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Time is a physical constraint
To be fair, we can move in any spatial direction (in principle) but only forward in time. For inertial motion our velocity through spacetime is fixed; the faster we move spatially, the slower we move in time such that our "four-velocity" remains invariant at c. (though we never notice, because for inertial motion we are always at rest and time moves normally for us. It's seen in the measurement by others, who are in a different frame of reference)