Everything posted by swansont
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Issue got solved
They were all apparently one person, and all accounts identified have been spam-banned, including ones that were still setting up the scam - inserting spam links into quoted posts. It's been a little while since we've seen that ploy. Thank you to those that noticed and reported these posts in the last several hours.
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The nature of the electric current (Hypothesis)
! Moderator Note The discussion has not included sufficient detail and rigor to be discussed (no, "conductors are shiny" doesn't come close to clearing that hurdle). If there is no model or testable predictions - something that makes this falsifiable - it will be closed
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Conflicts of interest in investigating the origins/causes of diseases.
Posting in speculations does not absolve you of the responsibility to support claims with evidence and refrain from appeal to conspiracy
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Origins of Americans
The geographic southwest was not part of the US during the civil war, so “the south” in this context refers to the southeast US.
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Wave Function Collapse using faulty recording devices.
Except you wouldn't, because you aren't seeing anything while the detector was off, so there's no way to see the pattern during that time.
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Origins of Americans
In the south, yes. So much so that they went to war to preserve the arrangement.
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Origins of Americans
This does not follow. The population of slaves can outnumber the population of the elites without outnumbering the population of non-slaves (i.e. white people, predominantly). It depends on what fraction of the population of non-slaves is considered elite. It's not as if every single family owned slaves, and, of course, not everyone is an elite.
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Conflicts of interest in investigating the origins/causes of diseases.
1. Appeal to conspiracy is not an acceptable argument in a science discussion 2. "We don't know" is a valid answer (as in, we don't know what causes type 1 diabetes, but we have evidence that suggest certain factors being involved) 3. Bill Mahar may be left-of-center but he is also a loon when it comes to medical issues, and that particular affliction does not have any partisan leaning. (Not to say that specific manifestations have no such correlation, however) DO you have any evidence to share?
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Wave Function Collapse using faulty recording devices.
The quantum mechanical concepts are independent of the devices used; in general this is the same as assuming devices with 100% fidelity. A real detector will have limitations, and this has implications on how to carry out an experiment and/or analyze data.
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Wave Function Collapse using faulty recording devices.
Any efficiency. If you detect the photon, you can say the wave function has collapsed. If you don't detect the photon it still has an undetermined path. Observation does not require a conscious being.
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Physics of video games
I don’t see a green pipe Yes, the pressure you’d need depends on the height of the water column
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Physics of video games
This is like an inverted glass submerged in water. If the region started out full of water, you could transfer air in and it would displace water
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Conflation Hypothesis - Minds from all fields of physics welcome
! Moderator Note "Read the attachment" is not compliant with rule 2.7. However, I did read it and it falls well short of the level of rigor we require (which you acknowledge when you admit you don't have a theory) A better approach might be to learn the physics by asking questions, in order to propose an actual model.
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What are some of your issues with current Theories on the creation of the Universe.
! Moderator Note No, I don't think this will work. We want one topic per thread, and people are free to open a topic if they wish to discuss shortcomings/gaps/limitations of any particularly theory, so you are free to peruse the boards and see if such topics exist, or open new ones if you have something to contribute. Introducing multiple discussion topics tends to lead to confusing discussions. If anyone is proposing an alternative model of the universe, they may discuss it in speculations.
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Conflation Hypothesis - Minds from all fields of physics welcome
! Moderator Note Post it here, and don’t advertise your site
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Banned/Suspended Users
AlexandrKushnirtshuk has been suspended for advertising his speculations threads in other threads, and soapboxing (posting while failing to post coherent evidence) Suspended again because violated his parole about ten seconds after getting off suspension.
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Hijack from What is existence?
I asked you to tell me if shadows and holes are objectively real, or subjectively reasoned. (that’s a direct quote from my earlier post) If you really need this phrased as a question: are shadows and holes are objectively real, or subjectively reasoned? (But I’m shocked you can’t get from one to the other. Are you being obtuse?)
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Hijack from What is existence?
Is there something about my statement you don’t understand? I didn’t ask you about physical objects. I asked you to tell me if shadows and holes are objectively real, or subjectively reasoned.
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Hijack from What is existence?
You made a claim about things being real, not whether they are physical objects, so this is not really a response to what I asked you. Because this is irrelevant, I would say.
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What is existence?
Apply to the prior discussion of shadows and holes. Are they objectively real, or reasoned? A lot of this points to the need to carefully define terms and context. Discussion of what is “real” is meaningless without clarifying if you mean real vs illusion, or real vs imagined.
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Is the description of space-time as "space-time" a bit misleading?
It puts the treatment on equal footing. I don’t understand this reasoning. c is a proportionality constant; this situation is present throughout physics. Constants can be large or small. If you double the time, you double ct. That variation is the important thing. It’s not a tiny factor. If t doesn’t change, the dependent variable doesn’t change.
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Split from “Pangaea ?”
! Moderator Note Not a whole lot of discussion of the OP, and multiple hits on what we consider arguing in bad faith. Closed, and don’t bring either the geology or the physics of this tangent up again. This is a science discussion site, not Rants-R-Us
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informational surface
! Moderator Note You’ve been told before that this posting style is contrary to the rules (2.7) “Attached documents should be for support material only; material for discussion must be posted. “
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A mass can be be lifted with force less than its weight
It’s true that if you did an “aborted jump” and ended on your toes the scale reading would go down, the description is not consistent with saying the force never exceeds the static value - it should be larger than that during the earlier time that the CoM is rising.
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Applicability of Newton’s laws (split from A mass can be be lifted with force less than its weight)
You wrote what was in your post. I quoted it and I moved it; I did not edit it. You were notified because it was a hijack of the discussion.