Everything posted by swansont
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VRT - a Pi based twist reality
Then I don’t know what your point is. Your point about “the vacuum” isn’t at all clear in explaining what you think is going on. I don’t see any clear explanation of what these “twist loops” are supposed to be, and you don’t have any examples of anything that “results in pi” … yet you’re convinced that this happens. How can you be convinced that it happens but have no examples of the phenomenon? That fits the description of a hallucination.
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An appeal to help advance the research on gut microbiome/fecal microbiota transplantation in the US.
Moderator NoteThere are a lot of links going back to the Human Microbes site; our rules on advertising state “We don't mind if you put a link to your noncommercial site (e.g. a blog) in your signature and/or profile, but don't go around making threads to advertise it.” so whether it’s commercial is immaterial. Any insistence that someone go to another site to gain information need to participate in a discussion also runs afoul of the rule Also, any history of what happened elsewhere is moot. Please stay on topic.
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VRT - a Pi based twist reality
I had asked for some specific examples where you think pi affects the physics and you did not give any. I think that going through a few would be useful. Constants don’t count if they depend on which unit system you’re using.
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VRT - a Pi based twist reality
No the vacuum doesn’t do math. Science, and the math it uses, are our descriptions of how the universe behaves. The universe has no obligation to be understandable, but it just so happens that it seems to follow certain rules that can be described using math.
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A number of people say Trump is not listening to the courts?
His actions have been opposed in court because it’s not directly against him. He’s not being prosecuted and it’s not a criminal proceeding. Impeachment happens on congress, not the court system. Those are all distinct things. Again, this is reported in the news. You could do us the courtesy of being at least minimally informed if you're going to have this conversation.
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VRT - a Pi based twist reality
That was my point. Math describes the phenomenon, but if there’s no reason for the phenomenon to be biased in some way, i.e. be anisotropic, you will have symmetries. Gravity or electrostatics have no such “preference” and thus are spherically symmetric. You should expect pi to pop up.
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VRT - a Pi based twist reality
Pi has no physical effect. Math is how we describe things. There are physical reasons for circular or spherical phenomena (perhaps symmetry-related) and waves don’t curve - they are cyclical, which means you can use a circle to describe their behavior. I think you have cause and effect bass-ackward.
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What if Pi is not what we think it is, but still is?
How can you state it as a premise without having some examples of it?
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What if Pi is not what we think it is, but still is?
Can you give some specific examples of this? As KJW has noted, circles and cyclic phenomena are often involved, and there’s nothing that needs to be justified about that. The ratio of circumference to diameter must have a value. Since the difference between circles is only a matter of linear scaling, that ratio is the same for all circles. Nothing mystical about this at all.
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Bohr hydrogen atom model revisited
The Bohr model is demonstrably wrong, though it’s based on correct elements of physics, so some of its predictions are correct (e.g. the energy levels). But electrons don’t have actual trajectories. Nor do they have a measurable size (experiments give an upper bound which is smaller than your number)
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Would it make sense to forcibly cure psychopaths if the tools were available?
But the thread is about forced treatment, according to the title. Your own story sounds like you being aware of the situation has helped, and might be about whether voluntary treatment is an avenue. It also points toward actual actions being the thing to respond to, rather than just having the disorder/condition. It’s also IMO an argument for treatment/rehabilitation being available rather than just punishment for actions.
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Would it make sense to forcibly cure psychopaths if the tools were available?
But the traits represent a spectrum rather than a binary condition - a lot if people probably exhibit the traits to some degree, from time to time. Is there a non-arbitrary way you draw the line? There’s also a lot of mentions of “likely” to act certain ways, meaning that it’s not a certainty that anyone with these traits actually breaks any law. The link says “People with ASPD often exhibit behavior that conflicts with social norms” so basically you would be “treating” people for being different, which is a very dangerous approach and one that’s been abused in the past, and being abused today.
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hijack from Basic science questions
But not your thread, so this is hijacking
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hijack from Basic science questions
Inner tension is only possible if there is a structure to it, meaning it’s made if something. What’s it made of. And the divergence of the electric field is equal to the charge, meaning field lines begin and end on charges. You said they don’t disappear. Now you’re moving the goalposts. You claimed “we cannot to imagine something which is absolutelly impossible in our Universe” and now you’re limiting this. Modifying it is basically an admission that your claim was bogus.
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Advertisement spammed on July,25
We ban these users when one of us logs on. Their posts are removed. The proper action by our members is to report the posts (tap/click on the … in the upper right), not to respond to them. The measures recently implemented did flag and hide some of the spam. One hopes that it’s a “learning” algorithm and gets even better as time goes on.
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What if Pi is not what we think it is, but still is?
Let me clarify a few things: “Reading the paper” can’t be a requirement, per our rules. As I pointed out before, material for discussion must be posted here. Not conveyed via links or uploads Attacking what you post is not attacking you. They are quite distinct. Challenging your claims is what happens in science. Why do you expect grinding? Is there a mainstream claim that pi “governs” curvature? Please share it. In GR, energy-momentum is the primary thing thst governs curvature Again, who claims this? You’re arguing against a strawman Post the idea. But don’t post the AI stuff
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A number of people say Trump is not listening to the courts?
The only remedy for “going after him” personally is impeachment, which won’t happen because his party controls both houses of congress and have shown loyalty to him rather than to the country. His actions have been opposed in court to the extent that they can. But some judges he’s appointed have shown similar loyalties as congress. Are you incapable of reading news yourself? I’m not sure why this has to be spoon fed to you. You might get a pass for mot understanding the details of US government if you live elsewhere, but this is basic reporting, and you have internet access. You need to put forth some effort here.
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How can we inhabit Mars ?
Does the discussion of health benefits of low or zero g include the effect of vibrations and pulling 3 or 4 g’s during launch to get there?
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What if Pi is not what we think it is, but still is?
You introduce some novel physics descriptions and properties here, but there’s no physics.
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Quantum Chorton Framework(QCF)
But the CMB photons came from the so-called recombination epoch, where the photons reached thermal equilibrium, and the redshift is a thermal effect from expansion. But there must be some way, in principle, to get experimental confirmation. Not being able to do it yet is not the same as not being able to do it at all.
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Quantum Chorton Framework(QCF)
No, I want evidence - actual evidence - that photons didn’t exist in the early universe. Using your conjecture as evidence is circular reasoning The redshift argument is based on the thermodynamics of expansion, but recombination is not accounted for here - it would be like extrapolating a temperature of H2O across either or both phase transitions.
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Quantum Chorton Framework(QCF)
No. I’m not sure why this isn’t registering: material for discussion must be posted. You can’t just point us to a link or an uploaded file.
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Quantum Chorton Framework(QCF)
But if they’re massless particles they must move at the speed of light. I’m losing patience with the way you continue to ignore our rules regarding relying on links And I asked you what evidence there is to support the notion that photons didn’t exist. Repeating yourself isn’t evidence. And backtracing the CMB to before the so-called recombination era is somewhat misguided.
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hijack from Basic science questions
You didn’t answer my question. Just repeated yourself. Assertion is not evidence. You said it’s matter, but it’s secret matter? Can’t say what it’s made of? What properties does it have - angular momentum, mass, etc.? What happens to it when the field disappears? Where does it come from when a field is created? So fields don’t start or end on charges? Maxwell’s equations are wrong? You’re not the first person to claim this nonsense. Plenty of science can be understood without philosophy, and we can imagine impossible things. There are plenty of crackpots who think perpetual motion can be achieved, as just one example.