swansont

That’s not how your very first post in the thread reads. We can all read it. You talked about GR being flawed because of infinitesimals, followed by a very incorrect summary of the uncertainty principle. You followed that up with “Calculus is in direct contradiction with Uncertainty Principle” Direct contradiction. Not via GR. Pretty much every new post had an error that needed to be corrected. Like I said, we can all read it. There will not be any rewriting of history. Anyway, GR does not violate what YOU presented as being the HUP, and I think that was answered. “Calculus assumes and necessarily requires the logical leap-of-faith that if you break a curve into infinitesimally small parts, then each part is a straight line. An infinitesimal change in y with respect to an infinitesimal change in x. Calculus claims it knows the value of both x and y, at infinitesimality.” Quantum uncertainty principle claims that at infinitesimality, observables are in superposition. You cannot know fully and simultaneously both the values of y and x.” (note that you are the one who presented x and y as being the variables associated with a straight line, rather than y being momentum, as you later argued)

When you first mentioned this you said things that were flat-out wrong, and it’s hard to answer a question based on such misconceptions unless those misconceptions are first cleared up.

The post you replied to was on a very specific topic. If you wanted to make your point about escape velocity, which doesn’t apply to vehicles exerting thrust (only for ballistic travel) you should have chosen a different post to quote. And really, don’t try and guess peoples’ motivations. It’s inappropriate (personal attack, so a bit insulting), and says more about you and your biases.

Moderator NoteNo, because those discussion must take place in speculations.

You need to reread the post you quoted. It’s about a plane getting into space. Yes there are issues that would be worse with a thicker atmosphere. But it still has nothing to do with escape velocity. I don’t know why you think it does.

Not so false when they are rarely held accountable for their actions

Which also has nothing directly to do with escape velocity..

While there are issues with a plane being able to fly high in the atmosphere and then get to space, it’s not really an issue of escape velocity, since 1) you can be in space and still be in the earth’s gravity well and 2) if you have thrust while in flight, you don’t have to achieve escape velocity even if you want to leave the gravity well, which is prominently pointed out in your link.

Western democracies generally include protecting the rights of minorities, yes. It’s not difficult to find abuses of majorities where these protections are absent or ignored. If you’re jot a minority ypu might not care, but if you are, you probably care quite a bit. There are few examples, and (speaking as a moderator) we aren’t going to litigate that here. But this seems like a common tactic of trying to present uncommon cases as being typical, and also is based on not knowing biology past grade school level That’s a problem? Most people have them in their homes. I respect her views in physics. Outside of that it would be the fallacy of appealing to authority, and presenting opinion as fact.

I’m not sure what the Standard Model has anything to do with galaxy formation. Discrepancies with existing models has nothing to do with the validity of other models. IOW, you need evidence to support your model, which is what I pointed out, and what you continue to sidestep.

Yup. I think Bannon already suggested deportation. Perhaps others have, too. It would certainly be interesting, should Musk leave the country for some reason, what happens on his return.

What is the weighting factor? Range of values, what does it depend on? What are Psi and “gravitational influence”? Forces? Accelerations? What is the coupling strength? What are these various functions?

Anyone wondering when the Musk/Trump rift would happen, here you go… https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-blames-musks-criticism-decision-cut-ev-tax-credits-2025-06-05/

What are the properties of this medium and how do we do experiments to confirm this? You need to explain what these variables (or constants) are.

I think this came up in a thread not too long ago - how phone responses are used a lot less precisely because the response rate had dropped. I agree that fakery requires deliberate intent to deceive, which has not been demonstrated, and is not sampling error or bias.

Star Trek is pretty consistent about this - normal transporters have a limited range, so you can’t go planet-to-planet, much less to the next system. They used it when they are in close proximity (a few tens of thousands of km) I think they ginned up a special kind that went longer, because a story line required it.

AFAICT it’s vinegar that’s been absorbed by some solid “carrier” (maltodextrin or modified food starch) and then much of the liquid is evaporated. You can buy vinegar powder.

The thing is, there are plenty on the left who believe in healing crystals, psychics, astrology and the like. They just tend to not be the elected officials, at the higher echelons at least.

By repository do you mean like ArXiv? Having a paper there doesn’t mean it’s been peer-reviewed, or published in a journal, where it might get professional feedback and pushback. So, not peer-reviewed as it’s normally understood.

No problem. But we will want some rigor

You just saw your de-militarization claim debunked, and here you repeat it. I don’t see how Fukushima is related to Putin, and Germany’s electrical capacity from nuclear (just over 20 GW in 2010) is much smaller than the installed renewables that have been added since 2010 (~60 GW in 2010, ~180 GW in 2024) https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts# Maybe stop trying to push a narrative without checking to see if it’s supported by facts

Which is quite different from claiming that spending decreased (“reduce funding of their armies”) Easy to claim, but what evidence supports it?

That’s beside the point, though. The issue was about your claim about Germany, which is false. They are not importing more oil. Trying to move the goalposts does not help your credibility. I’m sure I’m not the only one to notice your habit of making arguments based on dubious (and unsourced) claims.

I agree that consistency is far more important. Getting detailed actually boxes you in if you invoke some technology of dubious (at best) feasibility. There are stories that flat-out ignore some scientific principles, but they generally don’t try to do too much to explain anything regarding the contradiction. Anything with FTL travel/hyperspace or even just very fast travel, where relativity ignored (e.g. Star Wars, Forbidden Planet). Star Trek mentioned “Heisenberg compensators” for the transporter, but no detail beyond that.

Oil generally refers to crude, and petrol is used in automobiles. What’s the connection to nuclear power, which was part of your premise? In any event, Germany’s imports from Russia dropped to basically zero since 2023. The decrease began in 2022 https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/crude-oil-imports-from-russia