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Pretty clear that it’s just a bit of word salad, with no legitimate meaning behind it.

Functionally it has been, since many of the abducted are not getting due process and there are instances where courts are being ignored

So are you not answering the question to just be difficult, because you can’t, or because you realize it will reveal that your conjecture is false?

I don’t know. They show as all consistent (6 hours) in mine

I must be hallucinating this, then https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light There’s an item in there that points out that dimensionless constants are not dependent on your choice of unit systems, which is one reason they are investigated.

As far as the US is concerned, Reagan happened. But I fail to see what this has to do with crypto, seeing as it’s a more recent development. Bitcoin didn’t start until 2009.

You can post it here for discussion. That’s all we can do for you.

Nature doesn’t care how humans define these things. If c doubled there would be physical effects that we might notice. Same for these other constants. Don’t waffle - answer the question.

Ear buds are sometimes hard to spot, but any indication they’re listening to something is a sign they don’t want to verbally engage. IMO.

Sometimes you can tell from a distance if they’re avoiding eye contact, in which case I say nothing.

No net energy release, as exchemist notes, but there will also be inefficiencies in each step, which represent losses.

When, ultimately, Alcatraz is not reopened, it will be blamed on Biden. I think he thinks it makes him look tough, and impresses his base. Part of his bullying.

It’s not clear that this is the case. There are examples where it isn’t - Loki, Hades, etc. Indifferent or malevolent gods.

How do you test this idea?

What is sec? I don’t recognize that as a variable.

#2 Yes. When a molecule absorbs a photon that excites it above the lowest excited state it can then emit lower-energy photons as it decays back to the ground state

Evidence? He killed the deal that was keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons. People can make money in the stock market even in a bad economy. That’s not the case for workers and small business owners. Trump’s “deal” with the British means a few rich people can buy a Rolls Royce. Meanwhile, US auto companies are still getting hammered by tariffs on imported components. (Trump has no legal authority to make trade treaties, and his tariffs are likely illegal) Who the hell thinks parents buy their kids 20 dolls for Christmas? Rich idiots, for one, who get whatever they want. And they’re quite adept at telling the masses to make sacrifices while they make none. We’ll see how that plays out starting pretty soon, when certain goods aren’t available.

How do each of the constants in physics change (i.e. by what factor are they bigger or smaller if c doubled)? Planck’s constant, vacuum permittivity and permeability, fundamental charge, etc.

Yes, basically. They realize the second, or a frequency tied to that, so you can tell if your clocks are running fast or slow, and make adjustments as necessary. So you’d have a bunch of clocks, and do the calibrations once in a while. It can be a year between these assessments; they sometimes dismantle the standard to modify it. Yup, but small improvements add up over time. Most people aren’t going to notice the result but it does push other standards labs to make similar improvements.

The first thing I’ll note is that it’s a frequency standard, not a clock, but that’s a pet peeve that basically only bothers me. (clocks run continuously) I’m guessing that the new cavities they mention incorporates a lot of cavity design modeling that Kurt Gibble has done over the years. The basic fountain design is decades-old technology by now, but the best you can do for a primary standard, which has to use cesium and probe the microwave hyperfine transition (a spin flip of the ground states) By tossing the atoms up at a few m/s you get them to be in a superposition of those states for a good fraction of a second, so it’s billions of oscillations, and since it uses the same cavity you eliminate certain errors you get with a two-cavity beam apparatus. By making the atoms cold you can get some fraction to come back down on-axis; the thermal speed at the temperatures they run at is of order 1 cm/s, so the ball of atoms they toss slowly expands. Since it’s a primary standard, much of the paper is the assessment of the various frequency shifts and uncertainties in them that are present. (Trivia questions that imply that you’re probing at 9,192,631,770 Hz are wrong; there’s a magnetic field present that moves you away from that, but you can determine that field so you know what the shift is. Not being at 0 K also gives you a shift) That requires a lot of careful work It’s an incremental improvement more than being ground-breaking, much like shaving a millisecond off a world record sprint time. It’s still a new record.

You’re missing the point. ET doesn’t compensate for relativity because you can’t measure the rotation to sufficient precision. If you could, though, you’d notice relativistic effects, because relativity affects time. You need to do more than assert otherwise.

Levers work and cranes work, so you need to be a lot more descriptive. A diagram would help immensely.

What is the expected relativistic effect, and is a measurement of rotation capable of this level of precision? Geosat sees ~50 microseconds a day, which is roughly 8.6 x 10^4 seconds, so you need to measure rotation to a part in 10^9. So, ~10^-8 radians If you can’t do this, then you can’t offer it as a test. We can, however, measure time dilation in physically rotating systems (a centrifuge) using Mössbauer spectroscopy.

Can you think of an experiment that would confirm that ET is not subject to the effects of relativity?

All actual evidence to the contrary. Nothing says genius like four bankrupt casinos.