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But fields aren’t made of particles. Conveying incorrect information might be easier but it’s ultimately self-defeating. Physics is driven by math and you have to understand that language. There are things that get lost in translation if you try and simplify it. The common approach is to start with simple concepts like motion and force and build on them. I don’t think anyone’s scared out of physics by what’s going on in the math of grad-school topics like QFT. If you get scared off by math wouldn’t that happen in calculus? And if you can’t handle the math of QFT or GR or whatever, you can choose an area where you don’t have to deal with it.

Because you had an existing thread on referendum democracy, as I hope you can see. No need to cover the same ground all over again, but any new ground should actually be on-topic.

You’re missing the point; this is not in question. It’s other things that you said.

No. An eigenstate is a particular state of a system. A superposition is a linear combination of multiple eigenstates. e.g. a two state system has eigenstates |1> and |2> (they could represent energy states, or spin states, etc.) A superposition would be a|1> + b|2> where a and b are amplitudes such that a^2 + b^2 = 1 so that the probability of being in one of the two states is 1

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What does that have to do with using referendums?

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Yes, but I’m talking about your other comparison — you went on to talk about the shorter bat and choking up: “longer bat the striking surface is going to be going faster than it will with a stronger bat” — and you can’t say that the shorter bat will rotate at a slower or the same speed, either angular speed or tip speed. As far as the angle is concerned, a drawing would help significantly

I’m curious about what AI you’re using on this. Is it ChatGPT, or Gemini, or something else?

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If it’s tangible, what are these particles and what are their properties? How do you test to see if you’re right? How does an “inert” particle respond to stimuli? What interactions are involved? There was aether theory, but in trying to answer questions similar to the ones I asked, it failed to work.

Posts that lack scientific merit and have no math predate the rise of LLMs. Also the word salad of technojargon. The problem with alleged AI “tells” (such as “bear with me”) is that real people use such phrases. If they didn’t, the AI probably wouldn’t have picked it up, since it generates content based on its training. Like the alleged tell of using em-dashes (—) but people use them, too (professional writers and editors use them a fair amount) (As far as SFN is concerned, I’m not going to ban anyone based on that kind of flimsy evidence. That might mean some AI content persists, or sockpuppet accounts exist, because going on “vibes” just isn’t enough.)

Luc Turpin has been banned for repeatedly spamming us with agenda-driven (and now AI-generated) content

You forgot (or didn’t know) to strip the source identification tags out of your links. Looks like you either lied about using AI, or used it after you were warned not to.

Which is expressly against the rules of the forum. I have no idea why one would think so.

Is it meant to be an actual keyboard (it’s not a photo), or a schematic of sorts, just showing the layout? If it’s displayed on the English version of wikipedia, it’s reasonable that it would use English labels.

You forgot to translate this, but NKTm is not units. As I pointed out in your first thread, the two quantities have units of kg-m^2/s and kg^2-m/s^2 — they aren't the same, so adding them is nonsensical. Any number you generate is meaningless, so even if you had offered an equation that told us how it allegedly affected velocity, it would not be valid for anything. There’s no physical significance here (which would not be surprising if this were the result of an AI hallucination) As such, this is closed. Don’t bring this topic up again.

Another possibility is the phone numbers aren’t legit. I searched one and thought it matched up, but went back and realize it was the AI summary saying the number was “associated with” the company. That could mean that all the spam has convinced the AI that it’s the right number. So they’re leveraging the way AI is “trained“ - if you have a bazillion places saying 2+2=5, that’s going to eventually show up as a possible answer You call the number and they try to get your account info

I’m only guessing, but if you’re being paid by the post, it’s probably more efficient to stay at the same site (several of the accounts were sockpuppets) and perhaps we were thought to be an easy target if there are multiple spammers. More posts raises the SEO score; I don’t know if multiple posts at the same site are weighted equally or discounted. What I don’t understand is why a company would adopt this strategy, unless it’s a competitor trying to poison the goodwill.

The AZERTY keyboard is real “Like other European keyboard layouts, it is modelled on the English-language QWERTY layout. It is used in France and Belgium, though both countries have their own national variation on the layout.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY

I’m assuming these are people, so slowing down the process makes then less efficient. e.g. it takes 5 minutes to spam us instead of 2. We become a less-attractive target

Any way to stem the tide of spammers? Slow down the CAPTCHA/registration process a touch?

Doesn’t seem all that random. Customer service numbers for a handful of actual businesses. If you google the phone numbers I think they’re legit (edit: perhaps not; see later post) and the top results will be posts like these on lightly- or unmoderated forums (so there’s no deletion), so I’m guessing that it’s motivated by SEO. People in India (in today’s cases) is paid a pittance to make a certain quota of posts in some digital sweatshop

I think a lot of programs are based on the same ideas. https://waypointrecoverycenter.com/blog/making-amends-a-crucial-part-of-the-12-steps/

Some 12-step programs have advice on making amends; how to do it, and what options you have if a confrontation might cause pain or harm.