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swansont

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  1. Answered, to some extent, in the thread. In any event, I doubt you’re going to get clarification at this point.
  2. He’s of African descent, so he has a very low neanderthal composition.
  3. The OP specified “common ancestry with the rest of the apes” so it’s hominin.
  4. Moderator NoteAsking about downvotes is OT. Deal with it. It’s sad that anyone has to nitpick at this level. Bored, are we? Accusation about anyone being deliberately obtuse is an overreach, since you can’t possibly know. Misunderstanding and misinterpretation happens all the time. People are not mind readers. Don’t create a standard you can’t live up to. Accusations of sockpuppetry in the thread are OT - they should be reported - but by itself is unhelpful. Mods can sniff out sockpuppets but we’re not going to match a posting style against all the other people who have posted here.
  5. Moderator NoteFile removed. Please review the rules. Material for discussion must be posted here, and not be any AI content.
  6. Yes. And if dark matter is a result of curvature, doesn’t this mean a modification of the equations of GR?
  7. Higher or lower than what? Than average? Than Joe the bartender? When using a comparative you need a reference.
  8. The necrophilia comment is in reference to the thread being long dead (usually referred to as necromancy, but probably changed given the sexual tone of the thread) Expecting statistics from people giving uninformed opinion is rather optimistic, as is expecting a response to a 15-yo post froma member whi hasn’t been here for 5 years
  9. And one that’s really unnecessary to point out since it’s OT, and something the mods wish people would stop doing. That’s a discussion for another thread.
  10. I think the context here has been lost. The OP asked if getting a shot from a person on the street should give you a shot, which already assumes that the vaccine is available. If you can’t afford healthcare, that’s a separate, and much bigger problem, and not solved by Jo or Joe Random having a syringe in their hand.
  11. Clocks don’t measure coordinate time, they measure proper time. TCB corresponds a particular frame - the barycenter of the solar system, with an offset for gravitational time dilation. Similar to how we offset clocks when calculating UTC.
  12. Clocks that contribute to UTC are in different gravitational potentials. How is that different? There are efforts to come up with a timescale to use on the moon, and for time in arbitrary locations in space (DSAC) Kinda like the Hafele-Keating experiment, only more complicated. Like how clocks in UTC must make elevation corrections. Because you keep arguing points that imply or say so, such as: If it measures time, it’s a clock.
  13. Moderator Note…and this is where you took a sharp turn into WAG nonsense that is in no way compliant with speculations. (not to imply the veracity of anything else). Don’t post such nonsense here again.
  14. A clock located at the appropriate location will give you that time, or something that could be converted to it. (e.g. adjust for the gravitational time dilation, which we do for UTC) You can do a similar conversion for any other location and frame.
  15. Yup. If you chose imperial units you’d have the same situation. Numerically different constants. No, that’s not the case. You’d have a different value, but the invariance of c has not changed. The time just ticks faster by about 1.5 x 10^-8 Moving clocks are still clocks. Clocks in different gravitational potentials or different accelerations are still clocks. I don’t know why you think they aren’t.
  16. I know there’s an effect called magnetostriction, which is the physical expansion/contraction of domains as you cycle the magnetic field; I think it’s responsible for the humming of transformers. My only exposure to magnetic refrigeration was in the context of discussion of cryogenic cooling, done by someone on my thesis committee, in contrast to the then-new concept of laser cooling that was used in my research. That was limited to small amounts of heat flow to get you fairly cold (tenths of a Kelvin?) but you still had to remove energy via other means, and had to start pretty cold (e.g. liquid nitrogen and then helium, IIRC)
  17. But the US is not representative of developed countries. It’s one of the exceptions that doesn’t have universal health care.
  18. How is this beyond your control? It’s your idea. If you don’t have a model, or can’t make predictions, then your idea has not reached the point where you should be making assertions that it’s valid/true. It doesn’t meet the minimum requirement for discussion here.
  19. Mrs.Tilly likes moose and deer but not elk or caribou
  20. You ignored the comma, which changes the meaning. “-g, directed downward” “directed downward” merely confirms what the - sign means, since an answer of “-g” could be misunderstood. Since you are free to choose any coordinate system, the - direction could mean up. It’s not the most popular convention, but it does get used.
  21. Moderator NoteThere is no need to post your rough draft.
  22. I can see this problem on my desktop but not the tablet
  23. There are a number of different timescales out there. UTC, TAI, UT1, and more https://stjarnhimlen.se/comp/time.html GPS time is a different one as well, since it doesn’t include leap seconds, so it’s offset from UTC Clocks on earth tick at different rates, depending on their elevation (or possibly altitude) It simply isn’t a problem, since you can convert one into the other. Pendulums aren’t, and don’t have to be, a uniform length for a pendulum clock. You can use a variety of atoms in atomic clocks. Calibration/translation is mainly a matter of math. A regular and reproducible pattern can be made into a clock; but it’s not guaranteed to be straightforward engineering, and the quality of the clock (accuracy and stability) is not a guarantee. Most clocks don’t conform to SI standards, or don’t have to. Cs clocks are a small minority of clocks in this world, and an even smaller minority of all clocks when considered over history (probably most of which predate SI units)
  24. I can’t recreate this (but it could be from my moderator powers)

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