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No. Pascal’s wager is about asymmetric outcomes from a choice to believe in something, or not. In the case of free will, you must also account for the fact that society acts like it exists. “free will exists and controls everything you do” seems to be contradictory.

Fair enough - missiles would be launched from Cuba, rather than Cuba launching missiles. It’s moot, though; Kennedy announced that any missiles launched from Cuba would be considered an attack by the Soviets.

And different speeds (since this is for massive particles), so the two elements of it will separate, which is not what we observe happening.

“If dark energy is constant, the universe will continue to expand, forever getting colder and emptier. If it’s growing in strength, the universe will expand so speedily that it’ll destroy itself in what astronomers call the Big Rip.” If they’ve considered it might grow in strength, the notion that it was assumed to be constant is overstated.

But an invasion was rejected for the fear that the Cubans would launch missiles. And that’s the scenario being offered - that they launched missiles.

Matter-wave interference confirms the deBroglie equation.

President Kennedy doesn’t agree “The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations. Several of them include medium range ballistic missiles, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than 1,000 nautical miles. … This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base -- by the presence of these large, long-range, and clearly offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction -- constitutes an explicit threat to the peace and security of all Americas“ http://wp.stu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/08/Kennedy-Speech-Cuban-Missile-Crisis.pdf The Soviets agreed to remove the missiles. Can’t remove something that isn’t there. Recon photos showing the missiles and also them being loaded onto ships for removal in November https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/photos.htm November 5, 1962: Low-level photography documents loading of Soviet missiles at the main Mariel port facility for return to the USSR. On the dock are vehicles later identified by NPIC as nuclear warhead vans.

Do you understand what an analogy is?

“if Cuba launched Russian missiles” Launched is past tense. There was only one Cuban missile crisis. It happened in 1962. People screw up grammar all the time. It usually doesn’t cause such issues. Cuban missile crisis. Right there in the title.

Because you made a statement about non-nukes.

It depends on whether you could take out the launch sites with conventional weapons. And also on how many missiles had been launched. But they did when the crisis happened.

Or, you know, you could just make an effort to explain what you mean, so people don’t have to read between the lines. And not put the blame on others when they don’t get what you mean No, but that’s not the point. It’s analogous to Pascal’s wager, with free will taking the place of the existence of a supreme being

In the Cuban missile crisis they were nukes. That’s why it was a crisis. How about answering the question that was asked, instead of trying to divine some other question.

Why is this posted in philosophy? What is it you want to discuss?

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OTOH, I think part of the issue is taking an imprecise/ambiguous statement and assuming that there can be only one narrow interpretation of it.

! Moderator Note Anecdotes aren’t evidence and there’s no science here.

If NPR is going to publish crap like this, no thanks “RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback” https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5191947/trump-rfk-health-hhs As if the pushback is because he wants to make the country healthy, rather than his batsh** crazy ideas about how to do it.

Agree - I was going to point out that a simulation is a numerical solution and/or iterative sequence. A lot of math, with the computer cranking through it.

“There is precedent for releasing an ethics report after a member has left Congress. In December 1987, the panel put out an unfinished rundown of its investigation into Rep. Bill Boner (D-Tenn.), who had resigned two months earlier to run for Nashville mayor, over his relationship with a government contractor.” https://nypost.com/2024/11/15/us-news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-strongly-requests-ethics-panel-not-issue-report-on-matt-gaetz-sex-misconduct-allegations/

Simple math is still math. Simulations are not magic. The result isn’t conjured. They are math, and the result is from computations Yup. With math.

There are theoretically an infinite number of shells, but they tend to switch to numbers when you have excited states. In physics I rarely used this lettering convention, and in chemistry you’re often only worried about the occupation of the lowest states, but (as you note) we haven’t identified anything that goes that far.

! Moderator Note The international language of science is English, which is what we use here

You can call it either one, just like a helium nucleus is also known as an alpha particle The shell naming is an artifact of science history. The emitted light was discovered before the electron shell model was developed. “The names of the electron shells come from a fellow named Charles G. Barkla, a spectroscopist who studied the X-rays that are emitted by atoms when they are hit with high energy electrons. He noticed that atoms appeared to emit two types of X-rays. The two types of X-rays differed in energy and Barkla originally called the higher energy X-ray type A and the lower energy X-ray type B. He later renamed these two types K and L since he realized that the highest energy X-rays produced in his experiments might not be the highest energy X-ray possible. He wanted to make certain that there was room to add more discoveries without ending up with an alphabetical list of X-rays whose energies were mixed up” https://education.jlab.org/qa/historyele_02.html

They probably could, but the GOP already controls the house, and the committee, so they could have just not investigated. I get the impression that nobody likes Gaetz very much.