Bill Angel

Assume there is multiple universes, is the dark matters(or energies) in our universe actually the matters(or energies) of another universe?

 

The idea that matter in our universe could be interacting with matter in another universe is an idea taken seriously by string theorists. For example, the idea is discussed in the book "The Hidden Reality, Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene

 

I wrote a blog entry discussing some aspects of this issue of dark matter residing in another universe.

See http://blogs.scienceforums.net/billangel/2013/11/18/does-dark-matter-reside-in-another-universe/

Not sure how to interpret this - but Trump got more votes in Nevada yesterday than were cast in 2012, and 50% more than Romney got in winning in 2008.

 

In general elections Democrats win when more people turn out to vote - I wonder if the parallel is that the non-traditional win in primaries when more people make the effort

Yesterday in each of the primaries that they both won, Donald Trump got a percentage of the vote comparable to what Hillary Clinton got, but Hillary Clinton got the greater number of votes. This would suggest that Clinton will beat Trump in the general election in each of those states.

On a more serious note, photoelasticity of cracks produces some wonderful images, and some great mathematical physics.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=photoelasticity&hl=en-GB&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDtLCa55zMAhVpJMAKHUe4DHcQ_AUIBQ

 

The image below was created by photographing the ice on the surface of a pond with the camera's lens equipped with a polarizing filter.

A good review article discussing elasticity and crack formation in ice is "The Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Ice" http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9902/Schulson-9902.html

Koyaanisqatsi Movie Full Soundtrack - Phillip Glass (1982)

 

https://youtu.be/t-t8w08QNJM

After graduate studies in nuclear physics at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Jimmy Carter was selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover to serve as engineering officer of the Sea Wolf, America's second nuclear submarine.

President Carter was not awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, but was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002.

And if you guys elect D Trump, I personally will never visit ( 15 min away ) the US again.

If Trump does get the Republican nomination, I believe that a lot of Republicans will just skip voting for President and just vote to ensure that their Republican Representatives and Senators stay in office.

Trump argues that this is about more than just him, pulling in Bernie Sanders and his fight against Hillary Clinton and the establishment for the Democratic Party nod -- into the fray. The message from Trump is that the power brokers on both sides are trying to rig the game.

"You see what's happening to me and Bernie Sanders," Trump said Sunday in Rochester, New York. "It's a corrupt deal going on."

See http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/12/politics/donald-trump-rages-against-the-machine/index.html

 

On the other hand, here is Bernie Sanders "take" on Donald Trump:

 

As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar, Sanders said.

See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-unloads-on-donald-trump_us_56e4847ae4b0860f99d9475f

When I was processed for a government Top Secret Security Clearance, I had to take a polygraph (lie detector) exam. Since the President is going to have access to all Top Secret government info, perhaps he or she (the prospective office holders) should also undergo a similar polygraph exam.

And here is a real gem from Donald Trump:

"Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure,it's not your fault"

Check out @realDonaldTrump's Tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/332308211321425920?s=09

What is measured in a IQ test is definitely not one's prescience. Prescience is defined as the ability to know what will or might happen in the future i.e foresight. Prescience is one aspect of what could be termed good judgment. A lot of people with high IQs don't necessarily display good judgment in their decision making.

Superman by the Crash Test Dummies

Two admirers of Superman photographed by me in Baltimore

The Sci Fi humorist Douglas Adams imagined that there is a restaurant at the end of the universe named Milliways. There could perhaps also be a hotel there named the Multiverse Envy Hotel. One could imagine Donald Trump visiting such a hotel, and attempting to argue with the infinite versions of himself in the other universes about whose universe was the largest. ;-)

That Martian encounter might perhaps account for the monolith that Curiosity Rover discovered on Mars:

 

You have a geometry where the angles of a triangle add to 180º, and ones where they don't. So I'm wondering if there might be an analogue for logic. Something where a boolean condition exists in one format, but not another. And maybe we just haven't stumbled across it yet.

Are you thinking about something like "fuzzy logic"?

Fuzzy logic is an approach to computing based on "degrees of truth" rather than the usual "true or false" (1 or 0) Boolean logic on which the modern computer is based. The idea of fuzzy logic was first advanced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s.

Unfortunately people enjoy tabloids, especially in a nation of busybodies who are more interested in gossip than news. Take the Sydney Morning Herald for example, you only need to read the comments section to know the paper is aiming at the average Joe.

There was an excellent example of this in the media coverage of US Senator John Edwards' extramarital affair

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards_extramarital_affair

The Bible contains a clear definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Simply put, the biblical definition of faith is trusting in something you cannot explicitly prove.

 

Atheism is usually defined incorrectly as a belief system. Atheism is not a disbelief in gods or a denial of gods; it is a lack of belief in gods. Older dictionaries define atheism as "a belief that there is no God." People cannot trust these dictionaries to define atheism.

See. https://atheists.org/activism/resources/what-is-atheism

The media makes its money from advertising.

When newspapers first went online you could read their content for free.

Now the newspapers that I like to read online: New York Times, Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun, have gone to a subscription-based model. You get to read 10 articles for free each month, and you have to subscribe if you want to read any more than that. So advertising revenue alone is not a sufficient revenue stream to keep their operations profitable.

I abhor the Government's reactions to terror attacks, from laws like the Patriot Act, to laws and policies that specifically target Muslims, such as Hijab and halal meat bans. For a variety of reasons. From denying equal rights and protections to all, to Government overreach over people's personal and individual rights, to such laws and policies driving a wedge in society in general and having a different set of sub-set of rules depending on one's religious beliefs. Most of all, it is such laws and policies, such as over-policing of Muslims (the incarceration rate of Muslims is much higher than non-Muslims in Europe, not because they commit more crimes, but because they are policed more and targeted more than others). The rise of the right wing and these policies and laws will only drive Muslims further towards radicalisation, because they feel left out of society, lack of employment prospects or possibilities, reduced access to education, which all drive poverty.. Which in turn increases the risk of radicalisation.

 

It becomes a vicious cycle.

 

Here is an interesting posting on this subject: Why Are So Many Muslims in Prison? http://www.meforum.org/blog/2015/08/islam-prison

 

Muslims are overrepresented in the French prison population by 7.5 times their percentage of the population. In the United States, although their overall percentage is smaller, Muslims are overrepresented in the prison population by 11.25 times their percentage of the population....

Why? A couple of possible explanations spring to mind, neither one of which is exclusive.

 

One possibility is that Muslims may be committing crimes at a higher rate than other groups.

 

Another is that large numbers of prisoners are converting to Islam. There is evidence that this is in fact the case. The New Yorker article offers a sociological explanation of why and how this happens in French prisons. Conversion also appears to be common in U.S. prisons.

 

What makes this truly disturbing is the form of Islam to which prisoners are converting. Much has been written about the radicalization of Muslims in French prisons...It is also happening in U.S. prisons

 

This really puzzles me, the American populace. They say they would rather have a rebranded Reagan in the White House because it's more likely to get those policies passed, than elect someone who actually shares their ideals.

Some observers think that Donald Trump bears little resemblance to Ronald Reagan

See

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/trump-is-no-ronald-reagan/

Glycerine (or Glycerol) is a simple sugar alcohol compound. Is there some connection between this chemical compound and the lyrics of this song?

It appears that Trump has flip flopped again on the issue of the acceptability of the use of torture:

Donald Trump on torture: 'We have to beat the savages'

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What's that got to do with this topic? Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs.

A good article appeared in today's New York Times:

Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect [Personal] Security http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/technology/apple-sees-value-in-privacy-vow.html

 

Also here is a review of a good book to check out:

Becoming Steve Jobs, by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli http://nyti.ms/1FcHcBs

 

In my opinion Tim Cook is simply continuing to implement Steve Jobs' corporate priorities and strategy.

Tim Cook is Steve Jobs' protege at Apple and Eddy Cue is Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services who reports to CEO Tim Cook.

According to Eddy Cue "Steve really had just two things he cared about in his life Apple - and to some extent Pixar - and his family".

US national security is not on that list. Apple is also now a multi-national corporation with two thirds of a sales overseas, and is holding 181 billion dollars in profits overseas, so it's understandable if for them Apple's corporate interests overshadow U.S. national security interests.

Probably nothing.

But how do you decrypt the data once you have read it?

In the case of the terrorists phone (an iPhone 5C) the [ encryption] key is generated from a combination of the user-created passcode and a key that is unique to the device (this key is embedded when the phone is manufactured).

See https://stratechery.com/2016/apple-versus-the-fbi-understanding-iphone-encryption-the-risks-for-apple-and-encryption/

 

Assuming that the key that was unique to the device that was embedded when the phone was manufactured is known to Apple, the only thing that is unknown to decrypt the contents is the user created pass code. If the encrypted contents of the phone's memory were copied out and uploaded into a powerful supercomputer, I would think that the code breakers at NSA could retrieve the clear text meaning in a reasonable amount of time.