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Sorry,I didn't realize the BBC was pay walled in USA.. https://www.reddit.com/r/bbc/comments/1pp3781/why_is_bbc_only_charging_american_customers_but/ There was this in it: "The problem is "grid congestion", says Kees-Jan Rameau, chief executive of Dutch energy producer and supplier Eneco, 70% of whose electricity generation is now solar and wind. "Grid congestion is like a traffic jam on the power grid. It's caused by either too much power demand in a certain area, or too much power supply put onto the grid, more than the grid can handle." He explains that the problem is that the grid "was designed in the days when we had just a few very large, mainly gas-fired power plants". "So we built a grid with very big power lines close to those power plants, and increasingly smaller power lines as you got more towards the households."

Does this article explain the problem? Netherlands' renewables drive putting pressure on its pow...Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.The decentralisation of the grid putting extra load on the outermost parts of the grid that previously did not carry as much current.

I think,in some countries there has been a problem in building enough grid for the increased electricity use. Would that account for (some of?) the slowdown?

See all his dinner guests did a runner.

Just came up in (I think it is called) my feed. This seems very genuine.Most of the other stuff that appears in my feed is pure crap and is ai generated (so that I click on it a lot less lately)

Dear Acting President of all of the Northern and Western Hemispheres very much obliged for your latest Taco recipe. Safe passage on your next Emperor I transporter. from all at the Circle of Nordic Clowns Federation

Shame they couldn't capture one particular political pimple on the N American continent and deposit it somewhere really GALACTIC without anyone noticing.

It seems (crudely)from the beginning of your linked post that the formulae employed may be based on the normal spacetime metric with extra input from the rate of expansion? Do the faster than c recessionary speeds that are now in play have their counterparts in the earliest epochs in the universe? For example, the inflationary period occurred, if I am correct some short time after T+10^-43 seconds.Were there superluminal recessionary speeds during that epoch also? From the incredible rate of inflation then it would seem possible to me but perhaps the actual highest speed of recession remained below c despite the more than ferocious accelerated rate of the inflation?

In an inflationary (or anti inflationary,I suppose) universe are there spacetime curvature effects leading to different time/space measurements wrt two different reference frames? I understand that the universe is apparently flat in terms of curvature but does its agreed expansion mean that measurements need to be adjusted to account for it?

Faux GPTChat?

Yes ,I understand that a heat death is just one possibility (very recent findings apparently even suggesting an eventual gravitational collapse may be on the cards again) What is the reason that an absolute zero temperature cannot be reached ?(my OP was assuming that it would) Is to do with the "ground state" energy that has been mentioned by other posters -or does the system not even reach that state where absolute zero still contains energy of some kind. Or is there another reason that the system cannot attain absolute zero even with an infinite amount of time at its disposal?(could it be that ,time being relative that that is the wrong way to look at it?)

I hadn't considered that I don’t think we have any evidence that models would fail That (lack of evidence)wouldn't prevent them from failing,would it? It is an argument from incredulity but I would be extremely impressed if the models (note I don"t claim to be at all versed in those models -as I am sure you already know) continued working indefinitely @exchemist points out that we are not talking about extreme conditions but I am not so sure.They seem extremely different to what would have preceeded but I am in no position to argue that (semantic?) point. I think I might have be saying or implying more or less the same.

Aren't all models liable to break down in extreme situations? If a heat death scenario lasts for ,say a million or more times the length of the universe to date(just picking a figure out of the air) might that approach a circumstance we can't describe with a model that works in current conditions? I have no idea what in particular might cause the model to break down but it might not be a surprise if it did,would it?

If absolutely nothing in the entire universe interacts with anything else ,is it not possible to view that as all particles effectively ceasing to exist (having no motion being incidental at that point)? Is the unattainability of absolute zero contingent upon there being an overall system within which sub systems exist? None of the subsystems could individually reach absolute zero but if the overall system itself reaches absolute zero (I don't know how) then all the subsystems would likewise reach that state. Is the temperature of a system something we model anyway and ,if the universe did come to a complete end would the model break down at or before that point? Is the OP "Can the universe die?" a legitimate question or is such an end nonsensical (the same applying to any beginning? Personally I am more comfortable with no beginning ,no end but continuous change. Does that apply to an ultimate heat death scenario? Is that scenario so theoretical that we can say little about it? (I think Penrose has a theory about it though...)

I understand we have the concept of a universal heat death where (I think) all that remains is random interactions between objects (ie particles?) that never lead to anything of more consequence. Could those random interactions lessen in frequency over time so that eventually there are none and we can say nothing is moving ?(if there are no interactions how can an object "move" just with respect to itself?) Does an end of absolutely everything become possible in those circumstances? If it does ,would/could that rule out any restart? BTW the forum seems to be getting very ,very slow also- ironically.

The prequel

There is only you and AI** (and a few others here,no doubt) that get that. Don't tell me.It may come eventually. ** quite prissy(no it didn't get it but it "had a go")

https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6384/ Her father was killed 50 years ago...She might hold out. Can't vouch for this but I saw on another site that "2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of her father, socialist activist Jorge Rodríguez, by the CIA-backed security services of the US-aligned Pérez regime in Venezuela"

Dies this sound a bit like cloudcuckoo land to anyone? Is there any support in America for this? Is there any end game apparent?

I don't get it .Do they just pick up one ion per ride? (something like that?)

Or Herb Alpert's band

Snickers are very sticky and I was joking they might suck out a loose filling(or even a whole tooth) The last time I had a problem was when I bit on a hazelnut in a Ritters bar and took off a quarter of the top of my root canal -in the middle of Covid with the dentists shut. When my mother was on one of her last journeys,the ambulance assistant reached into her mouth to remove her "dentures" except that she still had her own teeth and he couldn't get them out. (I count 22 teeth plus 2 spaces-boobs,don't ask)

From the link: "This is because the milk is intentionally broken down during the manufacturing process, yielding a substance called butyric acid, while making a chocolate that's more shelf-stable. Famously, this acid is also present in vomit and partly responsible for its smell, a fact that has fueled many a headline. (Butyric acid is responsible for the smell of rancid butter, but it is also used to create certain food flavourings.)" They also say there that an acquired taste sticks. But you can also add asafoetida (Devil's Dung) to cooking It smells awful on its own but seemingly combines well (have never really tried it) Of course the taste of sick sounds even worse than dung and I find Hershey bars underwhelming in any case. (more of a Snickers man in that way, while I have the whole of my teeth)

Did you notice the butyric acid content in my BBC article? Shelf life is King.

Thought this was a decent article(It mentions the Hershey Bar and the manufacturing process generally) https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231221-why-british-chocolate-tastes-the-way-it-does