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Normally they evolve but this is uncharted territory.

Ah,I see.Did you find that on the internet? If you did, then either it was not cached or even Google could see it was a misspelling (which I very much doubt) I agree with @Externet that AI will have us for breakfast in this area. Edit:Oh ,you found it this this thread.(I mean on this forum)Like when I look for my specs or other things, they are often right beside me after I have searched nigh and low everywhere else.

Seems a fairly archaic/litterary expression.Kind of the thing Atreides might have said in Dune. I know you made it up ,but it doesn't show up as a complete phrase in Google . "their female"

Is autospell making it worse ?Too much hassle to correct and you can count on readers to understand what you were trying to write. "its" vs "it's" gets my goat (computer knows best)

A very interesting fact I was unaware of.Is that why the Tropical rain forests are said to be fragile ? They have no "reserves" in the ground once they have been lost?

I saw it last time.I was hoping(and expecting) him to lose but very fearful that he might win.. More hopeful this time around but even more fearful if something goes wrong. Let's hope that 8 months is a long time in politics and that a year and a half is longer too. And that life in jail is longer still.

I think I see that.Would you say that a bounded universe can contain physical infinities? Should I change the title to reflect that?

I understand we can't say which might apply. If one was ,or was shown to be the case and the other was not ,would it make any practical or philosophical (or any other sort of) difference? For instance would it make any difference to how we understand our own "place in the world" ? (and is that a weighty question?)

I liked "Even someone like Trump, who draws surprising amounts of energy simply from being evil, only has so many hours in the day"

And the gravitational field is being continuously created? If gravitational waves pass through an/the established gravitational field is that field changed by the passage of the waves after they have passed through? Of course the field changes continuously anyway but does the passage of the waves contribute to that change? A pointless question?

I hear the Russians have about 2 weeks of stocks in Ukraine. A long conflict with Wagner could deplete those to Ukraine 's advantage. I also think that ĺ that Prigoblin bloke had just said the war was a mistake in the first place so let's hope he cleans out Putin.

Could they have attached one or two "echo locator" devices on the side of the Titanic before they paid it any visits ? It would send reports to the surface every few hours. Would it be able to scan the area on a continuous basis and be useful in this sort of a need. At that range would it have a directional ability?

@Phi for All " trying to get to total capitalism, thinking that must be better than total communism or total socialism. Give us a better mix of economics, give us ranked-choice voting, give us more representation than two mega-parties, and figure out a way to better inform and educate The People so they can feel their efforts at being a citizen are worthwwhile." Sounds good to me? Is any progress being made in that direction? Any baby steps? Any proposals for reforms of the electoral system that might mitigate the damage that the two party hegemony seems (to me) to be causing to the body politic ? I seem to remember, the problem (in my eyes) was the overdue influence corporate money had on the political system Now it turns out that Trump (with his disregard for truthfulness and decency) has been able to siphon off donations from individual donors whereas the corporations I used to despise seem to be a bulwark against reactionary policies(they have to appeal to their consumers who may not like their instinctive policies)

You implied that smaller countries would be (or appear to be) too costly to run.But the world is full of small countries so they must be economically viable. No ,I don't have an example but anyone can be the first.It would not be easy but if there is a demand it can be difficult to resist (eg Scotland) I think I just feel.USA (and other big States) is too big for its citizens to feel a democratic part of the whole and that decentralization has its attractions. Sure there are other forces dividing people but the actual size of very big countries stands out to me as a barrier. Mind you national identity is a bit of a mystery to.me.

Why is that different from other small countries? Is Australia too small? Ukraine? I have thought for some time that USA is a poor example for democracy(as in "not really one") and might be too big for its citizens to feel they were a part of a community. I feel uncomfortable if the Right in USA is in favour of it (for now) but I didn't get the idea from them.

No ,I think it was considered (and wished for by the Nazi esque groups who thought he was a joke) before anyone in particular was prominent. They just thought he would clear the ground for someone savvier (and in their mould presumably)

I thought there was a view when T first got power that the person following him would be more dangerous bc more savvy and acceptable. I don't think that held much water as to date T has jumped nearly every hurdle . In a sense it is all or nothing for the T base. After him they seem unlikely to win a general election .But times change and the Dems can implode. Imo they have to ditch their two party system It is almost as bad as the one party system.

Thanks,yes it did.What I half suspected.

I was about to ask @Markus Hanke to explain the meaning of a made-up German word "ur-observer" in this text(addressed to me) in another forum "The key distinction is between uncertainty (the image is blurred but I think there is an animal out there) and indeterminacy (it really is a woolly sheep and not just an unfocused goat). Sicherheit is all to do with confidence, hence certainty, whilst Genauigkeit concerns exactitude, an inherent property of the entity under discussion. I still think you need to distinguish carefully between an "active observer", i.e. one who necessarily disturbs the system by making a measurement, and the textbook "ur-observer" (a made-up word, but you'll appreciate its very handy Germanic root), i.e a surface in spacetime, outside of the system being observed. For instance it is quite obvious that nothing we do can affect the fusion processes that make Betelguese shine since what we observe actually happened about 700 years ago, nor for that matter can we influence the decay of a uranium nucleus a few picoseconds away from the gamma ray detector, so we are generally "ur-observers" of nuclear phenomena but "active observers" of fetal ultrasound imaging." https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=86353.0 Not so much its meaning in the context , but what does that prefix"ur" mean "normally"? Anyone else can answer if they have good German....

He has said as much and we have seen how Putin got around that roadblock.

Thanks.Well ,from the origin the spacetime interval to the point 1 is zero,I think . Do the corresponding intervals increase as the angle of the trajectory wrt the spatial axis increases? When the speed is least (say the speed of a Trump conviction) ,is the spacetime interval greatest?

Suppose we shine a light on the Moon (from the Eath) and also (imagine there is no gravity) aim a bullet to reach the same point on the Moon much later Can that be depicted on a Minkowski diagram.(an extra vertical line at the top of the orange line that the red line meets ,perhaps?)

OK(I feared as much) but are my scenarios real scenarios even if wrongly described and are there 3 different ,but related spacetime intervals attached to them?

Suppose we take two points on a Minkowski spacetime diagram and "connect" them with different pairs of physical events. So one if the points is the origin and the other is any arbitrary point The first pair of physical events is a massless object fired,* from the origin through a vacuum and leaving a physical mark ** at the site of the second point on the Minkowski map. The second pair of physical events is a spaceship travelling at c/2 and arriving at the site of the mark made by the massless object.(at a different time and spatial distance) The third pair of events is just a bullet following a similar trajectory. So there are three related spacetime intervals. I think.I may be right to say that the first spacetime interval is zero? Of the other two intervals the bullet strikes me as being the longer. Have I understood and presented the scenarios correctly? If we line up all the potential pairs of physical events does the spacetime interval associated with each increase on inverse proportion to the speed of the trajectory involved? *The first event of the pair **The second event of the pair

Fog of War? Can we afford Ukraine to be defeated when it has shown it has all the cojones and all we need to provide is material assistance? Ukraine has the fingers of a demented lunatic around its neck. I don't think the Marquis of Queensbury rules apply. Separately and since Taiwan is one half of this OPthis early assessment by a Chinese source at the very start is fairly amusing in hindsight ", a quick solution to the battle. Just as Russia’s war against Ukraine is likely to be resolved within 48 hours, if the “war of reunification of Taiwan” starts, the “highest goal” of the PLA is to “reunify Taiwan”. The PLA will never delay and will not give the U.S., Japan and Europe the time and opportunity to intervene militarily and politically. The PLA will also defeat the island’s naval and air forces in the shortest possible time, seize air and sea control, provide security for subsequent landing operations, “eliminate” Taiwan’s combat power within 48 hours, and take full control of Taiwan within 72 hours." https://www.china-arms.com/2022/02/russia-ukraine-war-inspiration-taiwan/