geordief

So btw the "singularity" and the supposed beginning of Inflation there is a gap of T^-43 seconds that we know nothing of? And we have no idea what might have been going in during Inflation apart from the extreme stretching of distances in a very short time? (viewed from another frame of reference?)

What does the oft repeated T^-43 seconds refer to ? From when Inflation started?(I always thought it was the start of BB) Was ,perhaps the duration of Inflation too short for any processes to occur?

Were there any processes occurring in the Inflation epoque ? If there were ,was there a maximum speed limit different to c? I am guessing that there were no processes we know of and ,if there were the speed limit would have been c. btw ,did the Inflationary period precede the BB or (as I think ) come after it?

I just meant that more time had passed/was passing and that the total amount of time "accrued" had increased and was still increasing. As I suggested ,even if the universe was contracting spatially there is a sense that time would be increasing -or can one not separate the spatial from the temporal even under those hypothetical conditions(the boomerang universe)? I don't know what the Robinson-Walker metric is.

In the sense that the question has often been asked or implied..in this thread actually if I am not mistaken No,in my own mind I was thinking about an "edge" rather than any demarcation btw the "inside" and the "outside". The universe is expanding (even if it was spatially contracting it would be expanding in time wouldn't it?) So I just had the thought that each moment was the end product of a line of preceding events and could be seen as the "tip"of the universe's expansion at that point in time and space. If we join all the dots we get a "surface "( not synchronistic) representing the leading "edge" of the universe as a whole. Totally impractical to join those dots .... except as a thought.

What about my question then?If we are looking for something kind of a "boundary" for the universe can we define it as any point of time and space that is evolving? ie me here typing this post and/or DT shitting on his gold toilet bowl or whatever his up-till-then final action happens to be. Could that be called a boundary (that is everywhere)?

You haven't heard this said? Along the lines of (eg in a tv documentary)"Where did the Big Bang take place?It happened everywhere It took place where you are sitting. It took place on the Moon It took place everywhere .There is no one place where it occurred" I have heard this said many times.Perhaps "explanation" is the wrong description.How else to describe it? It is not wrong is it?

Can I think of the place and time where I happen to be now as the boundary of the universe in the same way as I heard it explained that the Big Bang took place at every point?

What about staleness?Does that kick in just the same as with filtered coffee? You just make as much as you need at the time?

I read that you had to remove the membrane from the shell and so I gave up on that No need? Any good warmed up?

Not sure.It is an experiment ,apparently. This is a better article https://oceanographicmagazine.com/features/italys-underwater-farmers/

Nemo's Garden in Italy is interesting.Is it an underwater still? https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/nemos-garden-underwater-farm-italy-spc-intl/index.html "Floating six to 10 meters underwater, plants in Nemo’s Garden are separated from any outside pathogens and pests, while still having access to freshwater that occurs as a result of desalinated condensation within the biospheres, Gamberini says. Also, he notes, the relatively steady temperature of the sea water is an ideal environment for plant life"

You have wifi balls? Didn't buy them in Venezuela I hope

Quite the bot whisperer aren't we? You are a hell of a guy too

I am from a time when "ecological living" was considered a virtue on it's own account That we should live in harmony with our environment. When it became obvious that we no longer had the option to trash the planet I was actually pleased. If we did not have the basic decency to adopt lifestyles that were respectful of our environment ,then we were going to be forced to do so willy nilly. Should I feel ashamed that my ideals have been foisted upon the unwilling majority?I don't know but we are where we are. As for these and other megalomaniac geoforming ideas,I get that they are now part of the panic process but they are better suited to Musk's motley suicidal crew of Martian explorers(we are better rid of them)

Just an interesting aside but underwater farming seems to be a "thing" if only of local benefit https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/nemos-garden-underwater-farm-italy-spc-intl/index.html "Nemo’s Garden is the world’s first underwater cultivation system of terrestrial plants. Located off the coast of Noli, Italy, southwest of Genoa, the farm consists of an array of suspended, transparent, dome-shaped greenhouses called biospheres, anchored to the bottom of the ocean."

Hard to imagine this will not be a tool in the locker of vicious criminals or military interrogators who will turn over their victims to a real or supposed AI machine as a further "turn of the screw" or just a sadistic distraction. Certainly in movies anyway.

For me (and my fellow sloths) it must be because they are too hard.

Trump also has his own secular infallibility doctrine. He makes "perfect" phone calls when they seem to an outsider to be anything but. He is also able to declassify documents by the power of thought. Perhaps they might give him the job in the Vatican and he can blow smoke up their arses when the election result is announced by his cronies

study humanists? Do you mean "study humanity "? But I agree it is possible to have a satisfying life on your own terms but if you are too caught up in others' priorities your life can go past without much benefit accruing. "To live outside the law you must be honest"

Salami for the goose ,salami for the gander?

It will likely be an extension of the user and if we can form attachments to inanimate objects(is that the/a definition of materialism?) then we will get very defensive of programs that will likely be tailor made to our own personal characters)

Will AI affect prostitution/the sex industry? Clive James described the brain as the biggest sexual organ (maybe not verbatim) Telephone sex? (if it was good enough for Bill Clinton..... ;-) ) Talking dildos?

That's a great story.We do have a dog who comes into that category. I don't think he has fleas though although we will double check that tomorrow. I am learning both fleas and bed bugs are actually visible to the naked eye so dust mites are looking more likely now. One of us had shingles a few months back and I wonder if that may have predisposed her to reacting to them more so whereas she may have tolerated them better in the past.

Will AI have a beneficial effect in that all advertising will likely now be done by it and so put out of business all who presently work in that field and whom I would otherwise willingly cast into the the nether regions of Dante's inferno? (Maybe propagandists too)