geordief

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

Can happen anywhere.I was walking across the field in Ireland when I noticed a crowd of animals approching me very fast.I retreated to a nearby ditch and was leapt over by a pack of hunting dogs following the scent laid down by a member of the local drag hunt. They were too engrossed to notice me, hunkered down in the ditch but I assumed they would have made short work of me if they had . My aunt ,whose husband was a hydrologist for the UN in N Africa told me that the roads were sometimes block by rivers of ants (migratory?) And a schoolfriend suffered whiplash when a kangaroo escaped from Stanway Zoo and landed on his car. So many exits ,only one ending.

Whiskery? It is quite important here if you prefer Irish to Scottish whiskey(or vice versa) I wouldn't be an expert or know if the manufacturing process is different.

It was just a joke. Google seems to think it should be "Scotch whiskey" .Will the computer driven world follow Google's advice by the nose and change the accepted spelling accordingly? (I didn't ' realize that American Whiskey existed ,assuming it was all called "bourbon" but I think I may have been mistaken there.) BTW Southern Comfort is the only whiskey I can drink other than when used in cooking or in Irish Coffee.

Well that would be British taxpayers' money that they would have to justify giving away to a criminal. If they are found liable for that /some amount (apparently v unlikely) in a court then they (or some body) would have to shell out that amount and also lose some reputation along with it. All the BBC has for capital is its reputation for good journalism and public service -well it also has to justify its subvention from the British public via its political representatives. I think caving into Trump would be an own goal on that score and decrease the respect most(?-well I hope most) of the British public have for it-as well as being the obviously wrong thing to do. There is also a cohort of the British public that does not like the BBC and they may well enjoy its discomfiture. since they clearly did make an error (the case being made is ,presumably that they are biased against Trump and that this mistake is illustrative of that )

I saw (BBC or CNN) that those exact same files (and faulty redactions ) go back some 9 years. To the Virgin Islands,I think I heard. Which doesn't indicate a (recent) leak to me.

Google autosuggest brings up "scotch whiskey" when you start typing in the url /search box (on both my devices). You are not suggesting it is wrong,surely ;-)

Suppose we have a mechanical clock with an observer at its centre. The clock has symettrically spread moving components of mass comprising the mechanism. Suppose those components are all moving away from the centre(a gravity well) at the same speed and that the clock as a whole continues to " tell the time". As they move further out from the centre does the time as "told by the clock" seem to move more or less quickly to the observer at its centre-or the same?

Have they recycled Thomas the Tank Engine? (he looks a bit grey around the jowls)

Mulled cider?

So we can't even measure absolute time elapsed in our own frame other than to an approximation?(unsurprising perhaps) Is it an interesting (or true) observation that a "clock" cannot "time itself?"

I first thought of a mechanical watch being used to assess the speed of its inner mechanism and then realized that any regularly repeating system could serve as such a timing mechanism So if we take the orbit of the moon ,can it be used to assess the speed of particular movements ,say on the earth? Can it tell usat what ,say Trump tells lies?(events "within" the mechanism) Can it measure the speed of coronal euptions in the Sun ?("external" events) It seems to me that,if we choose a different regularly repeating timing mechanism-say Mercury around the Sun then there will be different measurements for the same events and there will have to be a transformation to make them agree. That seems like a preamble to what I wanted to ask ,which is "Can a clock measure the rate of its own internal movements or do we need a second timing mechanism to do that?" Are all measurements of time relative and never absolute?

Think it means "study of". ("Logos" meaning "word" -eg loggorhoia is verbal diarrhoea ) Are you getting confused with "philo.." ,meaning "love of"?