Phi for All

Now I'm getting ads from Amazon for "phased plasma rifles". The internet can't be aware if it's willing to arm us like this.

Good. Do yourself a huge favor then, and focus study on fields so you understand more about the research we already do. You're assuming the research necessary isn't being done. Remember that much of what you don't know relies on how much you understand. Focusing on learning as much as you can will help you avoid learning a little bit and guessing at the rest. Other than the 1:1 ratio of time travel we observe, it sounds like you can safely cross this off your list of concerns then. You have more important things to focus on. You should choose a better term than "belief" for things you can't possibly know the answer to. You aren't doing science if you're firmly convinced you're right about guesswork. I believe you say this because you have not understood the λCDM model it's based on. I think you're making the mistake of assuming something is wrong because it's not easily intuited. The universe has no obligation to make sense. This is hard stuff, and it requires focused study. These are not familiar terms. What do you mean by them? You can't find it by dismissing accumulated mainstream physics knowledge. If you don't understand something, it's MUCH better to ask questions than to make stuff up based on a lack of understanding.

You have that poster somewhere in your house, I just know it. Don't count Tom out though. Have you ever seen what an atomic physicist can do with a Breville BTA830XL Die-Cast 4-slice long-slot toaster? "Come with me, if you want to eat toast!"

! Moderator Note Are you proposing some kind of behavior or phenomenon? This is more opinion and guesswork than a Speculation you have to support. I can move this to Politics if you want to discuss the impact there, or Religion if you'd prefer that.

Holmes is suspended for three days. And now Holmes has been banned, obviously at the limits of their reasoning abilities. We wish them luck elsewhere.

! Moderator Note Well, I think you know by now that's a personal attack, since it's clear you aren't supporting the statement with any rigor. Why don't you take a nice break, get something to eat, and get the chip off your shoulder. You're making all of this far too personal.

! Moderator Note Posts on personal attacks split to their own thread in Suggestions, Comments and Support.

! Moderator Note Spilt to its own thread in Suggestions....

! Moderator Note This isn't the post you reported. It's not the post I commented on. Your behavior is fair game as well. If you act like your opinion is the only one that matters, it's not a personal attack to point that out. It's something you can change, not something that's intrinsic to your entire being. I usually leave the members to hash out their own discussions, but mods respond to reported posts. It's part of the protocols we're paid so handsomely to follow.

! Moderator Note Again, this is not what's happening. Your stances, your arguments, the things you claim are all fair game. We attack ideas ruthlessly, to make sure they can survive. We don't attack people. YOU ARE NOT YOUR IDEAS.

! Moderator Note To clarify this reported post, we've debated at length on this in the past. Pointing out a lack of knowledge is NOT an insult, it's NOT a personal attack, and it doesn't violate our civility rules. We're all here to learn. Calling a specific lack of knowledge "ignorance" is accurate. Care must be taken to properly highlight the lack, of course. When calling someone "ignorant", the implication is that we're focused on a specific lack of knowledge, something one is "ignorant" of, and NOT judging the whole person that way. Perhaps this is where the friction lies. People can do and say stupid/dumb/ignorant/moronic things, but for the purposes of our discussions, nobody is an idiot or a moron. The whole person isn't ignorant.

This is actually what you're doing now. Have you been able to take any of the comments on board, and adjust your hypothesis accordingly? A representation of what an odderon particle might look like reminds you of a toy you're familiar with, so it seems like a pattern to you, but it's not.

Perhaps that's the problem. "Reality" is a horribly subjective choice of words for what you're describing. Science makes observations about the natural world. What we see in nature. You can decide for yourself if that involves "reality".

My claim has evidence to back it up. The perception doesn't match natural observation and measurement. Your claim that this perception is real has only subjective confirmation.

You're an atomic fountain of information! But in the case of the person under anasthesia, their perception is NOT real. What allows you to cherry pick one situation over another?

Nothing. You've constrained the description until it no longer resembles anything physical. It's ironic that you always know when to play the atomic clock card.

OK, you can't post that here in mainstream Physics <sigh>. We need to move this to Speculations, where you can try to support this with some evidence. By the way, you aren't going to find the maths for this, because this goes against observed behavior (we can't observe anything that passes the EH of a black hole), and is completely unphysical (you can't have "pure negative energy", because once again, energy is a property of a thing, not a thing itself). Lightning is an event, not a physical thing (can I borrow a cup of lightning?), something that happens only when many other things combine to form the phenomenon (fire is another event). I'll echo MigL's comment. You're obviously a smart person, I wish you'd study mainstream science. We've been accumulating all kinds of knowledge so you don't have to guess like this. Please take all these comments in the positive light in which they're meant, but you've been making things up for far too long.

Cool. So the first thing to do is tell us about this idea, so we can see if what you base it on is sound science. You need a good foundation if you want to build anything. Two things here. Energy is not a thing, it's a property of a thing, so what thing has this energy that's around us? Second, I told you what you have is NOT a theory. You're mistaken if you think a theory is like a speculation. Theory is the strongest thing science has got. And what makes it powerful is that a theory is never "proven". A theory always uses the best current information to explain various phenomena, so a theory is able to change as we know more. Proof is for maths, and philosophy. You have only so much knowledge you're working with, so you're probably filling in the gaps with guesswork. VERY common, and it's the way our brains work. We look for patterns that make sense to us based on what we know. The more you know, the more you can figure out the patterns. The less you know, the more you leap to conclusions and make stuff up, because figuring out the patterns is really important to us. No, not so much. Our knowledge increases and theories gain new prominence (or they're discarded if found to be false, like phlogiston), but the physical laws seem to hold steady throughout the universe. Well, tell us a bit about it, but I have doubts you understand much about any of those things. Please be willing to learn.

Wouldn't that be great? But what you're suggesting is like asking a screenwriter to turn your concept into a movie. The screenwriter ends up doing all the important work. You could start by explaining your idea (it's not a theory, btw, that's premature), and take some replies on board to help you figure out if you're onto something.

I disagree. I think this kind of thing emphasizes that time exists.

! Moderator Note I think you know better than to make this personal. Don't attack people.

You should eat something.

Have you ever been under a general anesthesia? When you wake up, you're acutely aware that it seems as if no time at all has passed, as opposed to sleeping, where you definitely know you've spent several hours in bed. Even if you're really tired and sleep all night through, the feeling that time has passed is strong. It's very bizarre NOT to feel time. When the doctor tells you to count backwards from 100, you make it to 97 and then you open your eyes and HOURS have passed, it feels like you've been tricked.

Vertical?! You should just throw them away now and save yourself the time. Aren't you worried about increasing the ovality of your discs? Your DVDs are fine, but your papers are going to get torn up by those screwdrivers every time you open the closet. I just hope those papers aren't the warranties for the screwdrivers. Do you mean, doubts it will continue to protect them as perfectly as it has so far, or do you mean doubts that the situation you mentioned will continue to leave them unaffected? I'm assuming they're OK now, right?

The question is murdered by poor reasoning, bad-faith arguments, and fallacious logic, and somebody should care about justice for the victim. Questioning shady argument styles is like wearing a bodycam. Keeps things a bit more honest.