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  1. 6 minutes ago, Luc Turpin said:

    Is there an analogy that can help explain what took place?

    Analogy doesn't help much with this. It confuses things further.

    Very simply, so simply that it can't possibly be held to any degree of accuracy: the universe was extremely small, the matter in it was extremely dense and therefore extremely hot, and then the universe (which is everything there is) expanded rapidly (and the last point, working backwards, at which we can accurately measure it is what we call The Big Bang). At some point, the density of matter decreased enough to allow space between it to form, and the temperatures continued to fall.

    It could be that all that matter squeezed so small is similar to what happens in a black hole, but black holes happen inside the universe, and particles that fall inside are measured relative to the black hole, and no velocity can change that. When the whole universe is inflating itself so rapidly though, everything is different because everything is moving and expanding, everything in the universe is participating in the event. 

    And I've probably made it worse. 

  2. 14 minutes ago, cryptocracy said:

    25 to 45 age group.

    That's not a level of knowledge, that's an age range. 

    15 minutes ago, cryptocracy said:

    I will research your suggestions and edit the video.

    We're a science DISCUSSION forum. We talk about science topics. Videos are difficult to discuss, and take a fixed amount of time to view. We prefer the written word, where we can assess a post very quickly for veracity and accuracy. We can talk about subjects for your channel, but we have no interest in helping you promote your channel, which is usually what people want when posting their own videos here. 

    We would love to talk about Earth Science with you. Watching you talk about Earth Science? Not so much.

     

  3. 13 minutes ago, tmdarkmatter said:

    This will not be a discussion

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    Moderator Note

    If it's here, and in a mainstream science section, it WILL be a discussion or it will be closed. I'm not sure what form you think feedback on this matter will take, but here at SFN, it's going to be discussed. If you have a viable alternative, we can discuss it. Oooh, the irony!

     
  4. On 3/14/2024 at 6:31 AM, knowledgeispower917 said:

    ok from my understanding, it is the belief that everything is made of vibrating energy including thoughts and people and like energy attracts like energy so positive thoughts attract positive experiences and negative thoughts attract negative experiences. 

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    I have to move this out of Quantum Theory, but I really have no place to put it. Can you support an argument for this concept in Speculations? It's hard to see how you'd do it. I'll put it in the Lounge for now.

    I also have to say that science discussion works SO much better when you stick to mainstream explanations. You seem to be looking for woo where reason and evidence are the usual standards. Lots of actual studies are available on the topic of thoughts affecting experiences.

     
  5. 9 hours ago, knowledgeispower917 said:

    and my belief is that the aliens abductions and ufo activities are fallen angels and not extraterrestrials like the media claims. 

    This seems unproductive as a form of belief, discarding one extraordinary explanation for another. Neither angels nor extraterrestrials have as much supportive evidence as virtually ANY other explanation. Weather balloons are more likely than Michael or Martians.

  6. 5 hours ago, Eise said:

    Hi Naitche,

    I sometimes have such kind of problems too. For me a reload of the web page helps. Maybe you too?

    Cheers,

    Eise

    This happens to me sporadically. Clears right up if you reload the page. I suspect it's a browser issue, but perhaps we should mention it to the Admins to see if it's an Invision bug.

  7. 2 hours ago, DanMP said:

    Yes, the change of doors, from open to close, can stop/block me from moving through space, 

    That's not what my example is showing. The doors closing faster than you can walk is what blocks you, not the doors themselves (you can stop the doors from closing if you get there in time).

    2 hours ago, DanMP said:

    but there is no real temporal obstacle, I cannot stop/block your advance in time using objects (or any thing that I can imagine).

    But there IS a temporal obstacle, the fact that the doors will close before you can WALK to them. Why do you need objects? The advance of time keeps you off the elevator unless you speed up your pace. Nothing spatial changes, but if you want to get on that elevator, the obstacle is time, and you're capable of using it to get on the elevator.

  8. 10 hours ago, StringJunky said:

    This is the future if the orange one with the luxurious bouffant wins.

    He promises to shift major resources over to immigration control, including the largest domestic deportation in history. 

    He promises to close the Dept of Education and give control over to individual states re teaching children. This will include putting prayer back into the classrooms.

    He promises to remove the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with a much better plan which he's never revealed before. 

    He promises to cut all spending on gender affirming care, calling it "child mutilation". He also wants provisions to prosecute doctors who have EVER been involved in gender affirming care.

    He also promises to kill all efforts at producing electric cars, replacing the technology with flying cars that feature vertical takeoff.

    And he promises to put a 60% tariff on goods from China, because apparently everyone has forgotten the damaging costs of his last tariffs. 

    And he wants every American to carry a concealed weapon, probably because we'll need more slave prison workers if we're going to deport all the immigrants. Best way to fill the jails is to increase the number of guns on the street.

  9. 4 minutes ago, DanMP said:

    We can directly observe space dimensions by moving (walking, jumping)

    I see you walking before you jump. I directly observe that you don't walk and jump at the same time. 

    6 minutes ago, DanMP said:

    in all directions (as long as there is no obstacle to prevent it),

    ALL directions, including the linear one that time follows. Time can be just as much of an obstacle affecting movement as three-dimensional matter. If the elevator doors close in three seconds, you may not have the time to walk. The doors may be an obstacle spatially, but it's the temporal obstacle that will keep you off the elevator.

    16 minutes ago, DanMP said:

    but in time we cannot move like that, and the only thing (regarding time) we can directly observe, is change.

    It seems to me we move exactly like that, and we observe that we can run for the elevator door instead of walk, changing nothing spatially about the elevator, but making it inside before the doors close this time. 

     

  10. 6 hours ago, DanMP said:

    Time as duration/interval is observable/measurable, yes, although a clock is just counting events, but time as a dimension is not really observable. As I wrote, what we observe is change.

    I think this is Special Pleading. Dimensions are all fairly abstract concepts meant to locate or measure certain properties of an object. We observe that time moves differently depending on the observer, so we know time is coupled with the spatial dimensions. I don't understand why you say it's not really observable as a dimension. Is it because you can see and touch something with three spatial dimensions, but feel time isn't involved in the interaction?

  11. At some point, I think historians are going to blame a LOT of the stupid in this country on FOX News and how they train uneducated people to misunderstand things. Maria Bartiromo had an economist on her show yesterday warning us of rampant inflation under Biden partly because of "faster wage growth". He literally claimed that we have to get wage growth under 3% or it's going to be very bad for the economy. No pushback at all from Maria. Huh.

    It's one thing to only tell TFG fans what they want to hear because you don't want to lose them as viewers, but this should be a criminal offense, imo. Most of these viewers still think the news isn't just entertainment, that it can't outright lie. 

  12. I've seen folks bale up tumbleweeds to make insulation for sunken gardens. There's usually some property the material has that lends itself to making something with it. Will the pulp from dried tomato leaves make paper? Is there a pleasant aroma? Can you make tea out of them, or cook with them? Is there an animal or bug that either adores them or hates them? 

  13. 25 minutes ago, Airbrush said:

    2.  Why not call:  Dark Matter = Unknown Gravity

    Because it isn't. It has a gravitational effect like all matter, but it's not gravity itself. 

    27 minutes ago, Airbrush said:

    Why not call:  Dark Energy = Space Energy?

    Because space isn't a thing that can have a property like energy. I've heard folks make a distinction between "space" and "outer space", where space is all geometric properties and outer space has a temperature and density and pressure, but Outer Space Energy is also misleading.

    29 minutes ago, Airbrush said:

    Because no can do, we must stay with the original racist terms.

    Do you have any evidence that the term was intended to be racist? AFAIK, "dark" refers to being undetectable via the electromagnetic force. Light doesn't reflect off of it, so it's called dark, as in "hard to spot". If this is your real objection to the term, perhaps you've misunderstood.

     

  14. 6 hours ago, genio said:

    I used the correct single words and "Two wrongs don't make a right" shouldn't have been erased because it makes it seem like I'm favoring the right when I'm not. I didn't use "anything goes" and "responsible" because I don't believe in these definitions for the left and the right. I also don't believe any of the other definitions for the left and the right. Another definition for liberals is putting the cart before the horse while another definition for conservatives is if it ain't broke; don't fix it. Both sides don't understand discipline.

    I'm not sure why you seem to be objecting. You got my point, that these simple, un-nuanced definitions for complex concepts don't help us communicate effectively, but then you talk about "believing" in definitions, and deny that words like "wastefulness" to describe liberals shows that you ARE favoring the right.

    6 hours ago, genio said:

    Change is actually afoot. We'll get a taste of a compassionate collective neutrino energy starting April 12th till May 23rd. Then we'll see real change starting January 30 2025. This isn't astrology. It's the human design system and it doesn't contain nonsense astrology. It's a mechanical system which explains how neutrinos from the Sun and planets have an effect on our aura mechanics. The same Pluto energy was around when the American Revolutionary War started and eventually the American Constitution was written. We the people. 1775 + 248 years (pluto orbit around the Sun) = 2023

    We've already seen this energy play out. Such as the outright ban of dangerous dog breeds in the UK. This is a great time to be alive in.

    Wow, this may not be astrology, but it sounds a LOT like it. You can't use this kind of argument anywhere on this site until you've done some work to support it, IN ITS OWN THREAD. Be warned though, numerology is NOT science.

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