Phi for All

Any ideas?

Read all the posts in all the threads in all the sub-forums here.

Blike and I decided a course of action already. It's all in hand. Stop worrying about it everyone.

Better is good. Really good.

 

If you think it would make her smile, remind your daughter of the times when she was little when you had to tell her not to put things up her nose.

 

I can't help but resort to humor when things get tense. Sometimes it helps.

A Denver policeman once told me that the areas immediately around a police station are kind of a blind-spot. The policemen there are usually en route to other areas or are taking care of business inside the station. They also make the assumption that criminals avoid the area near the police stations due to the supposedly quicker response time.

Why do u people think that all aliens that exist will exist only in microbe or worm form?

i mean they could be in a primate form like us!

If there are primate alien life forms, we might expect their development to mirror ours. Imagine the low probability of them being synchronous with our last 100 years, from the time we were able to send signals off-planet to the discovery of uranium's devastating abilities to our sociological ability to overcome our self-destruction (which is still up in the air, so to speak).

 

It's no wonder we haven't come in contact with an alien race of similar advancement. Cosmically speaking, 100 years is a pretty small window.

Okay, I am glad you made it clear that you understand my defensive posture is influenced also by the SF community, as it has allowed me to view your post in a different light...likewise, that being said, you can see that I am not more prone to believe this question is not to undermind my comment, but perhaps it was out of a genuine request.

Thank you for the link to the other thread. It cleared up for me what your earlier sentence meant. I think I understand now that you see a correlation between many different aspects of the physical world. I, too, have observed such things many times (some are interrelated, some are merely coincidence).

 

I think I also see the reason behind some of the friction you are experiencing here at SFN. First thing, your user-name suggests an unbending, unopposable adherence to Christian religious doctrine. I must say, however, that the community seems to have overlooked this in their first few posts after your initial ones.

 

I think the problems started to form when you began to make statements of belief (some spiritual beliefs, some scientific ones) without citing other sources or at the very least stating that they were personal. You must be careful in a scientific community to preface your beliefs and conclusions with "IMO (in my opinion)", "I believe", "it seems to me" or any phrase that makes the statement refutable. Without this, you are stating as fact something that can't be proven.

In fact, time is healing--if something cannot be hurt, injured, nor does it die, then time does not apply to it, because it experiences no need for healing. There is no loss, so all that applies is growth and gain. This is God. God is the being--the perfect state of being that is not hurt. God does not need healed.

Again, personal opinion, stated as fact as if we all should know this. Nothing will raise the hackles of our fellow members faster because we all have these opinions, and they can't all be right. So we can express them as opinion and get feedback, or we can club each other with them as fact and get ridicule.

It's perfectly normal to anticipate dispute in a thread that's turning into a debate, especially where flat claims are made without citation or any point of reference.

Couple this with what I said about your user-name and you begin to look like some of the fundamentalist types who come here to preach. And I don't think that is your approach at all. From what I have read of your posts, you seem sincere in tying your spiritual beliefs together with the science you know, something that is very important to me as well. I think you will be more effective if you draw the line between your opinions and what you state as fact. And be sure to list citations or give links to the latter.

 

Thanks for listening to my opinion.

Here are some threads that talk in more detail about higher dimensions and hypercubes. I've done the search parameters so the word hypercube will be highlighted in red:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7967&highlight=hypercube

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1068&highlight=hypercube

No, because it doesn't physically work out. If you want to make gravity out to be then some little focal point(s) by which all things are moved, be my guest.

I'm not making anything out. I made no comments on the hypotheses in question, merely the methods by which you were attempting to refute them.

If you put a tube through the earth, it's absolutely insane to think things are going to speed up and all of a sudden zoom to the center of it and then suddenly stop.

I agree, they would not come to a sudden stop, but that was not what my earlier comment was about. Jonfraz was presupposing a tube through the earth and you were criticizing his hypothesis based on the fact that his supposition was impossible. Suppositions are often made for the theoretical purposes. He was asking you to assume the tube was a given.

You guys are the ones arguing with people, and now that I come in and tell someone they're wrong, you act like I am somehow intruding.

Again, your beliefs and theories were not in question. I was pointing out that asking you to suppose there was already a tube through the middle of the earth was key to Jonfraz's example. For you to argue his supposition was superfluous.

Isn't that a little one-sided? And if you too argued (I don't know, I didn't read all your posts in this thread), then you're a hypocrite if you claim you too are not doing the same. So why cast stones at me?

If your paranoia in this instance has been brought about by unfair persecution from fellow SFN members, I encourage you to report offensive posts by clicking on the middle button at the lower left of each post.

 

For my part, when I get the time, I will follow some of your posts to see what has brought on this defensive posture.

I myself am attempting to detangle gravity and rewrite what it is and how it works.

Good luck with that.

I disagree, because I believe physics are echoed...whereby you can equate different elements to that of other elements (i.e. a sea of water, a sea of air, a sea of dirt, etc.).

Can you make this sentence a bit clearer?

An object dropped down a tube to the centre of the earth would stop at the centre as the gravity sums to zero there.

Because' date=' I simply doubt it's possible to put a hole inside the planet.[/quote']His hypothesis presupposes a tube through the earth for the purposes of his gravity example. You're disagreeing with his hypothesis because his supposition doesn't suit you.

her solution to me was to just then take the 1 copy printed and go find the photocopier and copy it as many times as I needed.

I'll bet this was the intention. Photocopier toner is cheaper than printer cartridges in most cases. They are being frugal.

I hear he likes Baby Got Back, but he sings his own lyrics:

 

I like big bucks so I have to lie

My other brothers showed me why

That when a guy walks in with an itty bitty case

full of bearer bonds in your face

You get sprung, wanna pull out your tongue

'Cause you notice that bucks was stuffed

Deep in the jeans he's wearing

I'm hooked and I can't stop staring

Oh Allah, I wanna get wit'chuz

And take your riches

CIA tried to warn me

But with that oil they got makes me feel so horny

Ooh, Rumsfeld's Cruisin'

You say you wanna be wit my frenz?

Well, use me, Cheney

Dicky ain't that average meanie

I've seen him dancin'

Hallibur-romancin'

We'll sweat, yet,

put the screws to the war bud-get

I've got the magazines

Sayin' we need more machines

Take the average soldier and ask him that

"We takin' too much flak!"

So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)

Has your President got the bucks? (Hell yeah!)

Tell 'em to shake it! (Sheik it!) Shake it! (Sheik it!)

Sheik those oily bucks!

Dubya got bucks!

-edit- eesh seems some mods cant understand humour-

 

but anyways... edit.

The Pope dies + your pedophilia reference + Introduce yourself thread ≠ humor. Trust me, I know humor.

My prayers and wishes are with you and Alex. The specialist is exactly what's needed.

... we are all arrogant, ignorant, jackasses who dont care about the rest of the world.

Who you calling ignorant?

Is there a way to delete a post or thread I've started? Thanks

Just PM a Moderator or Administrator if one is online or use this list. Let one of us know what you would like deleted or moved.

 

You can edit but you can't delete.

Newtonian wakes up after surgery and asks, "Why are all the blinds

drawn?"

 

The doctor answers, "There's a big fire across the street, and we

didn't want you to think the operation was a failure."

Q. What does HMO stand for?

A. This is actually a variation of the phrase, "Hey, Moe!" Its roots go back to a concept pioneered by Doctor Moe Howard, who discovered that a patient could be made to forget about the pain in his foot if he was poked hard enough in the eyes. Modern practice replaces the physical finger poke with hi-tech equivalents such as voice mail and referral slips, but the result remains the same.

 

Q. Do all diagnostic procedures require pre-certification?

A. No. Only those you need.

 

Q. I just joined a new HMO. How difficult will it be to choose the doctor I want?

A. Just slightly more difficult than choosing your parents. Your insurer will provide you with a book listing all the doctors who were participating in the plan at the time the information was gathered. These doctors basically fall into two categories -- those who are no longer accepting new patients, and those who will see you but are no longer part of the plan. But don't worry -- the remaining doctor who is still in the plan and accepting new patients has an office just a half day's drive away!

 

Q. What are pre-existing conditions?

A. This is a phrase used by the grammatically challenged when they want to talk about existing conditions. Unfortunately, we appear to be pre-stuck with it.

 

Q. Well, can I get coverage for my pre-existing conditions?

A. Certainly, as long as they don't require any treatment.

 

Q. What happens if I want to try alternative forms of medicine?

A. You'll need to find alternative forms of payment.

 

Q. My pharmacy plan only covers generic drugs, but I need the name brand. I tried the generic medication, but it gave me a stomach ache. What should I do?

A. Poke yourself in the eye.

 

Q. I have an 80/20 plan with a $200 deductible and a $2,000 yearly cap. My insurer reimbursed the doctor for my out-patient surgery, but I'd already paid my bill. What should I do?

A. You have two choices. Your doctor can sign the reimbursement check over to you, or you can ask him to invest the money for you in one of those great offers that only doctors and dentists hear about, like windmill farms or frog hatcheries.

 

Q. What should I do if I get sick while traveling?

A. Try sitting in a different part of the bus.

 

Q. No, I mean what if I'm away from home and I get sick?

A. You really shouldn't do that. You'll have a hard time seeing your primary care physician. It's best to wait until you return, and then get sick.

 

Q. I think I need to see a specialist, but my doctor insists he can handle my problem. Can a general practitioner really perform a heart transplant right in his office?

A. Hard to say, but considering that all you're risking is the $10 co-payment, there's no harm giving him a shot at it.

 

Q. What accounts for the largest portion of health care costs?

A. Doctors trying to recoup their investment losses.

 

Q. Will health care be any different in the next century?

A. No, but if you call right now, you might get an appointment by then.

Any Mod's wanna give away the secret about the new plans for the Religion forum? I'm very intrigued.

Sayo and Blike are preparing a couple of stone tablets as we speak. Have faith.

Regarding Charles Darwin, he was an ardent supporter of eugenics, believing that the '"scum" of society were proliferating, in his own words, see [url']http://www.amren.com/0111issue/0111issue.htm#article1[/url]

Your "scum" quote was attributable in your link to US scholar A. H. Eastabrook, not Darwin.

2.People on the british plane are posh, were not ALL posh you know.

Pangloss and I wish to know what "posh" means in this reference. Is it classy, stylish and fashionable or does it have a different meaning in the UK? I think having a stereotype of being classy is a good thing.

MY GOD how can americans belive one would be stupid enough to rest in a cactus...

The resting stereotype comes from your famous siestas, which people should recognize as a very smart idea in your hot climate. I have never heard of the cactus bit.

plus, that we love tequila because we produce it.... jez, i hate tequila

I remember traveling to Greece and hearing the same thing about ouzo. Many Greeks can't stand it.

 

Regarding the OP, Hollywood movies need to have you make certain choices and conclusions about characters, otherwise exposition and character development takes too long. The stereotyping is deplorable only if you take it out of the theatre and into the real world.

I have this picture of a little elf in my brain going back in the archives to the file cabinet marked 1975' date=' blowing off the dust, knocking away the cobwebs, and rooting through the files even though I'm not aware of it. All of a sudden, he finds the right file, and shouts "Joe Smoe" in my ear.

 

Am I nuts, or does anyone else have this happen?[/quote']What I hate is when the elf grabs a file next to the right file, or maybe misreads the label:

 

"What was her name?"

 

"Sharon, something."

 

"Shiela, Shiela Pearson."

 

"Patterson, you mean Shiela Patterson."

 

"That's it!"

 

It's almost as if the elf is throwing out suggestions to another elf, one who doesn't remember the information on his own, but will recognize it when he hears it.

 

* sigh *

I'm very curious as to what those plans may be.

It'll be the biggest thing since the burning bush.

As soon as I entered Cheney's address and asked for satellite, the FBI kicked in my door and is now busy searching my house for WMDs.

 

 

 

I must have been on some kind of list.

 

 

 

Gotta go.

I think that only 20% of them being able to find it on their own points to the poor state of educational systems.

swansont, the phunniest physicist on the phorum! Trust you to have the proper reference frame.