Phi for All

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Not to be confused with the latex version from DuPorn.

The feel and consistency of our clothing has a lot to do with physics, which is also fascinating, but a separate topic. Spinning fibers changes the way fabric moves and stretches.

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Apparently it will be "adequately demonstrated" at a later date. In my experience, this means it won't be, because it's something the author didn't understand to begin with. It's something that didn't fit intuitively, but instead of asking questions about it, they decided to make up something that made more sense to them. Thus the windup, because "the Problem" needs some special contortions and leaps of logic for it to make sense. Thus the need to call the replies "mockery". The author is obviously a smart person who made the mistake of filling in the gaps in their knowledge with stuff they've made up.

I think we could actually deliver the former (because the latter works only intermittently) in this computer age. So much of our society (US at least) is based on over-complication of process, requiring specialty skills to deal with them. People with undue influence and power make our processes unnecessarily intricate so they have more profit opportunities. Lawyers add a language you need other lawyers to decipher. Our taxes, Medicare, even voting has been purposely made difficult so we need professional help. I think, if we removed so many of the unnecessary obstacles invented by wealth extremists, citizens could have more input into a less opaque and more representative system. With security that's actually concerned with protecting rights, is there any reason why we couldn't be voting on a LOT more important issues via our own computers, quickly, easily, and safely? There's such a cloud over our processes in the US, and it's hard to think about a life where the average citizen is valued highly and treated like our limited resources are valuable too. Where else do people pay into a retirement system that's labeled an "entitlement" by the wealthy? I don't think a democracy should be focused so heavily on taking resources from its people.

We have standards here. You need to be able to explain your ideas in mainstream science terms, otherwise it's just another wild-ass guess. And the core of the scientific method is you can't leap from guess to guess, you need solid ground for the foundation of any explanation for a phenomenon. If you stay, you should ask more questions. The biggest problem here is that you aren't trying to learn from the responses you've been getting. Instead, you just want to "prove" your idea is right. You think because you are good with a 3-D game, you have special scientific insights. You're ignoring what others have said about the topic you introduced, and still think it will just take someone else to work the math to model what seems so intuitive to you. And that's another problem: since you made it up without using science and maths, it only makes sense to you. You haven't been able to explain it in a way that some of our members who THINK in maths can engage with. Your ideas resonate only with you. You should easily be able to find some wild west forums out there who don't care about methodology. They might not be moderated, but hopefully they'll be civil and give you a listen. Sorry, but we're not even the strictest science forum out there, and most of the members here want to talk about mainstream.

If democracy allows an individual's stances to be represented in their own governance, then people should prefer democracy to ensure as much diversity and strength in their society as possible. The lessons of nature's biodiversity tell us we need everybody doing what they do best, and democracy is one of the best ways to support individual endeavors with a high level of public support. I'd like to see less of a focus on populism. Politicians on a pedestal aren't held to the same standards as those who are trying to advance an agenda favored by the vast majority of citizens. Populists make us more vulnerable to abuse by either a majority or a minority stance. I think a democracy is the best way to blend private, public, and state ownership into an effective economy. One of our big problems in the US is that we don't keep our capitalism and our socialism separate. Public funding should focus on helping the public, private funding should focus on profit, and we should mix the two as little as possible, imo. Treat public funding like the white load of laundry, and keep those bright colors separate. We do seem to constantly be vulnerable to wealth extremity. Revolt against a monarchy where a handful of people own everything, set up a democracy for the People that's wary of entitling corporations, and a few hundred years later a handful of people own everything again. Can the citizens of a democracy change that part, permanently?

If our universe had four spatial dimensions, it would be unstable. We wouldn't see planets in the orbits we currently observe, since they'd have to obey different laws to remain stable (inverse cube as opposed to the inverse square law). Lots of things wouldn't work the way they do now. I think I remember hearing that we couldn't tie knots in a rope because of too many degrees of freedom. A chair would need a different amount of legs to stand upright.

I expected you to say something shitty, disrespectful, faux-provocative, and off-topic, and you didn't disappoint.

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We told you before, he didn't. Critical Race theory is college-level coursework. It was an empty gesture, since there were no public school classes funded by the state. See how that works? But let me ask you this. Critical Race Theory IS taught in colleges, and the students are often shocked at how little they've been told about the history and origins of racism. Nothing they learned in DeSantis' public schools prepared them to learn what's actually been happening to BIPOC folks in the US. Do you think it's a good idea to withhold the truth from our kids, when someday they might be smart enough to take a college course and learn we've been omitting huge parts of history? And this is conflating Hitler's race theory with Critical Race Theory, which is an outright LIE. Are you just repeating what you've heard, or do you really believe this garbage? We look at examples of extreme fascism and hatred as a way to avoid repeating our past mistakes, yet you would elect another Hitler/Trump/DeSantis manipulator-in-chief? Remember that it didn't end well for Germany, did it?

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja4034439 This is one of the newest reactions I take it, discovered while experimenting with engine oil breakdown. Here's an article on it: https://news.mit.edu/2013/new-low-temperature-chemical-reaction-explained-0904

If you have a paper suitable for review, why not paste it here? If you have a perfect paper, it should be pretty easy to share it with us, or even just the parts that address the "problems" as you see them. The heads of several physics departments told you Science Forums.net is one of the larger research institutions? We're a science discussion forum, so I'm not sure what they were talking about. Perhaps Dr Swanson has been talking us up at conventions?

It wasn't being taught in schools. It's a collegiate level course that highlights the colonialist approach brought over from Europe. You would benefit from taking the classes, if you're old enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Florida#:~:text=Although the protest was mostly,and punched a police vehicle. Please read up on this. I think it's unfair to talk about BLM as "supremacists" or "rioters" in this context, especially when it was a few hundred extremists among hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters. Does it make you feel better to call them "black supremacists"? He allows Cuban protests to go on, even though they look a LOT like BLM protests, so I'd say he's a racists who knows his constituents. And you don't know what you're talking about. I told you that was college-level material, and you've made it obvious you're a parrot for others who didn't take the courses either. You should study up on what critical race theory actually says, and not listen to Tucker or one of the other entertainers. Ah, the left wing media, that fills my BINGO card. What kind of idiot just stops talking about something grade school kids deal with every day? DeSantis, that kind. Sorry, but this kind of ignorance is what people like DeSantis want, and they start by making us dumb and uninformed in class 1-3. And he wants to take money from schools with vouchers, and his latest brainstorm is to hire retired policemen to be teachers so they can teach math and take care of school shootings at the same time. I just want a national database that tells me if something was made in Florida by someone with a DeSantis education. Call it consumer protection.

Oh please, NO, don't expand on it! Please just assume we know what "notable Problem" you're talking about, or what you think geometry is missing, and perhaps give us some actual evidence that this omission is affecting other branches of science. Why does physics allow us to describe the natural world so incredibly well within its various applications if it's based on bad foundations? What mathematics aren't working because of incomplete geometries? As I said before, you should be persuading us with reasonable arguments, not waving your hands and setting us up like you want to sell us something.

You wish you had more homophobic, racist commanders who don't want their constituency to question what's happening in a modern world? I know a lot of people here want that, and you're right about his chances of winning, I just didn't realize people in Europe want that. Good to know.

Please make your case without all the wind up. You're trying to persuade us, NOT sell us something. Start with stating what you think are problems. It could be they aren't at all. So far, this sounds like you hit a snag in geometry somewhere, and instead of learning it the way everyone else learned it, you decided it was a mistake made by the ancients that nobody has recognized... until YOU came along. Evidence is what you need to persuade us, not teasing about some remarkable solution to a problem we may not agree is a problem.

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Ilya Geller has been banned. We give people with non-mainstream ideas a whole thread to support their concepts, explain their idea using as much evidence as possible. When they can't, the thread gets locked and they aren't allowed to bring it up in other threads. Hijacking mainstream threads with unsupported science is against the rules, especially when you keep doing it after being warned.

He used to say stuff like that all the time! Me: "For every dollar's worth of product I sell, I make a dime and you make ninety cents." Him: "You think I get to keep all that?! I have expenses I have to meet." Me: "It's no different for me. I don't get to keep the whole dime." Him: "My expenses are far greater." Me: "Yes, probably about nine to ten times greater, the same as your compensation." And like mistermack, nothing could persuade the man that his perspective was faulty and skewed in the extreme towards himself as the business owner. There's always something a resource owner will prioritize over employees who turn those resources into profit, and traditionally that's one reason we need strong unions.

As others have pointed out, this isn't just your take on the issue, or a perspective you've adopted; it's flat out wrong. I've known employers who think like you, who resent paid vacations and sick leave because they've fooled themselves into thinking the employee is taking advantage of them. Self-important cry babies with resources who resent the folks who work for them, boo-hoo all the way to the bank. The worst person I ever worked for thought this way. I worked straight commission so he couldn't gripe about the time I took off for vacation, but he used to calculate how much I earned per hour, and pretend that's how he paid me. He did everything he could to make it clear he was graciously allowing me to sell a million dollars worth of the product he manufactured. The company made NOTHING if I didn't sell it, yet this guy had convinced himself that he was paying me if I took more than an hour for lunch.

I don't agree. We have this problem with our newscasters sometimes, where it's just a pretty face that doesn't understand the events they "report" on. But politicians on the national level tend to have a style they stick to for written speeches (usually stumping for their favorite messages), and also a style for going "off the cuff". You can't claim they're only "speakers" when they're so effective at it. Biden can be very good at reading from a script because you understand that he understands what he's talking about. But that never hampered TFG. You could always tell when he was reading from the teleprompter, and when he decided to go off-script. I can hardly stand to listen to him when he's not reading prepared material, but he's extremely effective as a simple speaker. If you read Shakespeare aloud, sometimes that makes you an actor.

I hope the MAGA crowd was listening when Biden made the comment about his hecklers being entitled to their outrageousness in a democracy as long as they avoided violence. I really hope they noted that, at a MAGA rally, protesters are threatened by violence from TFG himself. But I've all but given up hope that the MAGA crowd understands the importance of democracy in their lives since it's been so distorted by the entertainment sources they turn to for "news". I hold a LOT more hope that many Republicans see a greater divide between MAGA goals and what they've always believed in, a United States of America that takes personal responsibility for its actions and keeps the government from over-regulating our personal lives. Non-MAGA Republicans are normally very disapproving of political violence, which made it easy to stir them up against the BLM protests and events where FOX News could claim the left had organized into ANTIFA. Those folks can be persuaded to see reason, I think, and pointing out how violent TFG is in his rhetoric works to turn them away from him.

You're using the Bohr model? Photons are elements in your concept?