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Exactly. In other parts of the world, where you need electricity to run your A/C, this might not be the best solution, but it is certainly brilliant for small communities in Finland.

Is pretending to raise your IQ as fun as it sounds ?

I'm not a chemist, but have worked in the chemical industry for 39 years ( retired as of last month ), and so I understand Chemistry from a Physics PoV. A fractional distillation column translates temperature into height, such that products that boil at different temperatures come off at different heights of the column. Depending on the amount of heat and vacuum you are willing to supply, you can distill all of the raw material into constituent products for re-sale; it all has a value.

What we do know is that we can't do it. What we don't know is what a considerably more advanced civilization can do. To quote former SoD D Rumsfeld "There are things we do not know that we don't know"

When you look at it from that point of view, interstellar travel makes even less sense. The cost-to-benefit ratio is astronomical. It doesn't benefit a civilization at all; it benefits the travelers ( or their descendants ) and spreads their genes to neighboring stars ( vanity ? ). The only motivation that makes sense is curiosity and knowledge.

IOW, it has been done, and you admit the technology is available ? Maybe, in a few centuries we ( or a much more advanced civilization ) will be able to 'get' antimatter more efficiently and in larger quantities ( perhaps even aboard a spaceship ), and I'm sure it will be easier to 'keep' by then. We may not even need to 'keep' it, only producing it on-board as needed, once we figure out the mechanism that produces matter or antimatter in excess of the other, as in the early universe, that led to matter predominance. All speculative, of course, but it has a basis in accepted science.

Getting is fairly expensive ( at least at our technological level ), but 'keeping' seems fairly straightforward; apparently CERN ships it to other research facilities in trucks.

Nice to be able to log in again ... Simply solved by electromagnetically scooping up interstellar Hydrogen, feeding it to a ramjet that 'energizes' the expelled mass using a matter-antimatter reactor, and expelling it rearwards to accelerate, and forward to decelerate. Of course the hydrogen density in this part of the galaxy is not sufficient to provide adequate thrust, nor is the technology available for a matter-antimatter reactor, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be possible for a more advanced civilization in a Hydrogen dense spiral arm of the galaxy. Sure, and we also have threads on perpetual motion machines or 'free' energy, intelligent 'creation', gravity by electromagnetism, global warming 'hoaxes', and ToE explained by pictures. Nobody that proposes those is willing to tackle the Physics and Engineering either. Even when you present the Physics/Engineering issues to them , they refuse to see/acknowledge said issues.

Sometimes the patterns we notice are directly caused by a relationship; that is science. Sometimes the patterns we notice are indirectly caused by relationships; correlations can be science. Sometimes we notice patterns where there is no relationship whatsoever; that is nowhere near science, it is numerology, otherwise known as WAGs. Do I need to repeat this again ?

I see. I guess I won't be coming by for breakfast, or tea and biscuits. I like my bread very crusty ( 1/2 inch thick crust ) and very dry. It is mainly used for sopping up sauces after a good meal. It's a pain in the butt finding good bakeries that make that sort of bread.

Nice. Necessity is the mother of invention. But you can't really call it a 'battery' , as it stores heat, not multi-purpose electricity. Although you could re-purpose the heat above 100o to heat water into steam and drive generators ( with some losses ), and that last 100o of water would still have about 5 times the heat capacity of the 100o sand.

Free energy ? There is no such thing. Unless you're talking about your home fireplace, and the trees in your back yard, you are paying for the source ( oil, wind, sunlight, gas, etc ) or the means oh delivery ( wires, pipes, solar panels, windmills, etc ), but either way, you are paying.

There is causality, where a cause leads directly to the effect in question. There are correlations, where the effect in question is indirectly, or loosely associated with a particular cause. And there are WAGs, where no relationship can be established or ascertained. Depending on your definition of 'numerology', one may be able to shoehorn it into the correlation category, but according to my definition, it definitely belongs in the WAG category.

D Trump either has no shame, or is oblivious ( too dumb to catch on ) to embarrassment. As are all the idiots who voted for him, and continue to support him.

Tearing and detachments take more than a few days to heal. They require medical attention, and can take months to heal completely ( if ever ). Ligaments and joints can, however, become enflamed; and recuperation is in the order of days ( depending on age ). Usually when taking a break from heavy workouts, and going back to the gym to use the same weights as when you stopped, leads to joint inflammation. I remember my elbows swelling up such that U couldn't wash my hair in the shower. Another incident of enflamed ligaments, was shin splints when I used to run ( don't run on your toes ). But I do have a friend who tore his bicep ( never fully healed ), and my nephew had to have ligaments re-attached in his knee ( took weeks of immobilization, and months of physio ), so it is possible. My advice is to use strict controlled motions when using heavy weights ( no swinging/bouncing ).

Data centers and AI are big business and big profits for Billionaires and investors. They can afford to pay the high prices for power, and in so doing,, they drive up energy costs, or cause draughts, for the idiots who buy into this technology to have it think for them. We are our own worst enemies, and there are plenty of unscrupulous people willing to take advantage of, and get insanely rich off of, us stupid people.

Sorry. LHC is capable of 1.4x1013 eV.

You are right. The dice example would be more suitable as it is easy to agree on the outcome/event, whereas we seem to be at odds over the which outcome of the horse race we are assigning probabilities to. I think we 'beat these horses to death'.

Typical cosmic ray energies are between 106 eV, and 1020 eV, far beyond what CERN and the LHC can achieve, at 1.413 eV. But I see you recognize that. As for the Trinity test, I remember reading that E Fermi was able to calculate the yield of the blast by the distance scraps of paper were scattered by the shock wave. IOW, everything about the fission reaction was planned and understood. That doesn't mean unforeseen results can't happen. I believe that the Castle Bravo fusion test, in the Marshall Islands, was the one where they used the two different isotopes of Lithium, believing Ithium-7 to be inert, whereas it actually contributed to the fusion reaction generating a yield 2.5 times than expected, and scaring the crap out of everyone, being about 1000 times more powerful than Hiroshima.

Science, as we know it, is deeply rooted in causality. Unless you can establish a cause for an effect, you are just describing patterns. Mind you, sometimes those numerological patterns may turn out to hold true, but that is not science; it is, at best, guesswork, and at worst, bullsh*t.

I don't mind your disagreement, but your reasoning is flawed. Disregarding the 'unplaced' outcome for now, if one horse places 1st, there are only 5 horses that can place 2nd, and 4 that can place 3rd, and so on, leaving only one horse to place last. Your sample space, for all possible 'placed' outcomes, would be 6!. But there are only 6 possible outcomes for winning the race; who/what else could win, other than one of the 6 horses ?

Maybe a brief tutorial on vector analysis would help @tylers100 if he is lacking in that area.

That is correct. So if the question specifies the event "what is the probability of any one horse winning the race" then Of course you can ask "what is the probability of any event happening", which would also include a dead heat, all disqualified, and many more; but that is not what was asked. Just as in @joigus' original post, the paradox is in the wording of the question; not with the probabilities themselves.

The question I was attempting to clarify was If you have no prior information guiding you to probable outcomes, then you cannot assign probability to any event. The best you can do is that an event has to occur, and divide by the possible number of ways that event can occur. In effect, the probability of any one of the horses winning the race is 1/6 . What a priori information would you use to assign probabilities of the first event, never mind frequency distributions which can only be gleaned after many such events ?

Just wondering ... What is a 'one dimensional object' with 'three points and two lines'? Why are you deliberately trying to confuse yourself with this non-standard interpretation of gravity? What do you imagine is lacking from the standard treatment of gravity that can be obtained from a high-school level textbook, and which would tell you that gravity always 'acts' from the center of mass point, but geometry/distribution does play a role in the tidal effects.