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No such thing as perfect spheres. The amount of water on the Earth can't store much heat; after several billion years, most of the Earth's interior is still molten. Again, Studiot's first question is still the most pertinent ... Where is the evidence ?

In Canada, I can be fined for not wearing a seatbelt while operating a motor vehicle. It is a public safety issue, as seatbelts save lives. Why should I not be fined if I refuse to get vaccinated ????

You can be charged and convicted of negligence or involuntary manslaughter even if you do it unwillingly. If you chose to ignore quarantine rules, vaccinations, or even mask mandates, are you not being negligent ? This is a common theme I find myself coming back to ... Why do your rights ( not to be vaccinated ) supersede my rights ( to not get sick from you ) ?

People are incarcerated all the time for being a danger to the rest of society. They lose their right to freedom. It may be an unpopular opinion, but rights are not inherent, you are not born with them; they are granted by the society you live in. ( just ask a woman in Saudi Arabia, or a Uyghur in China ) At the beginning of the pandemic, If I were contageous, I could have killed more people in a nursing home than with a fuly loaded Glock 17, because with a virus, you don't run out of ammunition. So what is the difference.

I see you chose to ignore his first question ... Care to try again ? Or is this simply a WAG ?

Not exactly based on a novel ( script ? ), but C Nolan's movie, Interstellar, would seem to fit admirably. Based on ideas by K Thorne when he was consulting on the movie, Contact, and later adapted into a screenplay by C Nolan's brother Jonathan. It is 'accompanied' by a book by K Thorne, The Science of Interstellar. Koti's suggestion, R L Foreward's Dragon's Egg, provides excellent insight into effects around strongly gravitating objects ( neutron star ) and is a great read that I also highly recommend, but it doesn't provide for passages to elsewhere, or elsewhen.

No, it's more like ... A - There are only red , green and blue LEDs for each pixel of my TV. B - But I perceive yellow, magenta and cyan, so there must be more. A - No, those are variations/combinations of the three basics. B - But that is how I perceive them. Why must you be so mean, and not consider my feelings over your reality? And I didn't even call you any names. I was going to tell Dimreepr to 'go f**k himself' but he said he already does that with a turkey baster 😄 😄 . ( It's a difference of opinion people, lighten up ! )

Thank you for your well thought out response, CharonY. On the other hand, actual scientists seem to only consider two sexes ... Scientists Genetically Edit Mice To Have Female Only Litters With 100 Percent Efficiency (msn.com) All of the qualities I mentioned were also environment related. Blinders much ?

Read your linked article; thanks for posting. I don't think I'll ever understand the papers that have led to these conclusions, but they seem to rely on 'mathematical tricks', somewhat similar to renormalization, to make sense of the non-sensical. But if these tricks, such as entanglement entropy and quantum extremal surfaces inside event horizons, point us in the right direction and towards a quantum field theory of gravity ( like Hawking did with his 'semi-quantum' evaporative radiation ) so much the better.

The quark model was proposed by Gell-Mann and Zweig in 1964, as part of a classsification system known as the 'eight-fold way'. The criteria for sorting quark 'flavors' was estabilished long before any experimental evidence for quarks. IOW, the 'purpose' of the quark model demands that they have the flavors dictated by SU(3) symmetry, just as reproduction model of the human species dictates the sorting into male/female sexes. Neither is sufficient on its own, and any other sorting is superfluous. What is the purpose/reason for extra sex classifications ? ( and thanks for making a lier out of me; I said the previous would be my only post on the matter )

I think we can all agree that for the purpose of reproduction of the species ( human, that is ), only two sexes are needed. One is not enough, and three ( or more ) are superfluous. That doesn't mean that there are not people who don't fully fit into the male, or female, grouping; but for the criteria of reproduction, there is no third ( or 4th, or 5th ) category to place them in. One has to ask, then, what is the purpose ( or agenda, if you will ) for having more than the male and female sex classifications. Please explain. Thank God he's not Mexican, or you'd imply he was lazy. Or Oriental and a bad driver. Or Italian and a mobster. Can you see what is wrong with that line of thinking, Stringy ? I had hoped this thread had died, because I really don't like having people I consider friends call each other 'dicks', or make thinly veiled implications of transphobia, homophobia or racism, so this will be my only post on this thread. But I would like an answer ( I will still read ) as to WHY a third sex is needed, and what is the PURPOSE of the differentiation. Is more 'separation' really desirable to more 'inclusion' ? Is this just another social engineering exercise ? Is it to make some people, who feel 'different', feel better about themselves ? What am I not seeing ?

I would assume by 'ocean of energy' that gave rise to 'matter' after the inflationary period, he means the radiation dominated era that gave rise to the matter dominated era.

I see the Taiwan situation getting out of control, IF China chooses military aggression ( highly unlikely ), neighboring countries like Japan, South Korea, even Vietnam, Australia and India will be drawn in, at which point the US will be forced to participate. I see the Ukrainian situation more like Yugoslavia. The US will join in only if Europe gets its act together and decides to finally police its neighborhood. So while I can see military aggression being more likely on Russia's part, I cannot see Europe mounting a combined opposition. Where would northern Europe get its massive oil/gas imports from if Russia shuts off the pipelines ?

First it was a math question. Then a language question. Now, it's a cooking question. You guys wanna make up your minds ?

So ... As a count, you might have 5 eggs. But as an algebraic expression, you have 5*egg ( where egg is the unit ). I guess it's important to know what you are talking about.

I realize it is not your assertion ( see Phi's Quora link ), but I have a problem with this statement The CMB radiation is homogenous to 1 part in 100,000 for RMS variations of 18 uK ( after subtracting out dipole anisotropy ). See here ... Cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia So I have to ask ... What concentration ? What plane, or line ? If anything, they are evidence of quantum fluctuations in the pre-inflation era, and in no way indicative of any universal extent in a particular direction.

So did russia, with their limited access to the Black Sea ( and the Mediterranean ). Did that give them the right to annex the port of Sevastopol, or the whole Crimean peninsula ?

Somewhat like you on science topics. ( no, I didn't give you a neg rep ) China isn't just threatening Taiwan, but other nations in the South China Sea. They are actively building 'islands' in the ocean, and claiming they are part of the Chinese land mass in order to extend their territorial limits. Their military spending, and build up, is the largest in South East Asia, and is destabilizing the whole area, by forcing countries like Japan, South Korea, and even India and Australia, to increase their militaries. These are not 'war games' we are considering, but a powder keg whose fuse is already lit.

No idea, INow. Our Prime Minister likes to talk the game, but doesn't have the means, or the stomach, to back it up. Canada is, as a result, not taken seriously in international matters.

The history of Taiwan is an interesting one. Chiang Kai Shek was a Nationalist, who fought along the Allies in WW2, but was defeated in the civil war of 1948 by Mao Zedong's forces. He, and his followers retreated to the island of Taiwan, to set up their own Government. While fairly brutal at first, he grew Taiwan's economy and democracy, to be elected president 5 times to 6 year terms. The Republic of Taiwan has always been a thorn and an embarassement for the Chinese Communists, but until current times, re-taking the island would have totally destroyed it and rendered it worthless. I still don't think they can afford to try to take it forcibly, but with their economic might, they may be able to pressure other countries into not giving assistance, or recognition, to the island state, so as to re-take them without using force. Either way is a shame, as Taiwan will either be destroyed, or suffer the fate of Hong Kong.

Up to 90% of semiconductors used by tech companies like AMD, Apple, NVidia, Qualcomm, etc. rely on Taiwanese manufacturing.

This sounds familiar. Is a previously banned poster trying for another bite at the apple ?

Gravity is a conservative force, which means the path between two differing heights expends the equivalent work, independent of the path taken. If we consider a light signal, or light clock if you will, that should mean that it expends the same amount of energy climbing out of a gravitational well irrespective of path taken, but depending only on the relative heights in the gravity well. IOW, the red shift, or time dilation depends solely on the relative heights, not on path taken. Or have I totally misunderstood your idea/analogy ...

I find it strange that you are trying to explain the fixed speed of light, c , by claiming that it is variable in different mediums. It is NOT ! Light always travels at c, but when passing through a medium, its passage is affected by absorption/emission events of variable timing for differing mediums. light is massless, so it cannot accelerate due to F=ma, although it will follow least action rules in GR, and is affected by gravity. As Swansont poined out, thespeed of light is inherent in J C Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, and has been verified countless times experimentally. You, on the other hand, are trying to make up relationships by throwing shit at the wall and seeing if anything sticks. That is NOT what we do in a science forum.

Aww, come on ! The 'strong' force is otherwise known as the color force because it acts on a property of quarks called 'color', and mediated by gluons. It is an asymptotic force which will not let quarks separate, but results in pair creation and color confinement. In hadrons, like protons and neutrons,color confinement results in almost no residual interaction, but just like neutral atoms and the Van der Waals forces holding molecules together, some residual color force provides for interactions outside the hadrons themselves. This 'residual' interaction has been modelled as a Yukawa potential and is mediated by pi meson exchange. That is commonly known as the 'nuclear' force, and it has nothing to do with charge. The Higgs field is a product of the Higgs mechanism and spontaneous symmetry breaking ( as Joigus poined out ), and is a scalar field. That means each point in space has a directionless vacuum energy value associated with it. There are also fields with value and direction, such as vector fields of electromagnetism. Or the tensor fields of gravity. You are simply pulling stuff out of your ass, and trying to relate things you don't understand, to each other. Stop it. That is not science; it is nonsense. Edit The vacuum energy inherent in the Higgs field ( false zero point energy ) is one of the candidates for Einstein's Cosmological Constant, and Dark Energy, which may account for ( accelerating ) universal expansion.