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Are you saying the American justice system doesn't provide for rehabilitation ? If not, then what is the point of it ? If you want to keep them from making a living, and separate from society, after serving their rehabilitating sentence, then you might as well kill them, or ship them off to a country in Central America, or Africa, never to be heard from again ( seems a popular idea with the American Government ).

Position and time are relative quantities; they change with speed and depth in a gravity well; Inertial mass does not. Re you proposing discarding relativity ? As Swansont and Studiot have pointed out, spinning objects conserve angular momentum as radial position changes. Are you proposing discarding such conservation laws ?

Every day I read the news about what your jackass President has now done, whether it be tariffs, kidnapping people and deporting them, ending aid to Ukraine, bombing Iran, trying to annex other countries territory, forcing through one 'Big Beautiful' bill, ending birthright citizenship, etc., and it makes me angry for the rest of the day. Not just at D Trump, but all his Secretaries/advisors, Republican backers, and all the voters who still support him. I realize I'm becoming an angry hater, just like all his supporters; and I don't want to be like them.

Keep in mind that Gravitons ( and other quantum particles ) arise from quantizing field theories, as in QED and QCD. So far, Gravity has firmly resisted all attempts to quantize anything that could be interpreted as its field ( such as LQG quantizing space-time geometry ). If gravity cannot be quantized, there is no requirement for Gravitons, in the model or in 'reality'. If it 'breaks under pressure', this idea is not wasted time, as it improves your research skills and your critical thinking.

Both ... Which makes GR a very accurate model for applications of this type.

Wouldn't it be sweet if it turns out that P Hegseth or T Gabbard had leaked the intelligence files through one of their many Signals chats on private phones. The US is being run by morons, and people with no balls are allowing them to.

Decreasing the radius of the Earth while keeping the mass unchanged will increase density and gravitational acceleration; this is termed gravitational collapse. When the radius reaches R=2GM/c2 we will have reached the Schwarzschild radius, where the gravitational acceleration is equivalent to the speed of light, and an Event Horizon is formed, resulting in a Black Hole. This gravitational collapse cannot happen for a mass the size of the Earth; it only happens to stars about an order of magnitude more massive than our Sun, when these stars have exhausted their nuclear fuel, and radiation pressure cannot support against gravitational collapse. But just for interest's sake, you would have to compress the Earth to a radius of about 9 mm ( give or take, as it would be spinning incredibly fast, so not true Schwarzschild ) to form a Black Hole from the Earth's mass.

This is a variation of H Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, where each decision/observation/interaction 'creates' a new universe that time evolves differently from the previous. Understand that this is an interpretation of the theory; a way to 'make sense' of the counter-intuitive aspects of QM. This has also been proposed for time travel paradox, where the decision to kill your grandfather splits off a new universe in which you were never born. The only difference that you are proposing is that infinite numbers of universes are pre-existing, there is no splitting due to decision/observation/interaction, and travel between universes and time is accomplished, rather, by wormholes. K Thorne also has very specific rules about wormholes and how Closed Time-like Loops are allowed to be used for time travel, within the framework of GR.

Anyone who 'thinks' they understand Quantum Mechanics will agree with you. Quantum Mechanics tells us the 'world' consists only of time evolving wave functions of probability amplitudes, in a superposition of states; IOW, no local reality. It is only when these wave functions interact, or we make an observation, that they collapse to single states and we perceive that as 'reality'. You don't think QM is a simulation, do you ?

In these types of fluid flow representations, the common understanding is that the closer together the streamlines are, the faster the fluid is moving. The application of Bernoulli then implies that cylindrical or spherical objects placed in a moving fluid, will be drawn together until the distance between source and sink of the dipole flow is reduced to zero. This is interesting, but was there something you wished to discuss with regards to dipole flow ?

Take the red pill ...

Wikipedia has an excellent and understandable explanation of the 'Measurement Problem', Dim. "The wave function in quantum mechanics evolves deterministically according to the Schrödinger equation as a linear superposition of different states. However, actual measurements always find the physical system in a definite state. Any future evolution of the wave function is based on the state the system was discovered to be in when the measurement was made, meaning that the measurement "did something" to the system that is not obviously a consequence of Schrödinger evolution" I like to think that the wave function proceeds in superposition of states until an interaction, or measurement, collapses the wave function to a single state, by destructively interfering with the wave function of whatever is doing the measurement/interaction. After the measurement/interaction, the original wave function time evolves in a form, modified by the measuring/interacting wave function, with new possible directions, momenta, energies and possible positions. This, in my mind, is consistent with 'no local reality'.

It will probably take several to do much damage, and even then, the amount of damage is questionable. 90 meters is a lot of depth to penetrate, but exits will certainly be compromised. I only hope people are getting out before they risk being buried alive. Next time they'll just build deeper.

YES ! I love hockey ( damn you Brad Marchand ), and I guzzle maple syrup from the bottle. A co-worker from Quebec supplies me with maple 'butter' which I love on my toast. you don't know what you're missing.

Just a suggestion ... If you don't understand Evolution and how its processes work, ask questions; don't make absurd proclamations and put your ignorance of the subject on display for everyone to see. ( looking at you Wigberto and m_m )

Anytime I see consciousness mentioned in a thread about QM, I stop reading, and post a sarcastic comment, as obviously the OP doesn't even understand the 'interpretations', never mind the mathematical theory.

What does any of this have to do with Greta Thunberg's mission to appear relevant ? I would be willing to bet large sums of money that even in gun-happy USA, there are less weapons in Chicago than there are in Gaza. And they seem to be getting in, no problem, so your analogy fails miserably. ( maybe Iran should supply cases of food instead of cases of rockets )

That was the Russian claim. They also claimed they were fighting NAZIs in a 'special operatipn', not a war. The metric is, ultimately, how many people die, whether it be by malnutrition/starvation, or being shot and blown to bits. The 'whataboutism' applies to your implication that one is a more humane way to die than the other. I would assume I share that same right to criticize what I see as misguided or biased. Other than that particular sentence relating to Greta Thunberg I have no problem with any of the other excellent suggestions made by @TheVat in his post. Again ... apologies for continuing off topic. ( I was forced to defend )

About 40X as many people have died in Ukraine ( Russian and Ukrainian ) as have died in Gaza. When Greta Thunberg goes on a food/medicine smuggling run into the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts, I will take her seriously, otherwise she's just putting her biases on display. Apologies for the off-topic comment ...

I do remember a sci-fi book, by Robert L Forward, a Physicist turned sci-fi author famous for 'Dragon's Egg' ( Dragon's Egg - Wikipedia ), a story about sentient life on a neutron star, adhering to rigorous scientific principles, which involved a dual planet system, orbiting Bernard's star, and which were close enough to share an atmosphere, and IIRC, there was a waterfall from one planet's ocean to the other's. Not sure what shape these planets would have taken, or the precarious balance that would have kept them from breaking up under gravitational stresses, as it was a long time ago that I read it, and it wasn't as memorable as Dragon's Egg. I believe the story was called Rocheworld; you may want to look it up.

Good luck with that.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of military forces to enforce domestic laws, unless authorized by an act of Congress or the Constitution. The legal exception to the Posse Comitatus Act is when the Executive ( President ) invokes the Insurrection Act to quiet domestic insurrection. This would be hard for the Trump Administration to prove in court, as he has previously set the bar for Insurrection very high, claiming Jan 6 was NOT an insurrection and having pardoned ALL the perpetrators. Whether the courts can, or will, do anything about it is a different story.

For clarification ... Exchemist said the Iranian religious leadership was not suicidal ( correct me if I'm wrong ). To which I replied that they may not be, but have no problem convincing others to be suicidal. Seems to be a discussion about suicidal tendencies. But I do agree ... Putin's opposition to NATO defensive expansion and subsequent invasion of Ukraine, have led to a major expansion of NATO. Trump's unwillingness to use its nuclear deterrent against Russia has led to European nations expanding their own nuclear capabilities, and proliferation. After the Israeli attacks on Iran, Pakistan has suggested using their nukes against Israel. ( and India will use theirs against Pakistan, China will use theirs against India, and the US will use theirs against China; that's how 'mad' some of these people really are )

That must be it ! D Trump and his goons didn't get any hugs as babies, fell over, and banged their heads.

This was Netanyahu's plan all along. He purposely sabotaged American negotiations to re-establish the nuclear enrichment control treaty, which D Trump himself had cancelled during his first Presidency, by attacking while negotiations were ongoing. Trump has no choice now, because he hates being 'played' by anyone other than Putin. Really ??? They didn't fund and supply arms to Hamas and Hezbollah since they were first established? How many of those idiots have died since Oct. 7 ? They don't pay people to strap bombs around their chest and walk into Israeli nightclubs to 'martyr' themselves ??? How many of those idiots have died, and their families received further payments ? Do you believe the Israeli embargo allows Hamas to put together an operation like Oct. 7 without Iranian financial and military support ??? I consider you very far from an idiot; don't give me reason to begin changing my mind by making easily contradicted claims.