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I would think this is obvious, as any belief system can be likened to a religion.

I'm not sure. It could be both. Boundary conditions yes, but the path does determine where the system ends up. Consider a simple Lagrangian involving kinetic and potential energy. If we simplify it to be absent of any kinetic term, you have a test mass on a potential gradient; i.e. a falling mass. The path of the test mass down the gradient clearly indicates where it will end up; at the bottom of the potential well. And all of Newton's laws can be extracted from the Principle and this Lagrangian. A few months back, it may have been @joigus who posted a sample Lagrangian for all the various interactions that would need to be 'considered' for a Theory of Everything.

Everywhere. To us Physics ( and most other science ) guys, any ( not just Religious ) unfounded belief without evidence is extreme ( or excrement ? )

So what exactly does your so called 'theory of everything' attempt to explain ? Because, frankly, I see no predictive capabilities in any of the word salad above.

Reading, but obviously not understanding. A line in a space-time diagram, shows the time taken to traverse a certain section of space; that's why there are two axis. IOW a speed. Ok, humor me. What is it doing right now ? Maybe you shouldn't have left for the last month and a half to do some reading with your 'bag of misconceptions', but stayed to ask questions, and maybe get rid of some of that baggage.

As I hold my laptop to type this, I perceive it to be solid. And If I push against it, I don't see any part of my fingers 'entering' the laptop. Since this is the germination of a theory, should I start formulating a theory of continuous matter ? Or should I make observations, such as an electron microscope pic of individual atoms, that prove matter is 99.99% empty space ?

That you do; thank you. Funny how sometimes you lose interest, and can go weeks, or even months, without posting, and you blame the lack of interesting topics. But SFn goes down for 3 days, and you're in a panic because it feels like the end of the world as we know it.

You may have misconceptions about the definition of terms such as 'perception' and observation'. Perception is subjective, and can differ for different people; I may perceive a joke to be funny, while you may perceive it to be offensive. Observation, such as you and I both measuring the length of a rod to be 10 cm, is what science is based on. If we were to measure it to be different lengths, and others measured even more differences, we could never know the actual length of the rod. Observations needs to be repeatable by different observers, or it is not science, merely perception.

The universe doesn't need your 'perception', sensitivity' or 'spiritual vibration' for its function. Anything of the sort implies the universe is subjectively tuned just for you, because those qualities are different for differing people. The laws that the universe complies with, are, by definition, objective and the same all over the universe. You don't think you're special, do you ? I think you've waisted a lot of time and effort on an idea that isn't at all related to science.

A system's physical path in time minimizes S, the action, which is the integral of the system's Lagrangian. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_principles The hard part is identifying the Lagrangian for the whole universe. ( if we could we would have a Theory of Everything )

The exception that breaks your rule ? ( always enjoy sparring with you CY 🙂 ) Maybe 'idealist' would be a better term. He dreamed of a utopia, but didn't take into account the lack of scruples of those that corrupted his ideal system ? After seeing how the American Government of D Trump can corrupt the economy to benefit himself, his family, and his billionaire cronies, at the expense of working people and immigrants ( even though a lot of those dummies voted for him ), one can't help but think "How bad can Communism be ?"

All evolutions of the universe are possible, but the one actually taken is governed by the Principle of Least Action ( a global version of it ). Just like refraction, the double slit experiment, the path integrals of QED, and every other physical process. No checking into the 'future' required.

I thoought I had ... the HUP. ALL descriptions we have of ANY object are due to the causal interactions, which is what we can measure. I recently had this discussion with @KJW as to whether space-time is actually curved, when all we can measure is how it causally interacts with test objects; the underlying 'reality' stays hidden.

Also readily seen in the French Revolution. "Liberte', Egalite', Fraternite'" quickly turned into decapitating anyone you didn't like, by simply making an accusation. Revolutionary 'mobs' can be much more vicious than dictators.

OK. We are not reaching the limits of all there is to know. We may be reaching the limits of all that is possible/allowed for us to know ? That is obviously true in some ways, but not all. Even something as simple as the HUP prevents us from knowing certain aspects of the universe. And sure, there are no 'work-arounds', but often, these 'prohibitions' that the universe erects in our journey to understanding, tell us a lot more about how the universe works than they prevent.

I don't think you'd get any orders for that shirt, Phi, but I would definitely order one like @TheVat suggested. X-Large in Black, please.

The 'Blackshirts', or Squadrismo, the private army of B Mussolini's Fascist Party was founded in 1919 and numbered about 200000 by the time of the march on Rome in 1922. It was comprised mostly of disgruntled WW1 demobilized soldiers, and I assure you, there was a considerable amount of fighting and armed conflicts. Similarly, A Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, inspired by B Mussolini's march on Rome, comprised 600 paramilitary SA members, Finally, in the early 30s, his NAZI party became the largest party in the Reichstag, and President P von Hindenburg relented and made A Hitler Chancellor, which was the beginning of the end for democracy. In the intervening 5-8 years there was plenty of violence and armed conflict perpetrated by the NAZI's private army, the SA 'brownshirts', all of which are documented in a google search of 'Hitler's rise to power'. Contrary to your statement, European Fascist movements did not begin with marches or elections, but with years of armed conflict. And I didn't even mention the Spanish civil war that led to F Franco's Fascist dictatorship in Spain.

I would love to order some SFn t-shirts or golf shirts ... I used to have one that said And God said ( Maxwell's Equations ) and there was light. I would also like one that says I'm lazy because ( principle of least action equation ) Any other ideas for t-shirts to popularize our site, and maybe buy some Cheese Nips for the Admins ? ( my apologies for lack of LaTex )

But why compare a society that has a sizeable Socialist mix of institutions, along with some Capitalist ones, to societies that experienced extreme Fascism, where society exists at the whim, and for the economic benefit, of their dictatorial rulers ? Arguably a Fascist, Capitalist state trying its best to emulate V Putin's supposedly Marxist, Socialist state; with the same methods. ( I'm angry that Canada is considered D Trump's Ukraine ) Extremes of any ideology never benefit the majority ( of people ), as the 10 percentile and 90 percentile of a bell curve have very little area compared to the central 80.

Yeah. I'm reminded of his teacher telling Max Planck not to study Physics as there was nothing new to discover in that field, and it just needed to tie up a few loose ends, before Max went on to unveil a whole new domain of science, and usher in a paradigm change in how we view reality

Of those countries, the only ones still Communist , are dictatorships. I'm surprised you didn't mention Venezuela 😀 . You seem to favor 'Marxism' over Fascism, and I can readily see its advantages. But in reality, it is a system prone to abuse by the 'powerful' ( just like most others ), and where ever it has been implemented, it has caused vast inequality in wealth and power, comparable, if not surpassing pure capitalism. Before his ill-considered foray into Ukraine, V Putin was reputed to be wealthier than E Musk, and China has more billionaires than the US, while close to a billion of its people live in what we would consider poverty ( wait till their revolution ! ). Venezuela, arguably one of the richest countries in South America, has people starving in the streets; where do you think all the wealth goes ? And eventually ( according to some ) even Anti-Fascists become the enemy. All depends on the convenient spin.

Exactly. What is the difference if you 'disappear' people in Chilean jails, so that over 3000 leftist opponents are never heard from again ( A Pinochet U ), or your political opponents are pushed out windows/down stairs, or sent to Siberian jails where they conveniently die of poisoning ( V Putin ). Again, I'm reminded of Moontanman's excellent joke about what happens when you sit on the toilet at 11:59 pm and the clock strikes midnight ...

It's funny that everyone thinks of Mussolini when referencing Fascism, because Dear Benito was an ardent Communist for about half of his life, at least until the syphilis started completely rotting his brain. I prefer definitions that describe how something acts ( being a Physicist ), and in my opinion, if Fascism and Communism act the same at the state level, and use the same methods to control people, then they can be defined by the same terms. As for the treatment of minorities, @CharonY , how did Stalin treat the Ukrainians when he sold their wheat to modernize Russia while 8 million of them starved to death ? How did Mao treat 'capitalists and intellectuals during the purges of the Cultural Revolution, when millions were killed ? How is China currently treating the Uyghurs in the prison camps ? Or don't ethnic, ideological and religious minorities count ?

Communities, root word commune, also of Communism, are not nation-states. It also works quite well within some families ( but certainly not all ), but we weren't discussing those either.

I did say 'implementation'. So give me just one example where it has been implemented as per your description.