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I'm not claiming that; you are. Here But you haven't answered the questions Would you refuse to go on a date ? Would you refuse to have sex ? And most importantly, why ??

Let us consider a thought experiment. You are a single man of dating ae, INow ( you wish ! ), and a pre-op Trans woman approaches you. She is very 'masculine' in appearance, but identifies as a female, and she asks you out. Would you go on a date with her ? And if you did go for a 'few beers' and she interpreted it as a romantic situation, and wanted to have sex, would you refuse ? And what would be your reason for refusing ? By your definition, quoted above, every straight person is prejudiced. And by extension every gay person is also. They get a 'label' stuck to them , by run-away 'wokeness', simply for being who they are, liking what they do, and disliking what they don't.

I was involved in a car crash, about 22 years ago, that fractured my hip, dislocated my left foot, shredded my left hand, needed surgery on my right knee to reconstruct what was left of my knee-cap with pins and wires, and required 35 stitches across my neck to my chin. A year and a half later, I would pick at little bumps and scabs on my chin, and small pieces of windshield glass would come out.

Before segregation into male and female categories, there was no women's sports, was there ? I guarantee that if male/female competitive sports were combined so as to be 'inclusive', female participation would be nowhere close to 50 %.. Probably wouldn't even break the 10 % mark. How is that representative of 50 % of the Earth's population ? Indeed it is. Funny how the same group of people ( not you Stringy ) can argue that we should celebrate superficial differences, like skin color, and use that superficial descriptor for discrimination between groups of people. ( see the whiteboards thread ) And yet that same group will argue that gender is to be ignored, and all should be included, even though the difference is NOT superficial, but quantifiable and performance based. ( yes, I'm looking at you, Dim )

I did quote Dim, where he said if something doesn't affect you, it is not your concern. So maybe, you should ask him for clarification, as I did. And I will send a voucher for a 6-pack of Heineken to whoever answers the question of whether it is OK to set back women's sports after all the years of struggling to acheive recognition and equitable financing, so that a handful of trans-women can feel included ?

Your ( and mine ) observable universe, and everything in it that can causally affect us, extend for billions of light years. Yet in the example I posed ( you and I live 20 km apart )our observable universes differ by 20 km. That seems to be a very LARGE degree of overlap, wouldn't you say ?

Two identical observable universes would need to have all their constituent quantum particles in identical states. Unfortunately, observable universes overlap. If you live 20 km away from me, your observable universe extends 20 km further, in that same direction, than mine does. Observable universes are not separate and distinct 'marbles'; they are a mathematical construct, based on the speed of light and expansion rate, centered on the observer.

You still haven't understood JC's main point; that allowing Trans-women to compete against Cis-women is disadvantaging cis-women. Again. After they've been trying for hundreds of years to get the right to 'play' and earn a living at sports. And you could be right; it doesn't directly affect the participants in this thread, but some of us are of the opinion that if we see an unfair situation where one group is getting hurt by policies enacted by another group, we speak up and attempt to do something about it. Now you need to ask yourself 'Will you be hurting more people by letting Trans-women compete against Cis-women ( possibly the Earth's whole female population ), or will you just hurt a few ( INow mentioned 6 of them ) Trans-women by having a separate category for them ?'

You guys are way too serious about this. Here's B Mahar to inject some humor into the topic, and make some valid points about hormone blockers for kids, and the regional 'trendiness' of transgenderism. He makes the point that discussion is warranted.

Regardless of how Mathematicians try to spin the question of the continuum vs granular universe, the fact remains that light, and therefore information, travels at the same speed in a vacuum in either condition. This transfer of information is what determines the 'sphere of causality', otherwise known as the observable universe. And Physics tells us that, aside from a long, long time ago, when the whole universe had to have been in causal contact in order to acheive thermal equilibrium ( and isotropy/homogeneity ), anything currently outside our observable universe cannot have any effect on us because it is no longer in causal contact. IOW, the extent of the universe, either finite or infinite, outside the observable is of no actual significance. But it could make for light conversation at your next dinner party.

Not sure about the rest of the World, but my Debit Card allows forwithdrawls up to $1000 ( even multiple times per day ), and payments up to $5000; always prompted to provide a PIN. My credit Card also always prompts me for a PIN. Both cards were used in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and aleays prompted for a PIN. Not sure about the US, as it's been maybe 20 years since I've had to use a Debit Card there; I usually have some American cash on hand to use if going for drinks/dinner in the weatern New York area.

More like delusion. Unless the effect is reproducible, it is not scientific, and needs not be discussed on this forum. If I touch something and it is hot, Genady will also feel the heat if he touches it. If I smell decaying garbage, TheVat will smell it also. If, however, I 'sense' God while you 'swnse' the Devil ( or other supernatural entity ), then that is you mind playing subjective tricks on you.

Sometimes INow can be a pompous ass, but most of the time he's bang on the money with his reasoning, and has a low threshold for suffering fools. Sorry, I could only reverse one of the three neg reps. Is it just me, or does anyone else see an incongruence between the recent technology of the internet having spawned an interest in our ancestral ties to nature that is classified as paganism ?

I wonder if we'll ever be able to establish a 'baseline' so that we have a Cosmic Gravitational Background, equivalent to the electromagnetic Cosmic Microwave Background ? It could tell us a lot about the first instants of our universe, and about gravity itself.

We are not going to solve the World's, or even America's, problems here, but I'm glad to see people actively suggesting solutions, instead of posting pictures of pots and kettles. I still like Zap's idea of an additional restitution in the way of education funding for black Americans, because we all know what an apology and a promise from the Government is worth.

No JC, it was directed at CharonY; I get your sarcasm. One might argue you're still a 'wanker' 😄 . ( hope I'm using the term correctly )

Recreational sports are one thing; professional are another, and as much about the 'audience' as the athletes. The US Women's National Soccer Team is arguably a bigger draw than the men's National Team, yet your method would guarantee that the women get paid less than the men. Just something to think about.

I'm sorry I made you feel that way; I assure you that was not the intent. I did not insult your reading abilities, but took issue with your inconsistent posts, so maybe you should go back and re-read that post, before I have a change of heart with regards to your reading abilities. You have consistently been confrontational with me for years now, simply for having a perceived difference of opinion ( I still recall the 'closet Trumpet' descriptor ). Now you want to accuse me of being the bad guy ? Give it a rest already.

That seems to be a problem with these types of discussions. You can make reasoned arguments, but someone comes along and wants to derail the thread by considering everything in the world that he personally considers an injustice, or some other inane argument, and you end up getting lumped in with them. We are discussing reparations to American people due to the effects of slavery and racism. Thank you.

Is English your first language ? Because this sound to me like you want to use skin color as the only discriminator. Not whether the had actually suffered an injustice or not. While now, you make a different claim, and say I'm at fault for not understanding. I suppose you're right; I don't understand inconsistent and incoherent arguments.

And after 21 pages where you've admitted that not all black Americans need to be compensated, and numerous arguments that other groups of Americans were hurt economically by slavery in the US, you still cling to the idea that skin color is a valid discriminator. ( and I'm not counting the deaths incurred by the Union in the war against Confederates; 110000 combat and 250000 other. Are their families owed reparations ? ) TheVat makes some interesting points about responsibility. There has to be societal, as well as personal responsibility. I can teach a man to fish, that is societal responibility, and it provides him with opportunity; if he has personal responsibility, he will fish and feed himself for life. If I simply give him the fish, he eats as long as the fish last. That is equal outcome, but only for a time; without personal responsibility, he will eventually go hungry again. Which approach is better ?

I remember discussing this years ago, on this forum, Mordred. Consider a large star going supernova. It is a spherically symmetric event, yet the 'change in gravity' front from the near end will reach us much sooner than the wave front from the back end. At the very least, the two wave fronts will be out of phase. So can a symmetric event, under the right conditions, lead to gravitational waves, or am I confusing myself by picturing it ( in my head ) in three dimensions without taking the quadrupole effect of GWs into account ?

May have been retaliatory. I see nothing wrong with your post.

No, your English is very good, as is your grasp of Physics. The point you originally made, however, is that we can sense when we are in a gravitational field. To which, I replied, if I put you in a box and drop you out of an airplane, you are still in a gravitational field, but you have no way of knowing, or 'sensing', that because there is no acceleration.

Sorry Genady, a body in free fall experiences no acceleration. If I put you in that box, and drop you from a plane, you can take a coin out of your pocket and 'drop it', but the coin will not fall to the bottom of the box; it will remain 'suspended' at the height you let go of it. And if you were standing on a scale inside that box, the scale would read zero kg. If the radial distance to the gravitating mass was small enough, you may detect tidal forces, but you would need delicate instruments to make such a detection on the Earth's surface; the human body doesn't have that capability.