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I cannot wait for the announcements of nominations for 2024. It won't be a 'family squabble' for the Republicans; it'll be a bloodbath.

I would not rule out an errant Ukrainian S-300, but it would have to be nearly 180o off course to hit areas of Poland. Russia fired more than 100 missiles, also S-300, yesterday, mostly targetting power generation infrastructure. The S-300 is not very modern to begin with, and as most have been 're-commissioned' with washing machine parts, I don't imagine they are very reliable. I still believe it originated from one of the Russian firing positions, until evidence proves otherwise. This might give NATO the excuse needed to establish a 'no-fly' zone over areas of western Ukraine that border NATO countries, so as to prevent further incidents. Just as Russia needs to protect itself from those Nazi Ukrainians by invading them, so should NATO be able to protect itself from the Russian 'special operation'

I have to agree with INow; this is just going around in circles. It is an established fact, that Quantum Mechanics does not display any indication of a 'reality' before a measurement is made. ( Sometimes even after. Is it a particle or a wave ? Depends on the measurement made ) This is true for solitary particles, let alone entangled pairs. It is not a matter of states switching back and forth between possibilities; there are no actual states defined. But while the states themselves are not realized, the correlation between them is, and is defined by the common wave function. A correlation does not have to be 'maintained' in any way, it simply is, or isn't; no 'signalling' required. All this points to 'non-relity' being the root cause of the behaviour of entangled pairs, certainly not 'non-locality', as there is no need for it after 'non-reality' is taken into consideration. And I have to agree; Bangstrom should stop trying to understand entanglement until he has a better understanding of SR.

Oh, I don't know ... If the LHC had created a Black Hole it could have potentially killed everyone 😄 😄.

Shortly before the inflationary period ( !0-35 sec ), the universe was in causal contact, which means that equilibrium could be established. After The inflationary period ( 10-32 sec ), parts of the universe started moving out of causal separation, due to expansion, and more and more structures move out of the observable universe as time progresses. Inflation was first proposed by A Guth in the 80s, to explain many problems with the Big Bang Theory, and has had many modifications, and supporters, since. One problem was how isotropy and homogeneity of the universe could be accounted for if the universe had never been in causal contact. ( By causal contact I mean that all parts of the universe are close enough to allow for information transfer )

That is equivalent to the unit cost of four B-2 bombers; not including operational costs. The US SAC has a fleet of about 20. Shouldn't Thewowsignal be bitchin' about the cost of something else ?

It's a 'play' on the word 'they'. Your perception is that it is an attack on other people's personal pronouns. It's a good thing Koti wasn't on stage, or you'd have gone up and slapped him.

Oh, now we have arbitrators of humor on SFn ? Welcome back.

No model describes anything in its true form. To make it really simple ... Studiot and Bufofrog each give me an apple. I decide to mathematically model the interaction with the relation 1 + 1 = 2 Yet I can't eat any part of the model.

Biggest complaint I hear from Canadian Trump fans, is that Biden hasn't done enough in the last two years, and they see the mid-terms as a 'referendum' on the Presidency. But given the concern over the economy, this view will turn out to be self-defeating, as a Republican controlled Congress and/or Senate will effectively 'hamstring' the President's administration, and keep him from doing anything that might help. The checks and balances in your political system are being used as obstacles to opponents so that they can later point to their failures. Not a sustainable, or productive, situation.

There are such things as 'rotons' and 'maxons', so I don't thinkhe's missing the 'P'. They are theoretical constructs, useful in Bose-Einstein Condensate theory. See here Roton - Wikipedia

There are different models for gravity. All have specific areas of applicability.

Maybe you gave permission to your system administrator, and he/she is now controlling your mouse cursor ... Just kidding; probably just strain on your mouse cord resulting in movement.

Yes. That's why I don't add croutons to my Caesar salad. ( an excitation in superfluids may increase momentum, but not mass )

Right. The Germans were also trying to develop nuclear weapons during WW2. We should have just capitulated, and averted a possibly disastrous nuclear war. Many more would survive; except the Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, disabled, mentally ill, all the oppressed people of Europe, ...

There is nothing to 'fuse' here; Plutonium is 'fissionable', not 'fusible'. And IF you could fuse Plutonium to a stable configuration ( you can't ), you would need to ADD massive amounts of energy. Either you don't understand English, or you don't understand Nuclear Physics. Come back when you understand one or the other.

Ceramic matrix composites are an active area of materials research. I have solid top stoves in the house, so the SiO2 containing glass tops came to mind. "A glass-ceramic stove uses radiant heating coils or infrared halogen lamps as the heating elements. The surface of the glass-ceramic cooktop above the burner heats up, but the adjacent surface remains cool because of the low heat conduction coefficient of the material. An induction stove heats a metal pot's bottom directly through electromagnetic induction." From Glass-ceramic - Wikipedia

At 200 mAh, this is too small for a cell phone battery, and that is the only familiarity I have with USB-C fast charging. I'm fairly certain that, for cell phones at least, the charging rate is determined by the phone's electronic battery controller, and simply switching to a higher rated charger won't make any difference. ( I think my Samsung gets 50 % chrge in half hour )

Damn ! I was just about to snack down on some choccolate coated ants. ( all this time, I thought my optic nerve problems were due to Glaucoma )

Hi-purity Silicon is generally found in integrated circuit chips. Silicon dioxide is also found in IC chip insulating layers, but a low purity version is found on the beach, as sand. It is also found in larger crystalline structures, known as quartz, and is often used in just such extreme heat applications, such as electrical stove tops. Is that 'kitchen' enough ?

Liquid water and ice, moving through the air, tend to build charge. An example you may be familiar with ( if you were an industrial chemist ) ... You never have a liquid like IPA, or Toluene, etc., free falling into a tank. You should always have a dip-leg to prevent charge build-up

Russians can't even hit military positions, without taking out the school or hospital 5 miles down the road. Now they want us to believe they can take out satellites ? In a well controlled test ... maybe.

Joigus post above, reminds us of the many interpretations of QM. All equally valid, and all equally nonsensical from our classical macro perspective. Maybe if Bangstrom can manage to clean up the 'loose bits' around a non-local theory, we might have yet another interpretation. I'm not an aether fan-boy; I see it as a useless ( and incredible ) add-on, much like I view non-local 'interactions'. I do hope to some day meet Eise for a drink. There is a 4 level department store in downtown Zurich, where the lowest level is liquor/wine/beer, and they have a bar, with drinks/snacks ( canapes ) right in the middle. If my aunt is still alive, I'll mail him Aug 1/25.

Charge separation between the upper and lower parts of the cloud would indicate that the eventual discharge ( lightning ) would occurr within the cloud itself. Most all lightning I've seen discharges between the earth and cloud, indicating that is where charge separation occurrs, and the mechanism would be similar to rubbing a balloon on your hair, or rubbing an amber rod with fur, or ... The mechanism discussed in your link, may contribute, but it doesn't explain the lightning or its path.

Nice '"Ah-Ha"