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All very true INow. Those methods are regularly used by the 'right' in your country. However, the ''left' are not beyond reproach, and do need to shoulder some responsibility when they screw up. No matter how much you want to bend over backwards to excuse their behaviour, because it is nowhere near as bad as the 'right'. Maybe I should quote your line back to you when you next blame the 'right' for all the problems in your country that are actually caused by extreme political polarization.

To be fair, most people don't know what they don't know. ( do I sound like D Rumsfeld ? 😀 ) It is when they insist that their limited knowledge some how gives them greater insight, as if the ones who actually do have knowledge have been brainwashed, that the problems begin.

Pssst ... I think he's an incel ...

He'll probably just take his clown show to the next forum, and give them a headache.

Then why would you write something so wrong as 'conservation of mechanical energy' ??? Energy ( of all forms, even mass ) is conserved locally; not globally.

While genetic programming is 'hardwired', and affects populations because it is passed on from one generation to the next, the immune system works on a 'learned response', and why allergies come and go with age, change severity, and are not passed on.

You should learn some first ...

Absolutely. You don't seem like the kind of person I'd want to get to know any better.

I don't think anyone has, as there is no such thing. Quit wasting forum bandwith with idiocy.

Can we ban this jackass already. I'm getting tired of the idiocy.

Diidn't know you were of Russian descent, Peterkin.

It seems you know how aliens think, judging by the examples you gave. I presume you've been abducted by them, and had many anal probings ...

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Can't really comment on how string theory treats the Big Bang, but LQG does make predictions that the Big Bang is actually a 'Big Bounce' from a previous inflationary/collapsing phase. You can google that. What you can't google is the simplistic view of LQG as a box of Cheerios, and the incredulity that that box of Cheerios can expand. So, again, we have observational evidence and a workable model. You have a box of Cheerios, and ... ??? ( hopefully, some milk )

Then why do you confuse him with ALL conservatives. As a matter of fact D Trump, in his last Presidential bid in 2000 ran as a Reformer, before switching to Democrat the following year. He is an opportunist, who does things for personal benefit, as is V Orban. The group of mostly idiots who make up the Republican party are not comparable to most other conservatives in other countries. Knowing that they could be easily manipulated, Trump took advantage of them and their base, for his own benefit; the few sane Republicans that are left, all hate D Trump with a passion. I expect that if the Hungarian people don't get rid of V Orban, the EU will soon lose patience with them, and cut them loose. There are certain standards to be met for joining, and those standards must be maintained to stay.

I'm sorry Phi. If I'm stuck in an elevator with a science forum administrator, and a woman in a wheelchair, who used to be an elevator repair person, I will rank the woman in a wheelchair's advice higher than the forum administrator's. Is that vertical, horizontal, or upside dowwn and sideways morality ?

Fighting against Globalization of economies and governance is not a 'conservative' agenda, Peterkin; no matter how much you want to villify those you consider 'conservatives' with it. It is an opinion that Orban and Trump seem to share. You seem to forget that a huge step towards globalization, the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) was implemented by two conservative politicians, R Reagan and B Mulroney. Bat-shit crazy is ignoring facts, and basing opinion on personal 'beliefs'.

It was a good experiment Phi. Trying to figure out how a deluded mind works. But Greg's last couple of posts, talking about how things have already happened in the future, and gender wars, have veered into bat-shit crazy territory.

Science has observational evidence for all its claims. What do you have, Glancer ????

So you rank your 'horizontal' morality higher than those who have a 'vertical' morality ? have you substituted the hierarchy of 'vertical' morality with varying angles from you ideal 'angle' of morality ? All morality is subjective. Assigning subjective orientations to abstract concepts doesn't get anyone anywhere. But it may make you feel better, or superior to others, with subjective ideas of morality. Not meant as a personal attack, Phi, but this is like saying "The way I love my family is better than the way you love yours". You are assigning a subjective quality to an abstract subjective concept.

Neither. I would argue the honor goes to Physicist Robert Noyce who pioneered the monolithic silicon integrated circuit in 1959. He founded Fairchild Semiconductor, and along with Gordon Moore, founded Intel. Robert Noyce - Wikipedia Honorable mention should also go to Jack Kilby, electrical engineer, developer of the first hybrid germanium IC at Texas Instruments in the late 50s ( and Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000 ). They are arguably the fathers of modern computing, as we know it.

Just like differences between types of conervatives and liberals, there is a huge difference between 'soft' and compassionate. The idea is not one extreme ideology, or the other opposite. It is a combination of the two which yield the most benefit for all people. Democracy does that much much better than authoritanianism/dictatorship.

Is this a wild guess, or do you have evidence ??? Science works with evidence, not guesses.

I know some very good people who consider themselves conservative ( Canadian, not Republican ), and resent the fact that they are being lumped in with this guy. In Canada, being conservative means not changing our true and tried ways, with new ideas like for-pay clinics or split cost health care. Or getting rid of our armed forces in favor of 'peace-keeping' forces. Or allowing armed citizens, and militias, to protect ourselves from our representative Government. These are just a few examples that indicate there are differences in 'conservatives' as well as differences in 'liberals'. And Greg has mentioned some instances ( Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot ) where left wing idealism has gone 'off the rails' and murdered more people than even fascists like A Hitler did.

So, a bunch of definitions strung together with an overactive imagination, and no model to speak of. Woo and WAG come to mind. To quote the Simpsons "You can't make friends with ( word ) salad"