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You can tell a red photon from a green one. If this is true I recommend reading and study over guesswork. There have been several great Russian Physicists, you could then be one of them.

Which clearly demonstrate my point. You and MacSwell are talking about different things when you say 'the government'. And changing the name local government to local authority does not make any difference.

Tha language of this website is English. I hope this is not a preamble to a religous offering. Well go on then, I asked for the connection between set theory and your topic here. I quoted your statement for detailed explanation. I hope this thread is not just a wind up.

That's a remarkable claim. I look forward to your jsutification / explanation. Please explain the meaning of this statement and its relevance to the subject.

At the risk of getting my head bitten off from both sides of this argument. I think you guys are arguing at cross purposes. I am with Mcswell in considering a lumped public sector. But I am with Cuthber for most of the comments about this sector. BTW firemen work for local government is that not 'government' ? I also think there are far too many entrenched outdated attempts to create an 'us and them' by dividing society and its activities up into the private sector and the public sector. Also a little bit of history. In 1984, at the time of 'the miner's strike' the miners worked for the nationalised National Coal Board. They fought pitched battled with the Police, employed by local government but funded mostly directly by central government, as local government itself. So I repeat my earlier comment that no one has taken up that two parts of the state or public sector engaged in a very minor civil war with each other. Not a desirable situation.

Singularity functions are not new in Mathematics. Here are some ways of handling them and indeed making good use of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_function note this can be downloaded as a pdf. All these oddities and fractals us rethink our ideas of 'points' and point set topology. This is because the classical view of a point is as a 'static' identifiable object. But if we look the other way for a fractal, (expanding to larger and larger scales, rather than contracting to smaller and smaller ones) our 'static' points (I would rather use the word fixed, but Banach has already bagged that in the fixed point theorem) are not static at all but change as the scale increases. So if we take the traditional isotropic and homogeneous n dimensional ball about a point, ie as a neighborhood including that point as an interior point, we find the properties of that point depend to some extent on the other points in the ball, which in turn depend upon the scale of the ball.

Hello and welcome. Seems you are a bit of a dreamer. Perhaps you should either study some real Tech or write science-fiction. There was a series of stories about a superstrong cable dangling from a geostationaary satellite carrying an elevator as a way of getting into space. I can't remember the author but think it was either Asimov or Clarke. With regard to your siphon, the theoretical maximum lift of a siphon is the height of a water column supported by the atmosphere, ie about 32 feet. For practical applications see the charts in the pdf. https://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/Temporary Siphons.pdf

I don't know. I would have added +1 to your original statement I quoted if you had included 'big' in it, because I think the differences I have outlined are major ones, not small ones.

No not really. It's just that some people confuse the two. You aim at a target or you aim somewhere else, if you are aiming at all. But a target can exist independently of whether anyone is aiming at it or not.

but there's a insert 'big ' difference between target and aim...

Other strange mathematical constructions, of potential interest to cosmologists are Gabriel's Horn and Peano curves. Gabriel's horn is part of a family of infinite n dimensional objects that enclose our bound a finite (n+1) dimensional object. Peano curves are n dimensional objects that fill (cover) spaces of greater (n+1, n+2 etc) dimension. These completely cut though and violate conventional metrics such as Euclidian, Riemannian etc.

Your original question implied to me at any rate larger objects than 'point object', which can be truly modelled by single events. When you consider objects made up of some/many event points you can run into simultaneity issues. I think this is what Markus was referring to, but I should wait for his and swansont's comments as well.

+1 for having a go, but realising the safety implications of higher voltages. A few points about you results. You are calculating resistance, whereas it is more usual to use conductance with liquids. Yes this is just the reciprocal of resistance but standard tables of values are all in conductances or conductivities. Do you understand the correspondence between resistance and resistivity v conductance and conductivity ? Also you have not put units to you 'resistances' I have multiplied my conductances in this graph by 10,000. By the way Desmos.com/calculator is a useful free simple online graphing tool. Looking at my graph which has only plotted the points, you are not justified in drawing the two straight lines as you have wiht only 4 points. The graph 'turns over' to become asymptotic to somewhere around 4.5 conductance units. Two other notes about your setup. Yes there is an ohmic aspect to conductivity of water. As the voltage and therefore the current rises some ohmic heating will inevitably occur raising the water temperature. This is the basis for certain types of water heater. The conductivity or resistivity of water, both pure and contianing impurities (eg tap water) is quite heavily temperature dependent.

+1 And a single point in space, ie a single point in spacetime. So it is not just not a car crash it is also not a car.

The Romans built hundreds of miles of canals and aqueducts in the country that gave birth to modern California.

As I have already mentioned, how ironic is that ? Who would be the greater threat to our society Comrade Putin or Comrade Scargill MK2 ?

Thank you for your clarification. +1 Of course you have plenty of higher ground in America. How much do you think the Dutch have ? I take your point about the headlong rush for progress in America, youngsters were ever that way inclined. This Mississippi system (we used to have spelling contests at primary school as to who could spell 'Mississippi' backwards the fastest) includes some of the longest waterways in the world and the Midwest has plenty of potential space to hold back water for dry years and save the stretch from St Louis to New Orleans from repeat serious flooding. The river in my local town empties into the channel with the second highest tide in the world. Historically when there is a combination of spring high tides, adverse westerly winds and additional rainfall in the catchment area there have been floods in the town centre. The new country park provides enough low lying holding area and a brand new parkland, unusual in the 20th century, for the forseeable future protection needs. It can be done, it has been done, economically and beneficially. It just requires the political will.

No But they may look different to an observer in a different frame.

We in the UK are still suffering the effects of the extreme right wing rubbish that caused the low level civil war between two sections of our public sector in the 1970s/ 1980s. This has seriously adverse effects to this day in a way that America and Poland are not suffering.

Last time the Indus delta flooded the guardian wrote

You know this as an Engineer I suppose ? Have you tried discussing this with a dutchman ? Definitely my point about Yeomans, the Harappans and the beavers.

You definitely researched and thought before replying. +1

On tonight's news it was reported that low lying Sindh province in the Indus delta has received 8 times its annual average rainfall during July2022 to August 2022. That doesn't sound like tree chopping in the Himalaya to me. You proposed it as a single point solution. I have accepted that there will be a measure of this solution. And yes I was exaggerating for effect, just as you did.

So is imflammatory wording like this. No one is being 'blackmailed' . Look up the definition of the word and explain what hidden fault of the public or society they are afraid of being exposed for.

I don't know, I'm just following your logic to its conclusion. It's not as simple as you make out. Yes, I suspect some migration is inevitable. But equally overcrowding in other areas of plentiful to too much water has led to trajedy as todays floods in Pakistan demonstrate.