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This looks more like pareidolia than analysis. The random marks that you think match what you are looking for (Oaniss) look to me like random marks. If forced to guess, I would say it was 13 17 8 9. Then there are more marks that you have chosen to ignore (5 9 8) and other marks all over the place. This appears to be numerology of the worst kind. I'm not even going to waste time explaining why it is nonsense. It should be obvious.

What is "population imbalance"? The thread is about ways of addressing overpopulation.

But now it is known. (Hence my "Once it was known...")

If you know that doing A will result in B, and B is something you want to achieve then you will do A to meet your goal of achieving B. (Especially if A is good in itself.) Emergent doesn't mean random or uncontrollable. So I don't understand your objection. Of course you can. Domestication of plants and later agricultural improvements are the main reasons we are able to comfortably sustain the expected population. Do you think farmers just throw random seed on the ground and hope that something useful will grow? "These seeds came from wheat. I just hope we don't get pineapples again like last year"

Of course. Once it was understood that doing things that seem like a good idea anyway (improving education, reducing poverty) also lead to improved health, lower infant mortality and lower population growth then those "emergent" results were also goals of the programs. "ideas derived from the political/economic thought of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, as laid out in his 1798 writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population, which describes how unchecked population growth is exponential while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism

It appears we have already avoided that. There will still, unfortunately, be repeated case of massive famines because it seems that corrupt governments are a constant part of human societies (and famine is almost entirely a political problem). But while the world's population is a problem that needs careful consideration, it is no longer a Malthusian crisis. Well, for the last few decades, at least, one of the main goals of development programs has been to manage population growth by addressing these other issues.

As an indication of how not new this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sage%27s_theory_of_gravitation That article also clearly explains several reasons why the idea cannot work.

Relativistic mass is a (misleading) way of describing energy.

Maybe that was the wrong approach. And yet, population growth has slowed and even reversed in many places. We are no longer on an exponential growth path. So taking the appropriate steps such as education (especially of women), improved health care, good governments (to avoid famine), etc. are known to work.

You mean, those things that exist all around us. I think that answers the question.

Or read some of the many "time is movement / no it isn't" threads.

I don't know what "nature never wanted it" means. It is natural for bodies to resist disease and heal themselves after injury. Animals don't just drop dead at the first sign of something that could adversely affect their health. In addition, many animals have been observed to "self medicate" using plants that are known to have beneficial effects. So is it just humans that should not provide each other with any help in this way? "Oh dear, nasty scratch you have there. It could become infected and we don't have antibiotics. So I will shoot you now to save time and avoid you suffering" What a great idea.

I would still like to see some evidence that the algorithm works, and how well it works. What is the size of the inout file? What is the size of the compressed file? How does that change for (a) random data; (b) ordered data; (c ) all zeroes; etc. Is the result of uncompressing the data identical in all cases?

This is probably the wrong place for this discussion, but the point of the "Speculations" area of the forum is not for "pure speculation". Unfortunately, there are sometimes people with the most nonsensical and unsupported (unsupportable) ideas which, they say, they should be allowed to present here because it is called "Speculations". The real intention is that it is for presenting novel hypotheses supported by evidence and/or a solid theoretical basis. (Rarely do people achieve anything close to that!)

Could it be a result of (attempted) trepanning? I know that was done remarkably early - but I don't know if it was that early.

The problem is you haven't really been asking questions, you have been saying that the experts in the field are wrong and you are right (based on very little evidence apart from things that appear "obvious" to you). And your thread isn't in the Trash; it is in Speculations: the right place for people who say that the experts in the field are wrong and who have a new idea of their own. I'm afraid I can't suggest any other science forums where you might find more relevant expertise (I am more interested in the physical sciences). But if you do, I suggest that you stick to asking questions until you have learned enough to provide clear support for any new ideas. Good luck.

Ah, fair enough. If it is just a metaphor for the equivalence of the measurements. I (mis)interpreted it to mean that time was measured in terms of the distance travelled.

Except, as has been explained every time this comes up, there is no motion involved. So measuring time does not involve measuring distance travelled.

That is because common sense is (initially) forged by experience of the slow, low-energy world where your "reasonable" view is accurate enough. It shouldn't take very long for new information to modify our common sense understanding so I am always puzzled by why people struggle with this. The ideas have been around for over 100 years, now. I remember reading about relativity when I was very young (possibly Gamow's Tompkins in Wonderland). I obviously didn't fully understand it, but maybe that early exposure is part of the reason that it just doesn't seem a particularly odd idea to me. It is just the way the world is.

What language is this written in? How large is "blank.gif"? Have you checked that the output of compressing and then decompressing the file is identical to the input? Have you tested it with other files of a similar size (e.g. a sequence of random bytes)? Not if we find it doesn't work?

And, even more fundamentally, if you want to meet somebody then you need to specify four pieces of information: x, y, z and t (e.g. latitude, longitude, altitude and time). These all have standard units of measurement and devices for measuring them. If time could not be measured as fred2014 suggests, then we would never be able to coordinate lunch dates or missions to other planets in the solar system.

Of course it does. It has nothing to do with the rotation of the Earth. I assume you are just trolling now.

It is not a cop out. And trying harder won't change anything. All you will get (from science) is scientific models. You will always find these unsatisfactory. That is your problem, not science's.

You have been told repeatedly, but you have rejected all explanations. It is can be considered a force between objects with mass (equivalent to the force between objects with charge) that falls off with an inverse square law. That force can be considered a pseudo-force which is how we experience the curvature of space-time. The curvature of space-time is caused by the presence of mass and energy. Currently, there isn't really anything else to say about it. A theory of quantum gravity might give us new insights and/or better models, but it will not tell us what gravity "really is". Nothing will ever tell us what gravity (or anything else) "really is".

Most of those links are "scientifically valid" in that they appear to be published in reputable scientific journal and so probably represent good science. That does not say whether they are correct or not. You would need to study the entire body of research in the area to see where the evidence leads. The last few links are secondary sources, just reporting on the research that was done. The last is from the Daily Mail and is therefore probably a tissue of lies driven by middle-class xenophobia and misogyny.