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Just for those who are a bit slow. So the big question is, if Cuba launched Russian missiles at US mainland targets, HOW MANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS WOULD THE US LAUNCH AT CUBA?

If you have no free will then you cannot decide how you want to feel or try to do what you think is good, or decide not to become a monster.

That should help answer this question. Hint will also help to identify the longitudinal and transverse relations of group velocity and phase velocity.

It doesn't. Consciousness and conscience are not synonymous. No: that's a sadist, possibly. A sociopath simply doesn't care what damage he does while getting what he wants. Regrets may be applied to anything that goes wrong, whether it's your fault or not. Guilt is for something you deliberately did, caused or allowed to happen when you could have prevented it. Remorse is for harm you caused carelessly, unaware of or indifferent to how it might affect someone else. Fine. If it makes you happy, believe that.

So am I when dealing with spectroscopic examinations as group velocity dispersion occurs in interstellar mediums as well as spacetime vacuum. In many ways using DeBroglie waves is far simpler than wave vector methodologies such as via a Fourier transformation which gets incredibly tricky when dispersion occurs. Particularly since the further you look the mean average density increases which has huge ramifications on dispersion as the medium density isn't consistent. Extremely useful though for determining the medium properties. For the OP De-Broglie waves becomes useful as you will see dispersion in matter waves as the waves propogate through any medium including quantum and spacetime vacuums. It's extremely common it's that most times the mathematical treatments have already factored in the De-Broglie relations for example under QM treatments so it tends to get missed as being involved. Here examine this article to get a better understanding of phase velocity and group velocity including dispersion. https://www.mlsu.ac.in/econtents/784_PHASE VELOCITY AND GROUP VELOCITY.pdf Make note of the detail that the phase velocity doesn't transport energy in terms of your opening post where phase velocity can exceed c but as no energy is transported there is no violation. This link provides some additional details https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/phase-velocity#:~:text=It can also be greater,not carry energy or information. In essence keep matter velocity, phase velocity and group velocity as seperate as each has its own distinctive relations with regards to De-Broglie waves.

Depends on how you write and approach things. Look at science, for example, there is more written than any current human could ever hope to absorb but I don't see by what criteria you could ever call science "static" or unable to "evolve".

100 Mpc is the correct currently accepted scale though there was roughly 5 years ago some consideration of using 120 Mpc instead. Never happened as it wasn't really necessary. Here is a counter paper to the DESI findings and it raises a couple of valid points in so far as DESI uses the Hubble tension as part of its argument however the Hubble tension is largely resolved in so far as the later papers brought forward. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18579 In essence the paper strongly suggests caution as the evidence isn't strong enough yet.

But you can have a similar situation with free will. If you disbelieve it, you are rewarded with a clear conscience, even if it exists. One might make the same observation about not believing in free will.

Might I make a small suggestion ? Both Mordred and I try to develop a train of thought (or chain of ideas) when we write something down. If you tried to draw this as a diagram perhaps it would help. For instance the names etc ofthe shells and subshells have been listed several times. If you went through the list and as you read each idea you wrote it down it might look something like this at the end. It doesn't matter if you just scribble it down, or if you post it or not, it is for you not us.

i would have preferred to be able to edit first post instead of bumping thread ftr i deleted the religion i created because i don't like the practice of needing to have foundations written down it makes things kinda static and prevents evolution in my opinion was an interesting experience tho

Pascal's wager seems to be just about to suggest to believe in god, so if it/he/she exists, then you will get rewarded because you did believed in it, practiced rituals etc sound like a coward practice to me like not listening to what you think, but just act by the book, and hope the person who created universe will be nice with you if it exists how can you really believe if the idea is "if it exists", this is contradictory imo | | | Anyway i enjoyed sharing my thoughts with you guys, as always

Local inhomogeneities and anisotropies do not matter on cosmological scales. The cosmological principle's assumption is that on some large scale, currently about 100+ Mpc AFAIK, the universe is homogeneous and isotropic. All manifestations of the DE so far are on such scales.

So I wondered, if a standard quintessence field alone is not expected to be anisotropic because it is modeled as a homogeneous scalar field across the universe, then are there other theoretical frameworks where a quintessence field could exhibit anisotropic behavior? I had seen something a while ago where researchers are investigating scenarios where a quintessence field within a compact star (like a neutron star) could contribute to anisotropic pressure due to the star's internal structure, leading to an anisotropic manifestation of the quintessence field within that specific region. Beyond my understanding of physics, but could there be some anisotropic stress component in the energy-momentum tensor? Modifying GR? Hahaha!

They would have some explaining to do

BTW, if the main facility that is generating quintessence theories is called DESI, then they should have a facility that generates rival vacuum energy theories called LUCY.

As someone who worked on an atom interferometer (in grad school), I’m in that minority.

No. Pascal’s wager is about asymmetric outcomes from a choice to believe in something, or not. In the case of free will, you must also account for the fact that society acts like it exists. “free will exists and controls everything you do” seems to be contradictory.

If it does, the cosmological principle needs to be reconsidered.

This paper considers a field variable over time (not space). https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505060

I did read a bit the definition and it seemed to me a synonym could be relation, link... After thinking again it seems to me what you meant is that Pascal’s wager says free will exists and controls everything you do, and what i said is that it doesn't exist and it's the fatalism that controls everything you do Please let me know if i still don't get it i see it this way: external factors > your brain > act/think So i get what you mean, think/mind listening = listen to external factors I would say your mind/brain orders/filters external factors, depending on other external factors ---------- Excuse me but it seems to me that having no conscience means not being conscious and means being dead You meant sociopaths have no regrets maybe Maybe when they miss an opportunity to hurt someone, they regret having missed it? Maybe when they miss the bus they regret not having wake up early? Not feeling guilty doesn't have to mean you don't feel regrets E.g. "it's not my fault but i wish i didn't do it" ----- Hmm for real not for me, i really believe 100% of things that i think and do, have a reason, they are just not coming purely "from me"* I believe when you born you are like an empty box, some are bigger boxes than others, some are thicker Then life puts stuff into this box, then the box will react, according to what life did put into the box I think the good and the bad the box will do, is not caused by the cardboard, although it is acting The question is why it is acting like this -> i shared my opinion above *but yes i guess i understand, you meant e.g if you drop a glass = oops sorry my bad (reflex) But why did you drop it... i mean reflexes can change | | | Anyway it seems to me it's obvious that if you don't believe in free will, you "should" believe that you shouldn't feel guilt (doesn't mean you (manage to) don't feel it in the end) I mean it's pure logic to me......

Thankfully just using energy momentum relation greatly simplifies things hence we rarely use De-Broglie

Stirring performance, lovely performer, and I loved the top comment which concerns coughing during a performance. (clicking on comments should show it first) I can play Asturias on piano, but on acoustic guitar it sounds so. much. better.

Could energy density vary from one region of space to another?

Fair enough - missiles would be launched from Cuba, rather than Cuba launching missiles. It’s moot, though; Kennedy announced that any missiles launched from Cuba would be considered an attack by the Soviets.