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The point is that these two maps represent the exact same election yet tell vastly different stories about it. One of those stories is much more accurate than the other. An electoral map rendered in a traditional style shows county-by-county data from the 2016 presidential election. (Jetpack.AI) An electoral map by Karim Douieb shows voting by population rather than strictly by geography. In place of vast swaths of red or blue, the map reveals the mixed nature of voting patterns. (Jetpack.AI)

Just another example but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw's_theorem says that you can't have something stable and levitated in space by a magnetic field. And it should be correct. But, QM gives you a way round it. So things like this are macroscopic quantum observations which you can set up for yourself.

I’m sympathetic to the point you’re making, but you are wrong. These exchanges DO lead to changes in thinking. They’re obviously not effective in achieving that 100% of the time, but they are effective at least some of the time. Our challenges also often plant the seeds of doubt which may later grow and sprout. The brain is a wonderful calculator and it will often chew on logical inconsistencies in the background when we’re not even aware of them. It seeks ways for things to make sense and to align. Perhaps the participant isn’t convinced by our replies today, but maybe 3 or 7 or 19 years from now while singing in the shower or tying their shoelaces or chopping wood there will be an epiphany moment and the gears of the clock will suddenly stop grinding and will start clicking cleanly and without slips. That “Aha! Of course!!” eureka moment can come at any time. And... Even if the participant isn’t convinced, there are often silent readers paying attention from the sidelines weighing their own doubts... thirsting to be convinced one way or the other and relying on what they see in threads like these to help make sense of it all... to see who’s arguments are nonsense and which are convincing... here specifically to quench their desire to be swayed. Then finally... even if NONE of that were true, it is still vital IMO to stand up and defend what is valid and what is true for its own sake... to challenge fictions and push for rational reasonable thinking wherever we can. We push back on principle to stop the spread of misinformation and that matters for its own sake, even if the person with whom we’re posting shows no willingness to listen. And I’d wager a sizable amount of coin that you agree with me regarding these points. x-posted with Halc who made similar points from a more personal perspective

I was. I was educated for 13 years in a protestant parochial school and was taught that science doesn't conflict with their beliefs. The school placed top in the state in academic contests. Yes, they taught evolution and how it wasn't in conflict with my religion, and although my parents were in denial of it, I wasn't. Later on the church (only partly my denomination) decided to treat science as the enemy, forcing me to choose sides. It forced me to lay aside my assumptions on both sides and actually work it out myself. It was amazing how the pieces fell into place that never quite fit before. I've been in pursuit of such bias-challenging assessments ever since, resulting in my beliefs always being changed and refined. That has started to settle down now that I seem to find minimal self-contradiction in my current stance, but I recognize beliefs for what they are and would never presume to assert that my position is 'the correct one'.

This never ceases to amuse me. "You silly people think God works THAT way when in reality he works THIS way."

No math, no theories simple question..

The question is how much is 1 sip. 2 mg/l = 2 μg/ml = 0,5 μg/0,25ml So it is less then 1 tea spoon of liquid.

I will answer this for you as many others have this false impression that QM only applies to the very small. This arises because the energy (transitions) involved are very small and therefore individually only affect very small particles. So an individual quantum energy effect (transition) can only affect a minute part of a (large) macroscopic object. However when lots of these small transitions all work together they can affect large objects. The effects include our everyday Physics so this if I push a large block of metal, it is all the small quantum effects working together that hold the block together so that it can move as a solid body under Newton's Laws. No esoteric Laws and effects are required. The whole of our macroscopic world works as it does because QM is the way it is. Hope this helps others as well. Season's Greetings to all.

Well, if it could be made better it wasn't perfect, was it? Do you recognise that your idea is logically impossible? In reality, China pretty much brought in martial law to stop the virus. No, they didn't. They were led by a man who said they didn't need to because the virus would disappear in Spring. Do you understand that saying things which are clearly wrong does not help to convince anyone that you are right about anything?

It’s all so clear to me now. You’re Alanis Morissette!! 😂

You're quite right, MigL, but, for some reason, religious types (some of them) are in the habit of approaching communities of scientifically-minded people and pestering them with their non-arguments --they know how annoying they are, let's face it. You or I wouldn't dream of entering a church or a mosque and start forcing everybody there to listen about the wonders of the big bang theory, or evolution. It's a different thing when you're entertaining them, so to speak. Somewhere inside of me there's a faint hope that a thinking person lives inside that brain, buried under many layers of millennia-old of spoon-fed myth. And that person is desperately crying out to be shown an exit. Maybe it's just one in a thousand. The rest, sometimes I think they're like special ops infiltrating enemy territory.

oh, and valence band electrons don't move, as they form the bonds. Conduction band ( and sometimes semi-conduction band ) electrons ( and sometimes holes ) do.

Heaven is a smile when all you want, is to frown. If you're starving, heaven is a stale bagel found on the floor. What Hinduism is saying is, what goes around comes around; if you act like a worm/toad/etc you are a worm/toad/etc. If you think charity is foolish, I have to hope you will need some - it's the only way you'll learn the folly of your thinking. 😉 When a criminal escapes justice, they spend their day's in the hell of being caught.

Yes, this is a better way to look at it than thinking of space as a thing that expands. Yet another way to look at it is to say that distance measurements in this type of spacetime are time-dependent - so the outcome of a distance measurement between two otherwise fixed points explicitly depends on when that measurement is taken. There needn't be any reference to motion of any kind.

Fixed that for you.

Going backwards in the Punnett square, taking into account possible restrictions on the parental generation (wild types, homo-/hetero-zygotes, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett_square#Dihybrid_cross

I can't unsee it. Eh?

The point of the post is that there is only one World - this one! No running away and hiding in some magic land in the sky. God is not a Sugar Daddy, He is not running a Retirement Home in the sky. So those vermin is YOU or your friends, buddy We are not talking Einstein here - my post is not confusing - it is not pleasing