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The response from the art world. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59318780

Flat-Mooners everywhere are howling at your presumptions.

Yes, you claimed this. Where is the evidence that supports this claim? Why would anyone discuss non-particle behavior when we’re trying to demonstrate particle behavior? (not that I know what you mean by Poincaré's dot or what W-F means. As far as light being absorbed by one atom, all you have done is deny that it’s relevant, but without any justification. Waves interact over an extended area. “Nuh-uh” isn’t a valid response. No Google hits for Poincaré's spot, which is a demonstration of wave behavior. Why would anyone use it as evidence of particle behavior? How is this a remotely reasonable expectation? Yes, Arago’s spot. Diffraction is wave behavior. Again: so what? You appear to be rebutting a straw man - nobody has claimed that light (or quantum particles in general) always exhibits particle behavior. (emphasis added) Yes, actually, it does. If particles and wave has identical behavior we wouldn’t make a distinction The claim being rebutted is that light never acts like a particle. If you observe particle behavior, then it behaves like a particle.

Let me be the first to ask, how far have you gotten? You will receive help here, not just the answers.

Biologically maybe, that's where the "humanity" ends.

Absolutely, that's the priority... And when he's behind bars, the priority shift's too, understanding why he did what he did. We do that be removing the emotive language from the conversation and consider ourselves from his perspective... Only when that conversation is understood, is justice done...

Fairly certain he meant the US heading that way IN ADDITION to those others, not that the US was somehow alone in this path. The US is, however, not historically known for it which is part of the issue being discussed.

The first two links were to 8 different articles by 6 psychologists in learned publications. If one were suspicious of the motivation of all psychologists who study prisoner rehabilitation methodology and practice, all of them could be dismissed on those grounds. The third, however, cites an exhaustive 9-year study of recidivism then follows it up with studies on reducing recidivism, also under the DOJ auspices and a state government commission and the Rand Corporation The last one is from NCBI. Not quite up to the standard of hearsay, but fairly respectable organizations, all the same.

The example of extreme sexual predators often comes up, since it is the most extreme test of any rehabilitative philosophy. My impression is that such persons cannot be cured, and some are so sick that a reasonable case for euthanasia could be made. While I object to the death penalty for several reasons, I would see someone raping a seven year old - as in @beecee example - as a candidate for euthanasia. As for the parents, I cannot imagine being them and not wanting the sick creature removed from the planet promptly. We cannot argue moral principles of justice solely from the wishes of angry and traumatized parents, but we can argue from the principle of mercy, both towards the perpetrator and the victims.

I disagree with the conclusion. The currently used system of units allows us to design space probes and rowers that works predictably in micro gravity and on other planets. It sounds unnecessary complicated, from an engineering perspective, to plan and execute such missions if the units of measure depends on location. Side note: confusion between metric and imperial units has caused at least one failure already; the Mars Climate Orbiter: Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20010920052120/http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/MCO_report.pdf

! Moderator Note Split, as this has nothing to with the relativity question under consideration in the other thread

subquantum? It's all ball bearings these days. The question is: Prestone or Quaker State?

This is looking at the same problem from more than a single point of view. The alternative starts with the conclusion that photons exist and they are particle like. The article explains the results but the part I saw didn't explain the method. The conventional explanation involves the creation of virtual electron-positron particle pairs as I explained and these particles are the source the observed scatter. I explained how it works without the assumption that photons are involved. This is from wiki with the assumption that photons are the actors but whether or not photons are involved, the gamma gamma's observed can be traced directly back to a multi-particle origin. Photon to electron and positron. For photons with high photon energy (MeV scale and higher), pair production is the dominant mode of photon interaction with matter. These interactions were first observed in Patrick Blackett's counter-controlled cloud chamber, leading to the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics.

I didn't forget; I just don't think it's any part of justice. Taking advantage of the system is how drug traffickers get rich enough to build gambling palaces in Los Vegas; how DJ Trump got away with massive tax fraud and became president.