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A lot of European countries seem to be considering freezing energy prices below market prices, and to use government money to pay for the difference. The UK has already announced a two year freeze plan. (possibly costing taxpayers £150 billion) I'm not sure it's a good option. I'm not against intervention and support for domestic bill payers, but I have my doubts if this is the best way, or the right scale. The obvious problem with it is the cost, which is absolutely huge. Someone will have to pay it, and that someone is tax payers. No matter how you smoothe it out, the tax payer will pay. If you do nothing, the users pay for what they use. Which is the general rule for most things. If I go for a drink, I pay for it. If I put fuel in my car, I pay for it. In fact, I pay tax on top. So this is the reverse. If I use electricity or gas, instead of me paying the price, the tax payer pays a chunk of it. The main problem with that, is that if you freeze the price, you reduce the incentive to economise. If the price of diesel shot up, I might decide to drive less, and use the bus more. Or use pedal power. The money saved would make economising more attractive and worthwhile. That's how inflation is normally kept in check. If sellers raise prices, buyers look for economies and cheaper alternatives. The balance of supply/demand controls inflation. You are losing that, if you subsidise the price. I would favour direct money grants to bill payers rather than price freezes. That way, there is still a big incentive to use less, and more chance of market prices coming down. Of course, there is a downside to that as well. Some people will just blow the grant money on something else and still find that they can't pay their fuel bills. But there might be ways around that, like a delay in paying the grant, and using it on fuel bills, if people are in arrears. Anyway, I'm not decided myself, I just wondered what others would think.

China has its own problems. The move to a cult of personality sows the seeds of downfall.

Ned has been suspended for 3 days for hijacking threads with nonsense after being warned about the rules they agreed to when joining. Enjoy your weekend, everyone else.

Yeah. A lot of dictatorships learned how to oppress their people from J Stalin ...

That's because it's been eliminated in the formation of the double bond.

Oi, good on you. I'll re-visit it and try to see where I was mistaken. Thanks for the challenge!

Yes, you're right about 3.7. I was quoting only an approximate figure. I used to make "nitrogen tri-iodide" * at school, which we painted on the stone steps to the lab. When the teacher arrived his heels crackled and emitted little puffs of purple smoke, which was most gratifying and psychedelic (this was 1971). * More properly an adduct: NI3.NH3, apparently. My tutorial partner at university had made picric acid at school, which was the basis for a rather a good end of term prank. The school song would be sung, to piano accompaniment, and there was a bridging passage between the verses, employing one note that was not otherwise in the piece. So they painted that piano hammer with picric acid and when the moment came there was a satisfying BANG, accompanied by a cloud of dust, dead ladybirds etc., from the interior of the piano, followed by an eerie pause, before the pianist hesitantly took up the tune again.

I'm suprised that you would actually reach 4. +1 I always thought 3.7 was the maximum. By the way picric acid is far less dangerous and much more fun.

About 4.

Electricity , gas , fuel , food etc should be expensive . Televisions , beds , cookers ,housing etc, should be cheap . I have never known such a backwards planet !

Science knew the Caesium atom frequency was a variant before they defined time to equal the frequency . They have to set climate control to keep a steady state . I know alot about time dilation and know that Δu∝Δf . u is internal energy and f is frequency , I am sure you aware the given time value is arbitrary ?

The rationale behind this is that the government owns the energy companies and that is why they are able to set the tarrifs . Additionally they are seemingly ripping us off with their one way electric meters . In the UK brown is often live and blue is neutral . Energy comes through my meter then through the brown wire , the energy then travels back through the blue wire in circuit back into the national grid . AC is a cost effective way of making money alright , there is no meter measuring how much energy goes back into the national grid through the blue wire !

The share holders invest in them but do you honestly think that the governments of the world would allow energy to be controlled by anyone other than themselves ? The managers of energy companies are just ''puppets'' in a world of control . I'm not talking about money here , I'm talking about control . Look how the US shut down Nicolai Tesla , Edison being a Gov employee . The fact is John , the earth is full of conductive elements and because of this , the Earth is conserving a large amount of electrical energy , that is increasing the internal energy of the Earths system . In light of this , the whole world needs to cut down on their electrical energy use before we end up with the Earths orbit being displaced . No worries don't listen to me , I'm a nobody who knows nothing !

The source of the equation is just math symbols off the internet that I've put together to explain why the frequency of the Caesium shifts . I am aware that isn't the time dilation calculation. However , my equation is the correct physics for the process . The correct terms for what science calls a time dilation is a synchronization offset , there is no change of time as demonstrated already with my provided models . You asked for evidence , the models I provided are evidence and I ask the ''judge'' to allow those as evidence . The equation I provided is also evidence and the fact that the Caesium can alter frequency by climate control is additional evidence and support . Consider it this way , science is practically claiming they can slow down or speed up time by climate control . However , although there isn't an actual time dilation , I'd like to add for the record , there is an ageing dilation .

I don't think it exists , I think what we call darkness is just simply when objects are not illuminated .

I do not believe that is correct because the title time dilation itself claims a change of time . Yourself seems to admit that there isn't an actual time dilation , referring to it as a simple change of frequency . You beat me too it by mentioning O K which is proof the constant frequency while at rest is dependent to the constant state the Caesium is kept at . You have just supported my math Δu∝Δf by admitting ''the claim isn't that they can slow down time, the claim is that the frequency of the clock is affected''. My models support there is no time dilation , they demonstrate there is simply a sychronisation offset (the operation or activity of two or more things at the same time or rate.) Are you in agreement that as my models show , there is a mechanical timing dilation rather than a time dilation (measure of history) ? If you disagree then that is contradictory to your statement ''No, the claim isn't that they can slow down time, the claim is that the frequency of the clock is affected'' .