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“In a paper published today in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the same way as their matter equivalents.” https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alpha-experiment-cern-observes-influence-gravity-antimatter

I heard his thing was golden showers not golden ratios, but that’s none of my business. 😆 @Phi for All ✌🏼

A PDF of my 5 page paper is attached to the fifth post in this thread. As nearly as I can tell, it is only downloadable if you are signed in. As this thread has established, and I agree, calculations on the last 3 pages are flawed.

Well, IF he was guilty, and I "intelligently" designed him, then it would be my fault, not his. Intelligent design in the religious sense is proposed as an answer to the mystery of the existence of the Universe, and the origin of life. The anthill isn't that much of a mystery.

It may help to know this thread spun off from one about efficient cooling in a hot climate, spec. SoCal. So the chat was sort of focused on the hot places that are now heading towards uninhabitable for humans. The thread is just developing ideas, and that's one of them. I would imagine each idea which used a subterranean or rock-embedded approach would have to find ways to bring in natural light. Light tubes would be one, park areas carved into surface alcoves another. There are many ways to skin a cat.* * a figure of speech our cats find disgusting That was interesting. And a reminder that thick temperature moderating walls can be built with low tech and local earthen materials. I'd love to see a return to some form of this in areas of the US Southwest.

It means time is a dimension. You apparently decided for some reason to only recognize spatial dimensions as 'real' dimensions, that's fine for you, but don't expect others to jump on board with you. That is not correct. Special relativity is a special case (flat space time) of general relativity.

Good one and a great song! "Philosophy is useless, theology is worse"* *Citation does not mean (totally) agreement

The technical/economic challenges and energy costs of heavy lifts to oto 1000 tonnes are trivial. This was demonstrated in the bronze age. You lift when you have the relatively small amount of required power available (think counter balances). Non sequitur argument. Blizzards in southern California? And at the other extreme we have various reflective coating options to avoid absorptive overheating. Design so escape is unnecessary. Who mentioned steel and concrete? That's a strawman of your making. We have thousands of these in Africa. The structure is ready built. Just mine out the living spaces using long established room and pillar mining methods. Extract the excavated stone as ashlar and use that to construct other 'termite mounds'. The pillars can be any dimension they need to be - 5 metres/10 metres diameter: whatever is necessary to withstand the imposed forces (earthquakes, hurricanes, bombs and even snow load(!)). It's just engineering. Fail to see your point. Is it one of those 'not invented here' arguments. If so then I don't claim precedence over the termites. Or the Pueblo Indians for that matter. And yet you feel inclined to post. At length. How ironic.

I see where the article mentions journalism and communications, but not science, and from the perspective of people publishing, but not anyone being fooled by articles published in these journals. I’d be interested to know what scientists are being fooled by such publications. I would hope that they’d be somewhat skeptical, but I get the impression that most of the science is theory rather than experiment (though that may be from only being familiar with the physics side of this) and you can see for yourself where the deviation from mainstream is occurring. I think the danger to the public is with pop-sci journalism being pulled in, because there seems to be a lot of articles floating about that are too credulous - they cite novel results as if they are mainstream, like the recent stories about the age of the universe supposedly being tripled, because of one speculative research paper. Such reporting completely ignores the importance of confirmation and replication in the process.

If anybody can travel backward in time, please tell me how cause they DIDN’T tell me either & I want to know. Time is a scalar (amount) in which the direction is determined ONLY by its amount. Thus, time is NOT bidirectional like a dimension is. Time ONLY goes forward. We can ONLY measure time going forward; NOT in reverse. Instead, time is a parameter (= something other than a dimension, thus) NOT a dimension. Disclaimer: Sometimes I have to say some of the simplest most obvious things (against ridiculous mainstream, NONSENSE opinions).