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No agenda other than to keep Trump out of the White House. Frankly, it seems like you're using the agenda trope as a convenient deflection from a very uncomfortable reality, one that requires a very difficult reconciliation and choice. That, or you have a personal bias that favors Joe Biden and is obscuring objective analysis. The idea that Trump will withdraw, or that Democrats can influence him to withdraw, is wishful thinking and will never happen. We should only seek to control what we can.

You are looking at it the wrong way. Biden is not the only option. Nobody here wants Trump to win, so, in order to increase the chances of that nightmare not happening, the Dems need a new candidate. Yes, Biden's record has been fine, but on its own does not qualify him to carry on if some of those attributes are disappearing before everyone's eyes. Nothing and no one lasts forever in one piece. So it is with Biden. C'est la vie. I honestly don't believe the core of this situation is propaganda in this case, but the longer Biden carries on now, the less chance there is of turning things around before November. The snowball of concern has been pushed and will only get bigger.

This is a misunderstanding. I would never vote for Trump, and have posted extensively here on the horrors of Project 2025. But I also want a Democrat to actually win. I am talking about perception of millions of voters who will not make the purely rational choice of Biden based on his track record or how fantastic his brain trust is. Presidents have to project some energy, and many will not vote for someone who they find wanting in that respect. Trump, with his fast and forceful blather, will continue to impress those he has conned, and those people vote.

It can be, but what I saw Thursday night was a gentleman experiencing mental decline, as did many other Biden admirers. As Tom Nichols described in The Atlantic, opportunity after opportunity to call out Trump passed him by as he garbled a basket of statistics and talking points. Politics is about perception, as I said earlier, and what was perceived by millions was not propaganda but Joe without editing to conceal his disturbing lapses. Voters who watched the debate cannot help but wonder if putting Joe in for 4 more years might be elder abuse. A crack support team is nice, but a POTUS has to lead, meet foreign leaders and show strength and decisiveness in a crisis, engage with domestic issues and crises, spur action, and sometimes miss a lot of sleep. The support team can't do that for him.

What is my agenda? That I want to see a GOP presidency the way they are now?

Yes, the GOP are making meal of it, but I think you realize that we here are not pro-Trump and trying to undermine Biden in a partisan manner. It is what what it is, with regard to what we observe. For what it's worth, I would rather have Biden over Trump regardless of his physical and cognitive state. For having just these two as the only choices from a population of 340m is a rather sad state of affairs though. I'm firmly with MigL on setting an age limit to reduce the possibility of this happening again. There is no place for sentimentality in national and global politics

Reading today, BBC I think, Two medical pro's have him down as showing Parkinson's. GOP propaganda or not, Biden is cognitively and physically declining. The effect on him is global.

Simplest way to think of the Higgs mechanism is as a 'scalar' field. Unlike vector, or tensor, fields the value at each point in space has no direction assigned to it, so nothing will be 'forced' in any particular direction.

And introduce legislation already. No one over 65 can run for office. That means the oldest President will be a maximum of under 73 years of age. And don't give me any grief about age discrimination; we already discriminate against people younger than 18, because we don't consider them 'competent' adults. Did either of those two old farts seem 'competent' to anybody ??? The only thing J Biden has going for him, is that with his years of experience he will appoint/delegate the tough choices to capable people. The orange haired buffoon will appoint only ass-kissing sycophants, and get rid of them when they try to correct him.

Why? A world made of photons would gravitate. It's energy that's the source of gravitation, not mass. All fields are quantum fields. They should be. It's just that people haven't been able to make sense of quantum gravitational fields so far.

It's not either/or. Quarks cannot exist as individual massive particles, and protons aren't the smallest hadrons (strong interactive particles). Mesons are short-lived but real enough, and are composites of quark-antiquark. And they are smaller than protons. The so-called Higgs multiplet is actually a quantum field with 4 degrees of freedom. 3 of them are called Goldstone bosons and they're the ones that massless particles swallow up in order to acquire mass. The left over degree of freedom is what we call the Higgs boson. So trying to picture what happens in terms of an actual "swarm of Higgs particles" flying around is the wrong way to picture it. This leftover DOF of the Higgs multiplet is normally unoccupied. Occupation number = 0, in the QFT parlance. So it's not really there. You have to actually provide a lot of energy to make it show up. The swallowed up DOFs are what's dragging the massless particles to make them look as they've got mass. I don't know whether that answers your question, if only to clarify that the actual picture is a bit more sofisticated than particles modifying other particle's trajectories. Did that help at all? It's all energy that's the source of gravity, not only mass, and certainly not just the Higgs field.

Even when Wednesday is considered divisible, as in "I'll meet you on Wednesday at three o' clock", it is improper to use 'in Wednesday'. Just a rule of applicability. ( which you learn by experience; English is not very intuitive )

Vagueness cannot be proven false, but that is no virtue. Try to contradict this: "There is something about something that could explain something in some cases." It's falsifiable ideas that get the ball rolling. There are other things: Explanatory power, prediction, economy of ideas, etc.

- Will Rogers, in a 1932 newspaper column criticizing Herbert Hoover.

I guess Edison’s lab should have given up on finding a viable filament for the incandescent light bulb after a thousand tries. People worked on inventing a telephone for decades before success. They should have quit, though. And cellphones - the basic technology existed in the 1950’s. They couldn’t do a decent job of it in a few decades, so they should have moved on.

To say that I have no testable predictions is not true. I have predicted that now, with dark energy, dark matter and neutrinos coming into focus. The corner stone of the big bang theory of creation, the CBR, can now be taken away from big bang and reassigned. Fred Hoyle's and Herman Bond's "steady state" theory deserves another look. At the time big bang was born, it won the day because there could not be an argument made for a collapsing cloud of alpha particles raining down on earth. Now there can be. I'm not saying that Hoyle and Bondi were dead on correct but they were closer than big bang to answering the question, how did matter come to be? As far as something falsifiable, that would be big bang. I intend to do everything I possibly can to kick out big bang's cornerstone. Looking back at the time Einstein joined with the church and primeval atom, since his equations allowed for expansion and contraction, maybe he just chose between religion and an atheist view and got it wrong. I have been waiting for over 40 years for you to wake up and reject singularity and embrace infinity collapsing into matter. Oh by the way, I proved back then,42 years ago, that a spinning pyramid could create the air foil affect. As I have stated, before the Horn Antenna detected the Alpha particles raining down on earth. There was no ability for science to explain how nothing became something. Now there are two choices. I choose an infinite, for all practical purposes, alpha particle field collapsing into and becoming the atomic cosmos. The only missing piece is the yet to be discovered atomic force, mesotron. The Horn Antenna heard earth's gravity.