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There was a king, then there was the American War of Independence. There was slavery, then there wasn't. There was prohibition, then there wasn't - even the constitution changes. (People who bang on about this or that amendment, what do they think "amendment" means?) There was segregation, then there was, well, less. Any American crying about change may as well go yell at a cloud, for not looking like a bunny as it did five minutes ago. At what date and time do they want to freeze the World? We've had the issue of "Eskimo" come up in N.Z.: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/pascall-eskimos-lollies-changes-name-to-kiwi-inspired-explorers-after-racist-undertones/3XLNFY67TTIA3574BRT35TN5SA Took a while, but I'm all for it. Removing a name that offended people doesn't affect the taste of the lolly. People offended by the change ... gosh there are some genuine issues in the World they could spend their time on.

And describes people in India. Just as Lakota is a fun word that describes indigenous people in the northern Plains. Didn't your parents teach you to address people by the names they prefer to go by? Yep, for some reason people decided calling a sports team a racial insult was not so great. Would you have also lamented the passing of a team called The Detroit Niggers? (apologies for offensive language, just making a point as crystal clear as possible) Liar. Poor sales led to ending that line. They still call their SUV a Denali, also an indigenous peoples name. Liar, again. Decline in sales. What absolute horseshit you spew on this forum. Also note that a new line of EVs is called Hyperion. A search engine would probably find several more vehicles with Greek or Roman god names So what? Those people are Inuits. Get over it. Would your prefer to be called John Barrow or instead some name a random French fur trader gave you? Would you agree to be called Palpstonk Gleeblepog if it made older men more comfortable eating ice cream sandwiches?

What does make you think that SCUBA diver on a depth of 60m, monitoring gages and dive computer and communicating with other divers, has a quiet mind?

Nobody trusted your mother to serve on a jury, or have her own bank account or credit cards, and she wasn't good enough for Ivy League colleges. She couldn't even decide NOT to have sex with your father from a legal stance, so caving in to you boys and your pie cravings was just part of her poor existence. Something tells me that if she'd known how hurtful the term was, she wouldn't have used it.

Black holes, and possibly some neutron stars

I think it is a great sign that folks are offended by that. It suggests that their life is going so well that they have time to actually be upset about that.

The heritage you're talking about is pretty sick and twisted. America, home of the free and brave, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, all people are created equal, and all of it meaningless to hypocrites like you. You don't care that many of the words you use on people who don't look like you are hurtful and disparaging. You just want your childhood back, when people didn't complain about your racism and inhumanity. It's a shame you've rejected humankind. What we have today is a whole lot of people who don't want to be hypocrites like you anymore. We want the USA to actually be the home of the free, free from white nationalists and religious zealotry, a place where everyone can pursue dreams (unless they're dreams like yours, where you dream of using hurtful words and phrases on whomever you like). The only thing we can't tolerate is your lack of tolerance. You diminish our society with your pursuit of criticism and mediocrity. Wake up and smell the diversity. You should watch some David Attenborough docs. He'll convince you that diversity is the key to the survival of life on this planet.

Meditation is quite beneficial, but it changes one’s cortisol and adrenaline and stress levels much like relaxed breathing does through increased oxygen consumption, but (beyond the small space between your ears) does not alter spacetime itself. I encourage you to keep meditating because right now your thinking is rather sloppy and perhaps that will help. You don’t even realize how often you contradict yourself because you’re so convinced everyone else is wrong and must be argued against. A poet might say that humans are the universe trying to understand itself for a little while, and poetry often provides us with new perspectives and insights, but it’s value again involves thoughts and feelings not in altering spacetime more broadly (and no, survey results are also irrelevant to the claims you’re making). It’s important keeping an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

SCUBA divers report the same after experiencing nitrogen narcosis. A common brain response.

It would not orbit, as there’s not enough mass (or, more precisely, density). A photon will orbit at a distance of the photon sphere, which is 3/2 the Schwarzschild radius for a non-rotating mass. For a rotating mass, as Genady said, it would depend on the rotation, and whether you emit with a velocity component in the direction of rotation or opposite For the earth, the Schwarzschild radius is much smaller than the physical radius, so orbits are not possible. There would be a very slight deflection toward the earth as the photon went out into space. Even around the sun the deflection of a tangential photon would be small, as Eddington confirmed.

The trajectory would depend on the mentioned distance and on the mass rotation.

In addition I would say that religion is obsessed with answers (or what folks assume to be answers). Scientists are obsessed with questions. In fact, I think we tend to be more focused on looking for the right question, rather than the right answers. Research projects and grant proposals are often set up like this, for example. Yes, the answer you get should be useful and advance science/technology/health yadda yadda. But typically, projects with really good questions are those that are getting funded. Science is largely driven by our curiosity and the need to figure out things. Religion is driven by our desire to be pacified by certainty and answers. We want to be able to communally obsess over questions. And for that, we need to remove bias as much as possible, other than that we would just keep bickering about interpretation without being able to make any objective progress.

Just found another synopsis of this, which touches on some of the issues we were discussing: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02393-7 So the question of what about the hydrogen is indeed something to resolve, as is the energy source, given that the stored energy implied by the measured potential differences ought, by rights, to have run down long ago.

Genady, We cannot know the position and velocity of a particle such as an electron of an atom with certainty. what makes you think we can know the position and velocity of a star with certainty?

Can you imagine "Indigenous" (as opposed to Indian) motorcycles? How about making woke changes in The Christmas Song: "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your TITS Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like INUITS." Bob Dylan revised: Ev'rybody's building the big ships and the boats Some are building monuments Others are jotting down notes Ev'rybody's in despair Ev'ry girl and boy But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's jump for joy Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet But guarding fumes and making haste It ain't my cup of meat Ev'rybody's just standing 'round 'neath the trees Feeding pigeons on a limb But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Them pigeons'll go to him Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn A lamb bleat and a goat do, I can recite 'em all Just tell me where it hurts And I'll tell you who to call Nobody can get any sleep There's someone on ev'ryone's toes But when Quinn the INUIT gets here Ev'rybody's gonna doze Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn Come all without, come all within You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn

Eskimo Pie is no longer. The Cleveland Indians are no longer. The Washington Redskins are no longer. The cook on the Cream of Wheat box is no longer. Aunt Jemima is no longer. ESKIMO is a fun word. INDIAN is a fun word. The COOK made Cream of Wheat fun to eat. Ford got rid of the MERCURY trademark because it is a Roman god which might offend folks of other faiths. PONTIAC was Native American so General Motors axed it. PLYMOUTH is gone from Chrysler Motors because the name sounds too Anglo-Saxon. The OLD in OLDSMOBILE might have offended the anti-ageism crowd. Who knows? I hate it when there are those woke-sters who make every effort to rid America of her unique heritage and culture. My mother always bought Eskimo Pie. All that said, I will NEVER buy an Edy's Pie! Fat Boy and Klondike with the polar bear on the label are fine by me. PS - The Woke Police and others on the Left are out to take away anything that is FUN!