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I don’t think so, no, but it very much depends on who is doing the planning, how well they coordinate with one another, as well as the quality, timing and robustness of the information they have available when making their plans. An example of this working well IMO is Singapore. They’ve achieved amazing things in an amazingly short period of time in large part due to smart leadership being in charge of the various economic levers.

I don't know if my answers are simple, but they are certainly short and leave a lot of room for more questions. Here it goes. You would not feel it. As measured by an observer relative to which you are moving. You would record time slowing down for them. I don't. It does. It does not.

I've found that the odd electron does indeed go into a relatively high energy orbital: a π* antibonding orbital which is shared across all 3 atoms. The information was buried in this interesting but very long review of polysulphide anions by Tristram Chivers and someone else: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/cs/c8cs00826d. What I have yet to find out is what it gets promoted to in the transition responsible for the colour. There is a comment that neutral sulphur molecules have a +ve electron affinity, such that addition of one extra electron is both exothermic and exergonic (ΔG<0), so the radical anion is stable with respect to the neutral atom. Adding a second electron, to make a 2- anion, is energetically favourable in polarisable solvents but not in the gas phase, so is more marginal. Lapis Lazuli has a quite open zeolite-type aluminosilicate structure, with cages big enough to sequester this big anion and prevent it from reacting further, in spite of the reactivity implied by the odd electron. It would be interesting to know how this unusual mineral is formed in the Earth's crust. The Chivers paper says it has been found that S₃•⁻ has been found to form in sulphurous hydrothermal fluids, at temperatures >200C and pressures > 1kbar. So perhaps lapis lazuli is formed by some kind of metamorphic alteration of a pre-existing aluminosilicate mineral, involving sulphur-containing hydrothermal fluids.

The Pope is discussing the Christian belief of God with a non-believer. After several hours of the Pope trying to convince the non-believer of God's existence, the exasperated Pope tells the non-believer "I give up. You are like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. How can I make you see ?" The non-believer respectfully replies "We are very much alike, your excellency. You are also like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. The only difference is you've found it."

Pathogenesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenesis:_A_history_of_the_world_in_eight_plagues

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Dimreepr, why are you quoting nonsense in an attempt to belittle me? I know very well how little I know, a shame you don't know the same. The reason I know the quantum fields are conscious is because the Rings in my 2016 thread are partly constructed of DNA and hence why "God" is present in everything in our world. You're so ignorant I'd wager you wouldn't believe it is possible for an individuals mind to influence the quantum fields to then have a causal effect on your wellbeing. Here’s an article on your Dunning and Kruger rubbish. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/ Working with Nuhfer, we found that unskilled students are pretty good at estimating their own competence. In this study of unskilled students who scored in the bottom quarter, only 16.5% significantly overestimated their abilities. And, it turns out, 3.9% significantly underestimated their score. That means nearly 80% of unskilled students were fairly good at estimating their real ability – a far cry from the idea put forth by Dunning and Kruger that the unskilled consistently overestimate their skills. DUNNING–KRUGER TODAY The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.

not going to discuss that here, but it's somewhat transparent if you thought conceptually about the framework of what I said...and sometimes the people with 3% of the information get it 99% right and vice versa.

The anthropic principle - the genetic code of the universe encodes life and intelligence, can lead to the conclusion that the creator of the cosmos, our cosmos and other cosmoses is the supreme God. There are as many of these cosmoses as there are galaxies in the cosmos, or about 400 billion.

this text comes from bigger work New horizons in physics: Black holes, Big-Bang On the basis of the supercosmical model of subquark particles, we can obtain an explanation of the mystery of black holes. The use of quantization produces specific results. Alleged black hole is a kind of black star - with size about a star for our galaxy - consisting from condensate of small particles corresponding with gravitons. Black because does not let go photons. More suitable name than black hole is for this object name black star. So called event horizon is identical with its surface, so called Schwarzschild radius relates to its real radius. Inside the black star in the center of our galaxy, there is a singularity in which the tunnel with a very small cross-section (about 1 inch) opens and leads in to the a dead body the size of a planet in a big distance (probably other galaxy). This body is dead after some time has passed since the black star at the center of our galaxy has gone dormant and is no longer taking in new material. The theory of the black star is justified by the fact that it logically complements the sequence of stars, including white dwarfs, neutron stars, strange stars, preon stars, up to a black star. I should add also that primeval sinagularity which was a beginning of Universe had size not a very small particle but a size of the order of 4 inch. Thus there was no period of inflation and this concept must fail. The previous concept of the big bang, where we are dealing with extremely small sizes of the original singularity, seems to be nonsense. To assume the existence of such a small object for the entire cosmos is nonsense (I created the black star theory in 2012, only originally black star without a tunnel). Gregory Podgorniak, Poland, years 2023, 2024