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Okay, so cannabis, opiates and cheesburgers are in the same group of consumer products despite the differences in withdrawal symptoms because there is no scientifically sound distinction other than politically driven dogma. Did I miss anything or does that sound right ?

Cannabis withdrawal will not kill you yet you assert there is no scientific distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs. I'm not sure I follow.

Is there a scientific distinction between say, a double cheesburger and heroin?

I asked a sincere question and I’m here to learn. I assumed you being the forum chemistry expert you could lend a hand. And yes, since you’re the chemistry expert - it is your job John.

I would love to know more about this, please elaborate.

I don’t consider pot to be a drug and I’m sure Im not alone on this, pot is a non issue as far as Im concerned. I bought 12 grams of „Orange Skunk” including strain number and some other details in a store (not a coffee shop) in Zurich in 2001 and I have received a full VAT invoice for it including my company details. I did one of the dumbest things in my life by bringing it back with me on the plane with the invoice wrapped around it thinking that would somehow help me in case they found it. What I’m wondering is, what would happen to people who have no prior experience or/and are prone to drug addiction and might not even know about it...if you suddenly tell them its legal to have coke or speed it might end up in a disaster („might” is an understatement) I think it might work for some environments, obviously for the people who are down the rabbit hole up to their nose it might be benneficial but for a large number of people it could be a distaster. Pot, Speed, LSD, Coke, Crack, Heroin - they’re all a very much different blend and you can’t put them all in one basket. So which drugs do we want to make legal and in what circumstances/environments? We wouldn’t want me to have coke again this time legally again now would we. Edit: Edited a lot.

That sounds reasonable. I’m not sure though, that I wouldn’t be tempted after 20 years to have some cocaine at half price and at 100% purity. I’m not sure how that would save my life.

That depends on pricing.

Looks like DrP’s proof of Pie being irrational is even simpler than Charles Hermite’s. Once you feel the power of the darkside...

Wow, thats a lot of Pie for one DrP Beware, you have been lured into the forum darkside. This can cause severe knee jerk reactions unless you’re a Zen master

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I would use an implant with a tiny fast gps-network card and utilize existing technologies instead of implanting the infrastructure into the body. Presumably all you mentioned could be measured with current technology using an implant like that, the use of having such information could be put into medical use - you could graph the data into a an 80 year time frame, visulalize all kinds of events on various time frames/scales, corelate with ones medical record and compare with thousands of other impant users. If I was a pharmaceutical company I'd love to have this kind of data over ones life time.

Maybe we could start with what is the original bible and who wrote it? What do you think?

No. What I’m admitting is that numerology is delusional especially when dressed in „Illuminati Confirmed” on every page of that nonsensical book.

There can be many answers. Maybe some monk added that in the 14th century to the bible for fun or maybe a thousand different reasons. Who cares.

Where he chose to clinge onto the number 216. Just like you are choosing to clinge onto 3,14. This excerpt from the movie „Pi” is very relevant here, watch and listen again to what the old mathematician is saying. You can open a random number generetor online right now, find a random number and start noticing it everywhere around you. The question is why would you want to do it?

Really... Where exactly do you see the language issue? I’m not a native speaker but my command of the English language seems sufficient to cope with a lot more complex tasks than the posts in this thread. And its pleasantly warm here, not at all a problem. Unless, maybe...its really hot where you are? BTW everything we both wrote so far is very much on topic.

If you count the number of times it states „Illuminati Confirmed” in this ridiculous „article”, multiply it by the number of toes of the apostles, take the square root and divide it by 666 you’ll get 3,14.

Wow, havent noticed this thread up untill now. The rotten cancer from vaccines idea seems a contender for a meme. BTW, @StringJunky, please read my PM.

But thats not the case is it now. The measuring limit we have to deal with in accelerstors is just one example of the heavy wind and rain modern physicists and mathematicians face. I’m not trying to glorify Witten as the next Newton but his work is a bit more than your potrayal of him sitting in a chair calculating Pie.

People like Edward Witten are trying to keep a lit fire going in heavy rain and heavy wind. You tell me is it easier to keep a fire going during a thunderstorm or light it up from scratch in dry sunny weather.

As I am at a loss and I can only deduce that we are probably in agreement. Absolutely no pun... I mean that Newton's contributions to math are invaluable, he had a lot less to work with than what modern mathematicians and physicists have today, his contributions are one of the greatests achievments in science history alltogether and I'm by no means trying to take anything from Newton. The relative part pertains to the math and physics complexity which Newton and modern physicists have to deal with today - those complexities are quite different, here are a few of Edward Witten's contributions to pure mathematics: - Jones Polynomial from Chern-Simons theory. - Relationship between supersymmetric theories and Morse theory. - Invariants of 4d manifolds, Seiberg-Witten invariants. - Idea of TQFTs and mirror symmetry. - Proof of positive energy theorem in general relativity. Edward Witten made contributions to pure mathematics mainly in the area of geometry and topology. His genius was in applying techniques from quantum field theories to low dimensional topology. Agreed, no question about it. You're absolutely right, my math knowledge is very limited. I can appreciate though, certain contributions and/or implications of those contributions to physics. No. Edward Witten's contributions to mathematics have nothing to do with the crudeness of calculating pi to a trillion places.

So whats your point and where does it contradict with my opinion that physics gets harder the more we discover? You seem to miss my point...which is that relatively speaking Newtons contributions to math and physics are invaluable but when compared to modern physics and math the complexity is beyond of what Newton could have imagined. Edward Witten is the only physicist in history to receive the Fields Medal so its pretty safe to say he's a brilliant mathematician. I never claimed he introduced fundamental math, I just stated he invented math wich is more complex than what Newton came up with.

I think it does. Its hard to do gradation and Newton might have been the biggest physics genius we’ve ever had but only relatively speaking...looking objectively, Newton’s infinitesimal calculus is childs play compared to the math which Edward Witten came up with in his work on supersymetry and quantum field theories. I think physics gets much harder when we go deeper down the rabbit hole.