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Im not sure if I understand correctly - the implications of what they’re saying is that in a perfectly flat spacetime the wavefunction would never colapse? Im not too familiar with Penrose’s work on this but if I understand correctly what they are saying in this article here, sounds far fetched. This would also mean that wavefunction colapse measurements would vary between sea levels on earth and velocities (different curvature) Is that something that has been observed?

Sounds interesting, haven't read it yet, will do in the evening. Did they state a threshold where curvature causes reduction in entanglement?

Thats funny. I’d go on a limb and say that if you had to explain that to the sales people they’re not very good sales people.

Heres a short interview with Ray Kurzweil on aliens. Unfortunately its not too optimistic for alien lovers but its definitely worth watching as what hes saying makes sense. My personal view changed since I understood some Relativity, now I’m convinced that we’re just too far away from each other to make contact.

I had exactly your thoughts while posting this and I realize why you took my post as stereotyping. I actually have little knowledge on eastern cultures and my only goal with these thoughts was to learn more. I agree that stereotyping is a slippery slope even if the intentions are positive, theres this saying in my language: „Officiousness is worse than fascism” and it applies here. I too have experience with teaching people from different backgrounds and cultures, I actually developed a mechanism to be sensitive to a degree to other cultures while in formal situations, finding common things always worked for me because there is always common ground to be found however vastly different cultures I dealt with - in this context I have to disagree that full immersion is neccesary, I noticed that people value certain levels of empathy towards their culture and being sincere always worked for me. I can certainly see why you value your approach, mine is risky and it requires a certain type of behaviour/approach which seems to come naturaly to me. As for stereotyping, I’m so not built for it, theres alwas some level of prejudice and stereotyping in all of us but I rather not waste my time on it as it leads to dead ends.

As a mid aged bastard I have to second that

It’s definitely due to philosophy or probably buddhism for that matter. I’ve had this notion of general perception/perspective of what/where/who we are with regard to nature come up a few times. I think its a good thing and its certainly something that I/we don’t have here where I live.

I don’t necessarily view Eugenics as a thing against technological advancement. After all we’re already doing cancer treatments involving genetic modifications, that surely is a good thing. GMO’s are a good example for a pro rather than a con for technological advancement. Tradition on the other hand I see in most cases as the opposite of „pro advancement in tone” as traditionality delays advancement. So whats your take on this, what did you want to discuss, do you have anything to add besides listening to your class discussing from your pulpit?

Yes i’ve seen that thread briefly. It was quite pleasing to see the „Egertonian cosmos” having its bottom handed to you by Strange & Mordred. One would assume a less condscending tone by the OP in the next thread but hey, not the first time I was wrong. What did you want to discuss by the way?

Is this going to be graded? When is the final?

According to wikipedia the guy is a pseudoscientist and he’s criticized for lack of rigour in his research. ESP has been researched countless times by countless people with zero evidence that it exists. I’d be happy (really) to see evidence for something which is beyond statistical error. Start with reciting the contents of my desk from left to right, if you get everything right you’ll have my attention.

Since TedX banned this talk, I don’t see why you’d want to waste 32 minutes of your time on it.

I’m all for it. I’d add pink color coding for racists and unicorn signs for crackpots.

What?! Your incoherent drivel is starting to devour Relativity and BB now?

No you have not. If you did in fact acknowledge (and comprehend) Newtonian physics you wouldn't assert delusional claims. Reported.

This is the kind of physics taught to 10 year olds, you are not willing to accept the well put and obvious explanations in this thread and insist on a non rotating earth. Before I report this thread for lack of your alternative model which is required in the speculations section, please indulge us and explain day & night if according to you the earth is not rotating. Why is there the apparent movement of the sun in the sky every day?

Normally I would ask for the numbers and your model but this is so ridiculous that it doesn't make any sense to do it. You are delusional Sir and you need to get help.

Their mission seems especially "compelling": "The visual design of viXra.org (but not its content) is a parody of arXiv.org to highlight Cornell University's unacceptable censorship policy. Vixra is also an experiment to see what kind of scientific work is being excluded by the arXiv. But most of all it is a serious and permanent e-print archive for scientific work. Unlike arXiv.org it is truly open to scientists from all walks of life. You can support this project by submitting your articles" Calls for a thread - "Is hacking always a bad thing?"

Brutally Honest Logos.

I am surprised to see this thread go for 10 pages. Trump has kids, let all the teachers in their school carry hand guns and preferably some AR15’s just in case as well. If it works out and nobody gets shot in an accident or incident then we can still safely assume that... No, its not a good idea to arm teachers. Geez...

I enjoy that too. +1

Sure. I’m just thinking that comparing time to lenght, width and height would not be accurate. Treat time and space as volumes and treat the arrow of time and the spacial dimensions as descriptions of those volumes. If that makes any sense.

Considering that time is a temporal dimension which is inseparable from spacial dimensions I think it doesn’t make much sense asking what it is without context. If put to the wall I would answer that space which is volume and not some „real thing” has 3 spacial dimensions which describe it and Time has its arrow which describes it so its not some „real thing” as well - we would have an equally hard time describing what width, height or lenght is. Acording to relativity, both the spacial dimensions and the temporal dimension play predictible game with matter/energy so it would make sense to me to treat time on equall terms with the other dimensions...at least then, it becomes clearer what time is.

Thats good to hear. You will need to start trying to draw rational conclusions from the discussion and stop developing new meaning to words and concepts to convince people otherwise. You also need to stop contradicting yourself, you don’t get to say that you „finally understood the God of science” and then claim that you never said that science is a religion. Since you’re not trolling, maybe you should start understanding what is being said in this thread, for starters read Eise’s posts again and respond...coherently.