Area54

From the fundamental characteristics of the universe, so the same place matter and energy came from. We just don't know the details. (Yet.) Personal question - why are you joining the forum as multiple members?

If you have read about Faraday and EMF I find it difficult to believe you have never heard of gravity, but I'll play along for the moment. Gravity is the 'force' that causes all matter to attract other matter. It's what holds you onto the ground and a thousand other things besides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity

It is likely that a process for generating these elements will be discovered and their appearance here, while rare, will turn out to be completely natural. It did remind me that in late 1971 I drafted a short SF story in which aliens established interstellar communication by modifying the spectra of stars. If that turns out to be the case here, then once again I shall have missed out on an opportunity for fame and fortune. Could you find no papers on the research?

Eisenhower? What did he have to do with it? He wasn't in the decision chain. Did you mean Truman?

Because I have been taught by some of them.

Strnage has made my point for me. I shall be withdrawing from further discussion with you since you seem to believe you can diagnose my mental state, past and present, from a few posts on an internet forum. That would be a great skill if you were actually capable of it.

That is comforting. I thought it might just have been me who was being dense. Dimreepr, I would appreciate it if you not make calls on my state of mind, past or present. You imly you have suffered the effects of depressionso you will be aware that such comments are not helpful. Depression arises, in my experience, not from a failure to find a purpose in life, but in failing to realise that purpose.

Yes. And you didn't specify anything about degree of difficulty in your question. What is it you consider to be difficult about the approach?

Count the number of participants, multiply by pi and take the integer of the result to find how many are being discussed. It's a starting point.

By selecting one, from a very large range of options, that appeals to you.

How do you think you should go about this? It looks like homework and I understand the forum discourages just giving people the answer without some effort on their part.

So which certain books suggest this? I don't recall seeing that in the Qoran, but I am not well read in that regard.

Thank you. It was a question I had never seen asked before and I was curious whether the possibility was automatically exlcuded in some way.

Has it been established that the finite cannot become infinite? Since I am unable to conceive of either concept without melting my brain I cannot tell how dumb a question that was.

Nevertheless (or, if you prefer, neverthefewer) I still have to supress the gag reflex each time I hear the "rule" breached. If this makes me a pedant I shall wear the badge with pride.

In the same way that we benefit, if benefit we do.

Why do you think everything must have a purpose? Indeed, why do you think anything should have a purpose, other than things constructed by intelligent beings such as beavers, humans and ants? What you perceive as a purpose is simply the natural interaction of chemicals and the application of physical laws. "Lifeless planets" are a consequence of the same processes that produce life bearing planets, minus the conditions necessary to generate and sustain life.

What a strange post, filled with anecdote, unfounded claims, fanciful opinions and a fair amount of prejudice.

Do you have any data to support your rather unusual claims?

Historical commitment.

If you also believe in the Devil and the concept of Original Sin, it's probably not too difficult. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Perhaps, but it does nothing to disprove a sadistic God.

As with most things, context and perspective are important, however I believe I have expressed the conventional and consenus view of the role of nuclear weapons as understood by politicians, historians, military personnel and the like.

If this is a simulation and someone hits the reset button, will I still be unemployed in the next run?

No. The point is to prevent (discourage) a first strike by the threat of retaliation. Hence MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction. Hence calling it the nuclear deterrent. I'll grant you that in the immediate post WWII years it was mainly seen as an additional weapon in the arsenal, comparable with all the other weapons. Thus Macarthur could seriously plan to use them in the Korean conflict and so-called battlefield nuclear weapons do have a role akin to conventional ones, but the primary aim remains deterrence.

I feel your lengthy response, for which I thank you, merits an appropriately lengthy reply. However, I can only offer a (probably) familiar aphorism. "When all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail." Cheers.