Everything posted by Genady
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Definitions are not Free!
Is a definition of Dirac delta function free? Which proven law does it follow?
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Interpretations of QM
A historical analogy doesn't prove anything of course but can work heuristically. By analogy, no efforts to disprove classical mechanics or find where different interpretations of it could produce different results have brough a breakthrough. The breakthrough rather came from different developments, i.e., EM, thermal radiation, spectroscopy. By this analogy, I'd expect the next breakthrough to come from a different development as well. Cosmology? Something else?
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Interpretations of QM
Aren't we in this situation for a few decades already? About 3 or more?
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Definitions are not Free!
Which specific intuition does it contain? Then what does?
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Definitions are not Free!
A procedure of following from intuition has to include intuition on one or more steps. Just like a procedure of following from axioms has to include the axioms on one or more steps.
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Definitions are not Free!
Yes, it does. Otherwise, it does not "follow from intuition."
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Definitions are not Free!
There is no "intuition" in this text.
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Definitions are not Free!
How do you know that it follows from intuition? Whose intuition? How does a procedure of "following from intuition" work?
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
Taking about invasives, or not. This plant has appeared in my yard about two years ago and grew taller than 2m by now. Evidently, very happy. Constantly blooming and making fruits. It is Noni, Noni | NCCIH (nih.gov), I am in Southern Caribbean, on an island with no lava flows since it appeared out of the ocean. How the Noni seed got to my yard? Perhaps via humans somehow, unknown to me. Is it invasive? I don't know. I hesitate to take a preventive measure...
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Question about evolution
When the asteroid hit, today's Mexico and East Africa were not where they are now. They were much closer to each other, separated by only about 80 degrees of longitude. Anyway, the extinction event was global, affecting the entire planet, but differentially affecting different life lineages.
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
Yes. The official site mentioned above, has the following disclaimer on every page: (my emphasis)
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Find optimum radian and diameter of convex mirror
A sketch of what it is you're talking about, for the starter. The original sketch does not correspond to what you say now.
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Interpretations of QM
Maybe the issue is not QM but rather probability? Entropy is another statistical concept that causes lots of confusion.
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Find optimum radian and diameter of convex mirror
Sorry, but not enough data given to solve this problem.
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Find optimum radian and diameter of convex mirror
1. So, you didn't need an angle from the beginning? If you did, could you show that angle on your original sketch? 2. If it is a circular cylinder, then the curvature would be reciprocal of the circle radius. Maybe you're talking about a lens rather than a cylinder?
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Interpretations of QM
I am familiar with the models. I just wanted to understand what is I still don't know. Maybe I do... Then my answer to is, No. This is regardless of waves, particles, strings, whatever.
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
The same single study from 2008. The rest is what could happen, I'd like to know if these bad effects in fact occur. Any new data? Preferably by a larger study?
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
It's emotions. I'd like to see data about the damage they cause. Thank you.
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
Yes, I know. We've discussed it almost a year ago.
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
It perhaps is. Somebody put it together. I don't know of an official body which maintains such a list. Maybe @Lady of Elms does? Or @CharonY?
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Interpretations of QM
To better understand this statement, or rather to understand it at all, may I ask if the computer in front of me exists in any meaningful ontological sense?
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
A species I had issues with being on this list is lionfish. It has been discussed in the old thread and I would like to know if there are new data on that:
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
They define invasive as Perhaps Burmese python would eat farm chicken thus "directly threatening human industry."
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Freshwater Mussels are important and in trouble
Here is a long list: List of invasive species in North America - Wikipedia
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Interpretations of QM
The guy doesn't know that this particular thing would overturn anything 😉