StringJunky

Ha! ftfy: Fixed That For You.

I immediately got Phi's humour.... long may it continue. If I was capable mathematically, to the necessary level, my papers would be formula-dense and word-free to keep it just on an A4. I think this is a good attitude because you don't want to bore your reader with excess words that meander around your subject and just act as fillers, which serve no real communicative purpose.

I'd be no good then, presenting a science paper. Anything more than A4 and I think I'm being verbose.

Yes, Mike.

Any serious rebuttal to Relativity is not going to be deposited at vixra, don't you think?

Because they are not 'tangible' to him, methinks.

Even up to the sixties. Marilyn Monroe for one. Haute Couture model recruiters would go up to her now and say: "Too fat darling, come back when we can see your ribs". I kid not.

Does the difference in masses of dual orbiting bodies cause each to take a more eccentric path around the centre of mass than if their masses were equal? If so would the eccentricity enhance the signal for Earth detectors?

Yes, there's still a big dollop of probability at the macro level. Edit: Perhaps my post better relates to abiogenesis.

I would, slightly, disagree with that. There is an inevitability, or determinism, in the physica/chemical behaviour of atoms/molecules under favourable conditions and exposure. to each other. If something is going to happen at this level, it will only happen in a limited number of ways, perhaps only one way in some cases.

My instant reaction was "Bollocks". Having read it, I still think the same. There are mo references or even authors mentioned. I think you know that. X-posted with SwansonT

I don't think so. To repeat myself, when one is talking about objects in fundamental physics one runs out of definitions very quickly; they are what they are. Imagine that houses were made of fundamental particles i.e. can't be broken down any further, called "Bricks". You might be asked: "What is a house made of?". You answer: "Bricks". Them: "But what are bricks made of?" You: "Bricks". The same goes for non-massive phenomena.

I think they must have realised the people's BS meter was going into the red and decided to change tack. We still, unfortunately, need these people but I think the judges should enshrine tighter oversight, requiring explicit permissions into law. There should be sworn-in, qualified committees, unconnected to law enforcement, that are privy to their activities. I would draw the line at matters of national defence, nuclear stuff etc., because that information must necessarily be shared between as few as possible.

If you deconstruct anything you will end up at a point which, ultimately, is axiomatic. Spacetime is one of those things, I think, where you you can 'diassemble' it to space and time and that's it. They are fundamental. What is time? It's what clocks measure. Note the lack of description of time itself in that definition.

The FBI is now showing it's true colours, contrary to what it said before::

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. - A. Einstein. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

Any conductive material, including slivers of connecting grapeskin, it seems, with sharp edges has the potential to arc. To arc you need sharp edges and conductive material. Take away one and it won't arc... being made of metal with no sharp edges is not enough. I use metal racks in my microwave, that it came with routinely. If you check the microwaveable racks you will see that the sharpish wire ends protrude beyond any arcable distance to any neighbouring surface. Presumably, that distance exceeds the voltage the microwave is capable of achieving with this design. It's important to prevent spilt food accumulating on it, otherwise it will arc when it turns to carbon and don't let the rack touch the microwave interior wall because it's metal in a dual purpose MW, like mine is. NOTE: Only use racks or other metal objects designed for microwaves otherwise you can damage the magnetron.if there is alot of arcing.

I agree, but it's the de facto way to filter people so that employers can select those with the appropriate skillset that they need. I dislike very much that kindergarten children in the UK are given homework, there is trend to push the young earlier and earlier. The scope and duration to let them just be children is diminishing rather quickly.

The harsh rules of life from Man's early history haven't gone away, just transformed into new goals and priorities which we all compete for. The other problem, increasingly, there's becoming too many fish in the pond, so competition will only increase into the future.

As far as I'm concerned, misspelling is not a problem unless it obscures the intent and meaning. Although I double check I don't get too hung up if it's clear what I'm trying to say, when I find more errors after. I note that nearly everybody has a typo or misspell somewhere in longish posts.... as alluded earlier, we must be mindful of Skitt's Law.

Bit by bit, over the last few years, the more it makes sense. The hardest thing has been to realise that many fundaental things in the universe are not material. Actually, I think now, it's unrealistic to expect to equate macro objects with fundamental ones. The analogy I came up with, in the difficulty of researching these things, Is imagining an opaque box with hand holes and then having to describe the properties of an object that's inside by tactile means alone. You can describe as data, no more and no less, what the touch signals tell you. Everything else is storytelling what you make from it... that's your model.

Perhaps you'll be happier - along with many others, probably - when scientists have a working model, with a quantum description, where phenomena are mediated by virtual particles, like gravitons.

Gravitational waves are the modulation of time and distance. Forget about material properties. Is electric charge material or magnetism? You don't have any problem with photons being made of them do you. Why can't modulated gravity be 'made' of time and space, which comprise spacetime? When scientists measure it, those parameters are what's affected.

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I'm heading in that direction. As much as I'm fed up with the difficulties, we can't turn the clock back and pretend we can be totally autonomous again.