StringJunky

Imagine everything sat all over a partially inflated balloon, then inflate it, you can see the big bang started everywhere at once because everywhere is moving away from each adjacent point on the surface equally fast. You need to translate that model into three dimensions from two.

Without exception, people are only banned for being arses.

Yes, I needed to take couple of antiemetics first, or else I would've chucked. It is far easier to be objective about things happening in other countries than your own, since ones view is generally not coloured so much by prejudice. We in Europe can see America's problem clearer than the Americans. The Syriza party's bombastically, divisive rhetoric and fervour has been reminiscent of the Nazi party; Pot, kettle.... The Germans have been the height of measured calm and desire to reconcile in several world situations lately. Dragging up their past is beneath contempt...the second world war ended far beyond those Greek politicians living memory. The morality is that Greece must take responsibility for its predicament.

I think this is the first time I've agreed with one of your posts. It's pretty much how I see the situation. Also, celebrating a decision to tell the hand that feeds you to, basically, "fuck off" is not going to enamour you to your creditors or facilitate conciliation.. iNow. The UK and other European countries are imposing austerity measures on themselves. The Greeks aren't alone in having to feel the pinch.

One hopes his wealth doesn't buy him the presidency.

Don't forget, these religions were thought up a thousand or two years and hence have the core tenets based on the culture and wisdom of those times. You can't change them because, over hundreds of years, things mature to 'holiness' and profundity and become the 'Word' of <insert icon/deity/prophet>.

You are best creating your own question, rather than tagged onto another one, it will get better exposure.

You should be ok with that book... it will set you up, and his other books. Science is an evolving subject anyway so books will always be out-of-date on some details to an extent because they take a while to get to print. As far as I know, there have been no paradigm-shifts since that book came out... time-lines are being constantly refined in the light of new knowledge, but the basic principles and mechanisms are the same.

Gravity, which points to the centre of the Earth, gives you the sense of 'up' and 'down'. Whichever position you are in, the other one is 'below' you

I know plums carry Botrytis c. mould, although this doesn't produce mycotoxins, but they may carry other moulds which do. I'm inclined to think it's micro-organisms as there would be plenty from under a tree. Perhaps you could sterilise it with sodium metabisulphite and citric acid solution first. Then make a canopy with overhanging edge that comes away from the sides for free movement of air.

Could we call it a "quasi-object"?

In fishing circles those boundaries are called "creases". You can see them in smooth flowing streams with big obstructions like boulders or tree trunks. You will see a static area behind the obstruction with a line of flow either side of it. The fish sit in that static area and wait for food to come past in the flow, then launch out to get it. Temperature differentials can cause them, as well.

The key to its properties are described thus but brttleness is a problem:

Yes, like spacetime, the Earth is locally flat and globally curved.

You've lost me, can you elaborate?

That's true, he's not working through it in a rational way so no other model will work for him. Another phenomenon I saw that 'drew' the curvature of the Earth was a very large Earth-grazer meteorite travelling at a speed that traversed the sky in seconds.

Your act is not amusing.

I'm inclined to think this way; evolution can only move so fast.

All the jobs you mention require specialised qualifications that take several years to acquire, so it's a bit much to expect one doctor to hold them all

I thought that got celebrated every day, by somebody getting killed with it.

There is no 'I' in team. Selfishness is a the basic trait of all animals... how is individualism laudable? I would put co-operation on a higher pedestal.

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Bobbies are not armed in the UK. It's nice to be able to say "Don't be absurd!"

Ok, fair enough.

What possible utility is there in trying identify to species by fine measurement of colours? I agree that he should learn the physics of colour and the vagaries of human vision in interpreting them but the idea itself is a fool's errand.