StringJunky

Yes, that makes sense.

FYI it's Dr Tom Swanson. He puts his first name initial (t) on the end of his username.

No, that reference was in relation to your question about the necessity for external forces changing the Earth's rate of rotation ...which it isn't. The changes can be caused internally.

It's worth reading all this statement made in 1999..

Table salt has anti-caking agents in it so it could be a by-product of one or more of those..

Vaccination may be becoming a victim of it's own success because as time goes on there will be increasingly few of us who remember these diseases, their prevalence in our younger lives and the harm they caused. Because the benefits are effectively invisible to younger generations - who have no memory or connections with past epidemics - all they will increasingly see and hear about is the adverse effects of vaccination and this lack of personal experience is causing people like simple-minded to have doubts. A consequence we may see of this overwhelming success towards increasing overall herd immunity is a degree of reversal in the prevalence of these diseases such that they might make the news again.

There's degrees of dream-state and the scenario you mention has some conscious-awareness in it ...lucid dreaming being the highest level to the point you can manipulate them.

Perhaps because they think more and more the answers actually lies in the mathematical formalism and look for the data less and less to put meat on it ...they lose sight that it's just a tool.

The problem with this sort of subject is finding sources that have no horse in the race either way and just want to know - in a dispassionate way - for the pure purpose of historical record. It must be rife with confirmation bias on the sides that have an agenda or interest in a particular outcome. I wouldn't trust a declared fervent atheist or their theistic counterpart because they are already prejudiced from the start. I am inclined think there actually was a somewhat rebellious person that came to symbolise the hopes and dreams of those around at that time. Pretty much like Mandela represents racial unity ...his memory will turn into an exaggerated heroic mythical character in the decades and possibly centuries to come. Look at Einstein, he is "the avatar of human intellectual achievement" as Timo put it ...he has achieved near mythical status amongst the general populace. It's what happens as time mists the details and imagination takes over to fill the gaps.

I like this. What a great way to put it..

Quality of information sources. Choose them well.

It seems more like a free-for-all in physics because it's less immediately tangible or tactile than other subjects so the potential scope for arm-waving is greater.

To me, the patent is for various methodologies and not the virus itself

It is a place for people to talk about religious matters from a disciplined and objective perspective - which is part and parcel of being scientific - that they may not find anywhere else. It's existence also shows that this forum is not closed-minded and therefore not dogmatic in the eyes of those with religious leanings, unlike those forums that lack one. It is a place for those with such leanings to challenge the scientific consensus and hopefully - extremely rarely though - alter their world view to a more objective one. it also interesting to some with scientific leanings to discuss religious perspectives, impact on society and it's evolution as a sociological exercise.

I wouldn't say caused but one can be directed verbally what to 'see' in a scene where there is a multiplicity of possible images in it.

But it is - in that scenario - your present modus operandi which is what you are alluding to, irrespective of whether you are doing it right now.

Theories are nothing without maths because the essence of a theory, particularly physical ones, is that it can make predictions i.e. describe events under varying conditions.or parameters. There's no other effective way to describe quantitative phenomena really. By asking someone to put the numbers to your hypothesis you are basically asking them to do the most important and difficult work. Dreaming up visually or verbally expressed ideas is the easy part.

As long as the original intent gets across that's all that matters really. English has evolved from several languages so the rules are a bit of a mess and lack overall consistency. 'Going to' is a common expression of intent. We are figuratively moving through time.

Yes Captain Panic, we, the British Isles, are a country and the present-day Scots are hankering for a past they never knew. We are just different ends of a 4-member continuum. In scientific discussions I'm fine with metric but in my everyday life I'm dyed-in-the-wool yards and pounds. so, sod off! In the angling fraternity here even young kids, familiar with metric, ask "what pound line are you using?".

If you are happy to chat on your mobile phone for twenty minutes that's about as much radiation as your wifi will give you in a year and there's no evidence that that level is harmful from a mobile phone (Paraphrased from Source:UK Health Protection Authority). Non-ionising radiation - which is what wifi uses - doesn't cause chemical bonds to break which is necessary for chemical reactions/altered configurations to occur and if there is no chemical reaction, there are - to date - no known long-term adverse cellular-level effects from frequencies domestic devices use, other than it could make things a bit warmer. A mobile phone could possibly do this if held to your ear long enough but wifi - being longer range in use is unlikely to do this except from a laptop - it's a good idea to protect your gonads from the conducted heat generated by the components. Concerning the WHO's '2b' classification: A critique of your source: I'm no expert but every time I check out this subject I find nothing convincing to worry me enough to cause me to change my computer and phone habits ...other than keeping my gonads cool...laptop's on a table. .

Exclusive homosexual behaviour apparently occurs in about 10% of male rams.

Yes, a blunt visceral instrument like such a picture you mention speaks louder unfortunately.

Vaccination is an important act of social responsibility benefitting the collective physical well-being of society and not just the individual.

Congratulations.