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I didn't ask for 45 pages of explanation. I asked specifically about the fine structure constant. This is a number, and explaining it would amount to calculating it from first principles, not just in terms of the dimensioned physical constants that define it. Note that the fine structure constant is the square of the elementary charge expressed in dimensionless form, so explaining it is equivalent to explaining why the elementary charge has the value it does. BTW, I didn't suggest that you broke any rules. You did supply enough text about your theory to get the ball rolling. But now you need to supply text about requested specifics to continue the discussion.

The forum rules require that one be able to discuss your theory without downloading a file or visiting an external website. So, I will ask you to elaborate on your claim about successfully explaining the fine structure constant.

And Jehovah's Witnesses do not vote, not even in countries where voting is compulsory.

It should be remarked that a rotating superfluid behaves differently to other rotating fluids, exhibiting quantized vortices.

I don't agree. For example, it was a conservative Supreme Court that recently overturned Roe v. Wade. Yes, there is that. But what it means is that Christianity doesn't align itself properly along left/right political lines. For one thing, there is this whole "obedience to God" aspect of Christianity that does not sit well with the left. For example, the members of science forums tend to be leftist, but science forums are rather unfriendly places for anyone promoting Christianity.

No. However, I shall defer to Wikipedia on how neurons function.

As I see it, the left tends to be atheistic or at least secular in attitude. Also, leftist liberalism tends to be viewed as decadent and against the word of God by Christians. Furthermore, communist regimes tend to ban religions, regarding them as the "opium of the people".

As swansont said, not really an earth-shattering observation here. Indeed, there is a term that covers the notion you are describing: solipsism.

I think one needs to remember that Newtonian gravitation only contributes half of any gravitational lensing effects.

I think, you don't understand the numbers... I think you don't understand what I said.

I think billionaires is the new millionaires.

I very recently watched a documentary in which this was mentioned. I was not aware of it prior to this. However, it seems to me that the notion of something preventing supermassive black holes from merging is not consistent with general relativity. According to general relativity, if one has a system containing an arbitrary arrangement of black holes, an increase of the masses of all the black holes by a constant factor, as well as an increase of all the distances and times by the same factor will result in the system's behaviour being unchanged. For example, if one has two black holes of mass equal to ten million solar masses in mutual circular orbit ten million astronomical units apart, then the amount of time required for the orbit to decay by emission of gravitational radiation to five million astronomical units apart will be one million times as long as two black holes of ten solar masses in mutual circular orbit ten astronomical units apart decaying by emission of gravitational radiation to five astronomical units apart. Yes, the supermassive black holes will take a lot longer to merge, but there isn't anything other than time itself preventing the merge. However, the above does assume a background spacetime that is flat. In a de Sitter or anti-de Sitter background spacetime, the scaling of the cosmological constant is different and will lead to larger black holes behaving differently to smaller black holes.

The Proof of the 3X + 1 Conjecture

But you need sodium sulfate or magnesium sulfate to be present for the reaction to continue because these provide the ions that are migrating across the salt bridge to electrically neutralise the hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions that are formed at the electrodes. One other consequence of the low solubility of magnesium hydroxide is that the required voltage across the electrodes will be lower because the produced hydroxide ions will be removed from solution (Le Chatelier's principle).

One difference between using sodium sulfate and using magnesium sulfate is that the product magnesium hydroxide has very low solubility whereas the product sodium hydroxide is very soluble.

I don't know. I assume the quantum Zeno effect to be quite general. I have even simulated the effect on an Excel spreadsheet.

There is the quantum Zeno effect where the rate of decay is affected by the frequency of measurement.

In Australia at the moment, there is discussion of forcing social network platforms to age-verify their participants to prevent children from being exposed to inappropriate content. But this seems to me like a backdoor way to require everyone to provide ID to use the internet. We have a term for governments that wish to implement policies of this nature... we call them "nanny states".

You don't need to do anything. A thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. Or do you need to make a thermos from scratch? If so, why? A thermos is basically a container inside another container with a vacuum in the space between the containers and the inner container having a mirrored surface.

Where did the idea come from that people in the time of Christopher Columbus thought the earth was flat?

The way I see it, you would have to do your measurements on water rather than on land because the effect you are trying to measure would be swamped by the topography of the land. On the water, you'd have to contend with waves, but an average over multiple measurements would tend to iron out that problem.

Well, I am assuming that we are not living on the edge of a disc, a case that would be invalidated by observing an eclipse that occurs around midnight. Anyway, I've observed enough lunar eclipses occurring at various times during the night to know that the earth can only be spherical.

One can observe the curvature of the earth's shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. And by observing lunar eclipses that occur shortly after sunset or shortly before sunrise, it is clear that the shadow is due to a spherical object.

Ok. This would appear to resolve the inconsistency I attempted to create by having a metric that can be coordinate-transformed to the Minkowskian metric but with a Riemann tensor that is not everywhere zero. I was thinking that a choice had to be made between the coordinate transformation and the Riemann tensor. However, because the metric: [math]\text{diag}(−1, 1, 1, 1 + H(z) z^2 + H(−z) z^4)[/math] is everywhere continuous and invertible, the coordinate transformation to the Minkowskian metric is a diffeomorphism.

I have a question for you: Suppose I have a metric that is pathological in some way. But there exists a coordinate transformation that is everywhere continuous and invertible from this metric to the Minkowskian metric. However, due to the pathological nature of the metric, the Riemann tensor is not everywhere zero. Is the spacetime described by the metric flat?