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That is suicide. Are you married? I maintain: I dislike ophiolite's comment. It was rude and unnecessary. He should apologize instead of digging his own grave in the cemetery of my respect. Hum. That did sound a little bit like Confucius...

True. Google destroys originality. ----------------- My father's: "I am 100% sure I am right but there is still a slight possibility for me to be wrong" My wife's: "Everything that is not clean, it is dirty" Me: " " (say nothing, it's the wisest thing to do in 50% of the situations)

I disagree with both paragraphs. _war is a failure. War is wrong. The main problem with those 2 affirmations is that the monumental majority of the people who agree on this have died. They died at war, or they survived and died after. Some other people cannot perceive the horror and profound injustice of war, maybe because they think they are on the right side. But at war there is no right side. There is fire, there is pain, there is death. The only ones who gain something from war don't participate to war. These are a few, they don't spend their time on this kind of Forum. Conflicts can be resolved with peaceful processes. We are not in the wild west anymore where everyone walks the streets with a loaded revolver at hand (or are we?), I think its time for nations to act as the individuals ought to do. _As for Guantanamo, one cannot even parallelize with the procedures of the soviet communists because at guantanamo there is not even a fake trial. You must have missed L'aveu, based on the real life of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_London. These are experiences I wish not to my worst enemy. In other words, we have seen that before. And I am ashamed.

How old are you? the Philadelphia experiment took place (or didn't) in 1943 and Roswell in 1947.

My rule #1 is to never vote negative. For this post I have to think about reconsidering rule #1.

Good point. The state has the right to incarcerate, to print money, etc. It is not obvious what is ethical in these examples and what is not. ................... I think pharmacist get visits from the drug squad from time to time, at least in this country regulations are very strict and enforced. What are GPs? And why the postman would be trespassing?

Yes that works. Pope John Paul II proposed this solution. I am a little confused about the position of Pope Benedict XVI. If you are interested lokk here for Wikipedia and this article seems not bad too, I haven't read it thoroughly.

As a note: interesting that Eratosthene, with the same measurements, did not measure the distance to the sun as he should. The difference in angles between the shadow in Alexandria & Syene makes a triangle assuming the Earth is flat, and thus he should have measured the triangle, and thus the distance to the sun. Instead of that, he assumed that the rays are parallel and as a geometrical consequence that the Earth is round. Which is totally amazing.

Nice, Benice. Does it have some practical application? ---------------------- I saw in your examples that the curve ends where it started. You managed to equalize the perimeter of the circle with the perimeter of the polygon...

Reminds me the riddle In your case, if the 2 photons are going away from each other, I am not aware of any mean to observe directly the phenomenon: you can only observe the photons that reach you. If one takes the opposite question (see the riddle's solution), then it is about closing speed and the answer has been given already. solution

Did you read the discussion page? You should. An athlete who falls down after an exercise is a bad warning. And if you were an athlete, you would be supervised by a doctor.

@ YouareJoseph You are more catholic than the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI seems to support the BB Theory, that was introduced by a priest as you should know.

Anilkumar's question, and mine, is: what is this grid made of? If this grid is made of "nothing", then the analogy collapses. My answer to this, through the left/right hand analogy above, is that knowing that the crime weapon is on your left hand, you have to concentrate on what is in your left hand. In the ball on the membrane analogy, the crime weapon, is not the grid, the crime weapon is the bowling ball. IMHO the grid must be an emergent property of the bowling ball, not "something" in which matter stands. Spacetime is not an entity that surrounds matter, it is an entity that exists inside matter as well. The grid is intricated inside the bowling ball. So much intricated that if you choose to represent spacetime as a 2D membrane, and if you want to remain coherent, you should represent the bowling ball as a flat disk. It would become obvious that if spacetime changes shape where you put the ball, the ball should change shape as well and become curved. And if we are observers inside the ball, then we would also change shape. IOW gravity could be considered as a force that makes matter change shape. Constantly. IMHO of course.

Where is the crime weapon, in the left or in the right hand?

It is my best description so far.

I always stick to this very simple methodology: take something in your left hand, take nothing in your right hand. Raise your hands. Now say you are investigating a crime, and you know the crime weapon is in your hands. What would be your conclusion?

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--------------------- At the doctor: "sit down" the patient sits. "open your mouth" the patient opens his mouth "strip" the patient strips "completely" the patient strips completely "raise your left arm" the patient raises his left arm "relax" the patient relaxes "lay on that bed' the patient lies on that bed "breathe slowly" the patient breathes slowly ............................... Doctor, what do I have? "you have a submission syndrom, you are always doing what you are told to do. It is curable but you must do exactly what I will tell you". (adaptation from a comic strip of Philippe Geluck)

Here is my advice: never follow any advice.

O.K. so second order is about acceleration. So IIUC (If I understand Correctly) At first order of time a round ball of test particles is round. Talking about a ball of particles at rest relative to each other. For an external observer it may be moving at regular velocity, it will still be observed round. And it is round as observed from the inside. At second order of time, accelerating, it will be an ellipsoid. Both for the external observer which observes the ball moving at changing velocity, and for the observer inside the ball. Is that correct?

Thanks to IM Egdall who posted in another thread from this link emphasis mine Sorry I don't get it. What does mean "in second order of time"?

quoted from Wiki voluntary taxation. Gambling is unethical by definition. O.K. I take some papers from my rubbish, cut it in 100 small pieces and put a number from 1 to 100. I put a poster on the street that the winning price of the lottery is 50$ Then I sell each one for 1$. At the end, I got 100$ minus 50$ for the winner: the bank (me myself) won 50$. If I do that, I go to jail. It is dupery. States do that all the time and don't go to jail because the 50$ go to taxes. Casino's do that and don't go to jail because part of the 50$ go to taxes. But I don't see any ethics in participating in a game that would send someone to jail under common circumstances.

You should put all that into a graph.

Right. War is an offense. Ban war, make it illegal. Condamn both parties. I wait to see humanity enter a new era, where people read history with astonishment, learning how entire nations exterminated other ones, killing, bombing, raping, humiliating, torturing, stealing. I wait to see nations behave as regular citizens discussing without the threat of weapons, not lying, not spying. I must be naive. You should take some time reading about torture.

From the paper Interesting bibliography. That's art.