swansont

No, I don’t. I doubt one exists.

I think it’s the use of K-G instead of Schrödinger

The whole relativistic mass explanation is a pop-sci retelling of the physics; the solutions to the equations are in terms of the energy, for which you get a correction in the relativistic case (and this is how the journal article I once looked up treated it). It’s in the pop-sci retelling they talk about relativistic mass, or take the kinetic energy and get a velocity.

So I guess it’s the middle-school biology answer.

How would that be proof? And (as I asked previously) what does make one a woman? Do you have a comprehensive set of criteria? Something that’s more accurate and precise than middle-school biology.

! Moderator Note Similar topics merged You seem to contradict yourself here. Does it explain things, or not? Does math explain what the area of a circle or rectangle is? Yes, I think it does. And I second iNow’s request to clarify what you mean by real. Math certainly exists. All those classes, books and chalk dust I experienced were not illusions.

Also some that require a certain post count. edit to add: posts here and a few other places, like the Lounge, don’t contribute to the post count total

It’s even more than that, because I don’t think anyone has shown that this is simply a case of “identifying as” in the same way as someone might identify as a cat-lover. There are studies that show genetic factors for gender incongruence, which has to enter into an evidence-based discussion, rather than just assertion and poor definitions. (though perhaps being a cat-lover is the result of some genetic influence, too)

h is Planck’s constant It is very definitely momentum. You can use light to accelerate atoms from the recoil of an absorption and subsequent emission of photons. Using that to cool atoms down won the 1997 Nobel prize.

The momentum is E/c, meaning the force is P/c (P being the power). Twice that if reflected, as exchemist notes. Randall Monroe did a calculation (which I confirmed) that levitating a 1 kg squirrel on a perfectly reflecting mirror requires about a “Back to the Future”-esque 1.21 GW. So not a big effect for light with a more pedestrian power level. Solar sails have to be big for any reasonable payload It does affect the earth by a tiny amount. Somewhat more dramatically, it can have an effect on small satellites, including causing non-uniformly-shaped ones (or ones with a non-uniform albedo) to tumble, after enough time. It contributes to the YORP effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YORP_effect#:~:text=The Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–,of its own thermal radiation.

! Moderator Note I think the larger point is that you don’t seem to be addressing the issues that are raised, and there’s a decided lack of rigor.

I’ll take that as a “no” As usual.

What does make one a woman? Is it genetics? Is it genitalia? Is there a definition that covers everyone? I don’t suppose you have evidence to back this up.

I think you said all but a handful of trans athletes choose not to compete at an elite level, and I want to know where they went. Since it’s a choice, they must have the ability to do so. They must have done so at some point. Winning, if they are to compete at an elite level. OK, where are they? And they’d be winning championships, if they are going to be competing at a world elite level. If they can’t win at the college level, how can they be be competing against the champions of the NCAA from that and earlier years, and the elite competitors from other countries? And there are many such athletes, but they aren’t trans. There are athletes who have complained about the damage that drugs they are allowed to (and expected to) take do to them. Shaquille O’Neal has been quite open about taking anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers in order to play basketball. It’s common among gridiron football players (Toradol, for one). Aaron Rodgers admitted to taking ayahuasca, a schedule 1 drug. Not prohibited by the NFL. It seems that protecting the players happens when not doing so impacts the bottom line. The NFL covered up concussion issues for years until it was too obvious that it was an issue. They don’t want PEDs because of the notion that it’s cheating, and that’s an image problem.

Just because they used Tor doesn’t make them a bot. People use VPNs or dynamically-assigned IP addresses. I’ve seen instances of spammers using the exact same IP address as were previously used by long-time members. How do you determine that it’s a bot?

Time is not something that interacts.

Yes. But as long as the compression of the submersible’s material and water are not the same, the effects won’t cancel.

Water density increases under pressure. The vessel itself would decrease in volume (bulk modulus isn’t infinite) https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/water_density.html

Because all bots use the same IP address? Or that would tell us anything useful?

Any evidence of this hidden horde of trans athletes that choose not to compete at elite levels? Until last year trans athletes in the US could compete in NCAA sports with no restrictions, AFAICT (testosterone testing was then implemented) Exactly one has won a championship, and that was last year. That’s the extent of college competition that could ascend to the elite level. That’s out of 32 trans athletes competing in college in the US. 15 in high school (2 girls) What does this have to do with trans athletes? i.e. people who are not using performance-enhancing drugs?

When you offer up hypotheticals in response to a request for evidence, it suggests there is no evidence. Quoting someone saying largely the same thing else isn’t evidence. It’s not even a hypothetical. So this is to protect the transgender community? Couldn’t they just choose not to compete

How will this handful of participants “set back” women’s sports? We don’t need hypotheticals here - some sports organizations have permitted trans women to compete. Are they winning all the trophies? Are cis women not competing anymore?

I had wondered why they kept referring to the passengers as “mission specialists” https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen “Although it is illegal to transport passengers in an unclassed, experimental submersible, “under U.S. regulations, you can kill crew,” McCallum told me. “You do get in a little bit of trouble, in the eyes of the law. But, if you kill a passenger, you’re in big trouble. And so everyone was classified as a ‘mission specialist.’ There were no passengers—the word ‘passenger’ was never used.” No one bought tickets; they contributed an amount of money set by Rush to one of OceanGate’s entities, to fund their own missions.”

Sure it has. There are no more of them. They are all dead. Thus, they are extinct. Which doesn’t change the fact that there are no more of them. Which really happened. We don’t know who the last of most species are, or when that happened, except for rough estimates, even for lineages that died out. The ones we know are the anomalies, not the norm, and partly because we’re living in a mass extinction event. Their name was not changed on some whim. There are defining characteristics of H. erectus not present in later species. Your argument is like saying red is blue, because we can’t objectively nail down exactly where each color transitions to the next one in the ROY G BIV spectrum.

And I debunked the claims in the other thread. The “pressure” includes buying clothes. The number they cite is medical or social transition. They don’t, IIRC, give a number for sex change operations. The citations don’t support your claim.