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swansont

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  1. FUV

    swansont replied to JerryE's topic in Speculations
    Moderator NoteThis is not a help-wanted board. It’s expected that you will discuss this here.
  2. How does a massless (i.e. no energy) collection emit any radiation? It can’t be at 0K. It must have thermal energy, and as such, mass.
  3. If you have a black hole, how does the energy leave the system as the self-energy cancels the rest energy?
  4. Declared by whom, though? If they were reporting based on Trump’s announcement then it’s the same flawed source, and same failure.
  5. Because Obama got one. If some organization named Obama the best president of the last quarter-century, the Trump meltdown would be epic
  6. Why would they? They are a matter of personal preference, i.e. subjective rather than objective. If you’re going to argue that something is right, there needs to be objective evidence of it, and a mathematical model to compare with the experimental results. You have to pick one or the other (subjective or objective) What you can’t do is jump between the two as a matter of convenience
  7. Multiple reports of what? That Trump said it? That’s not the issue. That an Iranian official denied it was in the same story at CNN That the media still credulously repeats everything that Trump says has to be viewed as massive failure of modern “journalism” They were warned by Iran. Iran gets to say they retaliated, US avoids serious damage. That particular show of bravado can end. Until Netanyahu manipulates Trump into more engagement, or Trump needs another dustraction from his disastrous domestic policies.
  8. Commenting/editorializing on the material posted is not a personal attack.
  9. You believe Trump? What do Israel and Iran say?
  10. Is there an actual science question? Just posting links isn’t enough - we expect things to be discussed to be posted here.
  11. Existing theories quantify the effects, i.e. they have math, and are falsifiable. Quite successful, too. How would one quantify the effects in your proposal, and test it in a rigorous way?
  12. Yes, this is how density, mass and volume relate to each other. It’s really just one equation, which can be rearranged via basic algebra
  13. Volume is already “cubic”; the dimensions of V are L^3 (L is length) Your equations are inconsistent
  14. The Higgs was predicted in the standard model, which is the prevailing theory. Supersymmetry theories look for things beyond the standard model. Multiverse is more of a conjecture. I wasn’t aware either made a Higgs prediction, given that the standard model exists. Do you have references that say otherwise? Supersymmetry predicts the Higgsino, the fermion partner to the Higgs boson, which has not been found.
  15. Wigberto has been banned for bad-faith arguments (specifically creationist trolling) and re-opening a closed topic.
  16. And bad at following the rules. You can go be an ignorant creationist troll (sorry, that’s redundant) elsewhere.
  17. It is. It describes the US as a whole, without acknowledging any nuance. But it’s not a stereotype, since it’s not talking about people
  18. That would be making the same error. “gun-happy USA” is not saying “all Americans love guns” so changing the country and subject is still a problem The failure is twofold. You are changing the country to citizens of that country (Canadians love hockey, which is a stereotype), and compounding the error by adding an “all” Is Canada “hockey-happy”? Sure seemed that way when I lived there. I’ve joked that a Canadian news broadcast went “War has broken out and natural disasters have hit multiple countries. But first, the hockey results”
  19. That’s not a fair comparison. “Gun-happy USA” refers to the country, and such a generalization does not imply that all inhabitants have that attitude. So it’s a bit of a strawman. Between levels of private gun ownership and the legal framework which allows it, I think “gun-happy USA” is a reasonable assessment of the country. It’s not a stereotype of the people, though it’s true for a critical mass of the people in power.
  20. You need to consider the possibility that those bombing hospitals know exactly what they’re doing
  21. Moderator NoteYou were explicitly told not to include AI content in the discussion. Link removed.
  22. Helium and a trace amount of Lithium were also created in the Big Bang (which the OP may not accept as being true, either)
  23. A iNow said, it could have happened during the switchover, or it could be some other data corruption, but I don’t know what can be done about it.
  24. I didn’t say they were, I said they were offering up the same talking points. Creationist talking points are doubtful of evolution. They can be arrived at independently, of course, but the misunderstanding required almost has to be willful, because it’s not that hard to get good information. “the fittest always survive” (emphasis added) is your strawman. No part of the actual theory claims this.

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