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I’m also considering that the discussion covers the timeline back to Galileo, and the vast majority of the population of the world was quite poor until fairly recently. The reason that all the named geniuses were white European men, is not some innate superiority of being white, European, or male.

And Endy has implied, you have no right of free speech with regard to this forum. You are expected to follow our rules, and if you don’t, you get kicked out. The government is not the one doing that, so no rights are violated. From the link: “Higher prices might be the top concern for Americans, but a very close second is the increasing cost of speaking your mind,” said FIRE Research Fellow Nathan Honeycutt. “The message is clear: Americans want their free speech rights respected.” This strongly suggests these people also do not understand what the right of free speech is. The are confusing it with freedom from consequences of their speech, which does not exist

True, but statistically speaking it’s much more likely that they were simply born poor and never got the chance to apply their genius to “idle” pursuits.

You need to fix your equation formatting so it renders properly. You mention frequency. Frequency of what, exactly? What is oscillating? If the Higgs coupled to some other dimension — something not in the current theory — that would affect the Higgs. Shouldn’t that shift the mass? Why was it discovered where it was expected? Your focus on gravity for variable mass is probably misplaced; gravity is very weak. We should see effects in atomic and nuclear systems. We have lots of data from accelerator experiments already. Why don’t we see the evidence in existing experiments?

There have undoubtedly been geniuses that never got an opportunity to discover new science because they were born to the wrong circumstances and died toiling in the field or from unfortunate events.

That only works if the tariff is the amount of the price difference. And we have actual data from when this happened, with a smaller tariff: prices went up. That helps the owner of the US business, since they can raise prices and increase profits. The workers are hurt because they are paying more for the products. Again: we have actual data from when this happened before. ”experts aren’t always right” is a pretty lame argument. Experts tell you not to jump off a cliff because you will die. They aren’t always right, but that’s not a reason to jump off a cliff. Again: actual data. That’s another danger.

Einstein moved to the US in 1933. He had visited prior to that, of course

there should be more content/context posted —- “Almost certainly, it was commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s to take it westwards. The question is who that was and with what authority and purpose? It's intriguing that key information about a once vital national security asset can just evaporate.” Not so intriguing, IMO. It’s been ~50 years. Paper records get lost. Storage gets moved to new locations. Computer systems get upgraded, and probably multiple times. If they were computerized, what medium was used? Almost certain to be obsolete today. Lots of personnel turnover; institutional knowledge gets lost. If this was a dead satellite, nobody was around to continually refresh memories.

I think if democrats hadn’t overestimated the effect of Trump’s troubles — thinking he wouldn’t be a viable candidate — and underestimate the lameness of the press, they might have tried to tie things like inflation to him. They may have held back because of the thought that they could work with republican. They need to get a LOT better at hanging blame on republicans, discard silly notions of bipartisanship, and not save republicans from any disastrous decisions they make. People will be hurt, but that’s not avoidable now, and I have no sympathy for people who voted for whatever happens (and non-voters, who sinned by omission). Ignorance, as they say, is no excuse.

I saw one like that (probably the same one) which also said crime was up (another lie) and called Biden’s economic policies “disastrous” (arguably another lie) Propaganda works. Too many aren’t engaged enough to get the facts, or don’t think Trump will do what he’s promised to do, or don’t understand how they will be affected (e.g. the “China will pay the tariffs” nonsense) And there are still men who will not vote for a woman

Did they or didn’t they? At least take a consistent position. Now, take the first step and back this up with evidence. I know evidence isn’t your strong suit, but without it, it’s just blather. For example, I saw ads saying Harris would cut taxes for the middle class. How is that not in “layperson’s terms”? Or her saying she’ll stop price-gouging? Or “more affordable housing”? Stop making stuff up. If you can’t deal in facts, go away.

I fail to see how acknowledging the GOP strategy means the democrats ignored this. If anything, the comment about Taylor Swift means they acknowledged it. They were unsuccessful at combatting it. Those are different things.

I think part of the issue is she’s complaining about a very, very narrow slice of physics, but since that’s her area, to her it seems like a bigger problem. There’s some tacit acknowledgment that physics is progressing but it’s by applying existing foundations of QM and GR. We went a really long time between Newton’s laws and special relativity. Sure, different techniques were investigated (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian) but they were just extensions of the basics - no new foundations. Did physics fail because we went >200 years before that happened?

And folks will say, “Why didn’t you tell me?” about all the stuff that people were trying to tell them, but it didn’t register, or they were tuned in to sources that fed them propaganda. Those same sources will find someone to blame, and it won’t be Trump.

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Problem being the press wanting policy from democrats, but not from the republicans. But it’s true, propaganda won out. Trying to stick to telling the truth lost. The ill-informed electorate is swayed by emotion, not facts. You have to light a fire under them to get them to the polls

There are directly measurable variables, though some are not (like entropy); you need to specify. “system as a whole” doesn’t work, as there’s no way to guarantee a way of combining individual changes of variables of different quantities that makes any sense. (e.g. a change in position and temperature)

Yes. The time coordinate can’t be repeated.

Change in what? It’s going to depend on the variable. The question is too vague.

And relativity recognizes that the distances between points - including the time interval - is important, because relative motion affects the distance interval or time interval, such that the total is the same for both stationary and moving observers.

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Night FM has been banned for persistent fallacy use and repeatedly and consistently failing to engage in good faith arguments

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Anecdote from social media, but I suspect we will see a lot of things similar to this from a complacent and under-informed electorate as reality sets in

But, to the point of the OP, was this an advance of the foundations of biology? Or was it the exploitation of new tools that became available after the new foundational issue had been discovered (DNA) . I’d argue the latter, much like the last 100 years of physics have seen an exploitation of QM after its discovery, expansion (e.g. QED, QCD) and refinement.