swansont

When you post someone else’s material we expect a link to it, at the very least. The overarching problem with these arguments is that they are meaningless. You can e.g. pick any angle range and make a similar calculation. They are equally likely, statistically speaking. You were born on a particular day. There’s only a 1/366 chance of that, but unless you’re predicting it ahead of time, so what? The “close to the ecliptic” observation says it came from the thick disk region of the galaxy, nothing more. The probability arguments are similar to ones that creationists make to “disprove” evolution and they all suffer from innumeracy. It’s pathetic that a credentialed scientist, who should have an understanding of statistics and probability, is doing it

You can only speak for yourself. You don’t appear to know what motivates other people, or what makes them “tick”

It says mass is a form of energy, but does not say that it can necessarily be converted to another form.

Moderator NoteAnything tainted by AI, even in this way, violates our rules.

I recall seeing that form of the argument as well; probably somewhere here (though with the way archiving limits things now I don’t know if a search would find it). It was likely offered up because someone rejected merely citing the 2nd law.

What about people who don’t want to be hermits? That’s the only way to be free of such rules.

It’s a version of the 2nd law of thermodynamics; you would be spontaneously heating an object with a cooler object. i.e. focusing sunlight will never get you above ~6000K

Just a link to a story is insufficient, and you need to enlighten us as to the context of the “16th anomalie” (sic)

Moderator Note“Go see these other sites” isn’t how this works, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Moderator NoteMoved to speculations

Then go get a blog and post it there. This is a discussion forum; we’re interested in what people have to say about science and related topics. LLMs don’t “make points.” They regurgitate plausible-sounding dialog based on their training.

So? What’s the point you are trying to make?

Moderator NoteWe have clearly plunged into a previous closed topic, covering the same ground and having the OP blatantly disregard explanations again.

You’re not making a compelling (i.e. physics-based) connection between these ideas, that the density of a clock somehow matters to the passage of time. That would mean the clock somehow affects time. How does time “know” that an item is a clock? Yes, since no matter the frames you are still, as you acknowledge, doing a comparison.

clocks measure time, they are not time itself

Incorrectly stated. See below. Mirrors invert front to back. When you look at the ambulance in the mirror, you are looking forward. To look at the ambulance itself, you must rotate 180 degrees to see it. It’s the rotation that causes the left-right inversion. Not the mirror. I did a youtube video of this on my blog back in the day but Google is so messed up these days I don’t know if I can find it. edit searching the blog itself was much more productive http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/13984 Also the previous post, in that link

All of these things need to be quantified. You need math.

LY is not a unit of age. The size of the observable universe being larger than 15 LY is not an issue of advanced waves.

Can you measure temperature without a comparison? Absolute vs gauge doesn’t matter in this context.

Citation needed

If this were an actual scientific hypothesis, these would be things you already know.

Voltage is always measured with respect to something. It’s a potential difference. So you have not provided enough information to answer the question.

There are also stories about the person who eventually thwarted the shooter. The reports are that the fake stories cropped up, fueled by AI/bots and spread on dodgy news sites and places that amplify such disinformation via their algorithms (X/Twitter and Facebook, to name two). Such bots do appear on Bluesky, but there’s no algorithm to amplify the slop. One of the effects here is to make all information untrustworthy. Stick with sources that actually do fact-checking and take the other stuff with a huge grain of salt.

That’s the filing deadline, but if you owe them too much you have to pay a penalty. In the US, to be some extent, taxes have to be paid as you go. It’s why there’s withholding on each paycheck, with the goal of owing nothing when the year ends. If you owe more than $1k (and some other caveats apply) then you owe a penalty. I doubt it. There are loopholes, and more for the rich, but I suspect this isn’t one. Unless the LLC already existed when you won I suspect it would not save you. Switching citizenship won’t work, either; taxes are paid according to residence. When I did my postdoc in Canada, I paid Canadian taxes. (and if I made enough the US would have taken a bite, too). Plus doing the switch after the fact wouldn’t save you, and being citizen part of the year would probably make you have dual tax liabilities. How do you get 10 months from winning in June? The tax year for most people is the normal calendar year.

The science is in the details. What qualifies as an “unusual” gamma emission? How do you detect Hawking radiation and what constitutes “unusual” for it? What are the predicted anomalies in the CMB or gravitational waves? Without an actual model, what you have is a narrative.