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swansont

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  1. While I agree Reagan is responsible for certain problems in the US, I’m not sure how he’s responsible for inequality elsewhere in “the west” How can CNN be more silent than Fox news? At least 10 people ran in the GOP primary. How were they not given the opportunity to become a candidate? RFK Jr, Jill Stein, Cornell West and Chase Oliver were all on the ballot (though not all in all states). But if you’re going to claim that the problems of the west have been caused by Trump’s election, you’re going to do a better job of laying out your argument. Especially for problems that existed before 2016.
  2. You can’t tell which electron is which by what state they are in, so you can’t say that anything has swapped. “Swapping” would imply that you knew what state each was in. An electron is a spin 1/2 lepton with a mass of .511 keV and charge -e. To me that’s its identity, but it’s the identity of any electron. If you don’t use physics terminology then there’s a good chance nobody will know what you mean.
  3. Which is a meaningless observation, since they must interact in order to become entangled, and interactions affect the states of particles. It’s not the identity that‘s swapped - e.g. an electron doesn’t become another kind of particle, and electrons are identical particles. The state of the particle is what is teleported. If you think this is a good analogy it suggests you don’t know all that much about quantum teleportation.
  4. I agree, which means this is all premature. But for “who will be the first to go” of people named (not actually taking their post) then the answer is Gaetz, game over, all done.
  5. Gaetz is already gone, and others who have been named might not be in consideration come January 20th. Are we including them?
  6. No. In entanglement, you don’t know the individual states. If you start out knowing, something must happen in the entangling interaction so that you lose track. The atoms would be in a superposition, rather than one in a higher and one in a lower state (and “below the ground state” is nonsense)
  7. You do know that Steve Jobs is dead, right? You keep using the present tense in these descriptions
  8. “Men with ED use computers more often since they aren’t having sex” is another conclusion one might draw. How the hell is “a higher genetic susceptibility to leisure computer usage” determined? They also suggest more activity is the solution, but also say that being sedentary isn’t the problem. A survey, not a double-blind effort, which raises the question of how they determined the genetics involved. Sounds like a load of crap.
  9. FYI the five post limit only applies to the first day. It’s an anti-spam measure Why does it require an energy exchange? Then why bring it up? Interpretations are not theories. They are ways of thinking about theories to help one understand the outcomes, but do not contain any physics that’s not in the actual theory. Anything traveling backward in time will have a partner traveling forward. Energy will be conserved. But the waves in the transactional interpretation are wave functions, which don’t contain energy, so this is moot. There’s no interaction.
  10. swansont replied to Captainzen's topic in Physics
    Belief doesn’t enter into it. Do you have evidence that is in disagreement? Because all of it seems to support the model that gravity is proportional to mass
  11. It’s not in a state, so how can the state change?
  12. This is misleading. Entangled particles are in undetermined states. Measuring one tells you the state of both. That’s the only way the particle states are affected — they go from unknown to known. No information has to travel anywhere. Once you measure the state of one, you know the state of the other but the correlation is known ahead of time. QM describes what we know about the particles.
  13. Belief is not evidence. “Logical” is insufficient - lots of hypotheses are logical but wrong, because they do not accurately describe how nature behaves. You need an experiment, or at least a proposed experiment, that allows for the idea to be tested. And the hypothesis has to make specific predictions. Invoking entanglement with no details falls well short of the mark.
  14. Who is “you” in this? Do you understand how elections work?
  15. ! Moderator Note What you believe is irrelevant. What can you show, via theory and experiment? Rigor is required. I refer you to studiot’s statement above about this being a science site.
  16. ! Moderator Note You had a thread on this already. It was locked. Don’t be hijacking someone else’s thread to bring it up
  17. ! Moderator Note We don’t care. ChatGPT is not a technical resource. This is not in accordance with our policy on its use https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/133848-policy-on-aillm-use-on-sfn/ Further, there’s not enough science in your post for it to be discussed in speculations. You’re free to ask questions, but if you have something to propose you need math so things can be quantified and you can make specific predictions.
  18. Right. Stock prices generally reflect expectation of future earnings, so it’s not November sales that matter, it’s next year’s, and the year after. And tariffs on Canadian goods would bump oil prices up, so if gas is more expensive, EV sales should continue to be robust.
  19. I think he stays to make sure investigations into his companies get derailed and the gravy train keeps flowing to him.
  20. I think that there’s going to be a lot of noise and not much action for a while. It’s not so easy to fire federal employees. I think the first attempts will result in some lawsuits and probably an injunction and blaming of the “deep state” because baby didn’t get his binky. Eventually various organizations will be able to re-do their org charts to reduce billets, but I’ve seen efforts to do this take more than a year before implementation. And other than the political appointees, few are going to be willing to reduce headcount unless there’s also a reduction in expected results, but that’s not an improvement in efficiency. Budget cuts will also affect this, but that, too will take time to bubble through. And representatives won’t like losing money coming into their districts. People don’t always realize that a lot of federal employees work outside of DC. Another tactic might be to shift even more work to contractors, even though that doesn’t really make anything cheaper or more efficient. They’ve been doing this for years. (the number of federal employees hasn’t changed all that much for the last ~50 years, even though the population has almost doubled) But it does give money to businesses. My bet is he’s going to try and fire any Biden administration holdovers before any of his own people.
  21. No, actually, I don’t. If you didn’t mean cabinet, you shouldn’t have said cabinet. Your imprecise wording not anybody else’s fault. Stop trying to blame others for not understanding.
  22. Perhaps not explicitly but it’s right there in the derivation.
  23. Musk isn’t going to be in his cabinet, because the so-called Department of Government Efficiency is not an actual department. Congress can create new departments, but the president can’t. Musk and Ramaswamy will be advisors, and not government employees.
  24. Again, you are making predictions as if Trump has some magic wand to do these things. How will he shut down public tv and radio? How will he sell something the federal government doesn’t own?
  25. Without much in the way of fact, either. Certainly not anything that’s been supported by outside sources. (“Outside sources” not meaning citing someone’s opinion)

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