John Cuthber

Yes. Incidentally, if you put someone like this in charge,- someone who has no idea what the issues are- how can you say you ? https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/videos/10156163592166323/

It's right- NASA are good at that sort of thing. What is remarkable is your failure to understand it.

Wow! You cited a web page written by NASA for kids. And you managed to fail to understand it. The colour of the sky is not due to refraction. It is due to scattering. In the case of Mars, the particles of dust in the air are big enough to act as reflectors (rather than scatterers) and their colour shows up. Essentially brown martian dust makes the martian atmosphere brown.

LOL It would be; now, where's the evidence that he's actually doing any of it? The fact is he is hindering research in so many fields

When it hits one wall, how does it know how far away the other wall is in order to know whether or not to disappear? (I say disappear- because, with perfect (or arbitrarily good) mirrors, it can't be absorbed.) That's especially challenging since the other end of the box keeps moving , both as other photons hit it and as the ZPE moves it about. Equivalently, how does the "perfect" mirror know to become imperfect when there's another mirror a long way away?

"A Brand New Approach" The old approach works; yours is different. Think about that...

OK I built the box (It's a thought expt) and I built a pulsed laser to put photons in the box. Because I have a strange sense of humour, I built the laser so it's length is exactly a billionth of the diagonal of the square lid of the box (the box is a cube). So the light that resonates in the laser can't resonate in the box- they are in the ratio root two to one (give or take a billion-fold). They are incommensurate. OK so I open the box, and shine light into it from the laser for a short while, then I close the box. At this point, the photons are still flying to the "bottom" of the box. When, and how, do they realise that they aren't a resonant fit? Also, given that the length of the box isn't fixed (thanks to the uncertainty principle) the resonant frequencies are also not fixed. How can the light "know" to be the right wavelength for a variable length F P interferometer?

If you think science says that, then you have so little grasp of science that you have been in the wrong forum anyway.

I would; but you forgot the explanation that I might study. Which sort of bankruptcy should I be looking for when I'm choosing a businessman to run the world's biggest economy? It did. The hint is in the name.

OK, so a bankruptcy is a bankruptcy, but a bankruptcy isn't. The bankruptcy he declared wasn't a bankruptcy. Glad you clarified that. Perhaps you can explain which of them is the one that makes you look like a competent businessman. (Do you think anyone is still taking you seriously) Are all the consumers middle class in your world?

Sorry, it's time for me to go to bed and I can't keep up with the gish gallop. It's much harder for me because I'm expected to use facts and logic, but Butch can post any dross he likes.

He is the Big Boy. He just snatched the government for himself (and his rich friends). That's why he's destroying regulatory legislation.

Got bailed out by pretty much every country in the world. The exception usually cited is Iceland. They bailed out the people and jailed the corrupt bankers. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/iceland-has-jailed-26-bankers-why-wont-we-a6735411.html Seen how their economy is doing lately? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=iceland+gdp&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB700GB700&oq=iceland+gdp&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3097j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

On a small- non government- scale, it's not socialism

His values are to say he's a patriot, but to export jobs. We know how well that sort of thing went https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008 You seem to have forgotten that it was the banks that got bailed out by a govt safety net. The Big Boys were never at any real risk. That's the joy of gambling with other people's money.

No, but I know that, on average, stocks go up so, in the long term it's easy to eke out a profit.

If I paid to go to Trump uni, I'd expect to be a failure. I'm going to cite Poe's law soon. I can't tell if you are joking or not.

We have already pointed out that he changes his story more often than some folk change their socks. If he believes one thing on odd numbered days and another thing on even numbered ones, doesn't that show he's just swaying in the breeze of public opinion?

I didn't pay for my tuition. I lived in a civilised country where the State recognised that society at large is the greatest beneficiary from an educated population, so they paid. Obviously, I had to work to learn, but I was free from worrying about funding, so I had the chance to study more. Have you given up trying to pretend that Trump is honest? Is that why you changed the subject?

The job of a president is to speak for all. Any twit can speak for themselves. Re fact checking. You just broke the irony meter http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/21/carly-fiorina/trumps-four-bankruptcies/

Come off it. Were you kidding when you said that? http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/president-donald-trump-u-turns-on-6-issues Also, he's shit at business. If he had just bought real estate with the famous "small loan of a million dollars" from his dad, he would be much richer. Instead he managed to go bankrupt repeatedly.

The problem is not that nobody speaks for him, but that he speaks for nobody but himself.

But he never says the same thing twice. He lies; and then he lies about lying. That's not being "honest" it's being incompetent, and dishonest.

Clearly, but I think the OP's question was "Why?"