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If there was an encoded message in the (stream of) particles that said anything at all (esp "hi,my name is hjuigr. I am your entanglement partner .How can I help you?") it might be an indication that there was a (stream of) particles out there with an encoder tapping away. I mean the message could be anything but it could be some kind of a language primer ) Quite apart from the specific nature of this OP I am trying to understand the topic of entanglement on the round. I wonder whether what I understand to be the random nature of the result of any interaction would act to prevent any such "stream" or encoding to be established in the first place? I mean ,yes, I imagine anyone could encode a message using a stream of entangled particles but would the message be irredemably lost because of the random nature of the phenomenon (I am fishing for replies.Even as OP I am not qualified to suggest an opinion

(wasn't sure in which sub forum to put this one) I have been trying to follow (some of) the ongoing entanglement topic and this has occurred to me. Suppose there was a way to look for entangled particles (coming from deep space) that showed a pattern indicating that they were created deliberately ,could that be an indication someone was sending a message from the location of the "twins" of the particles we had just encountered ? Could we answer by locating the source of the signalling and then finding a source of entangled particles midway between us and them and encoding them?(they would reach us and our interlocutors at the same time) .......In theory (if the technology advanced to make it a practical proposition) We would be effectively setting up a walkie talkie system between the past and the present ,so we might have to stand well clear!!! Have there been other attempts(in theory) to do this? (I know that no signal can be sent directly from one location to the other by "conventional" means. Even if this worked for a distance of 1 light milli milli milli milli second it would show the potential for inter civilization communication....so has it been definitively shown that this cannot happen (obviously we can never prove a negative -if I got that right)

Hobbs. Did he write Leviathon? btw a well written piece in one of Murdoch's papers I just came upon https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119882422/#Comment_119882422

You can't upvote an erroneous Latin construction just to own the elites (it's "omnium" not "omnia"-gen.plural) Actually completely unfamiliar with Hobbs and Leviathon.Is he a kind of a Jonathan Swift type author?

Quite possibly they are hoping (even aiming) for Ukraine's defences to land in a Nato country. Not much anyone can do about that since they(Russia) should not be sending missiles in the first place. As a one off (or very infrequent) event I expect Poland will "suck it up" or perhaps seek compensation from Russia or Belarus.

Don't they add up the electrons inside the voting machines. I wonder how many electrons are missing this time. Maybe some got superimposed? Or was it just destructive interference from Venn Aswalia?

I was in America some 45 years ago.I only spent some 3 months there but I was directly threatened with a gun on one occasion ,witnessed a landlord threaten his tenants with a firearm on another occasion ,was physically threatened with a rubber hose when collecting my wages and was picked up in a car whose owner was driving to his ex-wife's house to put a bullet in his/hers horse which he did not want her to have. I also witnessed first hand an example of a white person calling the police on a black person and the police simply took the former's word and dragged the black man away with no ceremony. I was amazed to be told by friends that we stayed with in Washington that the sounds we could hear at night were gunshots. The advice at the time (worse then than now I think) was to avoid eye contact with strangers in the street.

Is Minkowski spacetime not just basically (ignoring the c) plotting x against dx/dt? A bit like plotting a quantity against a property of itself Are there other examples where a function can be plotted against it's own derivative wrt time in a precise way? I don't have the physics or the maths to judge but it feels to me like there could be some kind of self reference in the two quantities being plotted against each other where they should be independent. Edit:apologies. I see I am quite wrong(confusion** set in ) about x being plotted against it's own derivative wrt time in the Minkowski diagram Feel free to disregard this contribution (can't see the "embarrassed" emoticon) **I must have confused c ,which is a speed with dx/dt which is also a speed but which is not being plotted on the Minkowski diagram)

I wonder if this emission spotter tool will be as important and powerful as the reporter in this article is saying "Emissions data a powerful tool in climate change fight" issions data a powerful tool in climate change fighttps://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2022/1109/1335215-cop27/ Can they no longer run and hide from the sies in the sky and the sensors on the ground? Is it a duck shoot now?

If any point in the spacetime model is specified wrt any reference point is it inevitably the case that that point can only ever be an approximation to any physical activity that actually takes place there? If so is this because of theories like the Uncertainty Principle or does it simply follow from the spacetime model itself, because it models both position and time ,as well as (I imagine) that at the most detailed level that all things are in relative motion no matter how we try to set up any scenario that might illustrate processes at rest to each other?** **Not completely sure if that is completely accurate and I think Studiot recently disagreed with Joigus as to whether "Panta Rhei" was as fundamental a proposition as I have always taken it to be.

It is different now with many countries fully supplied with arsenals and overkill just a couple of clicks away. You are not seriously asking us to use the end of www2 as a template for how we should approach this subject? Address the current situation.Things have moved right along.

No I think he is right.Unless we all accept that we will all be losers (and painfully mutilated and sickly losers in the event of a full scale -or less than full scale nuclear war) then the likelihood of that happening increases. Those who stock up and invest in their bunkers are indirectly dooming those who do not. Politicians and generals in charge of these decisions have to prepare for their own survival or the credibility of their threat will be diminished but they really have as much prospects as Hitler in his bunker if such a war is fought. Those investing in post apocalyptic survival are really just taking a random Hobson's choice Far better to invest in politicians who will not lead us down this path in the first place.

Deterrence (in the eyes of the holder of the weapons) Since a nuclear exchange can destroy nearly all life on the planet we have to find an alternative way for people to co exist without that recurring nightmare.** What does "scientifically senseless" mean ,anyway.? **all contributions and proposals welcome

They are touted as being good for deterrence (not military defence as such) I even wonder whether ,if we ever succeeded in complete nuclear disarmament we would be forced to bring them back to continue their present "usefullness"

I wonder if the fishing industry is in any way directly responsible for the degradation of those particular habitats. They might have to cough up something if they were(and pass it on to the consumer as well so they wouldn't even be out of pocket,I suspect) Over here ,in Ireland the farmers are being told they have to cut their emissions and they are digging in their heels (claiming they are being asked to do too much)

Yes ,I noticed that.Makes it more immediately practical I would think. I wonder if it is much less costly to maintain those systems than to develop them after they have been lost.Does the soil just get washed away and take hundreds of years to reestablish. I wonder if the carbon credit economy will take off as I think I saw mentioned there or perhaps it was elsewhere. Would be good if that system worked to the advantage of poorer regions . I noticed that the marshes in Essex (and elsewhere).were being flooded in recent years by punching holes in the sea walls. Would that be the sort of thing they have in mind?

This seems much better and goes into much more detail but they are "players in the game" (not that I would be a skeptic for that ) https://www.thebluecarboninitiative.org/about-blue-carbon

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/02/opinions/mittermeier-nicklen-oceans-blue-carbon-climate-change-scn-spc-c2e/index.html "Opinion: The ocean’s ‘blue carbon’ can be our secret weapon in fighting climate change" This is the first I have come across this idea. How promising is it? Can we "farm" the seas to sequester carbon from the atmosphere?

I think that was the sentiment at first Such a stout (and humiliating) counter attack was not anticipated. It is a very different ball game now but I still don't know what the (largely unspoken?) rules are. I want them to target Russian infrastructure in a tit for tat exercise but I cannot say if this is (a) wise (b) possible(c) ,Nato friendly(d)self defeating (e) avoidable Is it Russia itself who will take out Putin? I wish I had a better sense of what will happen

I think traditionally it was the Port(s?) In a military capacity.

Sure ,it is black and white but the perception might be more nuanced had Russia played by the rules. As it was/would have** been I expect Ukraine would have allowed continuing privileged Russian access to Crimea. As things have turned out I don't know if that is on the cards anymore. **had Russia treated its neighbour with a modicum of respect.

Crimea seems to be a grey area as (to the best of my sketchy knowledge,)there may actually have been a majority who wanted to revert to Russian control. But the "referendum" was entirely unsatisfactory and is unrecognized internationally(as was the covert "invasion " that preceded it) If Ukraine succeeds in regaining it I wonder how stable the situation there will be in the aftermath. If this war with Ukraine leads to a civil war in Russia then presumably it may be more difficult for Ukraine to stay uninvolved but I doubt a missile into Moscow would be in their interest.

Sure that is their only card At the outset it was expected that, (a) their army would roll in effectively and decapitate the government and (b) nothing could be done by Nato for fear of a direct conflict btw two nuclear powers Ukraine's balls and seeming intelligence has prevented the first outcome but nuclear escalation is a nightmare for the whole world. It is very ,very unfair on Ukraine but we have to hope they can see a way through this without provoking a nuclear showdown (which they might not get -perhaps they will just be abandoned in the immediate term if they are defeated militarily) Edit:what did we do for Hungary and Tzechoslovakia?

In my 70s.It is the first time I noticed it (yesterday as it happens) Perhaps it is an onset of dementia. I don't see why the habits of a lifetime should be easily cast aside.Maybe just a natural progression kicking in.

Is there a personality trait that depends on the degree to which a person filters their thoughts before they express them in public? And ,if so how many common types of filters are there and can they be classified? This occured to me because I felt I was noticing a tendency to "speak my thoughts" a little more freely recently and so the issue of a filter came to the fore in my mind and then I recalled that it is often said of some people (one public monstrosity in particular 😉) that they have virtually "no filter" at all.