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I don't know.

Still working through your (and @MigL 's ) earlier replies but I just wonder if the "universe creating space as it expands" concept covers this?

I wonder do any physicists use the term "vacuum" in that "old" sense nowadays? It is used ,but as you say I would like to know what it is meant to mean specifically. (Or whether it is perhaps just a portemanteau for something we don't /can't understand whereas we do have models for things pertaining to the old idea) When you suck as much the energy out of a system as possible do you approach one universal configuration or do more than one such configurations open up?

Is that not just a definition for a "vacuum"? (a vacuum as otherwise defined** may not exist by its own definition) **"absence of anything"

Yes,that result is set in stone.The rest of the world will have to put down the tinted spectacles when it comes to dealing with America,whatever comes next. In addition the whole world is changing at an accelerating pace and America will no more keep abreast than any of us. I remember a conversation back in the 60's where I was talking to a friend who happened to be one of the visible disruptors in the local Gilberd school( I was friendly with the son of the headmaster who was really cheesed off about it/him-thought he was a middle class poser) Anyway his words to me were that he would like to destroy the system and "see where the cards fall" (I assumed he was an anarchist) I don't suppose he espouses that view now but these are the times he was wishing for back then.

I don't see how gerrymandering alone would be enough.Maybe,if they play thst game the Dems will come out on top as well - as the natural swing that seems to be there against the Republicans this time around.. A pity there isn't an "open your eyes" pill that would crack open the Maga base but I fear that is just who they are and they are seeing what they want to see. Still ,they are nothing like a majority.

Iowa Democrats win massive upset...Iowa Democrats win massive upset to break GOP supermajorityCatelin Drey's victory may portend more good news for Democrats next yearAn 11 point Republican advantage turned to a 10 point Democrat win by Catelin Drey.. It would be gutwrenching if similar results to this had not occurred but this is a modicum of good news. Whether it will translate to the midterms if indeed the midterms are allowed to reflect voters' wishes in the ballots is another question. I have the suspicion that the Republican strategy is to provoke a national (notional?) emergency so that the midterms can be cancelled or falsified and I don't see how that can be prevented without an "American Spring" or the death of an ogre.(would love to be proved wrong,not in the last eventuality of course )

Hope it is not some kind of a hack.Happened this time and went through very quickly (a second or two)with a refresh(didn't get the "human verification" screen as well unlike previously.

No ,no changes but I could try using the chrome browser instead of what I use now. As usual this is intermittent and so it may not be apparent immediately.(eg no problem getting in this time)

Is this happening to anyone else? I frequently have to wait about a minute to get to this site(to check that I am human) But just recently there is an additional barrier and it is this "invisionsetup" that has seemingly "blocked me" I immediately refresh the page and the page then changes to the "veryifying that you are human" page which opens up to scienceforums dot net after a short time

One step forward ,no step backward :-(

I have an old tin of fibreglass resin that has formed a very thick skin(because I suppose the tin was not air tight) so that very little was left that was liquid and so useable. I have tried an expedient of first air tightening the tin and then adding an amount of acetone that I happened to have. Can I hope that ,in time the resin (which has not been in contact with the hardener but hardened on its own) will combine the the acetone and become useable again? I don't mind waiting up to a year as I can purchase a new tin of resin to use for now...

Would be a lot worse if they were boreless A world of pointless pain.

Salve,homo viaticus!

You seem to be on the same wavelength as Al Murray who once adduced the existence of bacon as evidence for thr existence of God. https://youtu.be/lBGmwx6Lz88?si=mcK6FtjCL4iVNze6 ** "A shared aroma is a shared belief" anon **a video of Al Murray once touted as Britain's favourite bar tender.(possibly by himself)

We used to have a bacon flattener It was a wheel shaped piece of oven grade glass with a handle in the middle that kept the bacon in full contact with the base of the frying pan and the fat rather than curling up in the heat. Sadly lost (broken) and never replaced. (only missing it again yesterday some 15 years on) And "thank god for that" do I hear you say? ;-)

The Christian god I was once taught ** made everything , was everywhere and knew everything.If it made the moon and some people worshipped it then that could have been interpreted as its purpose . (Migo = moon in ,garbage out ) **it had a panoply of religious minions such as saints and angels to intercede and carry out its wishes,what the prods(and the muslims?) call(ed) idol worship I think.

(Sorry about the link) It seems that the language of that passage is Hebrew. Unless we have a pair of dueling Hebrew scholars on the site then I don't know if we can say which of those translations or renderings is the most accurate vis a vis the original text I was wondering how the passage seemed to know what god had said. Maybe Moses should be the patron saint of journalists. 😏

Is this the passage in question?(Good News translation,whatever that is..) YouVersion | The Bible App | Bib...Deuteronomy 4:19-20 Do not be tempted to worship and serv...Do not be tempted to worship and serve what you see in the sky—the sun, the moon, and the stars. The LORD your God has given these to all other peoples for them to worship. But you are the people he r

Frankly (these days) I just empty the flour into a bowl (you can prewarm the flour to hand warm -not hot- if you are in a hurry) and I throw in some dried yeast as well as a good glug of oil -any oil from the bottle. I add the water and stir it all together(again for speed of rising you can prewarm the water -just not too hot in case you damage the yeast Again you can (which I never do) add sugar for a quicker/stronger rise. When the dough has risen in the bowl (either within the hour or the next day if I put it in the fridge-if it is in the fridge it has to be taken out and warmed up again) that is the time to transfer it to a bread tin and wait for it to rise again after which it goes in the oven. You may already know that strong(ie gluten rich) flour is easier to give a good rise (also white flour rises more easily than whole flour-if I am making rye bread it is much better to use white flour in the mix although there must be ways of making pure rye bread too that i don't know)

Interesting (after some 50 yrs of baking bread mostly for personal use ,I didn't know most of that -or hadn't heard it discussed) I actually use dried yeast the same way as "ready yeast" I don't notice any difference apart fron the latter being much more powdery. I use whichever happens to be available in the shop at any particular time and gave up on the live yeast very early on without really noticing the transition. I did try making my own sourdough starter for a short period in the past but the taste was quite strong and ,if i remember the rise was fairly unpredictable .

Seems like one should just play around with the tools one has (I have an "always on" oven -actually two at different temperatures,) I always try to put the bread in as hot as possible without burning the crust but clearly ,from your examples there is more than one way to skin this cat. I normally make the dough and leave it overnight in the fridge ,taking it out at s convenient time the next day Just recently I am making the dough very sloppy(I never bother kneading ) and aim for big bubbles of air as that is how I like it. I don't like white bread ,although if it had a little brown flour through the white that is very acceptable I also like to throw in some oil as I think recipes often suggest(it seems to soften the crust)

Would you need a dedicated website to serve up these hallucinations? I see hallm.com is available at 4.99.** We could all change the world in our reflected image possibly. **I see it's "parked"(thought it was available)

What do you think of this story ,Markus? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r7z2ynd2lo4 (A zoo in Denmark asking for pets to be given as contributions to the diet of their resident predators such as the lions, lynxes etc) It is also a story on CNN....