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Have there been any good novels based on people's experience when they are woken up in the future after being frozen in one of the Freezer banks in the 21st century? Imagine the (horrifying") setting It is 2420 and they have reached a cure for the disease that prompted you to go down this route in 2020. Gradually they wake you up from the coma ,all the while treating your illness and then you are awake. What would be the first thing you would see? Would your new doctors bear any resemblance to the last people you saw before going under? What would be their attitude to you? A guinea pig ? A freak show? A source of funds /entertainment? Would they go public at first? How did they find you ? Have there been any novels written along these lines? Seems to me a bit like the film Alien but not as sexy.

Who?Me or you?

If ,in the latter case the lines of latitude and longitude are wavy? All points of the surface of the sphere can be assigned a pair of values even if the lines of latitude and longitude are not straight. I think that is what Einstein referred to as a "reference-mollusk" (the spacetime coordinate lines turning wavy in the presence of mass-energy) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-einstein-meant-when-he-termed-something-a-mollusc.391139/

Which is what I was implying.

Well,I keep mine in the fridge and have no problems(had some small ones there that had been unused but looked OK for maybe 8 weeks until we threw them out out of boredom) If you are actually trying to get them to germinate because you are planting I think the advice is to give them light and so I always put away any potatoes that I am going to eat away from the light. I would imagine that a cooler temperature is better for storage. There is a thing called a clamp where you store potatoes in situ in the garden or field. https://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=61705.0

If your potatoes had started to sprout in storage I would expect them to be fit for throwing out. If I am looking for potatoes I try to buy them firm and plump. Could someone where they are stored have been detailed to remove any chits from the spuds so as to make them seem better and not throw them out..? If they were stored at close to freezing maybe that might have damaged them too.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210519-the-hidden-reason-processed-pet-foods-are-so-addictive "Finally, no list of palatants would be complete without pyrophosphate, described in Popular Science as "cat crack". This common additive performs a number of roles in human food, such as preventing potato products from going dark after they're cooked – none of which involve improving its taste. Nevertheless, cats go nuts for it, possibly because it intensifies the flavour of amino acids. Any connection to what you were wondering about?

We never "bump into" space do we? Isn't that a handy way to understand whether something we observe has an objective existence or whether it is a reflection of our thoughts? We can change our thoughts (as when we dream) but when we "bump into" external circumstances we quickly learn on which side our bread is buttered and align them accordingly(though some of us are slow learners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGHjHU_Z8d8 OK

A coincidence/connection that 360 degrees is the same as the number of degrees that a radius of a circle completes in a complete revolution ? (or just the length of the perimeter of a circle) (that was why I guessed 360) Yes ,"open space" seems to be another description of negatively curved spaces.

What would be the greatest number of degrees that a triangle could have in a (closed?) curved space? Is it 360? Is it always 180 if the triangle is small enough and 360 if the triangle is large enough? And what is the smallest number of degrees that a triangle can have in a (open?) curved space? Zero?

Well ,I was in at the fire last night, staring at it and waiting for a piece of wood to burn through and fall down. It seemed to me that ,no matter how closely I paid attention to this anticipated event it always occurred when I was not looking. Can I elevate this seeming characteristic of such events into something of a principle? Do "events" never exist in isolation but always as part of a sequence and are the links in the chain of these sequences always blurry and never "standalone ? Or is it more a question of our inability to see clearly enough and in enough detail? So do all events "bleed into one another " in spite of one's inclination to believe that they are separate from one another?

Seems the common cold is reappearing as restrictions ease in the UK https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/colds-are-even-more-common-as-covid-lockdown-eases-0vb8n2h9s?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1619864588 There may be a paywall to the body of the article.

Only a song . Van Morrison

Real men don't need artificial stimuli.

I am enjoying these new Feynman videos which feel a lot clearer to me ( up to now any videos I found were blurry and muffled) https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ There is a scrolling text feature accompanying the talks which I find is a great help too.

I see. It's the relation. Is it possible (if undoubtedly impractical) to redraw s/t diagrams so that all axes have units of time? (I think I may have heard of theoretical extreme circumstances where space and time could flip .Is that "not impossible"?)

That formulation might seem to put our understandings of space and time on something of an equal footing. As I understand it the equations that allow us to make the space-time diagrams actually have both/all axes as spatial with the "time" axis involving the "c" multiplicator so as to be of mathematical use (ie all axes have the same units). So "t" in the graph seems to me to be a tiny factor (although clearly present) Would a description such as "space-timed light distance" be as accurate ,if a lot ,lot ,lot less catchy? Is it possible to reformulate the space-time diagrams in such a way that all the axes are represented in terms of time rather than space?

Indeed.That option seems mad. (Unless the "followee" is automatically notified)

When I go to my profile and look at my one "follower "there is a tab to the right that allows me to "stop others from following me". That not do the trick?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56491033 Sounds interesting even though a work in progress. " According to the Standard Model, beauty quarks should decay into equal numbers of electron and muon particles. Instead, the process yields more electrons than muons."

Is the idea that this expansion was initiated at some point and that it is continuing wherever we look "under its own steam" or inertia as it were ? (aside from Dark Energy which seems like some godawful joker in the pack) But to come back to my "expanding into itself" notion can we posit a moment in the evolution of the universe where there was no distance ** between objects so that the space that there came to be subsequently between the constituent parts of this earlier unified object came out of that object (so that the later distinct objects and the space between them could be seen as the two fundamental elements of the earlier unified object) If there was a time when all the matter in the universe was gathered in one object can we see this object as having evolved into (1) the later distinct objects and (2) the space between them? Or is "space" just another word for "distance"......? ** does that notion imply an impossibly perfect symmetry?

Fueled by word choices such as the "Big Bang" it was always a temptation to think of an initial event where the Early Universe started from a well defined point and grew into an existing Space. But this, we are told is not what happened and it is said that everywhere is the centre of the Universe . Trying to make sense of this (I suspect it may not be too hard or counterintuitive,moreso that I may be "making a meal of it") can I view the situation as the Universe "expanding into itself"? And,if so is the "space" it is expanding into created by itself and equivalent to the distances between its constituent parts?

The man from WHO (some Irish sounding guy ; is he the head?,the chair?)was just on the TV saying vaccination passports for international travel were a bad idea as they reinforced the inequality between countries via a vis access to vaccines in the first place.

No harm in that but it is clearly in its (and everyone's) interest that enough vaccines are available in all parts of the world ,and as quickly as possible. Pay them if necessary.