geordief

The sunk cost fallacy?

When I was in Paris ,aged 15 my host family took me out for the day to look at the Arc de Triomphe. As we looked at Napoleon's different victorious battles and dates that were inscribed on the monument I asked out loud and in complete naiveté "Where is Waterloo?" To complete silence . I was completely unembarassed .I think I was put right when we got home. Later I amused my friends by describing bad things as "terrible" when that actually means "really good"( a mistake categorised as a "false friend") Ps "espèce de con " or "espèce de conard" is a fine insult and "Le Canard enchainé" was the main satirical weekly magazine back then.

1s it considered at all plausible that two ( more?) universes could be created from a shared event? Or is that just "intellectual incontinence"

I wonder ,does the Planck unit of time also dilate along with spacetime curvature(under extreme conditions, of course)?

I didn't know there was absolute time at any scale. For a t=0 in the context of the earliest part of the universe what reference frame is chosen for t to apply to? Any frame that is not actually specified as "the beginning"?(and as close as possible to it for "simplicity's" sake?)

Would that be into multiverse theories? I think there are ideas(or one that I have heard of) about looking for physical evidence for them. As for behaving differently might it increase the himan self satisfaction quotient if we developed a model that went back to the origin and out the other side?

I didn't realize that t+10{-43} secs was really as far as the model went. What happens if we plug t-10{-43}secs into the equations? Do we come out the "other side"? Is the "dead end" in the equations because of quantum effects?

How many fields are there supposed to be at 10^{-43}secs. Are the 10^90 particles all from the one field? If all the particles are identicle ,what is exciting the field? (doubtless very naive and wrong headed questions)

Do we have any idea of what was in that volume? Was whatever it was differentiated in some sense or was it simply composed of densities of the same thing? Is it believed it was a closed system? Does the small volume as compared to the volume that we see now mean it was "actually" small-or does it just indicate that it was highly ordered and the volume is only of any consideration in relation to what we see now? Are the indications that the volume at T+10^-43secs was bigger that the volume as one tties to model further back in time?

Is it plausible to view the BB (if we are all talking about the same thing**) as an "implosion"? Intuitively (to me) that MIGHT better help me visualize a process where all subsequent points pointed everywhere and anywhere when looking for the "source"? Like someone at the centre of a bicycle wheel looking towards the perimeter(that perimeter having been at one point -or as good as -initially).. **Maybe I am thinking of an event before the BIg Bang?...

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I think you forgot the link to the video....?

Get in touch with these guys and suggest they add a few blind portals around the globe? https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/05/09/portal-dublin-new-york/73633531007/ "Two massive circular livestream video "portals" now connect New York City and Dublin, Ireland – all part of an artist's plan to bring the world closer togetherQ Maybe with the odd random side effect generated by the passers by? (as in "we are all a part of the nothingness")

Could we not just make the world a little bigger and carry on as normal? Dig a hole into the centre of the earth and let off a nuclear bomb ( or an anti gravity device ?) so as to increase the radius of the planet to a suitable degree. The surface would expand and there would be endless opportunities for new resource exploitation and enough lebensraum for all. Those who don't like the idea could just sign up with Elon Musk.

"The Jewish Cemetery at Newport " By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1852) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44634/the-jewish-cemetery-at-newport https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3327/page/5254/display?use_mmn=1

Was everything expanding like there was no tomorrow until the Higgs Field " condensed" out of whatever there was before it? And that put a brake on things? Is that when spacetime curvature began ? Was the Higgs Field the last Field to form?

A friend of mine was scammed by someone pretending to be from Revolut. First they sent her a text pretending to be from her electricity company with a link (that she foolishly followed) to a fake website and how she might avoid being disconnected by updating her account. They followed this up with a call from a man claiming to be from the online Bank Revolut affecting concern that there had been activity on her account and offering his help to recover the cash from the apparent scammers. He got her to authorize payments in the supposed aim of recovering the supposed money that had been withdrawn. Half way through she started to wonder "who is real here?" She lost some and saved some. A lot of money,people

If we had a snail's pace (with no extra acceleration or deceleration) the difference in the clocks would be similar or identical but ,as an example it could be a billion years as against a billion and one years , depending on a great distance and a slow speed.Make sense? It only stands out as remarkable when the speeds are relativistic.

I was going to argue my point further but I now see that the ship could also be traveling at a snail's pace over a longer time and we would get the same time dilated result. Correct? What difference ,I now wonder if any would it make if the ship was to add acceleration to its velocity? Would that increase the time dilation? I mean its average velocity was the same but it kept accelerating and decelerating linearly all the time.. Would it just make the velocity picture more detailed(the ship travels further)?

Sorry ,didn't see your post. Well I had been thinking about the twins but I was interested generally in an accelersted system ,biological or mechanical. I was thinking how ,in a rocket that was accelerating a beam of light would ,to a person on board to bend. And so it seemed to me that ,since all(I think) interactions between objects inside the rocket would depend upon the em forces then those forces would similarly be bent. So I was wondering if the distortion of the em field inside the accelerating rocket might be responsible for time slowing as compared to the unaccelerated frame of reference of the stay at home twin (not on Earth but somewhere really unaccelerated like ,as per your example in the ISS as a close approximation) If light is curved in an accelerated frame would that have a bearing on the way that objects inside that accelerated frame interact with each other? If they interact less with each other that would mean that they (ie the system as a whole)age less,mightn't it? Am I wrong to see a connection between em radiation and the forces that cause interactions between objects(it would hardly be the first time I have been wrong in our discussions!)

I was interested in a possible mechanism whereby this could be observed(or , rather modeled in real time.) An observer in the rest frame against which the acceleration takes place only interacts when the accelerated body and it "share the same event" or perhaps is close enough for a signal to be sent and returned. And any observer in the accelerated frame will see the time involved in any interactions as the proverbial "one second per second". What about my musing in the OP that the interactions in any system under acceleration will(unobservably) be altered in regards to the time between them because the em radiation involved in interactions (I think) travels in a curved path and is affected by blue /red shift? I think I am trying to see what actually happens(or should happen) without it being possible to verify by real time measurements. When the twins separate ,they could do so from a nonaccelerating point in space and time. Have I replied appropriately to your post?

Full disclaimer :I have be thinking about those twins... When the accelerated twin speeds off his internal system must evolve (as does the watch in the cabin) When they are actually under acceleration is there (in their own frame of reference) any change in the perceived passage of time ? None because the perceiver is accelerating at the same rate as the watch? What about the "view" from the the unaccelerated frame of reference of the other twin? It cannot see but can it deduce that em signals (within the cabin)are being red shifted in one direction and blueshifted in the other? Would that have the effect of slowing down all interactions between all parts of the physical system? If so ,would it be of any consequence that particular interactions were mediated by blueshifted signals rather than red? Is the red/blue shift aspect just part of the overall curvature of the light (and em) signals in the cabin?

Because ,with nuclear weapons you cannot kill your opponent without also killing yourself and anyone you care about first(or in the hours to follow) The lucky ones will be those who are killed off most quickly. Morality meets expediency

Interesting.Sadly (or maybe fortunately) I no longer have the intellectual capacity to investigate those questions.I am more or less just fascinated ,for now to learn that that line of enquiry exists .(and prepared to eavesdrop on others who can discuss the subject profitably)

Actually no.It was curious abdominal discomfort with a feeling of loss of autonomy due to semi obsessively following routine behaviour I also felt like stopping but that would have meant a bit of extra washing up. Kind of a fascistic side to me à table As a side note ,if there are so many possible emotional combinations, sophisticated AI robots will soon be making us all look like emotional retards and sexual infidelity with the mechanical sex will be rampant as who wants to live with a dolt? Not far off but it could have been any stodgy food.Potatoes would just be an examplar. maybe we could refer to it as "the goose's gullet". or "Le chagrin des oies gavés" I bet it was those gluttonous Belgians after all.