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Hearsay but I am fairly sure an old friend of my passed out at the dentist's after the dentist forgot to give him anaesthetic.

I haven't had those dreadful experiences but no one has mentioned fear. Does that make the pain worse and should it be classed as a pain in itself?

Interesting . This was a startling breakthough in scientific understanding that permeated society ,so it seems and yet it did not unduly affect philosophical ideas at the time or since. Perhaps this illustrates that philosophy in unbeholden to scientific and technological advances and will chart its own path regardless. I wonder if philosophical ideas can be shown to be equally impervious to scientific ideas in general (and not just to this case of the unification of space and time) It might feel reassuring if this were the case .

I was wondering what those of us with a philosophical (and historical)background might have to say on the specific shift of direction this scientific finding might have had on purely philosophical enquiries at the time. Were any particular directions of thought now redundant or was this a finding that could ,as it were be easily assimilated after the presumable period of disbelief ? Interesting what beecee says about the relativity cranks being vastly outnumbered in the scientific community.As most of my science is gleaned from forums like these perhaps I overestimated the resistance to basic relativity amongst scientific professionals and amateurs.

They are a central part of relativity and banish the notion of absolute time (in a way that has been verified and has had countless applications) I have a simple question ,borne out of curiosity. What was the impact of this amazing finding on the philosophical disciplines at the time? Is it still reverberating?

It just occurred to me ,what would be a verified measurement of gravity at the greatest distance from the source? I suppose BBH mergers' gravitational waves would count. Is there any possibility that an extremely faint such detection might exhibit signs of discontinuity as the signal fades?

You are in good company. I also don't always know what I mean

That's what I imagined. I was trying to make sense of Strange's "not necessarily" which seemed to me to imply the opposite of my suggestion just two posts up (I misinterpreted ,no doubt).

So if you are on a spaceship and hit the after burners some of the cargo loose in the hold would move to the rear faster than other items?

And also ,I presume under any form of acceleration (in a vacuum)?

Do you use your own tricks to weed out the results you are not looking for?

That's good isn't it?If you go to the library you expect the books to be arranged in some kind of order....

It is also a luxury.After the conflict one can let bygones be bygones but during it one has to harden one's feelings. As someone said "all is fair in love and war". Unless you are a pacifist you have to accept that your actions may appear hateful even when you tell yourself that they are not. If the odds are completely in the oppressor's favour then you have to seek your own space (hate them or not)

I am sure he hated his oppressors too but rose above it. He must also have felt the support of others to sustain his spirit.

But we all hate our oppressors (whether directly or in other ways) and religion can be oppressive.

Yes I would be surprised if atheists could not be anti semitic. It is all about scapegoating I thought.

OK I was afraid to do that because I thought it might delete my passwords

Actually (I looked this up earlier) "anti semitic" was apparently a polite invention so as not to say "anti jewish" by the Germans in the 19th century . It was first described as "jew hate" ( Judenhass ) and "anti semitism" sounded more scientific. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

Any practical advice as to how to go about that? (reduce your identity footprint)

I feel lucky now I have no skills to investigate this personally. It could become an obsession and when the scales are as extreme as this it feels as if ,with all the application and abilities in the world there could well be no light at the end of the tunnel and never a means to test whether any particular theory was valid. I see the search for patterns in the cosmic background radiation has run into the difficulty that almost any pattern can be divined with enough "good will" .

Planck life?

Is it considered that the quantum foam (which I have been told elsewhere doesn't exist physically but is a model)might act on curvature in such a way as to prevent a collapse into a mathematical singularity? A bit like gravitational lensing at the quantum level......

Would you say that classicality is fundamentally statistical but this is hidden in the numbers -or is there more to it than that?

So ,if quantum effects are not scale related , is there an argument that we are possibly looking at something that is really fundamental in its own right (we won't have anything physically deeper in that area just the odd i to dot and the t to cross) ? No more turtles just integration of a fundamental understanding to different areas? With quantum effects we have gone down the rabbit hole and come the the end of the tunnel