Phi for All

! Moderator Note Moved from The Lounge to Medical Science.

! Moderator Note Sorry, but this is a science discussion forum. Conspiracies have no evidence to make talking about them meaningful, otherwise they'd be fact. Cherry-picking from the entire web means the probability of finding just about anything you want is very high. It's like reading garbage into the writings of Nostradamus, or pointing in hindsight to the accuracy of your horoscope. If you can think of a way to support your proposals with evidence, so your concerns gain a more trustworthy basis for conversation, the thread can stay open. Otherwise, we don't waste the membership's time with conspiracy. More rigor, please.

Consider a spherical cow, sliced thinly and pan-fried.... Maybe we should reach out and ask them to join? Open a thread about how beefy science has become in the 21st century and they'll just HAVE to respond. I think that's the problem they have with Neal; they prefer steak, and Tyson is a big name in chicken. Just sayin'.

Michio Kaku was the "pop-star" that got me interested in science discussion, but it quickly became clear that the woo kept his name bouncing around far more than his scientific rigor.

I read a good Vox article that points out how a relationship between Hollywood and various police departments basically allowed the police in the US to frame themselves ALWAYS as the protagonists. TV shows and movies hire police consultants who've been able to edit scripts they didn't feel reflected true procedure, so what we think we know about cops has been shaped by cops ever since Jack Webb and Dragnet. Prior to that, the police struggled with an image of corruption and buffoonery.

Emotions are great motivators, but many folks don't use them correctly, imo. They get passionate or angry or frustrated in a way that wastes the energy that could be used. It's like using a motor to spin a flat piece of metal. It just spins and does no work, but if you angle the metal so it resists the air you create a propeller, something that actually does some work. So find something productive to achieve, and put all your anger and passion behind THAT. Don't just wave your hands. Be careful assigning behavior like this to all humans. We've prospered as a species partly by balancing our fears and our curiosities. Boldness isn't lessened one bit by lots of careful research and testing the waters. Without careful consideration, "bold" becomes "rash and foolhardy".

You've expanded the scope of what "digitally immortal" means to you, so my questions about data storage media and a source of power are made moot. Apparently our current digital technology will be sustained forever by space and time and energy simply because you've applied some laws. I fail to see any benefits to this approach, but if it helps you make sense of the universe, I would be interested in hearing how.

! Moderator Note You really need to stop organizing your arguments in this conspiracy model, where you make opinionated insinuations you don't intend to support with evidence. It's virtually impossible to discuss anything meaningful, especially on a science site, when such bad faith is exhibited. That's why it's against the rules.

That stretches the definition of both words into meaninglessness.

If we're all living, we're evolving. If we're living in different conditions, we're selecting for traits every generation that make us more successful in those conditions. That's one of the ways to show there is no "purpose" for evolution. Success in an environment is just about surviving until you can pass those genes along, as iNow has been saying. "Purpose" is an abstract concept, an assumption made by highly intelligent humans who make sense of their world by imposing patterns upon it, then interpreting the patterns.

This is the Evolution, Morphology, and Exobiology section. Supernatural explanations like the above are completely off-topic. There's nothing physiologically we're designed best for. There's no "intended use" for our bodies, because there was no intention. We have developed a high degree of intelligence that, along with other combinations of factors, allows us to adapt in ways other creatures can't. But then, they can do things we can't do. Toss us in the ocean without our tools and we won't do well. But if you're looking for something we alone seem best suited for, then I would say spreading life from Earth to other planets. We have evolved the capability to do that.

Is your power source eternal? Does the medium never degrade?

"Work on everything by myself" usually means you start leaping to conclusions like you're Leroy Jenkins. Your "backup" is left in the dust as they take a more rigorous approach.

Many of them who discuss science on this very site actually take the time to cite such evidence. Why don't you? If a thread is closed, it's because it was breaking the rules. Yours are usually closed because you stop looking for evidence and start asserting things you haven't established, something that effectively kills the conversation for everyone else.

We're interested in any topic you can show evidential support for, that might be an actual, reasoned idea that can explain a phenomenon and make predictions. But nobody wants to read about you guessing and making things up. It's NEVER interesting until you can show it has some validity.

You can avoid a LOT of needless calls for clarity by giving more information in the opening post. Are you asking about an elementary or composite "particle" that deals with human consciousness?

Wow, are you criticizing an entire country for failing to understand all the bullshit WAGs you've brought up recently and failed to support? This is a horrible way to start discussion on a topic.

Scale. The higher dimensions predicted by string theory are Planck-sized. You aren't "changing" either space or dimensions. If you were, I think there would be more support for string theory.

I think you're full of quiche.

! Moderator Note Good catch! Corrected.

It's a duplicate of Is There a 5th Force?, also in Science News. I got distracted before I could send a PM. Sorry.

! Moderator Note Then start a new Speculations thread. This is being discussed in terms of mainstream science.

A marketable skill for sure in the looming post-crash economy.

Right, because we're all dying to be Atoms, right? Or Primates? I don't think so. It's an artifact system from over a decade ago that we haven't bothered to elaborate on. Fortunately, it's easy to tell when someone is posting junk simply to advance their post count to get a better title.

Thanks for bold underlining your goalpost move, but at a certain point, you need to acknowledge that any step in the right direction is a good step.