Phi for All

! Moderator Note This is not the right place to ask for anything that might be considered medical advice. For that, you should consult a physician. Discussion here should be more abstract and generic. Nothing about you, or what affliction or condition you might have. IOW, you can discuss condition X, asking questions and gathering information. But don't tell us you have condition X and ask what you should do. The answer to that will be "consult a physician". Thread closed.

A dimension isn't like another plane of existence. It's just representations of a coordinate system for locating an event in spacetime. With coordinates for x, y, z, and t, we can find a place and time when something happens. Perhaps you're talking about the atom disappearing from 3D space into one of the hypothetical higher dimensions of string theory? As an analogy, in a 2D Flatland world, if an object moved upwards from the 2D plane, into a space requiring the 3rd dimension, it would seem to disappear to an observer in Flatland. As for the spiritual aspect, I agree with ajb, it's not appropriate in the science sections, and there are more natural-based explanations if we entertain the existence of higher dimensions. I'd like to see a link to what you read. AFAIK, String Theory fell out of favor partly because their was no evidence for higher dimensions.

If I'd been pulled over 52 times in my whole life with only three actual violations, I'd be convinced the police were deliberately harassing me. This all happened to Castille "in recent years" from the stories I've seen, and resulted in thousands of dollars in fines as well.

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The problem isn't just that you're re-defining accepted scientific terms. The way you describe energy is incorrect. It isn't a "thing" that can follow a pathway. You can't isolate energy as a substance. Energy is a property of a thing. It can be transferred in different ways to other things, and changed into different forms, but you can't give me a bushel of energy.

Wouldn't it be more reasonable to use the accepted definitions instead? If your definition is wrong, it shouldn't be used at all. I am assuming you came to a science discussion forum to evaluate your idea scientifically.

When anyone can believe a claim, isn't it more important to look for reality-based evidence to support or refute the claim?

"You need supportive evidence" is NOT "Oh, your great big intuitive imagination saved the day and made all the eggheads look bad". That's your imagination in overdrive, and some serious justification for falling asleep in physics.

Ihcisphysicist has been suspended for 3 days for repeatedly insisting on promoting a book, which violates our "no advertising" rule. The rule will still be in place Wednesday....

! Moderator Note Get your ideologies right. Fascists would have no problem promoting capitalist causes. We just don't like advertising. It's in the rules. ! Moderator Note As for being worthless swine, I'm assuming that means you find no worth here past promoting this book (which you aren't being allowed to do because we'd be flooded with book promotions if we allowed any), so take a bit of a vacation and maybe restructure your thinking on being a member here. If we have no other worth to you, are you just here for the bacon?

Coincidentally enough, as I read your thread this morning, I was on my third cup of French-pressed Carte Noire with milk (arrived yesterday). Even with just mixing in milk, a bit of a skin forms by heating the fats and proteins and then letting it sit untouched. I'll admit I haven't checked this formally yet, but a layer of solid fat at the top should act as an insulator, trapping heat inside the cup, keeping the drink warmer.

The title seems more comprehensive, but the OP suggests I shouldn't participate if I don't have a god. I can answer "What is god?" though. I think god is the ultimate end product of Imagining Things That Aren't There, something that serves humans well in protecting ourselves in a proactive instead of a reactive manner. It probably started by imagining tigers in the shadows, and developed into many unseen entities that influenced fragile early human existence. God is a wishful thought of comfort and stability, like orphans dreaming of parents who are unimaginably wonderful.

Until you can match the criteria that other ideas match in order to become "accepted" science, then your idea doesn't deserve the room. Nothing personal, but this is not rigorous methodology. Over the years I've tried to say this many ways, but if you're interested in "accepted science" then you should study it formally, not in dribs and drabs of popular science articles on the internet. That's a horrible way to study science. Those articles are supposed to be followed up by research into the basics you don't understand. Instead, too many people get lazy and fill in the gaps in their knowledge by just making up whatever they need to force an explanation to make sense to them.

But you're basing the explanation on a false premise, that the Big Bang was like an explosion with a center, and everything moving outwards from it. That's not the case. It was a rapid expansion of space everywhere, so there is no "center of the universe". You're also using unfamiliar terms like "mirror math function", then implying it's not a math function at all, but something physical that can rest at the "center of the universe", and "reflect" and "control". Also, space is empty by definition, so what about it could be vibrating? Do you have any evidence to support empty space "vibrating"?

Since you said cream, and not milk, I'm going to guess:

Imo, this isn't a single issue fix. Guns play a heavy part and we need some progress in this area, but the reasons Americans don't want to give them up are part of the whole tapestry too. We have a ruling class that doesn't understand or represent the majority, we've allowed extremist capitalist policies to undermine the middle class, we lag behind many first world countries in the kinds of programs that build strength in economic infrastructures, we excel in destruction and imprisonment, and it's become status quo to spend a couple billion dollars on elections that divide the country along artificially drawn lines that only benefit the people who have the billions to spend. I think we'd have to take care of all these other problems before enough Americans would see the sense in giving up their own guns so there eventually won't be a gun problem. Sometimes I think the real need for a well-regulated militia is not to protect us from the government, but from wealthy people manipulating the government.

Please clarify, does "a tea cup" hold "exactly 1 cup" of liquid (in this case tea), or does it hold more? It will make a difference if the tea cup holds "exactly" one cup, since you'll be displacing tea out of the cup when you put an extra spoon of coffee in the tea.

It is? Interesting enough to join just to comment on it?

Or, I'm trying to show what the shoes look like on your feet. I can't figure out why on Earth decent people who claim to be Christians are playing politics with this potentially catastrophic disease. Can you tell me why the GOP is delaying funding for Zika research so they can remove support for birth control at a time when that might help fight the disease? Couldn't they find a better way to hurt poor people?

Why aren't you demanding that your party leaders stop sacrificing other people's children for their political gain? Why? Why? That says a lot about you.

To be fair, we should have a thread for smartest political move of the year so far. Which reminds me, I'm hoping to find sponsors for a bill to use the children of GOP politicians to test the Zika virus....

Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.

So how do we educate the average US citizen about the situation as it stands, where business is woefully under-regulated, from banking to bad water, and has been given too free a hand for many decades, resulting in the current unbalanced, un-American system where money and corporate influence overwrites fair market practices? It seems clear that we have given too much leeway to business, so how do we prevent the ignorant from electing other-hand businessman Trump when we clearly need to adjust our capitalist behavior away from weasels like him? FTFY.

Cooler heads are being ignored all over the world lately. Many people who identify normally as conservatives are trying to justify a red-faced, frustration-fueled, screaming seizure over issues of intolerance that obviously embarrasses as it empowers. I hope it can be shown quickly that this is a horribly costly approach, these kneejerk reactions that are like going to the emergency room for headaches.

Are you still planning to vote for Trump? If so, how do you justify the above?