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Oooh. And I thought I was unforgettable ...

I see ... The kid who went to a party during COVID, became infected, brought it home to his grandmother, who subsequently passed away, is morally equivalent to a person who rapes a mother and then cuts her throat. Both victims are just as dead. ( sounds even sillier when you say it out loud )

Yet thousands of rockets still manage to get in ? I agree, no death can be justified, but there is a difference. Many of us went out during COVID and may have infected elderly people and got them killed as a result ( millions died ), but it takes a whole different level of nastiness to get up close and personal in order to butcher someone with a knife. I don't think I could do it, and I presume you wouldn't be able to either.

The West Bank is relatively peaceful in comparison. M Abbas and the PNA are fairly level headed and seem to want peace. There is no reason why the two cultures couldn't co-exist on the same lands, Palestinian or Israeli, as they have done for over a thousand years. I agree that Netanyahu is a moron, more interested in retaining power than seeking peace, by displacing Palestinians to build settlements, and going as far as having secret meetings with Hamas leadership in order to overthrow Fatah, but to answer String Junky's question ... I don't expect terrorism and depraved butchery against children, women and the elderly. And, I dare say, you wouldn't have many Palestinian children, women and elderly being killed in Israeli strikes if Hamas didn't hide under hospitals, schools and mosques like rats. Anyone who says the Oct 7 raid/massacre by Hamas militants was justified, or can cheer them on like many students and protesters have, has descended to the same sub-human level.

I guess I'm missing it too ... There are Palestinians and other Arabs living and working in Israel, some even in Government institutions. They seem prosperous and happy. How long do you think an Israeli, or other Jew, would last if he/she took a stroll through the streets of Gaza ?

Classically, GR tells us that a distant observer will experience events happening differently from the proper time of an infalling observer. To the distant observer, infalling objects slow down temporally, and stop at the event horizon, while the infalling observer sees nothing amiss in his time frame and continues through the event horizon. The gravitational field we 'see' as distant observers is nothing more than the relic gravitational field of the collapsing mass-energy that formed the Black Hole, and is now 'frozen' at the event horizon for eternity ( yes, in classic GR there is no Hawking radiation, Black Holes do not evaporate but are eternal ). Nothing, not even the gravitational field 'escapes' a Black Hole, but because we treat gravity as a point source, geodesics necessarily extend to the interior of the event horizon. We don't have a quantized field theory of gravity; what we have is a classical geometric field theory, and Black Holes are far from the classical limit where we expect one theory to 'reduce' to the other, as evidenced by infinities that arise.

Gravitons are a necessity of a Quantum Field Theory of Gravity. GR is NOT a quantum field theory; why mix the two ?

Actually, they did ! "In the 1980s the Brotherhood emerged as a powerful political factor, challenging the influence of the PLO,[5] and in 1987 adopted a more nationalist and activist line under the name of Hamas.[5] During the 1990s and early 2000s, the organization conducted numerous suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel. In the Palestinian legislative election of January 2006, Hamas gained a large majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament, defeating the ruling Fatah party. After the elections, conflicts arose between Hamas and Fatah, which they were unable to resolve.[8][9][10] In June 2007, Hamas defeated Fatah in a series of violent clashes" From History of Hamas - Wikipedia Seems they resolve most of their issues with violence. Nuanced enough for you ?

The 'Nakba' occurred in 1948, when, on the day following the creation of the state of Israel, all of its Arab neighbors attacked it; look it up. Palestinians and Jews had been co-existing on those lands since at least 1917, as per the British mandate, without any mass exodus. So what do you think caused the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 ?? Need I remind you that Jews and Palestinians have lived together on those lands since about 750 CE; before that time there were mostly Jews on those lands, and about 500 years earlier that area was called Judea under Roman rule. Israel and Jews can be unreasonable at times, but to compare the mass extermination of 6 Million of them to the displacement of Palestinians as Israel was at war and being being attacked from all sides by Arab neighbors is more than a little over the top. Hamas is the legally elected government of the Gaza strip. A 'government' whose sole purpose is not to govern the people, provide food shelter and medication, nor to protect its people. Its purpose is the total destruction of the state of Israel, and to use its people as human shields ( have you seen the videos of their hiding locations ? ) That the Palestinian people choose such a government speaks volumes about their complicity. Or to put it another way, even if someone stole your house and kicked you out of it, would you burn his baby , rape his wife after breaking her legs, chop his head off with a garden hoe and take his mother hostage ??? Seems young people ( students ) and most posters on this topic, prefer to consider only 'colonial-settler' ideologies and never mind the actual facts.

Photons do not stop or accelerate, they are absorbed or reflected. Photons do not have mass, but they do have momentum, which is directly proportional to its frequency, or inversely proportional to its wavelength. So p = hv where v is the frequency, or p = h/l where l is the wavelength.This momentum is always conserved, in both reflection and absorption, and accounts for the induced momentum on the solar sail. I'm sure the same effect applies to radiation reaching the Earth, but I'm not sure of its magnitude or its effect on orbital dynamics.

I'm not claiming that; you are. Here But you haven't answered the questions Would you refuse to go on a date ? Would you refuse to have sex ? And most importantly, why ??

Let us consider a thought experiment. You are a single man of dating ae, INow ( you wish ! ), and a pre-op Trans woman approaches you. She is very 'masculine' in appearance, but identifies as a female, and she asks you out. Would you go on a date with her ? And if you did go for a 'few beers' and she interpreted it as a romantic situation, and wanted to have sex, would you refuse ? And what would be your reason for refusing ? By your definition, quoted above, every straight person is prejudiced. And by extension every gay person is also. They get a 'label' stuck to them , by run-away 'wokeness', simply for being who they are, liking what they do, and disliking what they don't.

I was involved in a car crash, about 22 years ago, that fractured my hip, dislocated my left foot, shredded my left hand, needed surgery on my right knee to reconstruct what was left of my knee-cap with pins and wires, and required 35 stitches across my neck to my chin. A year and a half later, I would pick at little bumps and scabs on my chin, and small pieces of windshield glass would come out.

Before segregation into male and female categories, there was no women's sports, was there ? I guarantee that if male/female competitive sports were combined so as to be 'inclusive', female participation would be nowhere close to 50 %.. Probably wouldn't even break the 10 % mark. How is that representative of 50 % of the Earth's population ? Indeed it is. Funny how the same group of people ( not you Stringy ) can argue that we should celebrate superficial differences, like skin color, and use that superficial descriptor for discrimination between groups of people. ( see the whiteboards thread ) And yet that same group will argue that gender is to be ignored, and all should be included, even though the difference is NOT superficial, but quantifiable and performance based. ( yes, I'm looking at you, Dim )

I did quote Dim, where he said if something doesn't affect you, it is not your concern. So maybe, you should ask him for clarification, as I did. And I will send a voucher for a 6-pack of Heineken to whoever answers the question of whether it is OK to set back women's sports after all the years of struggling to acheive recognition and equitable financing, so that a handful of trans-women can feel included ?

Your ( and mine ) observable universe, and everything in it that can causally affect us, extend for billions of light years. Yet in the example I posed ( you and I live 20 km apart )our observable universes differ by 20 km. That seems to be a very LARGE degree of overlap, wouldn't you say ?

Two identical observable universes would need to have all their constituent quantum particles in identical states. Unfortunately, observable universes overlap. If you live 20 km away from me, your observable universe extends 20 km further, in that same direction, than mine does. Observable universes are not separate and distinct 'marbles'; they are a mathematical construct, based on the speed of light and expansion rate, centered on the observer.

You still haven't understood JC's main point; that allowing Trans-women to compete against Cis-women is disadvantaging cis-women. Again. After they've been trying for hundreds of years to get the right to 'play' and earn a living at sports. And you could be right; it doesn't directly affect the participants in this thread, but some of us are of the opinion that if we see an unfair situation where one group is getting hurt by policies enacted by another group, we speak up and attempt to do something about it. Now you need to ask yourself 'Will you be hurting more people by letting Trans-women compete against Cis-women ( possibly the Earth's whole female population ), or will you just hurt a few ( INow mentioned 6 of them ) Trans-women by having a separate category for them ?'

You guys are way too serious about this. Here's B Mahar to inject some humor into the topic, and make some valid points about hormone blockers for kids, and the regional 'trendiness' of transgenderism. He makes the point that discussion is warranted.

Regardless of how Mathematicians try to spin the question of the continuum vs granular universe, the fact remains that light, and therefore information, travels at the same speed in a vacuum in either condition. This transfer of information is what determines the 'sphere of causality', otherwise known as the observable universe. And Physics tells us that, aside from a long, long time ago, when the whole universe had to have been in causal contact in order to acheive thermal equilibrium ( and isotropy/homogeneity ), anything currently outside our observable universe cannot have any effect on us because it is no longer in causal contact. IOW, the extent of the universe, either finite or infinite, outside the observable is of no actual significance. But it could make for light conversation at your next dinner party.

Not sure about the rest of the World, but my Debit Card allows forwithdrawls up to $1000 ( even multiple times per day ), and payments up to $5000; always prompted to provide a PIN. My credit Card also always prompts me for a PIN. Both cards were used in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and aleays prompted for a PIN. Not sure about the US, as it's been maybe 20 years since I've had to use a Debit Card there; I usually have some American cash on hand to use if going for drinks/dinner in the weatern New York area.

More like delusion. Unless the effect is reproducible, it is not scientific, and needs not be discussed on this forum. If I touch something and it is hot, Genady will also feel the heat if he touches it. If I smell decaying garbage, TheVat will smell it also. If, however, I 'sense' God while you 'swnse' the Devil ( or other supernatural entity ), then that is you mind playing subjective tricks on you.

Sometimes INow can be a pompous ass, but most of the time he's bang on the money with his reasoning, and has a low threshold for suffering fools. Sorry, I could only reverse one of the three neg reps. Is it just me, or does anyone else see an incongruence between the recent technology of the internet having spawned an interest in our ancestral ties to nature that is classified as paganism ?

I wonder if we'll ever be able to establish a 'baseline' so that we have a Cosmic Gravitational Background, equivalent to the electromagnetic Cosmic Microwave Background ? It could tell us a lot about the first instants of our universe, and about gravity itself.

We are not going to solve the World's, or even America's, problems here, but I'm glad to see people actively suggesting solutions, instead of posting pictures of pots and kettles. I still like Zap's idea of an additional restitution in the way of education funding for black Americans, because we all know what an apology and a promise from the Government is worth.