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Degeneracy pressure is not a 'force', but the result of two quantum mechanical principles. The Pauli Exclusion Principle, which says each Fermion is allowed only one quantum state, and must obey Fermi-Dirac statistics, as Genady mentions above. They cannot be 'stacked-up' in the same state as bosons, which obey Bose-Einstein statistics. The other is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If you put a box around an electron, and keep shrinking the box, its position is determined more and more accurately. Eventually you reach a point where its position is determined so accurately that its momentum could be so great as to exceed c ; a physical impossibility. Nature gets around this problem by forcing electrons to merge with protons, to form neutrons. As the neutron is 2000 more massive than an electron, it is capable of exceeding the electrons momentum by 2000 times before running into the velocity being equal to c problem. This is evidwnt in type 1A supernova where a white dwarf star takes enough material from a companion star, that electron degeneracy can no longer support it against gravity, and it collapses to a neutron star, which is supported by the much greater neutron degeneracy pressure. This is the analysiss Subraihmanyan Chandrasekhar performed in 1930, during his boat trip to England, to study under Sir A Eddington ( who ridiculed his work ), and which today we call the Chandrasekhar Limit for electron degeneracy of white dwarf stars ) about 1.4 solar masses ).

If I were a cynical person, I would say the Israeli arracks on Hezbollah and Southern Lebanon targeting leadership, was an attempt to draw in the puppet-master Iran. An the hatred of Israelis by most in the Middle East, but especially Iran, seems to have facilitated it. Now Netanyahu has the world's permission to go after the leadership of Iran, as Iran has just declared war on Israel.. My prediction is Mossad is already gathering location information, and one of these nights, a squad of F-35s will penetrate Iranian air defenses, and attempt to take out Iranian leadership. That is what Netanyahu meant by 'regime change is coming to Iran'; chop off the head of Medusa and you don't need to worry about the individual snakes anymore. If he succeeds, Netanyahu will come off looking like the savior of Israel, and the idiot will be a political fixture in Israeli politics for many years to come. Iranian leaders let their hatred get the best of them, and they will make this all possible

Thanks for clarifying John. The answer to solve all immediate problems seems simple. If we can agree that Israel has the right to take out the leaders of groups who wish to do Israel harm, then they have the right to take out Netanyahu. And stop firing rockets indiscriminately into population centers, if Israel stops dropping bombs. But, just as Ukraine refuses to negotiate a cease fire unless all Russian occupiers leave Ukrainian land, Israel does not negotiate if Hamas is still holding ( and killing ) hostages.

Yeah ... my apologies for that. It is not that Phi and I think differently on this matter. Reading back, I realize the I took his comment too personally because of past history. I suppose having grudges doesn't make for good discussions. My bad; I'm working on it. Men and women have physiological and psychological differences, as well as similarities, and sometimes they need to be treated differently, sometimes not. The century we're in will not change that; education about which differences need to be treated differently is what is slowly changing. Women are more than capable of doing most of the jobs men do, so there is no need for pay disparity. In terms of the employment/pay issue ( purely anecdotal ), I work with a few women who are very intelligent, pleasant and attractive; no one accuses them of using their 'attributes' to get their positions, then again, we are Canadian, and unionized, so we get equal wages for the same job titles. One I work closely with, however, still insists that her date must pay for dinner, even if she asks him out ( no we haven't dated, she's 30 years younger, and I used to work with her dad ). I would point out however, that men who are pleasant and easy to work with often also get promotions ahead of the ones who are difficult, even if comparably qualified. This is often the problem for women as ignorant people will assume they are promoted for 'other reasons'; men don't have that problem.

I think your meter needle was already broken since last year, as it doesn't seem to have registered any reading last October 7th either.

I don't believe that, as I cannot weigh, or balance, losing someone you care for with someone you have no emotional attachment to, even if all lives should have equivalent value. That is not who we are, or can ever be. Nor do I want to be; you stated your son's life is more important to you than my son's, and my son's is more important to me than your son's. That is what makes us human. Maybe our definition of 'morality' needs amending.

Are you being 'sarcastic' again ? Did you want stats about other groups, like children, or housewives, or grandmothers, etc. Or did you want examples specifically of hostages from last October's massacre being killed as negotiations were ongoing ? Because this is what you said ... Well, I do wonder how many people would have been killed by the indiscriminate firing of 5000 rockets ( on very many occasions ) into civilian population centers, if Israel had not been forced, by the unrelenting attacks from neighboring states and groups, over the last75 years,, to develop one of the best air defense systems in the world, which can intercept such rockets in great numbers. Is the fact that Israel chooses to protect its people now to be used against them also ?

We are territorial animals. Our own family, our friends, our neighborhood, our city and our country are prioritized. I may not know the person who lives three houses down the street, but if he passes away it will affect ne more than 75 people perishing in a landslide in China. We would like to think that we are 'moral' people, but that is a made up word to describe how we believe we should think. But if that isn't a trait that helps us survive, and do what is best for us, what makes it 'moral' ? We cannot see the big picture, and can only work with the information we have. Is this strived for 'morality', that we can never achieve, the new religion ? A kind of thinking that the 'morality priests' preach to the followers, knowing full well that they themselves don't think that way, and the followers will never achieve that state either.

I would think that a method which targets mostly enemy combatants, say with a shipment of exploding pagers specifically purchased by Hezbollah militants maybe, that lessen the risk of innocent civilians and children being killed by 2000 lb bombs, would be seen as a step in the right direction. Not the 'cruel and cowardly' act of terrorists. ( although if it does inspire terror for Hezbollah members, and prevents them from doing their own version of the Oct 7 massacre of strictly civilians, that's a step in the right direction also )

Does it ? Or does it sound like all the posts I see are condemning Israel's actions, yet no one mentions the acts committed against them. All the while assuring me that they ARE condemning Hamas' massacre of Israeli innocents, or saying they hold Israel to a 'higher standard'.

John asked for stats and I provided such. If he had asked for sarcasm, I would have provided what you did.

Absolutely, and since Oct 7 did just that, lets condemn and ostracize the government of Gaza for committing such a violation. BEFORE moving on to condemn and ostracize the Israeli government. And how has that worked out for Jews through the ages ?

Six killed about a month ago, including one American, who were going to be released as part of the cease-fire negotiations. What we know about the six hostages killed in Gaza | CNN Some will probably claim they were actually found alive, but Netanyahu had them killed so he would have an excuse to keep dropping 2000 lb bombs on civilians and kids. ( I wonder how much 5000 )rockets with at least a couple of pound warhead weigh combined )

So why are there no comments in this thread about the fact that, even during negotiations for a cease fire, Hamas is still killing kidnapped hostages from last October? Oh Yeah ... we got one comment about how unjust it was for Israel to kill one of Hamas' leaders, who happened to also be their negotiator. Would these negotiations be taking place at the 'civilized table' ?

Working; don't have much time for responses ...but and I guess String Junky thinks Hamas is 'civilized society'.

On rare occasion I have watched porn. And like Peterkin, I find a lot of the genres on sites like PornHub extremely distasteful ( and sometimes funny ). But hey, whatever floats some people's boats, as long as consensual and not harmful. Having no exposure to porn, however, Peterkin has somehow formed a strong opinion about it. I myself, do know one porn star. She lived down the street in the 80s, and went to my high school ( about a decade after me ). She left before finishing, for LA, in the late 80s, and did porn with the stage name of Alexandra Quinn. She is now past her 'best before date' and about 8 years ago was back in town selling real estate, but it didn't last long. Should have finished school.

If you fire a gun at me and miss, I'm allowed to shoot back at you, and even kill you, in order to remove the threat of you shooting me again. You missed, but I killed you, so definitely not proportional. But I definitely am not allowed to shoot the person beside you, or even your dog, so not advocating for collateral damage. No. I suggested that criticism of both, collateral killing AND targeted killing of foes, leaves no other response. So if there is to be a response, other than 'shut up and take it', you tell me which is preferable. ( also applies to String Junky's post directly above ) IOW, they, the Paalestinians, 'cut off their noses to spite their face', which makes them just as stupid as Netanyahu. And still doesn't absolve Hamas' evil acts, against Israel, and the Palestinians they're supposed to govern. Let's try to keep the discussion honest, by reading what I write, not what you think I wrote.

Gravitational potential is an energy, and as such, it is a source, like momentum, stress, mass, etc. Rather simplistic, but easily understood for those of us that don't deal with the mathematics on a day to day basis. Also why I prefer Feynman diagrams to the integrals of QFT.

Whereas you can have a ToE without a graviton, it will not be as 'beautiful'. The graviton is only a requirement for a quantum field theory of gravity. If gravity resists all attempts at renormalization and quantization, it will have to be considered separately from a GUT, and the ToE model will no be as elegant, or useful, as one that combines all four interactions.

Exactly, as bolded. The idiot thought he could control them; and was wrong again. Oh, and please show me where I have justified collateral damage, or the bloodshed of innocents, in this thread. My first post in this thread was an angry response to another member's post where the targeting of Hezbollah members via their pagers, to avoid collateral damage, was labelled a 'cowardly and cruel' terrorist act. I, myself, considered it a brilliant method of mitigating collateral damage, and wish the IDF would do the same in Gaza.

That applies to any movie, even Academy Award winners. The first two are illegal; the second two can be found in any movie, even Academy Award winners. Some might argue that you have to like it in order to accept it; I don't think so. You can find it distasteful, but accept that others may enjoy it.

The fact that Netanyahu is stupid doesn't change the fact that Hamas is evil. I have stated several times in this thread that I think Netanyahu is an idiot. Instead of courting Hamas he should have worked more closely with the Palestinian Authority, which seems much more reasonable and interested in a sustainable peace. And you must realize that a lot of the 'propping up' Hamas received was foreign aid, which they then syphoned off to buy weapons, while Israel simply allowed it to happen. So again I ask, who are the actual bad guys, and who are simply stupid ?

I will definitely keep your advice in mind the next time I put up a billboard in Afghanistan 🙂 .

How exactly. The mission was always to get rid of all who wish to harm Israelis; no matter what country they're in. Personally, I would give Iran an ultimatum; stop funding your proxy terrorist groups or you will suffer consequences. Israel has a fleet of LM F-35s, allowing them to strike Iran with impunity, as they have done before. Yeah. And the US aided the Taliban in their struggle against the Soviets in the 80s. Does that make them responsible for what the Taliban has morphed into ? A lot of Russians wold describe Putin's Government the same way, yrt he keeps sending their kids to die in the Ukraine. A lot of North Koreans would say the same of their government. What exactly is your point? Maybe INow thinks I'm like a dog who won't let go of a bone, but when the discussion becomes one sided, I cannot let it go without presenting the other side.

You have, but it wasn't needed. Other posters on this thread have different positions, and it is them that I'm questioning. ( don't try to make everything about you, INow 😄 )