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Sirona #28 It's impossible to judge whether all the electronic toys would have enticed us to stay inside. I'm too old to remember what it was like to have a young body. Society has changed greatly; mom actually cooked and we made ice cream by hand crank. My grandson, 4, likes to watch TV, but sometimes he just needs to run, and outside is good for that. I hope he continues to be that energetic.

Sirona, I agree that virtual relationships do not replace real ones. Today parents are afraid to let their children play outside whether they happen to live in the suburbs and have a yard or live in the city and have a park, a contributor to kids growing up playing video games instead of baseball, football, hopscotch, etc. as my generation did when young. My hometowns were typically small, and my parents allow me to walk a few blocks to the edge of town and walk into fields, as there were no parks nearby. It is fortunate virtual technology exists to replace outside play, but it is no where near as good for anyone as the real outdoors, but IMO technology is not the cause of the change in play venues. We had television, and I was an avid watcher, but friends and outdoor play were often a better option.

Mathematics Based on Science? NO Thus, you need to start over.

There are many ways to misuse mathematics trying to model an observed process. Just because you get a wrong answer doesn't mean anything about the Universe or mathematics. You need to examine your math and whatever it is you are trying to model.

As Strange said, math isn't based on physics or any other part of science. Math is a shorthand that replaces language descriptions of processes and things. I'll do a simple example below. A car travels at 50 miles per hour for 2 hours; thus, it travels 100 miles. 50 m/h * 2 h = 100 m. The equation is valid for cars, motorcycles, ultra-light aircraft, etc. If you can't write or say a problem in a language such as English, you probably can't write math for it either.

My father was influenced by advertising, but adversely. When he shopped, often for groceries, he would buy whatever he didn't remember being advertised recently. If everyone did that, advertisers would have to change their methods.

Maybe some, but they are so bright it seems others would light up the intergalactic dust, even if we couldn't view them directly.

Are you arguing that having food, clothing, shelter and medical care, things that create comfort, cause people to fear more than if they didn't know where their next meal would come from, they didn't have warm clothes, they had no where to live, or were sick but had no access to medical care?

What technology causes what loss or why would it cause a fear of loss. A cellphone increases ones ability to communicate with friends, family and others. They have been criticized for being used instead of speaking to people nearby; I am annoyed when someone gets a ring, and must answer it before completing a sentence I'm waiting to hear. That's bad manners, but people allowed interruptions to affect their lives in that manner (e.g., a knock on the door) before phones. Do you have any example of technology corrupting morals?

Seems they have already created a sem-isynthetic life form; what you have in mind?

Yes, there are many things to fear. That isn't an argument for either moral regression or technology being the cause. Genghis Khan spread fear from China to Russia and the Caucuses, Hitler spread fear throughout Europe, Northern Africa, and Russia. People still fear Tigers, and almost everyone during the stone ages would fear other large animals. Fear is part of the human condition.

Figure 10 shows the outside case of the microphone is not hermetically sealed. I cannot tell from this diagram whether the space between the electret plate and pickup plate is sealed. In any case if you need a hole, it would be trough one of those plates because it seems rather difficult to go through the side into that cavity. Moreover, such a hole might short out the two plates, which means the hole would have to be made very clean with no burrs protruding into the cavity. You may have to disassemble a microphone to find out whether this cavity is sealed or not. I suspect it is not sealed, because barometric pressure variations might affect operation if it were sealed.

I think you are picking two things out of current culture, like picking a flower and clover from a field, and trying to connect one to the other. Yes, technological progress and moral actions are part of current culture. I think there is a general consensus that technology is progressing; although, some believe otherwise. I think your assumption of general moral regression is not necessarily true, and doubt there is such a consensus. Moreover, you have given no reason technology would cause moral regression. IMO there is no such connection. Moreover, I doubt general moral regression in society exists. It's up to you to make a case for your assertion. When I was young, adolescents met at the hamburger and root beer drive in, drove en-mass in circles, parked in secluded places to make out, and too young girls got pregnant. They didn't have all the technology, but managed to be constantly connected, had feelings of insecurity, desired instant gratification, and behaved more or less like teenagers today. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If you google "philosophy of" several different endings show; my results included nursing, learning, science, and life. In our times, philosophy of life is IMO particularly important, because we face many problems in daily life and need to know how to live better.

Can individual genes be removed or modified to learn more about the role of DNA and cell dynamics? Armed with better knowledge, will it be possible to eliminate additional parts of the DNA to make simpler and simpler cells until the secret of abiogenesis is discovered? It seems unlikely that life popped into existence with nearly 500 genes in its DNA. They seem to have hit a plateau of complexity at 531,000/473. Perhaps some genes can be changed to more or less complex forms that allow other genes to be removed, perhaps some combinations can be removed to simplify the DNA, or something else. It seems unlikely they have explored all possibilities of simplifying the DNA.

I saw an article about using an on-board microwave transmitter for propulsion. It did not depend on carrying mass to eject; rather, the author said it accelerated virtual particles, which already exist in space. IDK if it works, or for that matter if anyone knows. It is possible to use a laser to push on a light sail, with the laser in Earth or Solar orbit.

Five supernova in a thousand years means the average time between them is 200 years. The current average for the observable Universe is three per 100 years = 33.3 years. Some may have occurred in the Milky Way that were not observed, but none were observed in the past hundred years. Even if we assume there were an average number in the 18th and 19th centuries, we are still deficit three or four. Is there some reason other than statistical variance that the Milky Way would be producing fewer than an average number of supernova? It seems possible this deficit may have allowed intelligent life to evolve. Is it known whether a some galaxies produce fewer supernova, for example based on the amount of hydrogen in a galaxy?

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Not coming, your brain only registers the photon after it is traveled from the source to your eye. Thus, you see where the photon came from. You cannot see it as it travels, it is invisible. PS What you are suggesting would mean light bounces off the photon in transit (light doesn't bounce off light), and the reflected light would race to your eye faster than light (not possible) to get to your eye before the photon in transit.

Would a supernova that makes a neutron star create a spherical gravity wave?

You can't see a photon until it hits your eye.

Diatoms produce silica.