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Can't some light be cast? With a lantern? Would be nice to see an actual image of the telescope. You could see what's going on. I think you mean -440 ...
January 07, 2022 at 09:45
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away...
January 07, 2022 at 09:34
The content of the physical can be non-physical? Who knows what the substance of charge is made of? You can describe the outer manifestations, but the...
January 07, 2022 at 09:30
Isn't the function of the function a functional?
January 07, 2022 at 09:14
But the something existing apart from you can be said to be still in a superposition. Which means you are a kind of solipsist, denying the collapse yo...
January 07, 2022 at 09:05
Of course they tell you that. I have thought about it a lot. I thought the same as you. Precisely because I don't do it for a living, I know that peop...
January 07, 2022 at 09:01
This sounds like nuking the fridge. The fire that breathes life in the physìcal theory describing the fundamental physical/mathematical structure ?ies...
January 07, 2022 at 08:43
Is there a camera on board (apart from making pictures of the stars)? They should see what they do, or not? Is it all automated?
January 07, 2022 at 00:20
Why? Can't we imagine small pieces of lines put together non parallel? Even orthogonal? The pieces are no points, however small you choose them. If yo...
January 07, 2022 at 00:14
Sounds an awful lot like life. Except for the repeat maybe.
January 07, 2022 at 00:04
The paradox: 2=sqrt2, while 1/2=1/2.
January 07, 2022 at 00:00
I'm not sure I understand. Something isn't a way? And why is it a bad thing that something is linguistically incoherent? I can say that I see, interac...
January 06, 2022 at 23:55
If the stair is an escalator it's an escalator. Or a stair in a smooth disguise. Yes of course if the stair is flat, you can go straight up. I wrote t...
January 06, 2022 at 23:46
That's not true. The computer sensor stays in a superposition. It only collapses after a conscious act of observation. Even if someone else looks at t...
January 06, 2022 at 23:39
The article is prejudiced? How you know the super position has collapsed without you or an observer? Here your opponent is right. You don't know. You ...
January 06, 2022 at 23:25
There is no paradox. The stair is just no diagonal. So you can't go up the stairs in a straight line. Guess you have to buy some gear for that. A lift...
January 06, 2022 at 23:16
The ghost of departed quantities. Sounds great. And this sounds great too: "In my opinion, the philosophical paradox is only solvable having gained an...
January 06, 2022 at 23:10
The problem with randomness is that just by looking, like at a long array of 1's, it's impossible to say if there is a connection between the elements...
January 06, 2022 at 22:46
But what spreads out? If it spreads out it can collapse.
January 06, 2022 at 22:18
I can always say that you see quarks because you only belive in them (personally I believe in two even smaller particles and find the believe in eleme...
January 06, 2022 at 22:16
You can solve this paradox intuitively. Infinitesimals are not points. You can envision the straight diagonal as a countable and sommable sequence of ...
January 06, 2022 at 21:51
https://youtu.be/-0WNbm1jz6A
January 06, 2022 at 14:06
Why is that more correctly? Because it's the way it actually is? Energy is physical. It's a means to gain motion by interaction. Pure energy, without ...
January 06, 2022 at 13:53
But doesn't need a conceptual reconstruction a preconception also? If you were born in old Greek, maybe the instinctive narrative is different from ou...
January 06, 2022 at 13:25
A JP like mess is sufficient for pleasure...A sufficient, but not necessary condition. Two orthogonal lines do just as well. Unless you don't view a J...
January 06, 2022 at 12:40
Of course. The physicist wants his quarks and leptons (or subs within them, to which muon g2 anomaly seems to hint) to be real. What's thought real or...
January 06, 2022 at 12:33
Is electric charge a substance?
January 06, 2022 at 12:21
The currents in an electric circuit are not the force fields though. It is an external field, generated by external charges, that direct, the electron...
January 06, 2022 at 12:20
How would that look like for the two lines? What are the objectives everyone sees? How do you tell someone who doesn't see the painting? Or should he ...
January 06, 2022 at 11:57
The medium specific narrative. The kind of paint used? What underground is used? Objective properties?
January 06, 2022 at 11:38
Somehow this discussion looks like a discussion I read on this forum.Look here. There is spoken of a manifesto, like you speak about it. And in the sa...
January 06, 2022 at 11:35
The area below the triangles (between the triangles and the diagonal) goes to zero, while the length of all triangle sides stays the same, i.e, two. T...
January 06, 2022 at 11:19
Haha! That's what I mean. Professor Zonnebloem, following his wild pendulum everywhere.
January 06, 2022 at 10:57
This is essentially the central dogma of biology. But it's a dogma. Who says it's true? Information can flow in two directions. From DNA to the organi...
January 06, 2022 at 10:50
I mistakenly read "Stalking with the Pendulum". I imagined people (scientist) looking at things secretely while holding a pendulum and scribbling down...
January 06, 2022 at 10:00
What does this mean? I say many things I don't mean (when I get mean), and mean many, if not most, things I don't say. Still, my love is there. And th...
January 06, 2022 at 09:21
It depends. If the 1's are independent, it's random. That can only be decided by writing extra 1's and 0's. It's more likely it has total order. If th...
January 06, 2022 at 09:05
That's simply not true either. You can always look at every measuring act as caused by a conscious observer. No claim of measuring devices can contest...
January 06, 2022 at 08:54
There you go! I was just contemplating the 3d torus. I have a similar view. With a different torus though. "Stalking with the pendulum" What a powerfu...
January 06, 2022 at 08:46
You put that very well! I learned more from these words than a whole book of Salmon I had to read once, about "causal statistical laws and causal fork...
January 06, 2022 at 01:50
I think there is only one way nature can be saved. To stop the economic machinery that spews out disposables with an inflationary rate, recreates natu...
January 06, 2022 at 01:26
Randomness and total order are seemingly opposite but two sides of the same medal. Total order displays one globally and locally uniform pattern, whil...
January 05, 2022 at 23:52
Was it Novikov's evolution of the universe? He wrote stuff about white holes. Starobinsky and Zel'dovich proposed a 3d torus shape of the universe, wi...
January 05, 2022 at 22:13
Put a tiny mirror on a Brownian particle, shine a light on it, and record the reflected light. The record of randomness. Isn't randomness in fact the ...
January 05, 2022 at 21:48
I can imagine though that I only push backwardly on the stairs, but I have to push myself upwardly too. I think you can direct your CoM linea recta on...
January 05, 2022 at 21:35
So you go from 0 to 1 on a sine with zero wavelength? Does the line become a rectangle? With area 1xamplitude of sine? Great article! Is an infinite c...
January 05, 2022 at 21:11
On a straight surface, your CoM can stay on one height while walking, as on a diagonal upward (wrt to the diagonal). On a stair you push yourself up e...
January 05, 2022 at 21:06
I feel myself always hopping on a stair. My center of mass seems not to go in a straight line. Maybe you walk the stairs while your CoM floats linea r...
January 05, 2022 at 20:48
How is an infinite line between 0 and 1 constructed?
January 05, 2022 at 20:29
Isn't the distance traveled on the stairs always 2? You not go in a straight line on the stairs. Only on a flat slope, if not slippery. The paradox is...
January 05, 2022 at 19:50