universeness

But up and down are opposite DIRECTIONS on a straight line. This could be perceived as the universe of 'lineland,' such a universe could still support...

Well said! :clap: :wink:

Are you referring to traveling analogue waves as data packets are transmitted through the air using from source (DAC (Digital to analogue converter)) ...

This is an aside folks but I sent the message below to one of the moderators, 'Baden,' 22 hours ago as a PM. I am probably being too impatient here bu...

Perhaps you would be more interested in offerings from Carlo such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ0uPkG-pr4 I have not watched this one myself b...

Well that is a big question and we would need to sit in a room for a great number of sessions with many others to memorialise/document what I see as T...

is this mathematical modeling or something that actually happens? Oscillate in time in what sense? Current/past or current/future? All I really unders...

So do you mean all interacting wavefunctions (which produce actual waveform disturbances yes?) in the Universe collapse?

Yeah, definitely the white flag from me for now.

But two galaxies can interact by colliding and they don't collapse, they effectively merge! Collisions within accretion disks merge into planets, I kn...

Read about him on Wikipedia. An interesting character who had an eventful life. Seemed to have had a lot of affairs with his patients and he designed ...

Never heard of him but I will do a quick google search.

Nope, sorry I don't think I understand this. Are you simply saying the cat is alive (spin up state) or dead (spin down state) Does spin up mean spin f...

I think the 'event' label is a perfectly reasonable/logical one from the standpoint of natural human perception. Surely time and positional data are '...

'I think therefore I am,' is convincing enough for me. No need for gods, an emergent pan/cosmopsychism is the absolute limit of the projection of my n...

As I said, I hope Sean treats you well, but don't be too downhearted if he does not. I will send him a letter of complaint if he does not and I hope a...

It's the old adage of 'power corrupts and total power corrupts totally,' but this has only been historically true due to a lack of the necessary check...

Almost all of 'reality tv' is an attempt to distract the population from focusing on injustice. They are 'shiny objects' of distraction. Vile programs...

Good stuff, I really enjoy the cosmology offerings on youtube I hope he treats you well and by doing so he will give the rest of us confidence that co...

Sean Carroll seems a 'good guy' he also currently has a youtube podcast where he answeres all submitted questions. The last one I listened to was 3hou...

Non-existence is their one and only defense!

There can be many reasons, some fair reasons and some not-so-nice reasons. Maybe just too busy. I would send to 'all of them' and I would pester until...

Every time I look at you I don't understand Why you let the things you did get so out of hand. You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned. Why'...

Well, enjoy the struggle against those who hold the current cosmological high ground. It's been done before. I think there are enough influential cosm...

One snowball can create an avalanche. I don't dismiss the 'wishes' or determinations of any individual or a group you define as 'we', as impotent. Doi...

I am suprised you cant see it. I can, along with your own posted tune. I posted an excellent version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Jesus Christ Superstar,...

'I think I know,' is not enough. You need to convince at least a majority of others, otherwise, the question remains unanswered. Do you remember the D...

I know the basic story (but I am not fluent in either) associated with both and I rate neither. I also don't rate the blood-thirsty Greek or Roman cul...

To me, such attitudes are born of exasperation with skewed historical data. Remember it's often the victors that write history. In many parts of the g...

I don't recall much mention of any philosophical aspects/consequences of his theories, that he discussed in his YouTube offerings but I was too busy t...

But science has not closed all the gaps yet as unanswered questions remain. I hear no voices in my head that I cannot identify.

The French might fight against you on that idea. I would help them do so. Why would you favour an aristocracy? at any time?

That's for the god(s) to decide, not my problem! Not necessarily but the main religious doctrines do. Well, I would describe this as a deistic viewpoi...

For me, this is just not adequate proof. I have never found 'operatic choral music' intimidating or theistically threatening. Here's a much better one...

You can go with the image of Thor holding a lightning bolt and deciding when he wants to throw them into our atmosphere or you can go with the scienti...

But the artificial vessel would replicate the function of the human head and body minus the brain. It would be 'brain ready.' I take it that you belie...

That was Pascal's point exactly. I require proof! I don't fear the traditional theistic threats. I have personally called them out very often, includi...

I think the wager was your investment in belief in God despite all the arguments against such belief. I think that's what you do. You know the god sto...

What is a human head, if not a vessel? If we replicate every system inside the head and body that supports the brain then I don't see why not, given e...

Shhhhhhhh, your on a philosophy site. Pascals wager is a philosophy basic. As long as no one else can hear this, let me whisper the address below at y...

Each of us can make the same claim. It's just solipsism and solipsism is nonsense in my opinion.

Make up your mind...... You continue to play with Pascal's wager. Bet On...Bet Off...Bet On...Bet Off. The Karate Theistic Kid (Only kidding!) That wh...

Very serious! I don't get carried away, I might get intrigued and become hopeful however. Out of little acorns, big oak trees grow! Any scientific/tec...

If two ideas fail, people conceive new ideas.

More like a human merging with electronic/quantum systems and genetic engineering rather than any significant contribution from natural evolution. A h...

My posts about time dilation were a digression from how it was being used in the OP. I was merely presenting the implications of the extremity of the ...

I think we have been mostly talking past each other. I thought you were narrating Rovelli's views as your first response to me stated: I think Rovelli...

Aaaaarrggggh! I mean 7,745,966 A bloomin, flippin comma was required instead of a bloomin, flippin dot

Sorry, the number 7,745,966,6930 in my calculations should have been typed as 7,745.966 The 6930 is after the decimal point and can be ignored.

Anyway, last Thursdayism is surely down to that pesky Thor, it's his day after all. Perhaps the rest of the avengers can prevent Thor from 'dissin' ou...