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"Does he mean dimention? Or dimension?" Probably just my typo. His own words will be posted below:
January 14, 2022 at 07:12
"There are no point particles. This is an abstraction made in quantum field theory. The only true fundamental particles are two massless basic fields....
January 14, 2022 at 07:08
"I'm curious! Seems you are sent from heaven! If you want to. But from what you've written they seem wrong. Which I say naturally. All these theories,...
January 14, 2022 at 07:05
Sorry my replies took a while. I switched to my current book. 'Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant and then went to sleep. An absolutely fascinating ...
January 14, 2022 at 06:51
:halo:
January 14, 2022 at 06:20
Another point that might interest you is, In my wish to take part in online discussion sites. I have joined one of two of them, including this one. It...
January 13, 2022 at 21:45
"What's your aim in this experiment? I'm not sure I understand. The clocks in intergalactic space show the same rate but the rate by itself is not con...
January 13, 2022 at 20:58
"Okay Scotsman! Let's set the boat assail." Good, strong words, I like them. I would guess you are American, but no matter, good strong words in any n...
January 13, 2022 at 20:42
One final point. I would place the two clocks, in my thought experiment scenario in intergalactic space, between galaxies, no gravitational effects, h...
January 13, 2022 at 19:05
You offered no response to two points I think are important : I gave you a 'thought experiment' scenario and then asked Why would the clocks ticking a...
January 13, 2022 at 18:28
"What on Earth are you talking about? You think I have fear of the gods? Absolutely not. I just care about their creation" Ok I accept that, so why me...
January 13, 2022 at 16:46
"You appear to be young and wild! The internet can deceive! It's a compliment!" Aw, Thanks Raymond, maybe young and wild at heart but no, an auld 57-y...
January 13, 2022 at 15:57
"Don't forget the actual occurrence of hell on Earth for people who don't and didn't comply with the invented directives of science. Actual hell seems...
January 13, 2022 at 15:21
"Curved space by definition is not Euclidean. The straight line in curved space is geodetic." My command of Astrophysics and physics is way below your...
January 13, 2022 at 15:01
Nonsense, The human mind is contained in the human brain. The same applies to monkeys. Do you think you would still have a mind, if your brain is remo...
January 13, 2022 at 12:28
"The straight line of time becomes a curved one too. If space is curved, so does time." So if time is curved, then based on Euclidean geometry, you ca...
January 13, 2022 at 12:15
Really? I stated human and not monkey deliberately.
January 12, 2022 at 19:18
Ok, I think I misunderstood your meaning with the use of 'discomfort associated with stopping'. I thought you meant something along the lines of 'peop...
January 12, 2022 at 19:15
The human mind is contained in the human brain, did you know?
January 12, 2022 at 18:57
I understand common phrases/idioms very well but such common phrases/idioms can have multiple meanings, it comes down to context and you used "show us...
January 12, 2022 at 18:50
your welcome
January 12, 2022 at 18:44
I'm sorry to "crack you up", especially for anyone out there who believes humpty dumpty was real and still exists in a very far away place. I accept t...
January 12, 2022 at 18:36
In Carl Sagan's 'The Demon Hunted World' and 'The Dragons of Eden,' He discusses this area. Early humans would hunt by day as they could not see in th...
January 12, 2022 at 18:24
I would like to alter my description to 'A sentient being with the capability of RATIONAL thought.'
January 12, 2022 at 17:55
Fair enough. "I leave the gods to their own devices," would suggest you are not monotheistic, is that accurate? At what point in the estimated 4 billi...
January 12, 2022 at 17:47
If you give permission for others to decide or dictate who you are and what you represent then you leave yourself open to accusations of thoughtlessne...
January 12, 2022 at 16:21
Are you Theist?
January 12, 2022 at 16:12
You can choose any other lifeform you like, I prefer any such like, to the easily duped mind of the theist. This begs what question? I don't know if y...
January 12, 2022 at 16:09
No, my mind jumps around a lot. I've been accused/described in the past as having a butterfly mind (constantly jumps from plant to plant seeking nouri...
January 12, 2022 at 14:39
Thanks, but that raises another interesting question. 'Good logic' from a duelist standpoint suggests the existence of 'evil logic.' Was Plato's Logos...
January 12, 2022 at 12:45
Thanatos never existed, just a fable, never existed so never slept, was never born and never disassembled.
January 12, 2022 at 12:33
Acceptance implies choice. Try to say awake, how long will you last. 'Sleep of death' makes no sense. Death is the beginning of disassembly, sleep is ...
January 12, 2022 at 12:20
You do not physically disassemble in sleep, you will start to the moment you die. Imagine if we could quantum tag every quanta which came from a dead ...
January 12, 2022 at 11:42
Cant kill ourselves because something really cool would happen and we would F****** MISS IT! A comedy show, a small single malt and then back to the q...
January 12, 2022 at 07:22
When you draw a straight line within euclidean 3D space you are actually drawing a cuboid, you just can't see its width or height, but it's there. So ...
January 12, 2022 at 07:17
Yeah, so we just don't know enough yet. Maybe there is a multiverse. Maybe a universe exists in cycles. Maybe the universe has layers of existence. Ma...
January 12, 2022 at 07:06
Curvature of space/time/spacetime is described in great detail on sites such as wikipedia. It would take too many words to attempt to describe the det...
January 12, 2022 at 06:46
One of the most profound questions which can be asked is 'what is truth?'
January 12, 2022 at 06:02
Truth maybe only found outside the matrix, agent Smith. Was his character meant to portray an agent of truth? Especially when he tried to conquer by m...
January 12, 2022 at 01:13
Many physicists now think that the (badly named) big bang started after Alan Guth's Inflation posit. Big bang and then inflation has now changed to in...
January 12, 2022 at 01:13
The uncertainty principle establishes that you cannot know momentum and position at the same instant of time. It follows then that the relationship be...
January 11, 2022 at 22:17
'Real' is a label for a concept, a property, an idea. Maybe a member of one of the Platonic forms (or Aristotelian ideals) or something that atoms (do...
January 11, 2022 at 22:17
If quantum theory is correct then a 'quantum of time' must exist. It does and is called planck time and it is 10^-43 seconds and is described as 'the ...
January 11, 2022 at 17:35
Maybe Shakespeare should have posited his question as ‘to be AND not to be’ rather than ‘to be OR not to be’ Might have made his play even more intere...
January 11, 2022 at 11:42