universeness

Yeah, not mad on da Twixes myself, but I will indulge if that's all that's on offer!

The payday bar reminds me more of the now defunct Rowntree's Nutty Bar from the 1970's, minus the covering chocolate. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_nKLc3Ev3...

Don't forget the cheeky wee toffee crisp! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/beoAAOSw911euu~z/s-l1600.jpg How about a wee star bar or the old favourite Tw...

It's a bit like a 'picnic' in Scotland, but not quite. Cant say if they would taste exactly the same as I've never tasted a payday bar. The inside con...

Awe! That's so nice :flower: I forgot I had a big tub of 'Celebrations,' all the mini choc bars you could ever want! Including mini mars bars! Oh, I a...

That's alright, while you come to terms with that, this weekend, I will nibble happily on a mars bar, et al, in between sips of the wonderful two bott...

Yeah, we come in a few varieties. I am an omnivore and there are few foods I don't like, so I'm not a fussy eater. I also like all condiments. I tend ...

The Double Decker was one of my fav's but I also loved crunchies, bounty bars, mars bars, marathon bars, milky ways, yorkies and most other chocolate ...

He sounds like a brother of the bounce! We wonderfully nuanced and sometimes contradictory personalities, are always interesting to live with.

Oh, I agree and so does my immediate family and the nurse who shakes her head, almost every time I go for my annual HbA1C test. She reminds me of the ...

Those who don't learn from our errors in history are doomed to repeat them.

That's some good and wide common ground we are on sir! I would be proud to stand firm beside you in any fight on any of those issues. Well, I can only...

I am not suggesting or recommending that you engage in tit for tat ad hominems, as fun as I personally find that at times on TPF, depending who I am d...

Oh, that's easy. My main evidence against your god of the gaps proposal ranges from the problem of evil to the problem of divine hiddenness. So your j...

:scream: :lol: I am a leftie democratic socialist Mr Gill, I hope that does not lower your opinion of me too much.

An interesting idea but would such not mean that the cosmological principle was not true a.k.a a homogenous and isotropic universe would be untrue? Th...

You complain about getting compared to a muppet and then you insult all mathematicians by calling their science an art. Stealth insults are still insu...

The burden of proof regarding posits you put forward, as supposed evidence for the existence of a god lies with you the proposer, not me the sceptic, ...

I also can eat these by the big family bag, with single malt whisky chasers. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/414AEEUrPxL._AC_SX385_.jpg Again, as ...

:yum: :yum: I want a kilo or two of those!!!! Do they come in a dark chocolate version :pray:

I think it's called a 'Crunchie!' I love em! But my type 2 diabetes complains! https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/42gAAOSwMlVkBlJd/s-l1600.jpg

I bolded the words that impact my current understanding the most. As you suggest, a lowest-energy state is not a zero energy state, so my question the...

And you accuse me of making irrational jumps! :roll: No human being knows what physical space IS, and the facts about physical space that we do know d...

Continuing my 'plan of action:' Interesting, and this reminds me of an aspect of Computing Science in the ADITDEM cyclical model for software developm...

Yay you're back! Sorry to hear you got that flipping Covid! I have had it twice myself. Fortunately, only after I had been jabbed, so I survived both ...

Thanks for your kind words and your willingness to share some of your mathematical insights with those who are not expert in the field, despite the ex...

Why? we humans can produce simulations/emulations to the extent that we even call them 'virtual' reality! So according to any simulated universe theor...

Whose mind? and how do you know whether or not that mind is simulated? This is just another infinite regression, that get's us nowhere, imo.

Nice. Is the following still the case? Since 1940, the United States has required all able-bodied males aged 18 to 25 to register with the Selective S...

Perhaps you even married him?

:grin: I like it. Sounds to me like it has some common ground with my 'warify.' 'A scrap' is often used as a phrase that can mean a fight, So scraptio...

There are around 100 billion stars in the milky way galaxy. It is also estimated that there are up to 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. ...

The wait for someone to point the way to the path of progress!

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Do you know you can edit a post after you have posted it? Just click on the three dots option and then on the pencil icon.

You might want to proof read that and edit it a little. i couldn't make much sense of it.

Well, how about a really simple experiment such as testing the validity of speed = distance/time. Is there not restriction here? Such as ignoring spee...

Agreed.

I saw that recently on YouTube and intended to watch it, Thanks for the reminder of it, it's back on my top 10 to watch as soon as I can.

For what it's worth, In my opinion, as a Computer scientist and educator, when it comes to individual scientific projects, I think this is correct. Bu...

I am not trying to play @"180 Proof"'s bulldog here. I simply value him as an interlocuter because I like the way he challenges me and others. I canno...

Then continue to expect me and my like to challenge you. I disagree. As you might expect, I completely reject your suggestion that I do not have a dee...

You gotta pay them bills my friend, so I fully understand. I have the joy of being currently financially stable and retired so, I can spend more time ...

I broadly agree with your general lackluster opinion of the Bryce Haymond article. I think he is just trying to use some scientific gaps, to sneak in ...

If you cannot see the assumption-riddled arrogance in that rather emotive and almost evanhellical, irrational claim, then you will begin to see why fo...

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'Cogito ergo sum,' works for me. Why does it not work for you? Solipsism is absolute nonsense IMO, but I agree hard solipsism cannot be falsified but ...

I also think that you are a fan, (if perhaps after 8 years, a more jaded fan) of 'try, try, try, try again!' Imo, it's just too important to do otherw...

What do you mean here by your use of 'pluralism?' Is it that we should all remain open to the search for common ground between us, as opposed to becom...

I fully agree.