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Probably not as I would have nothing to compare myself to, so how could I experience awe? How would I know what I was? Who or what would tell me? Woul...
December 01, 2022 at 19:33
Living on the street is often better than living in slums and disgusting and dangerous rented accommodation. There are lies, damn lies and then statis...
December 01, 2022 at 19:29
I would spend eternity musing about how absurd my existence was and trying to see if I can see myself. I would wonder why I existed and what god like ...
December 01, 2022 at 19:15
:up: Quantum entanglement seems to be a way for information to appear at more than one place at the same instant in time, regardless of the distance b...
December 01, 2022 at 17:54
I am interested in any input from your local political representatives. Did you approach them or would you rather not discuss that aspect?
December 01, 2022 at 17:23
The world is what people make it to be. The people elect the government in the UK and the people tolerate the nefarious behaviour of the rich, no matt...
December 01, 2022 at 16:59
I would do both, I would do everything and find out everything I could, as it would be about everyone in similar situations, not just about me. That's...
December 01, 2022 at 16:37
Always a wise way to go. It's important that I plunge my pitchfork into the correct target. B****** nefarious landlord, banker, billionaire, king or m...
December 01, 2022 at 16:28
Well, I hope we are all watching very carefully and are not basing our lives totally on the seemingly very apt 'Well I'm alright Jack!' I am glad you ...
December 01, 2022 at 16:22
In QFT, the universe contains 'interacting' fields. Every field permeates the entire universe, yes? So does a 'photon'/field excitation really 'travel...
December 01, 2022 at 16:14
F****** B****** profiteering landlords! :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: Why are we putting up with this SHIT? If I had the power Jack, I would make free h...
December 01, 2022 at 15:31
No because the 0.1 joules of energy was not lost, it was converted to other energy types. No, the total energy of the system after the first collision...
December 01, 2022 at 15:21
Do you think this universal mind is self-aware and has intent? Why did it need to break parts of itself off to create something limited as you or I? S...
December 01, 2022 at 15:06
Sometimes we can overanalyse ourselves and think we are becoming too irrational there or too addictive here. Employment of caution and self-analysis, ...
December 01, 2022 at 12:32
Words associated with the word Amity: amicableness, benevolence, comity, concord, cordiality, friendliness, goodwill, harmony, kindliness, neighborlin...
December 01, 2022 at 12:04
No, if anything, I think I have underestimated its importance. Hope is the fundamental, that comes before love, joy etc. Your use of the word 'grant' ...
December 01, 2022 at 11:38
Nina was one of the greatest singers there has ever been. Who can doubt she really believed what she sang. Isn't it a pity we ALL sometimes forget to ...
November 30, 2022 at 21:12
How about this brilliant hope filled 'il canto' from Pavarotti. Excellent vid of everyday folks as well: https://youtu.be/L0afcLgqyt0
November 30, 2022 at 16:10
Victor is trying to explain that e=mcsquared is a consequence of conservation law. If energy was not conserved during pair production, then e=mcsquare...
November 30, 2022 at 15:55
I agree, you will never lift your fog until you understand that potential energy IS a property of a system. Taking a measurement is an 'instantaneous'...
November 30, 2022 at 15:19
The triumph of human hope over pernicious religious or spiritual woo woo. We need human spirit yes. But I prefer the original meaning of spirit as Car...
November 30, 2022 at 12:20
Ok, in that case, I fully recommend addiction to hope! It will destroy your fears! I remain hopeful that most people can defeat any compulsion to beco...
November 30, 2022 at 12:06
Here is a good offering from Victor Toth(quora), describing conservation occurring during pair production. Might help you appreciate the concepts invo...
November 30, 2022 at 11:59
Hope destroys fear. Hope is far more powerful than love or evil imo. Hope allows you to die, and as you die, you can still maintain a belief that our ...
November 30, 2022 at 11:46
I think it's you, who continues to clearly demonstrate your lack of understanding of the experiment presented. The use of the word 'arbitrary,' as pre...
November 30, 2022 at 11:18
A valid image. A lion is not very good at physics either. I think this is a reasonable comparison. Only based on your inaccurate, bias guestimates. He...
November 29, 2022 at 10:51
Your concerns are well founded and are noted. Based on your profile, you have much more experience on TPF than I. Getting the balance correct is not e...
November 28, 2022 at 23:05
Old habits die hard guys. 30+ years as a secondary school teacher. My remit was to cause learning. I never gave up on a pupil. I mean no insult to Mr ...
November 28, 2022 at 22:37
Thanks for your support, I appreciate it and I agree with your assessment of the situation. You have inspired me to make one further attempt to get th...
November 28, 2022 at 19:46
Yes, life happened in this universe without intent, so that happenstance has no moral component.
November 28, 2022 at 17:04
Feel free to ignore science all you want and remain delusional about what you think you know about energy conservation. I will continue to listen to t...
November 28, 2022 at 13:41
You are also making a complete assertion. Where is your exemplar experimental evidence from an experiment that proves any energy loss cannot be attrib...
November 28, 2022 at 10:24
Energy loss is energy changing form. The total energy in the universe remains unchanged. There is no evidence of an 'outside' of the universe for any ...
November 27, 2022 at 17:28
I don't see what observational reference frames or relative experiences of space and time have to do with the material existence of space and time. I ...
November 27, 2022 at 16:56
Your musings seem to jump around in very bizarre ways, from small gliders on small ramps to carts and now big cars travelling on big roads against 100...
November 25, 2022 at 13:38
Yeah, neither do physicists who do physics experiments, according to you. :rofl:
November 25, 2022 at 13:27
No, you have killed our exchange.
November 25, 2022 at 13:22
Yeah, going right back to the Greeks, a lot of events have come and gone, no more chariot racing! You might get a giggle at this one: "Art competition...
November 25, 2022 at 13:21
I think I understand physics far better than you do! You type an insult like: and then you ask me to consider another of your 'interpretations,' of wh...
November 25, 2022 at 13:11
One of my fingers is currently pointing into space and I do so as time passes. I can therefore indicate/represent pointing at space and time by raisin...
November 24, 2022 at 16:43
What are you defining, physically/materially, as your 'internal mind? Your 'random imaginings,' would imo, be in the main, unimportant, yes. But we ar...
November 24, 2022 at 16:38
Based on wave/particle duality (my favourite flavour of dualism), yes. Then of course there is QFT. From Quora: Rodney Brooks (Ph.D. in Physics, Harva...
November 24, 2022 at 16:31
An example, that would be very difficult to label anything other than immaterial. An example whose existence would be very difficult to deny and can d...
November 24, 2022 at 16:11
I find your concerns relatively trivial. I see no issue with your insistence that at the start, we should take the total energy as mph, where h is not...
November 24, 2022 at 14:42
ITS ALL RELATIVE! The Earth is rotating on its axis at about 1,674.4 km/h (1,040.4 mph) The orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun is 108,000 km/h....
November 24, 2022 at 11:47
In the section titled 'Experimental Description,' it states: "The glider was kept at the top of ramp at rest." In the section titled 'Data and Analysi...
November 24, 2022 at 11:06
Surely funerals are their thanksgiving equivalents, especially each other's. They can sing their anti-life ditties about the glorious joys of oblivion...
November 23, 2022 at 23:49
Yes, I think that's correct, for the summer Olympics anyway. Rugby Union - 15 players per team - has been featured on the Olympic programme four times...
November 23, 2022 at 19:09
I accept your viewpoint, but I find it unconvincing and akin to god of the gaps proposals. You have provided no compelling example of an existent imma...
November 23, 2022 at 18:25
I am not a physicist or a philosopher, so I am not best placed to debate the academic details involved in the example experiment I linked to. My exper...
November 23, 2022 at 18:16