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It is not known if the mutations are random or steered by the organism.
April 23, 2022 at 17:37
Sir pimpelPopper was a frustrated scientist, who tried to make science dance on the marchmusic of his false method. Where I claim to be a communist?
April 23, 2022 at 14:04
Wasn't it Frederick thinking people are parasites sucking on the skin of nature? Wasn't he thinking he stood far above the others, being an übermensch...
April 23, 2022 at 14:01
That's no criterion for being scientific.
April 23, 2022 at 13:53
What's non-scientific about it? Seems pretty convincing to me. You gotta admit that capitalism is fucking up the planet. Which might not be evil per s...
April 23, 2022 at 13:52
Sounds like affine space, without an origin. I see what you mean, I think. But what if your space changes it's metric? Your shapes would change. If yo...
April 23, 2022 at 13:23
Then straighten up, head full in the wind, and walk proudly and tall. If you don't need the knowledge it's up to you. Material knowledge can't explain...
April 23, 2022 at 13:03
That's because that knowledge is suppressed from the time you were a kid. It's simple though. It's knowledge about the heaven and the gods in it. Abou...
April 23, 2022 at 12:40
Ah yes! Science can describe the universe but not explain it. I had an epiphanistic experience about an infinite series of big bangs on a bulk space. ...
April 23, 2022 at 12:34
Why's that?
April 23, 2022 at 12:26
I don't mean to demonstrate it, but ask if it could be. Isn't religious knowledge proof? Isn't theology taught at our universities. To which I might a...
April 23, 2022 at 12:26
Krauss and grassy Tyson offer no theory of something from nothing here. They say nothing is empty space. Filled with virtual possibility. From which t...
April 23, 2022 at 12:19
Can't we have an innate, a priori divine, religious knowledge? If beyond human understanding for now, when will we know? When we die?
April 23, 2022 at 12:14
A 1d sphere is a circle. A 2d sphere is like a 2d shell. If you travel in it you come back where you started. Our universe is a 3d sphere.
April 23, 2022 at 12:09
If the universe is eternal, which, in my calmly reasoned, humbly humbleness, seems to be the case, then who created eternity? Why can't a cause lay in...
April 23, 2022 at 12:03
Hawking in "Godel and the end of physics" wrote: "In the standard positivist approach to the philosophy of science, physical theories live rent free i...
April 23, 2022 at 11:56
Gaussian curvature is an intrinsic property, which can be measured inside the curved space. For example, on a 2d sphere, initial parallel lines, after...
April 23, 2022 at 11:33
One might, exercising the uttermost caution, conjecture that the phenomena are the outside appearances, and the noumena antithesis thereof, the inside...
April 23, 2022 at 11:29
What you think of the new atheists and the far right?
April 23, 2022 at 09:33
A valuable opinion! An admirable goal. Let's see what happens. Fact is that you and I are real and live in two different but not mutually exclusive re...
April 23, 2022 at 09:18
Ill telya what they find. Lepton or quark substructure! Yeehaa! :grin: They should smash electrons! It's not my intention to convince. Rather to count...
April 23, 2022 at 09:04
How can that be the case. The simulations in a sense create the world. Not it's material, but our perception.
April 23, 2022 at 08:51
That's the wrong assumption. Why should it be based on logic? Why should it be based on logic in a world that's not logic, except in isolated pockets?...
April 23, 2022 at 08:47
Yes. A particle is considered an excitation of a field. And a field is an operator valued distribution, the operators being creation and annihilation ...
April 23, 2022 at 08:31
You're close...
April 23, 2022 at 08:17
Well, you said I talk about a logical simulation. But the simulation is about the world. Not about logic. What you mean by a logical simulation? My br...
April 23, 2022 at 08:11
Two threads in one! One in your domain, one in mine. Spacetime is spacetime. Motion is motion. No. A particle is not a movement of a field or bit of s...
April 23, 2022 at 08:05
But its no LOGICAL simulation, as you claim I said.
April 23, 2022 at 07:54
Ain't that so then? Is my claim false?
April 23, 2022 at 07:51
Yes. I am real. What you mean by "YOUR" world? Yes. They are simulated in my brain. For YOU, they are fantasies, simulations of nothing.
April 23, 2022 at 07:50
Now you project a logic onto me I didn't use. Why should life be a logical simulation? What's my logic used to conclude that?
April 23, 2022 at 07:47
No. That's the wrong conclusion. My life is not a simulation. The brain simulates the world. The simulation of the gods refer to real gods.
April 23, 2022 at 07:43
And look what we can learn! Sports (I like speed crawl!), playing music, fighting, making love in zillion ways, reading, talking, philosophizing, pain...
April 23, 2022 at 07:36
The brain is a simulator. Every moment of your waking life, from the moment in the embryo (whose particles directly stem from the big bang, contrary t...
April 23, 2022 at 07:26
Don't think so. I have rather detailed knowledge of the workings of the brain. It's a huge analogue, life simulator of the world, capable of grabbing ...
April 23, 2022 at 06:41
The problem: why should preons and antipreons arrange in protons, neutrons, electrons, and neutrinos only? Here chirality must kick in.
April 23, 2022 at 05:50
It's the lowest energy state of three -1/3 charged preons. If true...
April 23, 2022 at 05:43
That's the mass paradox. This is only the case for massive particles. This was given as a counter. But massless particles don't have momentum. Only pu...
April 23, 2022 at 05:40
There couldn't have existed a world in which the airplane above the city flew on a different line, while everything else is the same. Such a world can...
April 23, 2022 at 05:07
Nomads travel from world to world, like the Roma on that beautiful painting of van Gogh. What color, light and atmosphere! Monads, on the other hand, ...
April 23, 2022 at 04:59
Well, the exact calculations I don't have. You need to calculate the bound state of three massless preons interacting by a color gauge. For 3 bound qu...
April 23, 2022 at 04:38
Not sure still what you mean by an anti-positron. If an electron meets an anti positron, doesn't it meet an electron? How is helicity involved here?
April 23, 2022 at 04:04
Yes. But then who's the crackpot? They do use an unobserved mechanism. A fantasy. There does exist such a spontaneous symmetry breaking in condensed m...
April 23, 2022 at 04:01
Yes, different neutrinos mix like different quarks can do. But the effect in quarks is much smaller due to their masses. Neutrinos from different gene...
April 23, 2022 at 03:13
The original preons were considered massive. I asked Harari by email and he was kind enough to answer. Massless preons could do the trick. He wrote me...
April 23, 2022 at 02:09
Do they agree with me on preons?
April 23, 2022 at 01:54
You got it the wrong way round. The cosmos has no aim. A gas doesn't expand in a vacuum because it has an aim, an effect to be caused. You conflate ai...
April 23, 2022 at 01:46
In my humble view, the space of an ant walking on a 3d sphere is flat. Ants walking in the shallow domain of a 2s shell will, if they start moving par...
April 23, 2022 at 01:17
Just measure angles of triangles. Or the circumference of a circle and it's radius. If you're on a 2d spherical shell, the ratio is less than 2pi beca...
April 23, 2022 at 01:13
A 2d torus has negative Gaussian curvature on the inside, positive on the outside, and zero in between. Because its embedding in 3d. But in 4d it has ...
April 23, 2022 at 00:56