I personally think that this is a terrible motivation. But I have to admit that it seems like a good approach for your stated objective, and it does i...
What is your objective here? Often, the aim of people who try to redefine established concepts is to try and create a more consistent definition, not ...
You're right, that "well-researched" bit was silly of me to qualify. It's very clear how negatively you react to actual evidence, and citing published...
Oh, wow, I'm so sorry, now that you mention it, I really wish that I'd actually started our dialogue with something like a well-researched 1200-word c...
Good grief. I literally stated - in the very sentence you quoted here! - that my issue was with your naive assertion of the standard dominant narrativ...
As soon as I read this, I also wanted to ask: I'm not trying to pile onto one side of a disagreement, and I can see that you've both learned a great d...
I also want to echo the statement that nothing can ever be objectively "bad" - it's an intrinsically relative concept. Things can only be bad for some...
I found that reply absolutely beautiful. Succinctly jumping straight into a clear problem definition, let's put these value judgements over there for ...
That is very relieving to read! I accidentally found your identity while briefly researching more detail on the questions you asked me (which I would ...
I think this is another one of those "yes and no" answers, haha! The cosmological principle could still hold (since it is often stated with a conditio...
Hey, you did some research! That's great! :) It's a shame you only did so - as the saying goes - like a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of...
Man, I was happy to leave "well enough" alone, but you drag me back in. I had to rewrite how I first drafted this response, because you have actually ...
Ah, I see. I don't live in the US, so my superficial impression of Fox is shaped by 1) the overt bias in the Murdoch-owned outlets in my country and 2...
Thanks - this is also my second time. I got it the first time juuust before I was due for my booster needle, so at least it was much less intense this...
:lol: I love that. I forgot to mention that physicists don't just use that, but sometimes use it in proofs (non-foundational ones, but still). But now...
I am happy to hear that. If we have no other common ground, then I'm glad we at least have this. I may not (re-)respond to every one of your arguments...
Man, that's recent. I feel like speculating that it could be partly to do with separate departments wanting to not share the funding they received for...
I agree 100%! When I joined this forum, I anticipated making many rants to this effect, but in short (*for now*), I want to express my feelings that t...
Apologies for going AWOL for so long! Half of the reason is that I got Covid last week, and the other half is that I wanted to do sufficient research ...
You know, I actually didn't give much thought to my username here! I came up with the Jaded Scholar username about 15 years ago and have been using it...
Good commentary! It would be a bit hypocritical of me to not be equally open to unphysical results being either a breakdown of mathematical modelling ...
What a lovely thing to say! Thank you! :D To be honest, I needed to brush up on many things to answer your previous questions, and that article was on...
I've given myself permission to be quite rude in this comment, which I'm hesitant to do in a forum where I'm pretty new, but the points you are holdin...
This is pretty vanilla, but one of the thought experiments I appreciate most is Galileo's thought experiment demonstrating that the nature of gravity ...
I haven't done the maths myself, but I actually read about some practical estimates on this exact thing in Bill Bryson's "A Short History of (Nearly) ...
From memory, I think you're exactly right about that. This is true, but I think in this context, the existence of "you" requires the sustained existen...
Since you both brought up consciousness, I wanted to talk about that too - but also wanted to stress from the beginning that while I have been fascina...
Thanks - I will check out that debate between Penrose and Guth. To be honest, I still do not understand it either. I have read a little more about it,...
I have heard about Tegmark's 4 levels of multiverses. It seems like a worthwhile classification system for how different kinds of mathematical models ...
I want to give a disclaimer that your comment irked me. I'm not certain exactly why, therefore I'm not sure if it was for a good reason or a bad one, ...
Interesting. That connotation is pretty much what I meant, just with fewer steps - as crucial as mathematics is to literally every area of physics, th...
Overall, I've never found cyclical models particularly appealing, for two (somewhat personal) reasons: 1. It feels... almost anthropocentric to focus ...
I thought you and others might enjoy knowing that most physicists regard String Theorists and other specialists in unprovable/unfalsifiable theories a...
Hi there! I have a PhD in Physics and therefore cannot resist chiming in on this. While I concede that Science itself is not free from biases, but thi...
As an ex-Christian, I've done a fair bit of research into the history of Christianity and Judaism, but my take on this question is largely informed by...
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