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You are changing the subject Banno. Your statement was: Can you see how "there is always more that can be said" implies necessarily that not all can b...
November 28, 2022 at 02:11
We seem to have lost all the bona fide physicists, they make interesting discussion. I suppose us crack pot philosophers drove them away.
November 28, 2022 at 01:59
You are looking at the general principle you stated, as if it only applies to one particular case. In that one instance, more can be said, and that wh...
November 28, 2022 at 01:48
The point is that this is just an assertion, which is contrary to experimental evidence. The evidence shows that all the energy can never be accounted...
November 28, 2022 at 01:39
I'll choose the dick-rabbit myself, therefore the option that there's always more options. But, what I explained, the difference between "there is som...
November 27, 2022 at 23:19
I like that, two different ways of saying the same thing, used to demonstrate that you cannot say the same thing in two different ways, simply with th...
November 27, 2022 at 12:41
The incoherency is quite clear, and I'll explain it to you. You can deny that it exists, and call me whatever name you like, but that doesn't address ...
November 26, 2022 at 13:11
The point is that energy loss is very real, whether you are looking at the Planck scale or at a scale of the entire universe. It is never "negligible"...
November 26, 2022 at 02:26
it's easy to give a name to an infinite cardinality (aleph_1 for example), just like we might name it "an infinity", but naming it in no way demonstra...
November 26, 2022 at 02:17
The problem with your referenced experiment remains. There is an initial energy loss of fifteen percent, which the experimenters refer to at one point...
November 25, 2022 at 13:31
The so-called "insult" was warranted in response to this: Come on universeness, if you think that air resistance and friction are negligible to a movi...
November 25, 2022 at 13:24
Look at the graph, and tell me how you would interpret that first 1.5 seconds in any other way than a total energy loss of approximately .15 joules, p...
November 25, 2022 at 13:13
It's unsettled because there's a problem with what constitutes a "countable" cardinality. As soon as we define "countable" such that an infinite set m...
November 25, 2022 at 13:09
Canada coach John Herdman wasn’t trying to be disrespectful when he said the next mission for his squad was to “eff Croatia", he was just setting the ...
November 25, 2022 at 12:35
For a philosopher with the desire to know, the idea that there might be things which are impossible to know is cause for lament. As I said, this is a ...
November 25, 2022 at 02:25
I see it is pointless discussing this with you. You are in complete denial, and refuse to even attempt to understand some simple physics. However, I w...
November 25, 2022 at 01:10
OK, so here's the difference which led me to think you were being inconsistent. I suggested the possibility of something which is completely inapprehe...
November 24, 2022 at 15:06
This is where the begging of the question occurs, in how the mgh (mass x gravitational constant x height) is set to zero. It is done by defining total...
November 24, 2022 at 13:32
Wait, you seem to be showing inconsistency here Mww. Let's say that it is possible that there are things which could never be brought into the mind, c...
November 24, 2022 at 02:23
The main point though, is that the conservation of energy in the conversion of PE to KE in the downward motion, is simply manufactured by designating ...
November 24, 2022 at 01:30
Having gotten that (this false ineffable) out of the way, we can now approach the true ineffable, with the issue of conception. If something never com...
November 23, 2022 at 14:47
I'm not a physicist, and do not pretend to be one. However, anyone can read the reported experiment, and attempt to understand what was carried out. I...
November 23, 2022 at 13:51
The issue though is why, or how. Suppose I write here, the word "box", and I tell you that this word signifies something, it stands for something. How...
November 23, 2022 at 02:42
Look at the first sentence in the article: "When energy is transformed from one form to another, or moved from one place to another, or from one syste...
November 23, 2022 at 01:30
Why are you so helpless 180? https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_loss#:~:text=When%20energy%20is%20transformed%20from,form%20of%20energy%2C...
November 22, 2022 at 13:34
My claim is not that any particular experiment has falsified the law of conservation. My claim is that all experiments, each and every one of them has...
November 22, 2022 at 01:59
No, I don't think so, because the part of the context which is not reachable, is still real. So it's like you are saying that we never need the ideal,...
November 22, 2022 at 01:46
This is in no way a case of measuring energy. We can never detect all the energy. We never have and we know we never will, you seem to agree with this...
November 21, 2022 at 23:10
Banno seems to have a very big problem with this, continually insisting that it is unreasonable to reject or be skeptical of the foundational conventi...
November 21, 2022 at 13:05
I think QFT has obvious problems. And, as I said to Banno, I believe that potential energy and kinetic energy, are fundamentally incommensurable, henc...
November 21, 2022 at 12:12
Unlike you, reasonable people recognize these useful mathematical fictions as fictions, so these explanations are not even needed. Some of the mathema...
November 20, 2022 at 12:36
Left speechless, as usual.
November 20, 2022 at 03:03
Ha, ha. It's very obvious that Instantaneous velocity is really an oxymoron. No time passes at an instant, and velocity requires a period of time, so ...
November 20, 2022 at 00:32
Yeah, tell it to the guy who's about to perform the autopsy. That ought to stir a good laugh.
November 19, 2022 at 02:15
Just like in the other (ineffable) thread, what spirit does, is what is taken for granted. Newton's first law of motion for example. That a body will ...
November 19, 2022 at 01:43
Let me remind you though, your argument is based in the premise that the law of conservation is true. Since the law of conservation is not true, your ...
November 18, 2022 at 12:33
Why did you name the thread "The philosophy of anarchy", when the op is only talking about the philosophy of governance. Are you ready to get on topic...
November 18, 2022 at 12:16
The missing ingredient is that little bit of inspiration which gets you up off the couch and out to the bike, and continues to guide your movements at...
November 18, 2022 at 12:01
To be able (knowing-how) to ride a bike, is not the same thing as riding a bike. When I say "I know how to ride a bike", it does not mean the same thi...
November 17, 2022 at 13:18
I would say that there is no such thing as what energy is, and trying to make such a determination would be a mistaken venture. This is the mistaken i...
November 16, 2022 at 13:38
Yes there is two distinct things here, as correctly points out. And, you ought not neglect this difference as it is a manifestation of the difference ...
November 16, 2022 at 12:31
If the goal of the thread is to just make assumptions with no respect for whether or not they are true, then why don't we just assume that the law of ...
November 16, 2022 at 11:40
You think I'm disingenuous, then you must actually believe that falsity may work well, and you are guarding yourself against it. In reality falsity wo...
November 16, 2022 at 11:35
OK, so you gave me the premise right here, the physicist told you so. I never said that you couldn't infer the conclusion with a premise, I said you c...
November 16, 2022 at 02:57
This is completely untrue. First, Newtonian laws are prior to, in time, and therefore not derived from thermodynamic principles. Furthermore, Newtonia...
November 15, 2022 at 13:52
You used a definition of "philosopher" which is not consistent with anything printed that I've ever seen. But that's not consistent with the definitio...
November 15, 2022 at 12:20
Ok, so you admit, you are just defining the term to suit your purpose. Before we can proceed with this inquiry, we must determine the truths and falsi...
November 15, 2022 at 03:18
You have a very strange definition of "philosopher". It looks like a definition which you manufactured for your purpose. Have you never heard of Plato...
November 15, 2022 at 03:03
No Bartricks, before focusing on whether A is compatible with B, we need to determine what A and B mean. And this is a matter of truth, otherwise one ...
November 15, 2022 at 02:40
Wow! Now I've seen everything in an attempt to argue a point. Equivocation at it's worst, right here. Sorry, I don't understand what you claim I am sa...
November 15, 2022 at 02:31