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That is fine. They are the components of a tensor of rank 2 in special relativity. That means that they can transform into each when we change referen...

Probably the easiest thing to grasp is the concept of fields' energy density. Since mass and energy are interchangeable, fields increase the mass of s...

It took 10 years of college and post graduate education to lay the foundation for my understanding, and many years of reflection after that to integra...

Since you refuse to study what you insist on discussing, and will not allow me to teach you, there is no point in continuing.

Then you need to study nuclear physics and the behavior of the quarks in high energy physics. It was not before the advent of Newtonian physics and ha...

No. It does not. I am responding to questions about it as a courtesy.

The medium is not a key term. Physics is not philosophy. It does not aim to tell us what is, but what we can expect to observe in the physical world. ...

In the late 19th century, electrons were discovered. We came to understand that they are part of every atom of matter. At first, for historical reason...

I am sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about.

What are light waves made of? We do not know. That does not stop us from knowing that light is a wave. The same is true of matter waves. I should add ...

Since I made the reference, I know what I am referring to, and I am not saying that bodies that are made of mathematical structures. They are made of ...

Yes, there is. Matter is what composes bodies. They are composed of wave structures.

Schroedinger's cat was designed to show the absurdity of the probabilistic interpretation, not support it. It is not a fact. It is the consequence of ...

Some of what electrons do can be interpreted as particle behavior. All of what electrons do can be interpreted as wave behavior. That means that the p...

Our concept of reality is based on what can be experienced, aka what can be observed.

While it is absurd to call matter waves "immaterial," physics is not the science of being, but of changes in space and time. So, you are right, metaph...

Uncertainty arises from thinking of waves as particles. The wave structure is perfectly well-defined, but it you insist it is a particle, which it is ...

No, it is not. Not being able to determine the exact value of classical variables does not mean that the system is intrinsically random. It only means...

As with all natural science, it is a theoretical statement. The wave equations of quantum theory are well confirmed, and they are deterministic.

It is not a variable in describing the final pattern, but it is a factor in describing the dynamics that bring the pattern about. It takes time for th...

Quantum waves constitute matter. Wave functions are the mathematical functions describing these matter waves and their interactions. The concept is an...

I do not say "by," but "in" space and time. Yes, but not the ontology of quantum waves. No, I know that material things are wave structures. I did not...

No, the times are much longer than the Planck time. Different spectral lines have different frequency widths. The transition time is proportional to t...

No, that is not the reason you are wrong. It is a reason to trust my views more. The reasons you are wrong are outside the scope of this thread. Yes, ...

I see liberals as supporting the value of each individual, not their "sovereignty." And, I do not see materialism as a consensus view, although I do s...

I understand your view, but I have looked at all proposed mechanisms for determinism and have found no sound arguments. So, I credit my experience tha...

I have no problem with this, but it does not support determinism, because it does not point to a source of value beyond your own agency.

The way at this problem is to see what it is to be intentional, and then ask does being intentional require being physical. You can see the fallacy to...

This is not the place to argue this. Let's just say that my education puts me in a better position to judge. No, they do not. They generate the light ...

This is an Augustinian insight I touch upon in my current paper. To know the truth, we must be open, and being open can be painful in many ways. It ca...

No. There are no Ideal Beings. There are only real and imaginary beings. We have different ideas about things because they can act in different ways. ...

The problem is that there is can be no more and less in comparing commensurates. That was the point of my question and is the fundamental flaw with ut...

Modernism is not modernity. It is a modern worldview, or some aspects of that view, that some find offensive. I do not understand exactly what they ar...

We have to be careful here. Saying that body and mind are different things (res) is more that making a conceptual distinction. The distinction pre-dat...

This seems a reasonable hypothesis, although I suspect that there are other factors as well.

I have never understood what "modernism" means, because I have never seen it precisely defined. As I read it, it seems to mean whatever recent changes...

Quantum observations are completely explainable without invoking the "particle" concept. Modelling the physics using the concept of particles works in...

Thank you for the kind words.

We agree. My point was that I chose what to read and, implicitly, what to think about, even though I was not yet neurally informed by the printed word...

As I said, the the wave function collapses because the detection process (used in measuring) is nonlinear and cannot sustain superposition.

No, I mean from the perspective of anyone who takes science seriously. (I am not a materialist.) It is nonsensical because it has been known since Gal...

Maybe that is because I think that empirical knowledge is informed by physical action via a modification of our brain state. However, since the same t...

Responding to you is time-consuming and seems to provide little benefit to either of us or to anyone else. I need that time to work on my articles for...

Thank you. As I said, I am revising one on how the agent intellect works. If you would like to read it, and possibly comment, message me with your ema...

Because the essential requirement for thought is a subject and an object. The object of thought need not be material, as we can think mathematical con...

Quite likely, so let us think factually. Really, no matter how we think, we are not going to have exhaustive knowledge. It depends on what you mean by...

This warrant no further response

I almost agreed. The problem is "supervene" instead of "depend." "Supervene" is a weasel word used to avoid discussing causal relations. Like correlat...

Yes, you are right. Logically, they could change. Physically (in other words from a scientific perspective), they do not change and are the basis for ...

Indeed. That is not a theological premise. A premise is a starting point, not a conclusion. I am happy to say that the most uncontroversial starting p...