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You're a great responder, Gnomon, very good and pleasant over the years;, so let me say 'Thanks'. I turned 74 today and have had good luck so far; the...
December 20, 2021 at 19:55
"Free will" is what sounds good to have because it announces that the will is free of something than no one is ever able to say but for that the will ...
December 20, 2021 at 01:04
The fixed will chooses all the time; it's mostly about providing for future. A bright fixed will can still be sensible. Or a will may not have good in...
December 19, 2021 at 20:38
Brain. Fire at Will! THE OTHER SHOE DROPS Determinism doesn’t sit well, at first; Its flavor does not quench the thirst, For then it seems we but do a...
December 19, 2021 at 04:27
There's no "Fatalistic" tendency undermining the fixed will truth; that's just a diversion, as is saying "cynical". The will itself excercises "free w...
December 19, 2021 at 01:29
They wouldn't get vaccinated and couldn't, so they died from Covid.
December 19, 2021 at 00:05
We are all automated! What appears in consciousness is ever the past that's all over and done. At least it's the just past, for conscious content is a...
December 18, 2021 at 03:54
Free won't decisions aren't free of the will either. No decisions are made in consciousness; consciousness reflects the brain product that has already...
December 17, 2021 at 22:15
Good one! Plus, a first cause wouldn't know anything, given that it has no input.
December 17, 2021 at 18:11
Nor a wavicle, either, but a quantum field.
December 17, 2021 at 01:37
Yes, as Bhodi, and as All-Knowing Philosopher Scientist of All Universes. https://austintorney428445949.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/1-43-bae.gif
December 17, 2021 at 01:33
Not meta-physical. The will does as it has come to be. Time is fundamental as motion/movement/causality since there was no stillness stopping everythi...
December 15, 2021 at 22:38
Stuff? They are the only stuff that there is. Fields interact with other fields; it makes for a very complicated math to be worked on. Whoever wants t...
December 15, 2021 at 18:54
Einstein showed that there is no fixed background, and QFT is also background free, a rare agreement between the tiny and the large theories. The elem...
December 15, 2021 at 04:42
The G*D Mind who programmed the universe is still a 'God', even if not infinitely smart. How is it there as the Eternal Basis of All, it thus necessar...
December 11, 2021 at 01:33
Except that this inert absolute space of Newton's got the boot from Einstein, whose gravitational field essentially is space-time at the macro level. ...
December 08, 2021 at 23:08
This could be if our brains spatialize time into ‘space’ so that we can better navigate through the series of discrete nows. The brain’s re-presentati...
December 08, 2021 at 23:02
I will explain quarks and bosom energy tomorrow, along with the some old sexist problems caused by the quark names.
December 08, 2021 at 03:11
The quantum vacuum with its overall quantum field is the One and Only, as the simplest state. Its field waves provide for extension into dimension, an...
December 08, 2021 at 03:05
There is no space as a place; the quantum fields exhaust reality.
December 07, 2021 at 21:49
My Space Vacation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8SY7nyX2Jg
December 07, 2021 at 19:37
…added up to a heck of a lot of crap!
December 07, 2021 at 06:42
Most of the mass=energy of a proton is from the gluons.
December 07, 2021 at 06:07
Indeed, they are all close to nothing, as expected, being so minuscule, but 'close' is not nothing and so there is no "nothingness" to treat…
December 07, 2021 at 01:47
It is thought that two photons colliding can produce an electron and a positron, if this is what you mean by them slowing down, and this is under stud...
December 07, 2021 at 01:38
Photons are a good source of information in our macro world; light peels information off of an object for us to receive. Of course, the elementary par...
December 06, 2021 at 20:40
What is not still, changes. Thus, change is movement/motion. There is no overall Stillness, else naught would go on; therefore, something is ever chan...
December 03, 2021 at 22:30
Happy Black Hole Friday! Hellholes hurl infernal light-year jets of fear, In Centaurus, cross the galactic sphere. Supermassive darkling beasts devour...
November 27, 2021 at 03:42
Maybe you watched my 'Energy' video… Let me know if the answer is in there.
November 26, 2021 at 03:35
Quantum gravity hasn't been figured out yet, but isn't it then a wonder then how QM works so well? Sometimes we get lucky; apparently the weak effect ...
November 26, 2021 at 03:33
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November 25, 2021 at 21:30
All That Lies Between https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjD0REXO4NE
November 25, 2021 at 20:09
It is the simplest, so there's really no more to go with it to keep it Fundamental. Its math may be messy, though. I can see how the “intricacies and ...
November 24, 2021 at 22:56
Because there can't be a 'not'. I was born in 1947, too.
November 24, 2021 at 05:06
We can't even hope for 'Nothing' to be or do something because 'it' isn't. You're right that humans might have trouble pondering anExistent that has n...
November 24, 2021 at 05:05
GRAVITY EXPLAINED The Strength of Gravity, the Feeble Apparent Gravity is a universal force—for any body: The force felt by a body is mass proportiona...
November 24, 2021 at 01:11
Yes, as all is constituted of it as what we call 'things' for convenience, but the temporaries are not identical to themselves over time; perhaps call...
November 24, 2021 at 00:45
That was about quantum entanglement, and if you look it up you will see that it has been found. Also, spacetime is essentially the gravitational field...
November 24, 2021 at 00:40
The religious first cause is too complex to be Fundamental, plus it also leads to a regress of the lesser having to ever come from the greater if they...
November 23, 2021 at 19:59
Sorry, one cannot diminish the Casmir effect by saying ""Spooky". The joke needs more work; they are real enough, as the quantum fluctuations.
November 23, 2021 at 18:46
Indeed, there has to be a Fundamental Existent, X, because nonexistence cannot be. Thus it is mandatory and it is all there is, as the simplest partle...
November 23, 2021 at 18:01
Actually, it was already sufficient to state that existence has no alternative, given that nonexistence cannot have being, so I didn't need to reify '...
November 23, 2021 at 04:01
Only the temporary forms can be gotten rid of, as forms, such as the universe that Banged out, but the Permanent has to remain, as the source of the B...
November 23, 2021 at 03:57
No, the virtuals can't become particles; they don't have the full quanta. Measurement is about determining the location of a spread out elementary par...
November 23, 2021 at 02:22
This is what Max Tegmark goes for, but it's hard to fathom. The laws would have to be concurrent in the Mandatory Existent.
November 23, 2021 at 01:35
Can't really have 'it'; the closest one might put 'it' is that 'it' is a nonexistent absolute, perhaps to employ it as a bound that cannot be gotten t...
November 23, 2021 at 01:32
They as real although brief make for the Casmir effect.
November 23, 2021 at 01:07
The virtual particles are not points but are the fractional quanta that aren't at a stable energy quanta rung and so they quickly go away (as per bein...
November 23, 2021 at 01:02
I started a thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12164/why-there-is-something-and-further-extensions
November 22, 2021 at 23:16
The First Cause has to be the the simplest partless state. If it has parts, then the parts were there before it.
November 21, 2021 at 19:33