staticphoton

I think I remember CANDELS survey going from 1 to 8 z, right? Man, must be daunting trying to consolidate data from the different metrics. So many gal...

I'm an old electrical engineer, but modern Physics foundations and astrophysics and cosmology have been a hobby since I was a kid, just scratching the...

I'm well aware of comoving and proper distance metrics. Using a commoving metric to argue that the speed of light is not constant, again, is misleadin...

The concept of the traveler arriving early assumes a universal clock and a universal metric. In first order, ditch the universal clock: To an observer...

This is due to the rotary motion of the moon around the earth and has nothing to do with the speed of light changing. The Sagnac effect was conceptual...

As you know, QFT, as QM and QP, are mere mathematical abstractions that predict with extreme accuracy how a quantum system behaves, but offer very, ve...

I could tell you there is a vein of gold 1 mile under your feet, but if you want to see that gold with your own eyes, you've got to dig.

Clearly a photon does not have a perspective, just trying to get the point across that to a photon there is no such thing as time. From a Minkowskian ...

From the perspective of any observer in any frame of reference, all photons travel at the speed of light, it is a universal constant. If you accelerat...

Say your friend is traveling to Alpha Centauri, about 4 light-years away. As his spaceship approaches the speed of light, it flattens in the direction...

Racism, sexism, classism, exploitation by the elite, etc... have been traits of most societies since long, long before the earth was overpopulated by ...

Even if a new source of energy is discovered, the economic barriers against it are daunting: 1. Special interests: The powerful elite that profits fro...

I don't see why it would be so.

Multiverse is a speculative aspect of eternal inflation, inflation itself being just a postulate for explaining isotropism and homogeneity in the obse...

Your suggestion is well intended. It is also true that scientists are the ones to find the solution. Unfortunately it is politics that create the gret...

Denouncing scientific work? I'm a scientist. You didn't pick up the fact that my argument was against people, not science. Regardless of the fact that...

I applaud you for being a person who gets his information from scientific journals, but I'm pretty sure most people become acquainted with current eve...

That is rather naïve. Science will lay down the facts, but sadly it is the politicians who influence people to vote, not the facts.

I'm not sure what I'm being blind to. What you state is painfully obvious and besides the point, one can behave a certain way due to limited options a...

Fuck you Greta has nothing to do with whether her activism is valid or not. We are pouring billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere an...

That is ok, you are under no obligation to understand why people believe everything they believe.

Well its not completely arbitrary, again I'm not a religious person although I can quote what John wrote in the opening of his gospel "In the beginnin...

Although I also think that the apple tree came from the seed instead of from a thought, the concept that first there was an idea and then there was a ...

I'm not sure how this perspective influences the premise that we have evolved to inquire about our origins, but I will definitely give it some thought...

I think God very much comes into play. To the deeply religious individual, asking "why" is not necessary, since the purpose of existence is defined in...

A human is like: A worm, it wiggles, eats, and reproduces. A rock, it takes up space and reacts when kicked. A chunk of Uranium, after its reaches hal...

If you think that evil minds, evil spirits, or even the devil himself, are devoid of creativity... you need to look again. When a man is confronted wi...

I cannot pretend to convince you to believe otherwise, as your faith has to be uncompromising to function. But the meaning of goodness is acquired in ...

That being, I understand your perspective. Justice is a worthy ideal to fight for, yet my point only being that although an epoch of justice for all m...

Ah we have to disagree then. If you feel that living today is worse than in an epoch when it is commonplace for an enemy to march into your home and k...

When you are a child you are nourished and protected, existence is centered around you. From that point it is a process adapting to your environment a...

Granted that the premise oversimplifies what it might even mean to accurately model the universe, and that even if we are able to craft a model that a...

Thank you for taking the time to comment. Ah I thought you were referring to the scientific method, but yes, even the laws of nature (or for that matt...

I think that if you label something as necessary (or not), you should also clarify what it is necessary for, that way we can be on the same page. Ever...

Man, that post was really enjoyable to read.

Not sure what you mean by answering questions, I just posted two possible scenarios.

I also think it is speculative and I also doubt we have the ability, although when you state "all" the ideas in an "all encompassing model" one might ...

Agreed.

If I could put things in such an eloquent manner I would probably get better results...

You're thinking too much like a scientist lol. I'm not considering any contingencies or potential unsurpassable technological barriers... just posing ...

Natural Law is just a provincial way of calling the order of the universe. It does not imply that such things as the law of thermodynamics, or causali...

Yes, somebody already pointed that out... bad choice of words on my part, not at all what I meant to say. What it meant is that for whatever reason so...

Is based on the assumption that something cannot be more complex than the system which produced it. As in the watch being more complex than the watchm...

The question is whether we have the capability to come up with such a model. To understand the workings of natural law.

I think the scientific establishment in its present form presents an obstacle to the premise in the sense that the results of any reasoning would need...

Yes, empiricism would be limited to what we can physically experiment with and it would follow deduction as much as it can to "catch up". #1 means we ...

By "everything in the universe" I meant the set of actual physical laws that govern the universe, so poor wording on my part.

For example, if we could come up with a model that can faithfully simulate all natural phenomena, then that would satisfy the premise.

In characterizing an interest in understanding things unknown as "whining", one shows contempt about the concept of understanding things unknown. If o...

Of course not. To understand the workings of A doesn't mean you know everything about A. You can understand how a knife works without having to know e...