jgill

When I think of fractals I think of the Mandelbrot Set, although the definition has gone far beyond that example and into normal everyday conversation...

A good thing can be overdone, losing its potency.

Of course. :roll:

Good point. But academic employment is dismal these days for many, including minorities. Adjunct professors is a way to milk the most out of individua...

I taught for years at a state university, and had no part in admission practices and didn't think about them. However, where AA became a factor in hir...

Not quite. There is no repeated configuration at varying scales, just an obvious symmetry. It arises from a self-generating Euler reverse continued fr...

Here is what the science fiction author Stanislaw Lem had to say with reference to fiction: I quoted this in a paper I wrote a few years back. The erg...

I was told she did the White House portrait, but now I can find no reference to a painting by a woman. So maybe it was a tale and not a fact. :chin:

It's the notion that a few seconds on Earth could mean fifteen minutes in distant galaxies. :chin: If we send two signals to the Mars Rover, spaced at...

That's inspirational, Uni Man! I wish I had artistic talent. A great Aunt of mine painted the portrait of Alben Barkley, VP under Truman, and my aunt ...

Perhaps conservatives are better in managing their money. I am an independent who leans conservative and I look for bargains. Social injustices are no...

Especially if those spooky stories illuminate special relativity in such challenging ways. :roll:

Go see Naked Lunch and you will come away with a new respect for insects. :cool:

I am an old man and my feeling is that, compared with sixty years ago, there is too much of everything. Hardly anything stands out from a prolific env...

Best to put this baby to beddy bye. :cool:

The time varies from 5 to 20 minutes depending upon the relative positions of the two planets. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communi...

I don't know. When I see a sum "c+v" relating to the speed of light I am suspicious. When that occurs there is an additional factor involved which kee...

I'll second that. Curious. Does chaos theory intersect relativity?

If one meditated continuously on a bear turd in the forest eventually there would be a moment of enlightenment.

A waste of time, I think.

1. Seems OK. Beyond that it fizzles off into babbling, IMO.

:up: Sounds about right.

(Wikipedia) Oh oh. You mean we can't keep giving money away?

When the Mars rover sends a message back to Earth it takes, what, about five to twenty minutes to reach us. When we receive it about five to twenty mi...

Not talking about a "living wage", only raising wages in general for the purpose of blunting inflation. That's a recipe for leaving older generations ...

I consider this "paradox" untenable since simultaneity cannot apply to distant events.

"Perhaps that's acceptable since ageism is thriving" ego requiem meam causa.

According to Bing AI, 40% of American seniors rely solely on SS to survive. Many others are on fixed income retirement plans as well. These people are...

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Not sure you can. If you understood the nature of light in that no matter what reference frame it moves at light speed, c. Didn't Einstein come upon t...

What would Aristotle say? :roll:

I've thought about this in mathematical research. In a sense, once definitions and rules of procedure are in place one could say that all that deducti...

Just started Vortex on Netflix. Not what I expected! Talk about a strange murder mystery. In French.

\Delta \tau =\Delta T\sqrt{1-\frac{{{v}^{2}}}{{{c}^{2}}}} On the right the time that passes on Earth (delta T), and on the left the time that passes o...

Well, they certainly have a variety of metrics which supposedly reduce to one another as scales change. I wasn't even aware there were quantum spaceti...

This statement isolates SB from the coin toss. "What is the probability that the coin shows heads?" 1/2.

Time dilation aboard the ship. Lorentz factor. From the standpoint of Earth, yes. Hopeless. From the speeding ship perspective the clock ticks slower.

Meaning comes up heads. 1/2

Mathematicians have abstracted the notion of "spaces", introducing "points" in such spaces that can be functions for example. Then there is a question...

It all seems like an intentional distraction from the antagonisms existing in the real and political worlds.

This needs a cited source? :roll:

And then there is Stormy Daniels. Where is that woman? :chin:

I have only provided an example of someone who considers themselves to be a "Luddite" and refrains from using some aspects of modern technology. I inf...

Sadly, these are edible words.

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Then the question would be, how many light years away? What we see may have happened eons ago.

I have actually known a modern Luddite. I knew him when he was virtually penniless and watched him become a billionaire, with a cabin on the seacoast ...

If alien beings are among us I would guess they come from some sort of alternate reality rather than a distant planet. This is my pet theory about the...

Good luck with that. As an existentialist I say we are here by accident and we make meaning in our lives. Otherwise, the study of God and Angels is me...

Flying saucers would be horse and buggy stuff for them.