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The descriptive elements of this tiny tale are excellent and compelling enough to force one to read it several times in attempts to unravel the detail...

A delightful tiny tale with a touch of Tim Burton at the end. :smile:

It's not badly written, but it's a story about a psychotic and predictive after the brief introduction. Not original, more like a TV movie compressed....

Thanks for your input. It's a subject I haven't studied beyond the basics of time dilation.

Don't look at me. I tried to discourage the reams of babble that emerged early on, to no avail.

But a solid showing of what ?

Sorry, but this makes no sense. Irrationality sequence

Thank heaven for that! However, clucks are a kind of primitive language amongst domesticated fowl. :cool:

:up: Some people are born bad. End of story. This is an example of world class philosophical thinking?

This is abhorrent to most of us who actually served in the military. You didn't give an option for "I don't like it".

You take my simple thought experiment (satire) far too literally as an exercise in relativity. :roll: :wink:

Thanks. Pretty heady stuff for one unversed in physics . . . :cool:

An open question, especially with regard to human behavior.

I botched up my question. Let me clarify by a simple thought experiment: I start out driving along a straight road to a destination 1,000 miles away. ...

Putting your concept in mathematical terms involves special definitions and operations, not simple arithmetic. 1+1=2+1 no no no.

I'm still curious about this. If we measure interstellar distances in km and not light years, and our clock is ticking a bit slower as we advance to o...

Can one overcome a born predisposition to harm others? Circumstances are strong factors, as are upbringing. In the end we are largely responsible for ...

That's the spirit, AS! This thread simply says people disagree on things and agree on things. Not sure where any of this is going.

Ineffability is a fluid concept. It has been years since I was stung by a bee. My friend was stung yesterday and said, "It hurts!". I can more or less...

A meaningless statement. "The way you are" is too vague. The whole thing sounds like a campaign slogan for someone running for District Attorney of La...

I'm more interested in the voyage itself. Suppose the planet is 100 light years away from Earth and the ship approaches 95% of light speed fairly quic...

Reference? Thx.

In certain meditative states one comes alive as pure will. I suspect this is considered a distraction in Zen, but in a type of lucid dreaming it is ex...

I would suggest he consult with a statistician or data analyst and do surveys and polls or watch human behavior and see where that might take him. App...

It's simplistic arithmetic with poorly defined variables. I wonder if it's used in economics, the Dismal Science? Tononi's Phi function is a far more ...

Empirical or logical proof, rather than mathematics, which has a narrower scope.

Welcome back, buddy. Nice photograph. :up:

But creeping along in a pleasing cadence. :nerd:

I've commented on this. There's no one around - or at least no one who admits being around - to give a professional eye to the modern physics jargon b...

Well, that's a twist I was not aware of. :chin:

It's interesting the sport events in the Olympics that have appeared, been dropped, and perhaps one or two that no one seems to know if they occurred....

:up:

Big Bang?

As you well should. A joke. :cool: To achieve nothing on TPF is refreshingly consistent. :wink:

This from a gentleman who questions 1+1=2 is a surprise. Assuming MU is not being sarcastic, there is value in his observation. Through math we gradua...

You might be surprised how things change as you tip-toe into old age. :cool:

It doesn't get more astute than this. Exceeds all expectations of a mole hill. :smile:

Time can be thought of as "linear" in a general sense, if not the math definition. Each tick of the clock moves us in a regular sense along a time lin...

Complex numbers and complex analysis, for one thing, simplify wave equations due to Euler's formula: {{e}^{i\theta }}=\sin \theta +i\cos \theta .

Makes sense. Thanks.

Neither linear nor non-linear. It simply exists as an integral part of spacetime. It can be played with, however: Complex and Distorted Time

Ineffable :cool: How many scientists have even heard or read of this?

I think this needs a thread elucidating this important train of thought. Why might a philosopher think this is the right thing to do? If she is an ana...

Ta Da !!! Now, officially, there are new Biggest and Smallest Named Numbers. Here comes . . . . . . Zepto ! :nerd:

That's true. I grew up with little BBs circling a big BB, which was easy to visualize - what happens at cosmic scales happens at atomic scales. Now, a...

Surely you jest.

Kenosha Kid is still a member. But has gone on an extended holiday. :smile:

Would you find quantum physicists doing that? Clinging to Newtonian ideas? I recall two PhD physicists here, one of which, @Kenosha Kid, advanced tran...

I learned a new word: giveness. :cool:

Of course we do at times. Sometimes when a TV character I admire weeps I begin to empathize and feel a tear coming on. Partly that's old age. But watc...