T_Clark

Yes, the US is incredibly parochial and doesn't take much interest in what's up in other countries.

I, like @"BC", have no personal or political stake in this matter. There are a few Indian people in my town, most young - in their 30s. When I asked t...

No.

Here's a figure from the article from which you've clipped your yin/yang symbol. It shows the black and white input image and the colored output. Note...

I had not heard that, although I did read that if you play the lyrics to the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards it says "Make America...

Hah - I took Fortran during my freshman year in college in 1970. Timesharing and paper tape on a state-of-the-art mainframe.

I agree with @"Mikie" - AP and Reuters are good choices. They are not as obsessed with Trump and generally seem to try to be even handed.

Agreed.

I've never seen "**" used as a symbol for the powers functions. I think the standard is "^", e.g. 5^2 = 25. In my experience, computer programs will a...

No, you've completely misunderstood. As @"punos" noted: They made a bad choice in using the taiji because gullible new-agers could so easily jump to t...

And if, while the trolley was traversing the 1,000 miles, a team of surgeons replaced all the organs of the person tied to the track, what then?

I am skeptical there's any hidden meaning in the song.

As I noted, it's not a case of reading meaning into a pattern. The yin/yang pattern was intentionally used by the experimenters as part of the experim...

Of course; Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary along with the guy who wrote the lyrics deny it included any drug references. I believe them.

After slogging through the original paper (link - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01272-3#Fig2) I think I've sort of figured it out. Not ce...

Schadenfreude is a terrible, horrible, unjustifiable, immature, sickening response to another's misfortune. That being said: https://www.youtube.com/w...

Thanks. Interesting. As I mentioned previously, I find spontaneous collapse theories appealing. From what I can tell, those are not necessarily ruled ...

Good, thorough post.

But the lip movement was the only part that was actually animated, albeit very badly.

Yes, I was just thinking about this the other day. "Cannon" was one of my favorite shows. I can hear Conrad's voice right now doing the R&B narration....

I used your quote to track down the article - "Ether and the Theory of Relativity" by Albert Einstein. Here's a link: https://mathshistory.st-andrews....

"The Flintstones" was a big deal. It was the first cartoon in prime time and was intended for adults and children. I remember when it first came on an...

Did either of you have "Rocky and Bullwinkle?" Amazingly sophisticated, especially because it was made in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The animation wa...

Yes, he had at least one more popular TV show. Plus he was in "Merry Poppins" and some other movies. As I just noted in another discussion, people in ...

I lived about equidistant from Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia, and there were some independent channels from those stations. In the 1960s som...

Yes, those were the shows we watched in the 1960s. I guess it took all those years for the films to be loaded into clipper ships and sailed down under...

Bullshit. You've appropriated language that has specific meanings to give your ideas a thin coating of false legitimacy. It's dishonest, no matter wha...

No need for defense. I thought I should take the offense against misinformation. You know I don't hold much truck with your theories. We've discussed ...

Yes, I watched all of those. I was a stereotypical American kid, spending most of my time watching TV. I rarely do now, which is probably a good thing...

You're being a bit disingenuous. The Laughlin quote you provided refers to the quantum vacuum, not the luminiferous aether. Yes, the quantum vacuum is...

71. Old, but not as old as some here.

As I indicated, I'm all done.

I was 15 at the time, so I can't be charged. Pretty sure the statute of limitations has been exceeded too.

These are not the Laws of Thermodynamics, they're the Laws of Gnomodynamics.

Van Dyke is still alive - 98 years old. He was a big deal for my generation. "The Dick Van Dyke" show was the most popular show on TV for a long time....

Clearly there's no reason for you and me to continue this discussion. I do have this to say to anyone else reading this post - The fact that light can...

From Wikipedia: As the definition indicates, the observer effect is not a property of quantum systems. It is often used to explain the results of psyc...

Why didn't I think of that. I think I'll just call you all "Limeys." Is that ok?

There was an amusing film clip of British actors telling which American they thought had the worst British accent. Every one named Van Dyke, usually w...

Phenomena in the world are not constrained to behave in accordance with our definitions. Before Michelson-Morley, people did believe that a medium was...

When I want to try to speak with a British accent, I just try to imitate Dick Van Dyke in "Merry Poppins."

Is there a proper single term for people from Great Britain and Ireland as a group?

Sometimes when I'm watching a British TV show I'll hear someone speaking with a very odd accent that I can't make out. Then I realize it's supposed to...

It's not just the density of bellends, it's also the density of Limeys, Scots, and Irishmen.

Do you believe that light must have a medium in order to propagate as a wave? It doesn't.

Another new word. One it is unlikely I will ever use except here or on the Shoutbox.

You wrote: This is not a metaphysical statement. In this context it's a statement about optics, the physics of light, and it's wrong. Again - this sta...

This from Wikipedia: QFT has nothing to do with the propagation of light. Propagation of light does not involve movement of particles within a substan...

I'll say it again one more time and leave it at that. No... I won't say it again, I'll just copy my previous comment here:

Of course life has adapted to take advantage of quantum effects. Natural selection operates on organism's interactions with the world. The world at a ...