Mr Bee

Cities in a republican-run country with a republican president if you want to play that game. It's kind of hilarious to be honest to hear talks that t...

Not really new compared to the other posts, but yeah, ditching religion was the biggest change in my understanding of the world. Back when I first enc...

Good to know, thanks. Again it's nice having an expert around to keep us philosophers in check :smile: .

Thanks for your input as always. What are your thoughts on the general idea that black holes preclude a global slicing of spacetime? I always assumed ...

I don't see how that is a consequence of a global inertial frame. Light may not reach us for other reasons unrelated to it, one possibility being the ...

I don't get this. Why would they have to reach us? The light will never reach us because of cosmic expansion whether they exist or not, so the fact th...

Oh sorry, I wasn't saying that Greene introduced the concept of 4-velocity, but rather it's description as "speed through spacetime" (or at the very l...

Thanks, though from looking at the opinions of other physicists on the matter these past few hours, it doesn't seem like the whole concept of "speed t...

Can you clarify what "movement" means here? Certainly can't mean change in spatial location with respect to time since we are talking about "motion" t...

Okay that settles that then. Well, you can say that about any scientific theory really. Varying interpretations aren't just unique to quantum mechanic...

Isn't the concept of philosophical zombies one that was introduced by the dualists to argue for non-materialism? One of it's greatest champions is Dav...

First off, thanks for responding to Pfhorrest's request for comment. It's nice to have an expert chime in just to clear things up. Okay, I don't reall...

Oddly enough, apparently the Higgs Boson (which is also a fundamental particle) itself has mass that is not fully accounted for by the Higgs field, at...

Even if I were to grant such a description, again I wouldn't call that the Higgs field "absorbing and re-emitting" fundamental particles like quarks, ...

Thanks for the links. I am still not sure where the absorption and emission aspect of your description comes in. What was described in the video was a...

I'm not a physicist either, so I am just going off of what I've heard on the topic as a layperson. The usual explanation describes the Higgs field as ...

Hmm, I don't think I've heard of that description before, of the HIggs field absorbing things like quarks and stuff like that (and for that matter, I ...

Because they are different versions of "you" in the same way that different parallel reality versions of you are different versions of "you". Eternali...

You can think of stages like counterparts of yourself who experience their own moment parallel to yours. Since there are infinite instants in your lif...

Well I just gave an alternative idea for eternalists in the stage theory. Though apart from that, I wasn't suggesting you were saying that I am experi...

Or alternatively we are stages which are located at a single instant and experience only that one instant of time while other counterparts experience ...

More Sanders voters voted for Clinton in 2016 than Clinton voters did in 2008 for Obama. I imagine the same will happen this time around given the sta...

It all depends on how you choose to interpret both theories. 2) has trouble if you understand quantum mechanics as being inherently indeterministic as...

I did and my understanding hasn't changed.

So people who don't agree with you aren't really thinking it through? Sounds pretty bigoted.

Care to elaborate on this some more? I'm not sure what question you think 1) is avoiding.

All Biden has to do is just not be horrible and despised like Clinton was in 2016. The democrats are prepared to vote for a paper bag if that means Tr...

To a certain extent, but I don't think that the democrats could've run a more reviled candidate than Hillary Clinton in 2016. She was unpopular among ...

Yep. But it seems as though world leaders are caught between a rock and a hard place here in responding to the epidemic. On the one hand you have Chin...

Not unless the Coronavirus crashes the economy first. 2020 is gonna be a crazy year.

I don't see how any of that requires a sharp mind. Beating an incredibly unpopular politician, having a cult following and a congress that's willing t...

It's also because young people didn't show up. I'm sorry, but as much as young people on here may complain about the way things are, they're to blame ...

To be fair, if senile and corrupt were things that would disqualify someone, then Trump wouldn't be president right now.

I doubt that Warren dropping out would help Bernie much at this point. It could've helped in Super Tuesday if she dropped out and endorsed him like Pe...

It's often said that Relativity entails the block universe, or eternalism, or the B-theory of time (whatever you call it), but that's a common misconc...

Increased temperatures, increased flooding, mass migration from sea level rise, increased droughts, more extreme weather events, water shortages, etc....

Just because the US is the country that produces alot of significant scientific breakthroughs doesn't mean that the US population, and the elected off...

As a young millennial I'd have to say that the problem of climate change terrifies me greatly, but I do try to be optimistic about it (cause honestly ...

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I was referring to the fact that technological developments will help give companies and countries more of a r...

Indeed, it sucks to get consensus on any issue, especially this one. That's sort of the reason why I have less faith in government bodies to change th...

I don't think Thunberg is trying to be an expert at all on the subject if her message is simply to "listen to the scientists". So much as she's asking...

Well, if Greta's message were spoken by an old shrew, would there have been the same negative backlash from people on the other side? To be honest I'm...

If that is the case, then the standard conception of backwards time travel of simply going back to the past is strictly impossible, because your actio...

Travel to 2024 is simple. Just wait 5 years or less and the passage of time will take you there. Of course, it's past travel is where things get trick...

Suppose I am an ontological nihilist who believes that nothing exists, including events. In that sense, all events have the same ontological status, t...

Of course I have no understanding of the way you are using the word, and I have tried to make it explicit why in my analysis, which you have declined ...

I'm asking you to explain it for me since that's much more faster than asking me to read a 42 page paper. I assume you read the link yourself. Or mayb...

Of course no one isn't. All physical objects exist in a backdrop, called space. What backdrop does space exist in? Perhaps we need a hyperspace to con...

And what does "exists simpliciter" mean here? This is just replacing one word with another. It could mean "existed, exists, or will exist", but that d...

What is the tenseless version of existence then? That is what I am trying to get at here. I have no clue what the notion of saying something exists me...