Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, April 11, 2025 at 2:14:37 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/10/2025 9:42 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9:43:20 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/10/2025 8:34 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: *The boundary condition for the universe is its present state and

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10:42:37 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9:43:20 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/10/2025 8:34 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: *The boundary condition for the universe is its present state and it's not finite.* Brent How d

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9:43:20 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/10/2025 8:34 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: *The boundary condition for the universe is its present state and it's not finite.* Brent How do you* know *that? ISTM, you're speculating and misreprese

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:58:06 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/10/2025 6:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6:14:52 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/9/2025 4:42 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 12:48:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson

Re: Is the USA really in deep decline as Trump claims?

2025-04-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 11:53:52 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: *Correction: Trump's tariff on China is actually 145% not 125% as I said, sorry. Trump said it was 125% and I foolishly believed he at least knew how big of a tariff he was putting on our most important trading partner, but of

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6:14:52 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/9/2025 4:42 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 12:48:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:03:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 5:21:27 AM

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-09 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 12:48:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:03:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 5:21:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If the universe has no bound

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-04-05 Thread Alan Grayson
ot if each denominator is squared. This is what I meant earlier when I wrote we have to take convergence into account. AG * All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le jeu. 20 mars 2025, 12:53, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-04-05 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 11:38:17 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: "No" isn't an argument. It's just a claim. My argument is based on set theory and topology. If an infinite set can be contained in a countable set of finite sets, But that's not the case. The number for finite sets is, hypoth

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-04-05 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:50:41 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 9:14 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3:28:40 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 4:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-05 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 5:21:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If the universe has no boundary, then one cannot determine what the CC could be, since such a calculation requires a boundary.* *No, it doesn't. * Brent

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-05 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 4:23:51 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/1/2025 2:17 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/1/2025 6:27 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 6:47:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Tue

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-04-04 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:14:34 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3:28:40 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 4:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM Alan

Re: Dark energy is getting weaker

2025-04-04 Thread Alan Grayson
pid SHMUCK. I'm done reading your shit. AG On Sunday, 23 March 2025 at 13:17:59 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:10:20 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Awww... so saaad. Can't you cease with your stupid BS? Only a total moron would consider you an autho

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 1:09:46 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 8:49 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 3:25 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: Thanks for that data dump. When E was contemplating

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:03:49 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 5:21:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If the universe has no boundary, then one cannot determine what the CC could be, since suc

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 3:25 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: Thanks for that data dump. When E was contemplating the CC, he knew that gravity was attractive and NOT the cause of the expansion implied for some values of the CC. Why then would

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 1:09:46 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 8:49 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 3:25 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: Thanks for that data dump. When E was contemplating the CC, he knew

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 2:48:03 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 4/1/2025 6:27 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 6:47:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>>I stand corrected. * *> So now you understand my que

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 6:47:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>>I stand corrected. * *> So now you understand my question? AG * *To quote you "My sarcasim went over your head, way over! AG"* *I don't get

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 7:35:16 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 6:47:27 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>>I stand corrected. * *> So now you unde

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-04-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 5:32:42 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:49 PM Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: >> THINK, AG! When Einstein wrote is first cosmology paper base on GR, he thought the universe

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-31 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 6:07:49 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/31/2025 3:25 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: Thanks for that data dump. When E was contemplating the CC, he knew that gravity was attractive and NOT the cause of the expansion implied for some values of the CC. Why then would

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-31 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 7:14:59 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *For Einstein to get his equations to permit a steady state solution, wouldn't his CC have to augment gravitational attraction, and thus be negative, but afte

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-31 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 11:27:14 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/30/2025 9:04 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 3:24:53 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/2/2025 12:42 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: Einstein claimed that when his GR field equations predicted an

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-30 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 3:24:53 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: On 2/2/2025 12:42 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: Einstein claimed that when his GR field equations predicted an explanding universe when he believed in the Steady State theory, he added the CC to GR to make it consistent with his

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-30 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 4:10:44 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/29/2025 8:40 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 9:45:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/16/2025 1:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: 1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers

Re: The US Brain drain of American scientists

2025-03-30 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 8:04:03 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM Henrik Ohrstrom wrote: *> Cosmin, if you live in an european country then you have no excuse.* *Yes. **I seem to remember reading somewhere that about 85 years ago extreme right wingers, who wor

Re: The US Brain drain of American scientists

2025-03-29 Thread Alan Grayson
er, but it's too far from my relatives. At 85 I'm not much for fighting. Brent In some countries, like Thailand, one needs substantial financial assets just to be a permanent resident. AG On 3/29/2025 3:39 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:15:26 PM UTC-6 Bren

Re: The US Brain drain of American scientists

2025-03-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 28, 2025 at 11:15:26 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: I'm trying to talk my children and grandchildren into moving to Canada so I can move too. Brent You ought to check the financial requirements to become a citizen of Canada. They could be rather onerous. Also, FWIW, the noble

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 9:45:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/16/2025 1:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: 1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only real numbers are used)? QM exhibits interference so it must have wave-like phases that can add and subtract. It

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-27 Thread Alan Grayson
What do you mean by L shaped, if there are two separate detectors? AG n0w e3b On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> LIGO is able to measure the distance between two mirrors 2 1/2 miles apart to an accuracy of 1/10,0

Re: This is really stupid even by the very low standards of the Trump administration

2025-03-27 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 1:25:12 PM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: *Two hours before the first plane reached its target in Yemen, a raid that was supposed to be a surprise, Trump's imbecilic cabinet used an unsecured app to have a group chat about it THAT INCLUDED A REPORTER FROM ATLANTIC MAG

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-24 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 7:53:46 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: James Webb’s survey of 263 galaxies hints at yes https://interestingengineering.com/science/living-inside-black-hole-james-webb Critique of the claim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXbFeaZS6c AG -- You received this

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-24 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 10:52:00 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Generally speaking, what are the wave lengths of those space variation waves, and how are they measured? * *LIGO is able to measure the distance between two mirrors

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:18:37 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> What exactly is waving, space or spacetime,* *Spacetime. So if you detect a variation in space caused by a gravitational wave** then you can use Einstein's equa

Re: Where does science lead to ?

2025-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
March 2025 at 11:29:46 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 3:15:21 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: @Alan. At CERN I did what the rest of the asleep people are doing: Particles! Particles! Particles!. Meanwhile, I woke up from the sleep, while they continue: Particles! Part

Re: Dark energy is getting weaker

2025-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 5:10:20 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Awww... so saaad. Can't you cease with your stupid BS? Only a total moron would consider you an authority on anything, much less on consciousness. What you have, if anything, is a string of words which can't DO anything. AG

Re: Where does science lead to ?

2025-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
y mind can be found by reading the papers. When people refuse to read the paper, everything that is left is to behave like a mindless IQ 20 entity: "AI! AI! AI! So g". On Sunday, 23 March 2025 at 04:56:06 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 3:17:1

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 21, 2025 at 6:51:18 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Is the gravity wave detected by measuring the vibrating change of the distance between the two separated locations of the detector? If so, how is this a variation

Re: Where does science lead to ?

2025-03-22 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 3:17:16 PM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: @Quentin, thank you for promoting me. Here is also a song that I made while I was at CERN in the picture that you put. https://youtu.be/tE675HtopGA What exactly did you do at CERN. Regardless, you're not a person who deserv

Re: Where does science lead to ?

2025-03-22 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 3:10:18 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Given Alan obsession with utility, I invite him here to explain to us where does he think that science will eventually go ? More particles ? More galaxies ? More AI! AI! AI! ? More what ? AVDASGBA SDGASDG BDFBGGASD ? So what

Re: NYTimes.com: ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What Astronomers Thought

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 2:17:41 PM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Of course it isnt, trololol. Consciousness is all there is. Can't you cease with your meaningless *stupidity*. Even if you're ultimantly correct, your "insight" is meaningless crap which leads nowhere. AG On Thursday, 20

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 7:28:28 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> As I recall, the gravitational potential is the negative derivative of the gravitational force, but if there's no force in GR, how is that measured? AG

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 6:11:01 AM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: AG, your reasoning assumes that because each countable 4D ball shrinks arbitrarily close to zero, the entire universe must shrink as well. This misinterprets how infinity works in both set theory and general relativity. Sh

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
sday, 20 March 2025 at 10:12:29 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 11:49:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 10:09 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:50:41 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 9:14 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 2:12:29 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 11:49:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 10:09 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:50:41 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 9:14 PM, Alan Grayson

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 11:49:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 10:09 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:50:41 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 9:14 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3:28:40 PM UTC-6 Brent

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-20 Thread Alan Grayson
; thinking you've written something useful. AG On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 23:28:40 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 4:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3:28:40 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 4:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, and

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 3:23:16 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/19/2025 4:32 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 9:45:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/16/2025 1:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: 1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:32:18 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 9:45:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/16/2025 1:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: 1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only real numbers are used)? QM exhibits

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
personally doubt there will ever be a quantum theory of gravity. A repulsive fifth force seems like a simpler possible solution. Is there any substantive objection to this conjecture? AG Quentin All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mer. 19

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
creases to zero? AG Quentin This is *one* of numerous answers given. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mer. 19 mars 2025, 12:56, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 2:39:57 AM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mer. 19 mars 2025, 09:30, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 11:52:42 PM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: AG

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, and we run the clock backward, is all the mass/energy of the observable region confined to a tiny or zero volume?* *

Re: Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 9:45:50 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/16/2025 1:51 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: 1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only real numbers are used)? QM exhibits interference so it must have wave-like phases that can add and subtract. It

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 4:01:40 AM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mer. 19 mars 2025, 10:19, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 2:39:57 AM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: All

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-19 Thread Alan Grayson
rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mer. 19 mars 2025, 05:36, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 10:30:41 AM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: Yes, I’m assuming spatial expansion, not just increasing galactic distances. The observable horizon expands because the Hubble rate evolves

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-18 Thread Alan Grayson
high temperature with all mass/energy concentrated nearly as a spatial singularity at this BB cause a BH to form? AG * Quentin All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) Le mar. 18 mars 2025, 16:54, Alan Grayson a écrit : On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 5:03:

Re: Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-18 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 5:03:42 PM UTC-6 Quentin Anciaux wrote: I have been reflecting on the idea that our universe could be the interior of a giant black hole, but several fundamental questions arise. How can this account for the apparent flatness of the universe, given that a black ho

Re: Trump’s war on colleges

2025-03-18 Thread Alan Grayson
's motives, and generally that you know anything about anything? I think it will take incurable terminal TB for you to get the message. AG On Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 11:30:12 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 8:02:20 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Finally the wokies are

Re: Trump’s war on colleges

2025-03-18 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 17, 2025 at 8:02:20 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: Finally the wokies are taken out. If you had some brains, which is obviously not the case, you'd concern your precious white butt with the increase of travelers coming to the US with the drug resistent form of TB. Containing th

Re: Some questions about QM

2025-03-17 Thread Alan Grayson
t whose successful realization would disprove real quantum theory, in the same way as standard Bell experiments disproved local physics*." * John K ClarkSee what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 6ab On Sun, Mar 16, 20

Are we living inside a black hole?

2025-03-17 Thread Alan Grayson
James Webb’s survey of 263 galaxies hints at yes https://interestingengineering.com/science/living-inside-black-hole-james-webb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-16 Thread Alan Grayson
s realization that gravity isn't a force, is not related to the EP. AG* On 3/16/2025 4:48 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:41:45 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:03:37 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: Except he didn't show any such thi

Some questions about QM

2025-03-16 Thread Alan Grayson
1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only real numbers are used)? 2) What necessitates the postulate that some, but presumably not all operators are non commuting? 3) With respect to 2), why is the non commuting difference i*h (or i*hbar)? TY, AG -- You received this

Some questions about Quantum Mechanics

2025-03-16 Thread Alan Grayson
1) What necessitates the use of complex numbers (whereas in GR only real numbers are used)? 2) What necessitates the postulates that some, but presumably not all operators are non commuting? 3) With respect to 2), why is the non commuting difference i*h (or i*hbar)? TY, AG -- You received this

Re: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown

2025-03-16 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 7:00:22 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM Brent Meeker wrote: *> They should have held out the threat of a shut down as a negotiating tactic* *But I think it's entirely possible that Musk and Trump wanted the government shutdown and we

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-16 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:41:45 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:03:37 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: Except he didn't show any such thing and he generally did regard it as a force, although he saw merit in Minkowski's geometric interpretation. Br

Re: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 1:16:54 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 9:48:08 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/15/2025 8:36 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7:57:32 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:09

Re: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 9:48:08 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/15/2025 8:36 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7:57:32 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:09:15 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: I'm concerned that shutting dow

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
Maybe the EP just showed Einstein that graity is not a force, so it must be modeled differently, possibly by geometry? AG On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 3:37:55 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: > As precisely as possible, can anyone describe the function and value of > the EP in the constr

Re: Root of consciousness revealed

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 7, 2025 at 8:09:52 AM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: My email response to Roger Penrose's speculations about the root of consciousness and computability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biUfMZ2dts8 Dr. Penrose; What you intuit exists, and seek, is called in Tibetan Buddhism

Re: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7:57:32 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:09:15 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: I'm concerned that shutting down the government is just creating the kind of crisis Trump would like to justify his saving the nation by disba

Re: Root of consciousness revealed

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 5:11:42 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM Brent Meeker wrote: *>> I can't conclude a person is not intelligent and conscious just because I don't know his motivations, I can't always explain, even to myself, why I did what I did other t

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
well say gravity IS a force, just an idea in consciousness. The issue is how does one distinguish between a true or false idea about a gravity, and your "of course" just shows your ignorance. AG On Friday, 14 March 2025 at 16:31:55 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at

Re: Root of consciousness revealed

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
7 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: On Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 5:11:42 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM Brent Meeker wrote: *>> I can't conclude a person is not intelligent and conscious just because I don't know his motivations, I can't always expl

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-15 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:41:45 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 11:03:37 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: Except he didn't show any such thing and he generally did regard it as a force, although he saw merit in Minkowski's geometric interpretation. Br

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-14 Thread Alan Grayson
t; gravity wasn't a force; rather he concluded it from a thought experient of man in free fall. You can conclude this from his direct quote, which I recently read. AG On 3/14/2025 2:59 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: Maybe the EP just showed Einstein that graity is not a force, so it must be mo

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-14 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8:31:55 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 6:46:05 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 3:59:42 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: Maybe the EP just showed Einstein that graity is not a force, so it must be modeled

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-14 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 6:46:05 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 3:59:42 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: Maybe the EP just showed Einstein that graity is not a force, so it must be modeled differently, possibly by geometry? AG No. The EP just shows that gravity is

Re: The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-14 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 3:59:42 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: Maybe the EP just showed Einstein that graity is not a force, so it must be modeled differently, possibly by geometry? AG No. The EP just shows that gravity is equivalent to acceleration ignoring tidal forces, but the fact

Re: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown

2025-03-13 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 10:09:15 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: I'm concerned that shutting down the government is just creating the kind of crisis Trump would like to justify his saving the nation by disbanding Congress and ruling by edict. Perhaps though it could be driven the other

The Equivalence Principle (EP)

2025-03-12 Thread Alan Grayson
As precisely as possible, can anyone describe the function and value of the EP in the construction of GR? Alternatively, how are the field equations implied by the EP? TY, AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe fr

The Universe violates the perfect cosmological principle

2025-03-12 Thread Alan Grayson
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Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-12 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 11:33:55 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 11:03:04 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/11/2025 9:40 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:26:37 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 1:41:29 PM

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 1:41:29 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:48 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:33:36 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:04 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:15:07 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 11:03:04 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/11/2025 9:40 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:26:37 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 1:41:29 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:48 PM, Alan Grayson wrote

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 10:26:37 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 1:41:29 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:48 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:33:36 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:04 PM, Alan Grayson

Trump's tariffs

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
Looks like they'll crash the stock markets. Will the MAGA sychophants finally come to their senses? AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everyt

Re: Root of consciousness revealed

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 9:13:21 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Maybe "definitions" is the wrong way to look at the problem. It's really the unsolved mind-body problem. How does chemistry give rise to consciousness? *

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:48:31 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:33:36 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:04 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:15:07 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/9/2025 11:14 PM, Alan Grayson

Re: Root of consciousness revealed

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 6:43:21 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> without a definition of consciousness, I see no basis for claiming either is conscious.* *I have 4 questions for you: * *1) Why do you think definitions are better t

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 9:20:56 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Someone here, I think it was YOU, who claimed Einstein's field equation without the CC implied unstable equilibrium.* *Static versus dynamic, and stable versus

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 6:53:23 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Which observations were wrong?* *In 1914 astronomers thought the universe was static, and the stars in the Milky Way were not getting further apart, and in 1

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-11 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:15:07 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/9/2025 11:14 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: I don't think you understand my question. Without a CC, or equivalently setting it to zero, don't we get a universe which is in UNSTABLE equilibrium, like balancing a pen

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12:33:36 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/10/2025 11:04 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:15:07 PM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: On 3/9/2025 11:14 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: I don't think you understand my question. Without a C

Re: Trump's tariffs

2025-03-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11:32:10 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: Looks like they'll crash the stock markets. Will the MAGA sychophants finally come to their senses? AG Dow approaching 1200 down. AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: The Cosmological Constant (CC)

2025-03-10 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 6:03:26 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> **Without a CC, or equivalently setting it to zero, don't we get a universe which is in UNSTABLE equilibrium, like balancing a pencil of its writing tip, * *No.

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