On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 18:02:04 -0500, William Ray Wing wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote:
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>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>>> wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 1
Gregory Ewing :
> Mass on its own is not a conserved quantity. The thing that's
> conserved is total energy.
Similarly, momentum is conserved.
Whether mass is conserved or not depends on the chosen terminology.
> As far as I know, there are no negative masses anywhere in any of our
> current th
alister wrote:
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
wrote:
Antimatter has positive mass.
Are you sure?
mix 1 atom of hydrogen + 1 of anti hydrogen & you end up with 0 mass
That's not because anti-hydrogen has negative mass, though.
> On Mar 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, alister wrote:
>
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 PM, alister wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of the
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:03:55 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> 1) No physical object can have negative mass.
>>> 2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
>>> 3) I am not Kennet
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, alister wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> 1) No physical object can have negative mass.
>> 2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
>> 3) I am not Kenneth.
>> 4) The sum of my mass and Kenneth's mass must exceed Ken
On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:35:12 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> We can be absolutely certain that Kenneth weighs less than the entire
>> universe. We don't even need a set of scales.
>
> Formal proof:
>
> 1) No physical object can have neg
On 03/03/2016 03:57, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
to be the weight of the universe?
Is that a trick question?
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 02:57 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
> William Blake starts Auguries of Innocence with:
>
> To see a world in a grain of sand,
> And a heaven in a wild flower,
> Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
> And eternity in an hour.
>
> Reading the whole at http://www.artofeurope.com/bla
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:29:43 +
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
>> I think for the most part, the mental health industry is most
>> interested in pushing drugs and forcing people into some status quo.
> I am disgusted by your comments. I'll keep my original
On Mar 2, 2016 9:01 PM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
>
> On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >
> > > And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> > > to be the weight of the universe?
> >
On Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7:59:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> > to be the weight of the universe?
>
> Is that a trick question?
>
> "How is a raven like a
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> We can be absolutely certain that Kenneth weighs less than the entire
> universe. We don't even need a set of scales.
Formal proof:
1) No physical object can have negative mass.
2) I am a part of the universe and have positive mass.
3) I a
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 04:02 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> And how is [1]'s starting different from Kenneth's finding his weight
> to be the weight of the universe?
Is that a trick question?
"How is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Neither of them are made of cheese cake."
We can be absolutely certain t
On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 10:36:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:08 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'?
>
> I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is a genuine question, and
> not just an attempt to ask a rhetorica
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 04:08 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
> And who is the last arbiter on that 'reality'?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this is a genuine question, and
not just an attempt to ask a rhetorical question to demonstrate your
profundity.
You should not assume that there is any su
On 01.03.2016 13:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:38 am, Larry Martell wrote:
But what is reality?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Just like that.
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:38 am, Larry Martell wrote:
> But what is reality?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 4:39:12 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
> MentalHealthError exception.
>
> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
>
> Although the connection to Pyt
On 02/29/2016 04:35 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
The story reminded me of "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar, about
mathematician John Nash who suffered from mental illness in the
1970s-80's(?) but later recovered and won the Nobel Prize in economics.
The book is excellent and I recommend it if you fin
Ben Finney writes:
>> "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses?
> Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to
> say that one has “learned” it
> When someone describes the ill effects their mental illness produced, I
> find it rather condescending
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Mark Lawrence
wrote:
> On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Rustom Mody writes:
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
On 29/02/2016 22:40, Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Rustom Mody writes:
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
Ian Kelly writes:
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
I found this to be a very sa
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
>
>> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
>> > Ian Kelly writes:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
>> wrote:
>> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
>> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
>> > learned away fr
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
>>> MentalHealthError exception.
>>>
>>> http:/
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 11:04:20 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
>
> > On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Ian Kelly writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > > I found this to be a
Rustom Mody writes:
> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ian Kelly writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > > > don't think they needed to dr
On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ian Kelly writes:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
>
Ian Kelly writes:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell
> wrote:
> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I
> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had
> > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before.
>
> "All th
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
>> MentalHealthError exception.
>>
>> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-oc
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
> MentalHealthError exception.
>
> http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
>
> Although the connection to Python is only quite sl
Yes, thank you for sharing.
Stories from people we know, or know of, leads to normalization:
mental illness is a routine illness like Type I diabetes or
appendicitis.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery fr
On 02/27/2016 01:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating
to read.
Thanks to you and Kenneth for sharing that.
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On 27/02/2016 09:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
MentalHealthError exception.
http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascin
The author of Requests, Kenneth Reitz, discusses his recent recovery from a
MentalHealthError exception.
http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/mentalhealtherror-an-exception-occurred
Although the connection to Python is only quite slim, I found it fascinating
to read.
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Steven
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