Jim

@Reg

On the matter of gravity stretching space, the example is often given of a heavy ball on an elastic surface like a trampoline. That’s fallacious. It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it.

That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a…[Read more]

“Super” means either “over” or “above.” “Sub” means either “under” or “below.” However, even over, above, under, and below are ambiguous themselves, having different meanings in different contexts.

Context is everything in language.

To many it seems the term “supernatural” presupposes a spiritual realm actually exists. It is a meaningless word. The prefix “super” is typical ape-brain bias. I will use the term “subnatural”, because all of these religious fantasies are certainly below reality in terms of worth.

Fellow Unbelievers,

So everybody is clear, by asking my questions, I’m not giving any credence to the Kalam Cosmological Argument or any other argument for the existance of a God. I’m simply trying, as a non-professional non-astrophysicist lay person, to take what is claimed about the Universe to it’s logical conclusion and see if it fits into…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
However, I still have many questions: If we assume a single Natural Universe with nothing before it or beyond it, with all energy, all matter, all space, all time, wouldn’t this mean there can be no “balloon,” no “surface,” no “outside,” no force to expand space “inside” the “balloon?”

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of light if the matter at the radius came from The Big Bang, an obvious violation o…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
However, I still have many questions: If we assume a single Natural Universe with nothing before it or beyond it, with all energy, all matter, all space, all time, wouldn’t this mean there can be no “balloon,” no “surface,” no “outside,” no force to expand space “inside” the “balloon?”

And if Relativity doesn’t ap…

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Reg:

I don’t use similes as I don’t know what they are like.

I see what you did there…like John Prine singing about Kentucky Similies in A Big Ol’ Goofy World:

I also see that a perfect analogy would be a tautology, so I don’t fault you as I struggle to understand theories of Cos…[Read more]

If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of light if the matter at the radius came from The Big Bang, an obvious violation of Einsteinian physics?

That i…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
In the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest: This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.

Genius of Heinz’s…[Read more]

A bit more fun with Aron Ra;

Reg,

The Kalam cosmological argument debunked.

Reading that story has given rise to many big questions:

* If The Big Bang took place 13.8 Billion years ago, and the radius of the known Universe is around 46 Billion Light Years, wouldn’t the matter at the edge of that radius had to have travelled from The Big Bang at faster than the speed of…[Read more]

Yes, I always store such bottles ‘upside-down’, no matter their origin.

In the article about the boycott of US goods, they show this photo, saying that US products are turned upside-down in protest:

This is standard practice for Hienz. They even print their label upside-down with extra wide caps. Hienz bottles have been upside-down in my local (Pennsylvania) store for years.

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week!

Strega,

Ah Enco, you conceive of receiving music from AI that might disturb you going to sleep. That would be untamed music

How far are we from asking AI to match our sleep phases and introduce sounds to encourage conscious dreaming, or to assist us as biological individuals to reach optimum rest. Perhaps using a device similar to a smart…

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AI assisted sleep is an idea worth exploring. Assess physiology, cultural influences and give us what so many are missing. A good night of sleep! Not sure what AI can do for the waker uppers who have benign prostatic hyperplasia or a bladder that wakes us.

However imagine after an assessment one person gets that drumbeat rhythmic assist, another…[Read more]

Ah Enco, you conceive of receiving music from AI that might disturb you going to sleep. That would be untamed music

How far are we from asking AI to match our sleep phases and introduce sounds to encourage conscious dreaming, or to assist us as biological individuals to reach optimum rest. Perhaps using a device similar to a smart watch. It…[Read more]

Robert,

I’ll listen to 24/7 smooth jazz on loop to go to sleep, but I’ll never listen to AI-generated music for sleep. Maybe that’s an unfounded bias, but what AI produces visually looks like nightmare fuel.