What appears to be a capital 'A' is the glyph for uppercase Greek lambda. It hasn't got the horizontal stroke. In any event the discussion is essentially a mathematical one with not alot of physical content beyond the observation that this Universe exists and so do we in it ( we are these risky Boltzmann Brains to be avoided ). It's one of many highly anthropic arguments ( basically 'I think therefore I am' ) currently in vogue.
OTOH : there is much to be explained I feel of what may be offered by the Higg's Bogan.
Dr Bacon : none of this is relevant to the supply and consumption of pig products.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
It's one of many highly anthropic arguments ( basically 'I think therefore I am' ) currently in vogue.
OTOH : there is much to be explained I feel of what may be offered by the Higg's Bogan.
Dr Bacon : none of this is relevant to the supply and consumption of pig products.
Cheers, Mike.
What if pigs are thinking too? Does that change the bacon supply? What if pigs don't think? Does that mean they aren't really there and bacon is just a figment of our own imagination? BTW I'm on 'turkey' bacon right now, no pig bacon for me until late next month! I wonder if turkeys think? OMG maybe NONE of this is real!! ;-)
with not alot of physical content beyond the observation that this Universe exists and so do we in it
Wow!!! that is so deep and meaningful, you mean we actually exist and are doing so as we speak? Do excuse me, I feel this sudden urge to go sit cross legged upon a mountain top, face East and ting my cymbals.
Not very sexy then is it really at the end of the day?
In the case of mikey, I'm quite convinced that he's been a figment of his own imagination for years, which explains quite a lot. Mr Bacon (DL lightbulb) is a conundrum in his own lifetine.
Ah now, this famous Boson of Mr. Higgs. I believe that I am correct in saying that the LHC has discovered a particle that appears to exhibit the characteristics of the elusive key that would match all the known information so far, and neatly tie up many loose ends. I have yet to see a definitive statement that anyone is 100% convinced that they have actually found it and can repeatedly demonstrate that.
"currently in vogue" Well if it's in a ladies fashion magazine it must be seriously worthwhile, I mean they don't go in for trendy fads do they?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
[gain the podium]
This is probably way too deep, and on a Friday no less, but : a problem with the reductive approach to physics is making statements that reach beyond the scales that you can actually check at. So beyond a certain margin of explanation you have to assume some continuity with proven phenomena while not actually verifying that the connection is valid ie. vaulting ambition o'leaps itself. Add to that the professional pride of some practitioners who don't realise fully that they have made such a leap. Thus this Boltzmann Brain thing is an example of theorists who have painted themselves into a corner, and they don't now know which of many assumptions they should be reviewing ...... what they deem as implicit has not been made explicit and tested for veracity. An even better example is Michio Kaku who long ago stopped making propositions about this reality we inhabit, and he doesn't show any evidence of knowing that.
[cede the podium]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
@ David - Observations over many years have confirmed that the judicious application of a fork tine to a sleeping person miraculously galvanises them from slumber and into action, yes, truly life giving :-) But nobody can out-Anniet an Anniet!
Of course it was finger slippage as the N and the M on a Querty keyboard are beside each other, and I am beside myself* for the error. And I take it you all know why a Qwerty keyboard is called that and it's history? You don't? Well ....
It takes it's name from the order of the first 6 keys on the top letter row. The order of the keys may seem quite random, but there is a good reason for it. Computer keyboards are modelled on the key layout of the old mechanical typewriters. If they had used a simple A to Z layout over the three lines of letters the keys on their arms would have jammed up every few seconds, so they spent much time designing a layout that typists could use at speed without key jams occurring.
Later electric golfball typewriters overcame that limitation, and there is also the alternative Dvorak keyboard, that Windows supports.
@Mike - If you gain something should it not then be relinquished? Indeed, should it be cede or concede?
*Good trick if you can do it
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
.........anniet *from 2 metres above a mountain top... somewhere*
If you've ever uttered the words:
"this is not happening..."
whilst it was...
then you already suspect that a lot of stuff makes more sense if we're not real too. Boltzmann Brains and them vacuum things are just the newest.
Quote:
Ignorance is bliss
*survey minions* Yes...
I see...
Quote:
sudden urge to go sit cross legged upon a mountain top
Well I like levitating too, Chris, but in the lotus position. The aerodynamics cross-legged, are similar to that of a bus
*frank blink*
Your struts flop down. Not only do they flop down, they do so one fractionally before the other instantaneously flinging you several degrees off-perpendicular.
*spy pink cloud and float at it*
Once you're off perpendicular, it doesn't come back on... it descends into an earth-head-a**e-m**bs trajectory all the way down.
Just thought you should know :)
edit: you're welcome!
Forgot to say hello.
Hello :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
click
Remember to send invoice to AnnieT for 1/2 pint of beer spluttered across screen.
click, end recording
Quote:
Well I like levitating too, Chris, but in the lotus position.
**Behave, NO!**
Quote:
If you've ever uttered the words:
"this is not happening..."
whilst it was...
Nope, it's usually
"Why is this happening?
Oi!
You!
Come here!
Now!"
Quote:
Your struts flop down. Not only do they flop down, they do so one fractionally before the other instantaneously flinging you several degrees off-perpendicular.
I always put it down to the hot weather?
Quote:
Once you're off perpendicular,
You're just plumb crazy :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Mike: Okay, so I understood it better than I thought I did.
Chris: That was an awful lot of explanation. I wasn't daring to suggest that you out-Anniet-ed Anniet, just that you were taking a stab at being like her.
Annie: I can see you doing that.
Scott: Winning!
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: ACDM?
What appears to be a capital 'A' is the glyph for uppercase Greek lambda. It hasn't got the horizontal stroke. In any event the discussion is essentially a mathematical one with not alot of physical content beyond the observation that this Universe exists and so do we in it ( we are these risky Boltzmann Brains to be avoided ). It's one of many highly anthropic arguments ( basically 'I think therefore I am' ) currently in vogue.
OTOH : there is much to be explained I feel of what may be offered by the Higg's Bogan.
Dr Bacon : none of this is relevant to the supply and consumption of pig products.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: ACDM? It's one of
What if pigs are thinking too? Does that change the bacon supply? What if pigs don't think? Does that mean they aren't really there and bacon is just a figment of our own imagination? BTW I'm on 'turkey' bacon right now, no pig bacon for me until late next month! I wonder if turkeys think? OMG maybe NONE of this is real!! ;-)
RE: with not alot of
Wow!!! that is so deep and meaningful, you mean we actually exist and are doing so as we speak? Do excuse me, I feel this sudden urge to go sit cross legged upon a mountain top, face East and ting my cymbals.
Basically "I think therefore I am" is quite passé these days, the in thing is "I'm pink, therefore I'm Spam"
Not very sexy then is it really at the end of the day?
In the case of mikey, I'm quite convinced that he's been a figment of his own imagination for years, which explains quite a lot. Mr Bacon (DL lightbulb) is a conundrum in his own lifetine.
Ah now, this famous Boson of Mr. Higgs. I believe that I am correct in saying that the LHC has discovered a particle that appears to exhibit the characteristics of the elusive key that would match all the known information so far, and neatly tie up many loose ends. I have yet to see a definitive statement that anyone is 100% convinced that they have actually found it and can repeatedly demonstrate that.
"currently in vogue" Well if it's in a ladies fashion magazine it must be seriously worthwhile, I mean they don't go in for trendy fads do they?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: Quick cosmology
Ignorance is bliss. I don't understand that enough to worry about it.
Chris: did you mean lifetime or lifeline? Or have you Anniet-ed a new word, meaning a life-giving prong of a fork?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
[gain the podium] This is
[gain the podium]
This is probably way too deep, and on a Friday no less, but : a problem with the reductive approach to physics is making statements that reach beyond the scales that you can actually check at. So beyond a certain margin of explanation you have to assume some continuity with proven phenomena while not actually verifying that the connection is valid ie. vaulting ambition o'leaps itself. Add to that the professional pride of some practitioners who don't realise fully that they have made such a leap. Thus this Boltzmann Brain thing is an example of theorists who have painted themselves into a corner, and they don't now know which of many assumptions they should be reviewing ...... what they deem as implicit has not been made explicit and tested for veracity. An even better example is Michio Kaku who long ago stopped making propositions about this reality we inhabit, and he doesn't show any evidence of knowing that.
[cede the podium]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
@ David - Observations over
@ David - Observations over many years have confirmed that the judicious application of a fork tine to a sleeping person miraculously galvanises them from slumber and into action, yes, truly life giving :-) But nobody can out-Anniet an Anniet!
Of course it was finger slippage as the N and the M on a Querty keyboard are beside each other, and I am beside myself* for the error. And I take it you all know why a Qwerty keyboard is called that and it's history? You don't? Well ....
It takes it's name from the order of the first 6 keys on the top letter row. The order of the keys may seem quite random, but there is a good reason for it. Computer keyboards are modelled on the key layout of the old mechanical typewriters. If they had used a simple A to Z layout over the three lines of letters the keys on their arms would have jammed up every few seconds, so they spent much time designing a layout that typists could use at speed without key jams occurring.
Later electric golfball typewriters overcame that limitation, and there is also the alternative Dvorak keyboard, that Windows supports.
@Mike - If you gain something should it not then be relinquished? Indeed, should it be cede or concede?
*Good trick if you can do it
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
......... anniet *from 2
......... anniet
*from 2 metres above a mountain top... somewhere*
If you've ever uttered the words:
"this is not happening..."
whilst it was...
then you already suspect that a lot of stuff makes more sense if we're not real too. Boltzmann Brains and them vacuum things are just the newest.
*survey minions* Yes...
I see...
Well I like levitating too, Chris, but in the lotus position. The aerodynamics cross-legged, are similar to that of a bus
*frank blink*
Your struts flop down. Not only do they flop down, they do so one fractionally before the other instantaneously flinging you several degrees off-perpendicular.
*spy pink cloud and float at it*
Once you're off perpendicular, it doesn't come back on... it descends into an earth-head-a**e-m**bs trajectory all the way down.
Just thought you should know :)
edit: you're welcome!
Forgot to say hello.
Hello :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
*memo to self*
*memo to self*
click
Remember to send invoice to AnnieT for 1/2 pint of beer spluttered across screen.
click, end recording
**Behave, NO!**
Nope, it's usually
"Why is this happening?
Oi!
You!
Come here!
Now!"
I always put it down to the hot weather?
You're just plumb crazy :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Mike: Okay, so I understood
Mike: Okay, so I understood it better than I thought I did.
Chris: That was an awful lot of explanation. I wasn't daring to suggest that you out-Anniet-ed Anniet, just that you were taking a stab at being like her.
Annie: I can see you doing that.
Scott: Winning!
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Good morning everyone. :-)
Good morning everyone. :-)
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