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From: BURT on 16 Feb 2010 23:31 On Feb 16, 7:49 pm, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 16, 7:22 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 16, 9:26 pm, "Peter Webb" > > > <webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > > My tabletop is not in a spaceship, and there is no train on the > > > > > spaceship. > > > > > > Here is my question. Lets just take the first half this time: > > > > > > 1. We place two atomic clocks on a tabletop at the centre of a 1 metre > > > > > ruler. We separate them very slowly so they are at either end of the one > > > > > metre ruler. We record the time taken (according to the clocks) for > > > > > light > > > > > to > > > > > travel 1 metre in a vacuum. Will the speed of light measured in this > > > > > manner > > > > > be c or some other value? > > > > > Is the aether at rest with respect to the table top? > > > > > _________________________________ > > > > No. The tabletop is moving at speed of v relative to the ether. > > > > The the tabletop is the train. > > > > __________________________________ > > > No, a tabletop is a tabletop. Its not a train. And you haven't answered my > > > question. Will the speed of light measured in this manner be c or some other > > > value? It is a pretty simple question. Why won't you answer it? > > > How is the tabletop able to move at 'v' with respect to the aether? > > > It's on a train.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Nothing shrinks. There are no flat atoms. The aether is stationary for > space but flows for energy.. > > Mitch Raemsch- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Light comes goes in and out of matter while time is flowing. Light order must them be associated with the flow of time.
From: Sam Wormley on 16 Feb 2010 09:26 On 2/16/10 5:41 AM, JT wrote: > Idiot a distance is the spatial separation between two points, a > length is the spatial extension of an object, a unit is a comparisson > tool, a length*unit* should be a spatial comparisson tool. > > A meter as defined by modern physics is a circular definition an ECDT. Distance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Distance.html Unit of length (meter) http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html JT--you should read these to clarify your understanding.
From: PD on 16 Feb 2010 10:24 On Feb 16, 12:10 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 15, 4:05 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 15, 2:29 pm, mpalenik <markpale...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 15, 3:20 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:50 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 15, 2:17 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:05 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:44 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 11:36 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 12:12 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 7:40 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:20 am, "Peter Webb" > > > > > > > > > > > > <webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > "mpc755" <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > > > > > > > > > > > >news:16bd20be-baaa-459a-90d2-f763cba4f366(a)b36g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 12:27 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/10 11:23 PM, mpc755 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How do you measure your speed relative to the ether? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What ether? > > > > > > > > > > > > > The aether which is the reason for the observed behaviors in every > > > > > > > > > > > > double slit experiment ever performed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > A C-60 molecule is in the slit(s). Detectors are placed at the exits > > > > > > > > > > > > to the slits while the C-60 molecule is in the slit(s). Every time the > > > > > > > > > > > > C-60 molecule exits the slit(s) it is detected exiting a single slit. > > > > > > > > > > > > > When the detectors are placed and removed from the exits to the slits > > > > > > > > > > > > the C-60 molecule is able to create an interference pattern. > > > > > > > > > > > > > How is this possible without the C-60 molecule having an associated > > > > > > > > > > > > aether displacement wave? > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > Or, more to the point, how is this possible without the C-60 molecule having > > > > > > > > > > > > an associated pan-galactic gargleblaster pressure wave? Well? > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, here we are once again with another poster who champions the > > > > > > > > > > > greatness of the Copenhagen interpretation of QM and yet is unwilling > > > > > > > > > > > and unable to answer such a simple question. > > > > > > > > > > > > Only one poster on this forum who chooses to believe nature physically > > > > > > > > > > > behaves according to the Copenhagen interpretation of QM has been > > > > > > > > > > > willing to answer this question and their answer was the future > > > > > > > > > > > determines the past. The C-60 molecule will enter one or multiple > > > > > > > > > > > slits depending on their being, or not being, detectors at the slits > > > > > > > > > > > in the future. Now, obviously, this is absurd nonsense, > > > > > > > > > > > On what basis is it obvious that it is absurd nonsense? How do you > > > > > > > > > > personally determine what is nonsense and what is not nonsense, MPC? > > > > > > > > > > > I'll give you a sample statement: The speed of light from a source is > > > > > > > > > > always c as seen by an observer, whether the source is standing still > > > > > > > > > > relative to the observer, moving away from the observer, or moving > > > > > > > > > > toward the observer. > > > > > > > > > > > Now, the question to you is -- how do you determine whether this > > > > > > > > > > statement is absurd nonsense or not? > > > > > > > > > > > > but you do > > > > > > > > > > > have to give that poster credit, at least they answered the question. > > > > > > > > > > First off, the C-60 molecule is a particle > > > > > > > > > Well, that's what YOU say. Physicists say that it has some properties > > > > > > > > of a particle and other properties not like a particle, and these > > > > > > > > properties are *observed* in real experiments. There are a number of > > > > > > > > things that are like that, and they inhabit a new class of objects > > > > > > > > called quantum objects. > > > > > > > > > Now, you claim that this is not so and that C-60 molecules are > > > > > > > > particles, period. Yet you cannot say how it is that you know this. > > > > > > > > You just assert that it is so. > > > > > > > > > > and as such it always > > > > > > > > > enters and exits a single slit. So, to think a particle is physically > > > > > > > > > able to enter and exits multiple slits in and of itself is physical > > > > > > > > > nonsense to begin with, but it is not absurd nonsense. > > > > > > > > > > The C-60 molecule is about to enter the slit(s). We will disregard the > > > > > > > > > obvious which is the C-60 molecule always enters and exits a single > > > > > > > > > slit and go along with the nonsense of the Copenhagen interpretation > > > > > > > > > of QM for now. > > > > > > > > > > You are saying that the C-60 molecule enters one or multiple slits > > > > > > > > > depending upon what has not occurred yet. You really believe the C-60 > > > > > > > > > molecule is going to enter one slit, or multiple slits, depending upon > > > > > > > > > what has yet to occur. You choose to believe the C-60 molecule will > > > > > > > > > enter one or multiple slits depending upon their being, or not being, > > > > > > > > > detectors at the exits to the slits in the future. > > > > > > > > > > That is absurd nonsense. > > > > > > > > > We're back to you just SAYING something is absurd nonsense, without > > > > > > > > having any rational scheme for determining what is absurd nonsense and > > > > > > > > what is not. Scientists don't operate on that basis, just asserting > > > > > > > > this or asserting that. > > > > > > > > > > The fact that you choose to believe in absurd nonsense in order to > > > > > > > > > maintain the illusion the Copenhagen interpretation of QM isn't > > > > > > > > > physical nonsense to begin with just adds to the absurdity of what you > > > > > > > > > choose to believe. > > > > > > > > > See? You haven't answered the question at all. > > > > > > > > You don't have any method, even in your own mind, for determining what > > > > > > > > is absurd nonsense and what is not. > > > > > > > > To you, it is all just a matter of what you WANT to believe, and so > > > > > > > > what you CHOOSE to believe. > > > > > > > > That's called faith, not science. > > > > > > > > Are we going to have this conversation yet again? What is more 'faith > > > > > > > like'? Understanding light propagates through a medium and this medium > > > > > > > is material or believing the future determines the past? > > > > > > > You can't tell just by looking at the two statements and deciding. > > > > > > Of course you can. One statement discusses the aether as a physical > > > > > material the light propagates through. As a physical material it is > > > > > displaced by matter. > > > > > > The other statement, where a C-60 molecule will enter one or multiple > > > > > slits depending upon what occurs in the future, is absurd nonsense. > > > > > Sorry, but just SAYING it's absurd nonsense doesn't make it absurd > > > > nonsense. > > > > We've been around and around and around the block on this and you are > > > > still too dense to figure it out. > > > > How do you KNOW it's absurd nonsense, other than just SAYING it's > > > > absurd nonsense. > > > > If you don't have a method for independently determining that, then > > > > it's just an empty assertion. > > > > > > > That's the point. You have to have an independent method for > > > > > > *checking* which of the two statements is more likely. > > > > > > > What's your method for that independent determination? > > > > > > My method for that independent determination is the observed behaviors > > > > > in every double slit experiment ever performed. > > > > > Bullshit, and we've been around and around and around on this too. > > > > Your SAYING it doesn't make it so. > > > > Just out of curiosity, why do you and other knowledgable people waste > > > your time trying to explain things to people like mpc755? He's > > > probably on medication, probably lives alone and is constantly > > > paranoid that someone is out to get him, and probably has very little > > > capability to deal with the real world around him. The kind of > > > delusions that he and some other people here display seem to go beyond > > > misunderstandings of the physical world to living in a fantasy world-- > > > which they probably live in full time--and which is quite sad, > > > really. I mean, does anyone HONESTLY believe that Androcles, for > > > example, is a normal, well adjusted human being in everyday life? > > > > At least with Ste, he has shown the capability to write coherently and > > > admit fault in his beliefs, and hasn't quite gone around making up > > > absurdities in the same way that mpc, BURT, and others have. I really > > > don't think the latter group could ever change because I don't think > > > they're mentally healthy enough. And I gather that after years of > > > arguing with them, you've probably determined the same thing. > > > > So, just out of curiosity, why do you continue to argue with them? > > > I'm not faulting you for it, I'm just curious. > > > Sometimes I ask myself the same question. > > Did you notice the poster you're responding to refuses to answer my > question as to the validity of your 'understanding' of the behaviors > in a double slit experiment with a C-60 molecule is due to the future > determining the past? And you take his refusal to answer you to be assent to your claim that it's absurd? > > I guess the poster realizes it is absurd nonsense also. On what basis would he realize that? You don't have a basis either. You just make the empty assertion that it's "absurd, absurd, absurd, just absurd nonsense". Empty assertion.
From: PD on 16 Feb 2010 10:25 On Feb 16, 12:13 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 15, 4:10 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 15, 2:52 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 15, 3:29 pm, mpalenik <markpale...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 15, 3:20 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:50 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 2:17 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:05 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:44 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 11:36 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 12:12 pm, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 7:40 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 1:20 am, "Peter Webb" > > > > > > > > > > > > > <webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > "mpc755" <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > > > > > > > > > > > > >news:16bd20be-baaa-459a-90d2-f763cba4f366(a)b36g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 12:27 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail..com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/10 11:23 PM, mpc755 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How do you measure your speed relative to the ether? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What ether? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The aether which is the reason for the observed behaviors in every > > > > > > > > > > > > > double slit experiment ever performed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A C-60 molecule is in the slit(s). Detectors are placed at the exits > > > > > > > > > > > > > to the slits while the C-60 molecule is in the slit(s). Every time the > > > > > > > > > > > > > C-60 molecule exits the slit(s) it is detected exiting a single slit. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When the detectors are placed and removed from the exits to the slits > > > > > > > > > > > > > the C-60 molecule is able to create an interference pattern. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How is this possible without the C-60 molecule having an associated > > > > > > > > > > > > > aether displacement wave? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > Or, more to the point, how is this possible without the C-60 molecule having > > > > > > > > > > > > > an associated pan-galactic gargleblaster pressure wave? Well? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, here we are once again with another poster who champions the > > > > > > > > > > > > greatness of the Copenhagen interpretation of QM and yet is unwilling > > > > > > > > > > > > and unable to answer such a simple question. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Only one poster on this forum who chooses to believe nature physically > > > > > > > > > > > > behaves according to the Copenhagen interpretation of QM has been > > > > > > > > > > > > willing to answer this question and their answer was the future > > > > > > > > > > > > determines the past. The C-60 molecule will enter one or multiple > > > > > > > > > > > > slits depending on their being, or not being, detectors at the slits > > > > > > > > > > > > in the future. Now, obviously, this is absurd nonsense, > > > > > > > > > > > > On what basis is it obvious that it is absurd nonsense? How do you > > > > > > > > > > > personally determine what is nonsense and what is not nonsense, MPC? > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll give you a sample statement: The speed of light from a source is > > > > > > > > > > > always c as seen by an observer, whether the source is standing still > > > > > > > > > > > relative to the observer, moving away from the observer, or moving > > > > > > > > > > > toward the observer. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, the question to you is -- how do you determine whether this > > > > > > > > > > > statement is absurd nonsense or not? > > > > > > > > > > > > > but you do > > > > > > > > > > > > have to give that poster credit, at least they answered the question. > > > > > > > > > > > First off, the C-60 molecule is a particle > > > > > > > > > > Well, that's what YOU say. Physicists say that it has some properties > > > > > > > > > of a particle and other properties not like a particle, and these > > > > > > > > > properties are *observed* in real experiments. There are a number of > > > > > > > > > things that are like that, and they inhabit a new class of objects > > > > > > > > > called quantum objects. > > > > > > > > > > Now, you claim that this is not so and that C-60 molecules are > > > > > > > > > particles, period. Yet you cannot say how it is that you know this. > > > > > > > > > You just assert that it is so. > > > > > > > > > > > and as such it always > > > > > > > > > > enters and exits a single slit. So, to think a particle is physically > > > > > > > > > > able to enter and exits multiple slits in and of itself is physical > > > > > > > > > > nonsense to begin with, but it is not absurd nonsense. > > > > > > > > > > > The C-60 molecule is about to enter the slit(s). We will disregard the > > > > > > > > > > obvious which is the C-60 molecule always enters and exits a single > > > > > > > > > > slit and go along with the nonsense of the Copenhagen interpretation > > > > > > > > > > of QM for now. > > > > > > > > > > > You are saying that the C-60 molecule enters one or multiple slits > > > > > > > > > > depending upon what has not occurred yet. You really believe the C-60 > > > > > > > > > > molecule is going to enter one slit, or multiple slits, depending upon > > > > > > > > > > what has yet to occur. You choose to believe the C-60 molecule will > > > > > > > > > > enter one or multiple slits depending upon their being, or not being, > > > > > > > > > > detectors at the exits to the slits in the future. > > > > > > > > > > > That is absurd nonsense. > > > > > > > > > > We're back to you just SAYING something is absurd nonsense, without > > > > > > > > > having any rational scheme for determining what is absurd nonsense and > > > > > > > > > what is not. Scientists don't operate on that basis, just asserting > > > > > > > > > this or asserting that. > > > > > > > > > > > The fact that you choose to believe in absurd nonsense in order to > > > > > > > > > > maintain the illusion the Copenhagen interpretation of QM isn't > > > > > > > > > > physical nonsense to begin with just adds to the absurdity of what you > > > > > > > > > > choose to believe. > > > > > > > > > > See? You haven't answered the question at all. > > > > > > > > > You don't have any method, even in your own mind, for determining what > > > > > > > > > is absurd nonsense and what is not. > > > > > > > > > To you, it is all just a matter of what you WANT to believe, and so > > > > > > > > > what you CHOOSE to believe. > > > > > > > > > That's called faith, not science. > > > > > > > > > Are we going to have this conversation yet again? What is more 'faith > > > > > > > > like'? Understanding light propagates through a medium and this medium > > > > > > > > is material or believing the future determines the past? > > > > > > > > You can't tell just by looking at the two statements and deciding. > > > > > > > Of course you can. One statement discusses the aether as a physical > > > > > > material the light propagates through. As a physical material it is > > > > > > displaced by matter. > > > > > > > The other statement, where a C-60 molecule will enter one or multiple > > > > > > slits depending upon what occurs in the future, is absurd nonsense. > > > > > > Sorry, but just SAYING it's absurd nonsense doesn't make it absurd > > > > > nonsense. > > > > > We've been around and around and around the block on this and you are > > > > > still too dense to figure it out. > > > > > How do you KNOW it's absurd nonsense, other than just SAYING it's > > > > > absurd nonsense. > > > > > If you don't have a method for independently determining that, then > > > > > it's just an empty assertion. > > > > > > > > That's the point. You have to have an independent method for > > > > > > > *checking* which of the two statements is more likely. > > > > > > > > What's your method for that independent determination? > > > > > > > My method for that independent determination is the observed behaviors > > > > > > in every double slit experiment ever performed. > > > > > > Bullshit, and we've been around and around and around on this too.. > > > > > Your SAYING it doesn't make it so. > > > > > Just out of curiosity, why do you and other knowledgable people waste > > > > your time trying to explain things to people like mpc755? > > > > You really believe the reason for the observed behavior in a double > > > slit experiment are because the future determines the past? > > > It doesn't hinge on what one chooses to believe. You think it does. It > > doesn't. > > 'You' do not understand what is occurring physically in a double slit > experiment so you invent a new type of object. A particle which in and > of itself 'waves'. It doesn't hinge on what you choose to believe. > > In order to maintain the delusion such an object exists you are > required to believe in the absurd nonsense of the future determining > the past. > > Once 'you' realize a moving particle has an associated aether wave > there is no need for this non-existent made up object of matter which > in and of itself waves and there is no reason to have to choose to > believe in the absurd nonsense the future determines the past. > > > > > He's > > > > probably on medication, probably lives alone and is constantly > > > > paranoid that someone is out to get him, and probably has very little > > > > capability to deal with the real world around him. The kind of > > > > delusions that he and some other people here display seem to go beyond > > > > misunderstandings of the physical world to living in a fantasy world-- > > > > which they probably live in full time--and which is quite sad, > > > > really. I mean, does anyone HONESTLY believe that Androcles, for > > > > example, is a normal, well adjusted human being in everyday life? > > > > > At least with Ste, he has shown the capability to write coherently and > > > > admit fault in his beliefs, and hasn't quite gone around making up > > > > absurdities in the same way that mpc, BURT, and others have. I really > > > > don't think the latter group could ever change because I don't think > > > > they're mentally healthy enough. And I gather that after years of > > > > arguing with them, you've probably determined the same thing. > > > > > So, just out of curiosity, why do you continue to argue with them? > > > > I'm not faulting you for it, I'm just curious.
From: BURT on 16 Feb 2010 23:35 On Feb 16, 8:31 pm, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Feb 16, 7:49 pm, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Feb 16, 7:22 pm, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 16, 9:26 pm, "Peter Webb" > > > > <webbfam...(a)DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > > > My tabletop is not in a spaceship, and there is no train on the > > > > > > spaceship. > > > > > > > Here is my question. Lets just take the first half this time: > > > > > > > 1. We place two atomic clocks on a tabletop at the centre of a 1 metre > > > > > > ruler. We separate them very slowly so they are at either end of the one > > > > > > metre ruler. We record the time taken (according to the clocks) for > > > > > > light > > > > > > to > > > > > > travel 1 metre in a vacuum. Will the speed of light measured in this > > > > > > manner > > > > > > be c or some other value? > > > > > > Is the aether at rest with respect to the table top? > > > > > > _________________________________ > > > > > No. The tabletop is moving at speed of v relative to the ether. > > > > > The the tabletop is the train. > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > No, a tabletop is a tabletop. Its not a train. And you haven't answered my > > > > question. Will the speed of light measured in this manner be c or some other > > > > value? It is a pretty simple question. Why won't you answer it? > > > > How is the tabletop able to move at 'v' with respect to the aether? > > > > It's on a train.- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > Nothing shrinks. There are no flat atoms. The aether is stationary for > > space but flows for energy.. > > > Mitch Raemsch- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Light comes goes in and out of matter while time is flowing. Light > order must them be associated with the flow of time.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Space flows through matter in the case of gravity.
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