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Forum: Trials and Errors 27th March 2023, 09:07 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,482
Posted By Cheetah
I hear some say it’s pretty corrupt over here.

I hear some say it’s pretty corrupt over here.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 10th March 2023, 01:56 AM
Replies: 584
Views: 25,711
Posted By Cheetah
I found this absolutely fascinating. What a...

I found this absolutely fascinating.

What a great quote:
“When we allow our faith to dictate history we betray both.”

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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 4th May 2022, 03:13 AM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
You are complicating things unnecessarily. Here...

You are complicating things unnecessarily. Here is my proposal for how it works. It’s simple.

Art is in the perception of it. IOW it is the experience.

Art can be simple or complex. Simple...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd May 2022, 12:29 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Just the basic principle of C being constant for...

Just the basic principle of C being constant for all observers means there is no instant of “now” all observers can agree on and subsequently they will also disagree about what is in the future and...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 2nd May 2022, 11:05 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
This is also an interesting property of evolved...

This is also an interesting property of evolved neural networks. They don’t seem to like discussing artificial ones. This has been very noticeable over the last few years.
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 2nd May 2022, 11:00 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
Sorry for the buzz kill.

Sorry for the buzz kill.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd May 2022, 10:57 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
You really need to google GR.

You really need to google GR.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 2nd May 2022, 09:40 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Time travel without paradoxes: p2uWv02-BlA ...

Time travel without paradoxes:
p2uWv02-BlA
Comes to the same conclusion we have. TT is possible to the future but impossible to the past unless multi-world.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 2nd May 2022, 08:42 AM
Replies: 536
Views: 15,402
Posted By Cheetah
Yeah. I can totally imagine that there might be...

Yeah. I can totally imagine that there might be people who feel a lot like we feel, but were born with the wrong body.
Male and female brains are structured differently and can be distinguished...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 30th April 2022, 11:30 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
I can agree with that. The human creativity in...

I can agree with that.
The human creativity in interpreting the scene adds the spark that makes it art.

I think intent is completely separate from intelligence. As are different types of...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 30th April 2022, 11:03 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
Seems y’all are mostly talking about the...

Seems y’all are mostly talking about the appreciation of art. The human brain is very flexible and can find beauty and meaning many things. Even random things as we all know.
Rather look at it from...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 29th April 2022, 11:17 AM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
Art is not in the product but the intent? So by...

Art is not in the product but the intent?
So by the same argument, intelligence has nothing to do with the difficulty of the problems you are able to solve, but weather you decide to try to solve...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 29th April 2022, 09:05 AM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
Y’all are complicating it too much. And forget...

Y’all are complicating it too much. And forget about abstract art, let’s make it simple. The basics.
Is it pleasing to look at? There are certain compositions and colour palettes that are more...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 26th April 2022, 02:59 AM
Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
Posted By Cheetah
Can an AI create art?

OpenAI Dall-E (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DALL-E):



Two Minute Papers explains:
X3_LD3R_Ygs

A guy named Ben Barry got Dall-e to create a series of paintings of robots in different...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 24th April 2022, 08:08 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
It could all just be nodes and connections. Space...

It could all just be nodes and connections. Space and time might well be emergent.
Are you familiar with Stephen Wolfram’s Computational Universe? Off topic, but fascinating stuff.

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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 18th April 2022, 11:24 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
But consciousness is just the regular firing of...

But consciousness is just the regular firing of neurons influenced by their connections to other neurons and the input from all your senses. It’s just more complex, think of every elementary particle...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 18th April 2022, 09:25 AM
Replies: 449
Views: 21,160
Posted By Cheetah
Ears are my thing. When I see these big rugby...

Ears are my thing.
When I see these big rugby player or MMA types flapping their disgusting cauliflower ears around in public it just makes me queasy. No one wants to see that. I tell them not to do...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 18th April 2022, 01:34 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
I understand all that, SpaceTime is one...

I understand all that, SpaceTime is one unchanging thing, if it didn’t happen it can’t possibly have happened, it’s a law of the universe.
But the universe has to follow deterministic laws to be...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th April 2022, 11:57 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
For the purposes of this thought experiment let’s...

For the purposes of this thought experiment let’s assume the following:
TT is possible and you have the technology and means.
The principals of GR are correct and SpaceTime is a multidimensional...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th April 2022, 02:58 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
As I explained, when the physically impossible...

As I explained, when the physically impossible thing requires other physically impossible things to happen so as not to happen itself.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th April 2022, 10:26 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Let me explain my thoughts. I have heard...

Let me explain my thoughts. I have heard scenarios such as the following used to explain why paradoxes cannot happen.
Say you time travel back to kill yourself, the gun misfires, you kill the twin...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th April 2022, 07:35 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Who is unfamiliar with determinism? Not even...

Who is unfamiliar with determinism?

Not even remotely similar since there is no conspiracy involving C, it’s a law of nature.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 16th April 2022, 01:42 PM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
The idea of the universe allowing time travel but...

The idea of the universe allowing time travel but conspiring to stop you from ever changing the past and causing a paradox seems to require outside input from god or something somehow. To me at...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 12th April 2022, 01:32 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Read the link. It is a physical phenomenon as is...

Read the link. It is a physical phenomenon as is all of GR.
If you get up from you chair, walk around the table and sit down again, you will be physically younger than your chair. You (or the most...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th April 2022, 08:32 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
I don’t understand. I’m talking about the...

I don’t understand.
I’m talking about the concept of causality as in GR where the effect must reside in the future light cone of its cause. If causality is violated all manner of impossible things...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th April 2022, 02:30 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Doesn’t determinism mean all effects are wholly...

Doesn’t determinism mean all effects are wholly determined by preceding causes? If so, it is not immune to causal paradoxes.

As in the same event having both happened and not happened. Like the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th April 2022, 12:29 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
If I had to guess I’d say time travel,...

If I had to guess I’d say time travel, particularly to the past, is impossible. For the same reasons I think FTL travel is impossible. Paradoxes.
Both time and FTL travel lead to causality paradoxes...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th April 2022, 12:10 AM
Replies: 844
Views: 24,399
Posted By Cheetah
Sure, for you here, experiencing time, but not...

Sure, for you here, experiencing time, but not for distant observers moving in relation to you. The reverse is also true, your present will be in someone else’s future or even their past and it can...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 7th April 2022, 11:04 PM
Replies: 3,608
Views: 158,255
Posted By Cheetah
Bayraktar!

Ukrainan War Army Song. About the drones.

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Catchy.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 10:16 PM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
Ziggurat explained it well. There cannot be...

Ziggurat explained it well.

There cannot be any celestial objects beyond the CMB. If you could see beyond the CMB, all you would observe is the universe growing ever hotter and denser.
I wonder...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 08:51 AM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
Yes it’s getting bigger all the time due to...

Yes it’s getting bigger all the time due to expansion, but that has nothing to do with the quality of instrument we are using to observe it with.
The observable universe has a physical limit we can...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 08:39 AM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
That’s just it, our observable universe cannot...

That’s just it, our observable universe cannot grow using a better telescope. We will just have more detail.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 03:01 AM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
Yes. I imagine infinities, singularities...

Yes.

I imagine infinities, singularities and real paradoxes not to be part of the universe, but what do I know?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 01:29 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,024
Posted By Cheetah
A miracle! :D

A miracle!
:D
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 5th April 2022, 01:10 AM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
It seems the edge of the observable universe is...

It seems the edge of the observable universe is about 46 billion ly away and the furthest galaxy, GN-z11 about 32 billion ly, so you have 14 difference.
The question is when the first galaxy (in the...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 4th April 2022, 11:13 PM
Replies: 1,394
Views: 135,252
Posted By Cheetah
Since the oldest galaxy we have a fuzzy photo of...

Since the oldest galaxy we have a fuzzy photo of formed 400 million years after the BB, don’t get your hopes up.
:D

Edit: Or am I wrong? Could a galaxy have formed early enough to have...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 21st March 2022, 11:32 AM
Replies: 348
Views: 11,347
Posted By Cheetah
It’s a theory that fits all the available...

It’s a theory that fits all the available evidence of how the universe works and evolves.
God is a theory that fits none of it.
God and religion fits all the available evidence of being a product...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 17th March 2022, 11:00 PM
Replies: 209
Views: 6,466
Posted By Cheetah
[ANIMAL’SADVOCATE] Yes, do it! Implement an age...

[ANIMAL’SADVOCATE]
Yes, do it! Implement an age limit.
It won’t have much positive impact but at least it’s a start. It might lead to more positive measures.
We can hope.


Is it? I don’t...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th March 2022, 08:44 AM
Replies: 3,064
Views: 256,785
Posted By Cheetah
Same here. I hardly ever get sick. I have just...

Same here. I hardly ever get sick. I have just never bothered to get it.
I did get the Phizer when it became available here, quite late.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 11th March 2022, 07:39 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
London, money laundering capital of the world for...

London, money laundering capital of the world for Putin & cronies.
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Forum: Education 11th March 2022, 03:32 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 10,349
Posted By Cheetah
Have you had Covid? Yes. No. I don’t...

Have you had Covid?
Yes.
No.
I don’t know.
Maybe?
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 10th March 2022, 12:23 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
The Russian youth/younger generation know exactly...

The Russian youth/younger generation know exactly what’s going on, have for years.
Forum: Education 9th March 2022, 04:10 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 10,349
Posted By Cheetah
Yes.

Yes.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 11:39 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
Knowledge is Power!

Knowledge is Power!
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 11:31 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
True or not?

True or not?
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 11:09 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
Did anyone else watch the Ozzy Man vid? Wow, I...

Did anyone else watch the Ozzy Man vid?
Wow, I feel so sorry for those people.
I’m not sure Putin can survive this.
Who knows what he’ll try?
The girl in the vid thinks it will only end when...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 10:58 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
I do believe at the moment Putin sees everything...

I do believe at the moment Putin sees everything as a threat to HIS CONTROL of Russia, including his cronies and the population. He is of course correct.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 10:30 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
Never heard of lungs sucked out before, have you?

Never heard of lungs sucked out before, have you?
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 08:29 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
You are correct, the pressure drop is due to...

You are correct, the pressure drop is due to sudden cooling of the hot gasses.
From the Wikipedia link posted earlier:
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2022, 08:24 AM
Replies: 3,758
Views: 159,116
Posted By Cheetah
Ozzy Man talks to Russian civilians. ...

Ozzy Man talks to Russian civilians.

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