RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:39 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/14/2013 6:28 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: From:

Re: We need to bring Leibniz out of the closet

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2013, at 14:54, Roger Clough wrote: Hi - Roger Clough All current theories of mind are objective (materialist) since they do not include the first person singular. This seems to be a nonsense to me. Mind, by definition bears on first person singular. Plotinus already saw the

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Nov 2013, at 18:48, meekerdb wrote: On 11/14/2013 3:34 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The use of science by government of science is of the type of pseudo-religion abuse. ?? Does not parse. Sorry. Read instead: The use of science by governments is of the type of pseudo-religion abuse.

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There is a model of the earth nucleus. It is very good. Why? Because it behaves like the real nucleus. It invert polarity every 14000 years I believe, dont want to fire up the wikipedia to get the real digits. That is why it is a good model. Just like climate models parameter values have

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
So the measurements showing rising global temperatures and the noticeable effects this is having, and the measured rise in CO2 since the industrial revolution are irrelevant because the models aren't yet 100% accurate? So let's sit on our hands and do nothing, just in case we make a better world

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/11/15 LizR lizj...@gmail.com So the measurements showing rising global temperatures and the noticeable effects this is having, and the measured rise in CO2 since the industrial revolution are irrelevant because the models aren't yet 100% accurate? The models are 0% accurate. The other

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks for the good work Jason. Hmm... I do have a critics, which is minor or major: I don't see any difference between the beam and the attenuated beam on my screen. In fact I would avoid color, or I would still use any trick so that even on a bad black and white screen we can clearly see

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
Great work Jason! Regarding color blindness, there are some palettes to deal with this. I have a color blind colleague, and they seem to work well with him. For example: http://www.mollietaylor.com/2012/10/color-blindness-and-palette-choice.html I also use the color blind friendly palette when

The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread Roger Clough
The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. Although I cannot find a direct reference in Leibniz's writings, they have not all been translated. Nevertheless Leibniz's model of perception is seemingly based on the high technology of the 17th century, Huygen's

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Russell, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: The good news is that the figures I've seen is that its

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread spudboy100
To perform a fix on the climate, and I am giving the IPCC supporters the benefit of the doubt, we must have abundant clean sources at the ready. We need terawatts of clean, because gigawatts are insufficient. Some can be replaced by higher efficiency homes and devices, and cars-but this will

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread spudboy100
Please understand, that unless your geothermal is really good, people will successfully complain about earthquakes caused by geothermal energy, bath in Basel, and Bavaria, if I remember right? Plus, the replacement tech that are proposed, must provide terawatts of energy, to replace the dirty.

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread spudboy100
For CO2 remediation, Klaus Lachner has designed his artificial tree. Its a pollution exchanger, designed by Lachner at Columbia university NYC. Its supposed to be 100 times more efficient at removing atmospheric co2, then a normal, deciduous, tree. Cost? Who knows? -Original

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
The fantastic amount of subsidies to the solar energy (That not even Germany will have enough budget to pay them) not only have destroyed the familiar and industrial economy with such incredible amount of taxes. They also *have stopped further solar cell research* in the countries where these

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I mean, the subsidies are for solar energy production. 2013/11/15 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com The fantastic amount of subsidies to the solar energy (That not even Germany will have enough budget to pay them) not only have destroyed the familiar and industrial economy with such

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Nov 2013, at 13:38, Telmo Menezes wrote: Great work Jason! Regarding color blindness, there are some palettes to deal with this. I have a color blind colleague, and they seem to work well with him. For example: http://www.mollietaylor.com/2012/10/color-blindness-and-palette-choice.html

Re: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
Where's the math? On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. Although I cannot find a direct reference in Leibniz's writings, they have not all been translated. Nevertheless Leibniz's model

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Nov 2013, at 13:38, Telmo Menezes wrote: Great work Jason! Regarding color blindness, there are some palettes to deal with this. I have a color blind colleague, and they seem to work well with him. For example:

Re: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Nov 2013, at 16:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: Where's the math? Good question. I comment Roger below: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. Although I cannot find a direct

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Nov 2013, at 16:49, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Nov 2013, at 13:38, Telmo Menezes wrote: Great work Jason! Regarding color blindness, there are some palettes to deal with this. I have a color blind colleague,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 12:15 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So the energy would be stored in the potential energy of the heavy piston and the water would just be a working medium? Why not put the weight on a cable and use a purely mechanical system? I'd think that could be more efficient that a water

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 2:11 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: There is a model of the earth nucleus. It is very good. Why? Because it behaves like the real nucleus. It invert polarity every 14000 years I believe, dont want to fire up the wikipedia to get the real digits. That is

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I rephrase my affirmation as a question, so that even a kid can understand it: The models of the earth nucleus predict an inversion of polatity every 14000 years, just what happens in the real Eart nucleus. What fact of the earth climate the climate models are capable to predict? 2013/11/15

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:19 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote: And for nukes? I would say: O N L Y fusion! The 'old fashion' fission nuke may be even more danerous than fossil pollution. Lets look at the disasters associated with various energy producing projects: In 1975 the

Re: QM Primer

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/14/2013 11:00 PM, Jason Resch wrote: Telmo, Bruno, I've incorporated your suggestions into an updated document. Thank you. To all: feel free to use these however you find appropriate. Jason If I use it (and I probably will - with attribution) I would replace the TV phosphor screens

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 5:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: The fantastic amount of subsidies to the solar energy (That not even Germany will have enough budget to pay them) not only have destroyed the familiar and industrial economy with such incredible amount of taxes. Germany's Industrial Economy

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Germany was forced to reduce the subsidies retroactively, that means breaking the contracts with already installed power plants. Like spain and other countries. Even, so the taxes over electricity consumption would provoke a revolution in USA. 2013/11/15 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net On

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
Solar irradiance on the Earth is approximately 1.74×1017 Watts. On 16 November 2013 02:13, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: To perform a fix on the climate, and I am giving the IPCC supporters the benefit of the doubt, we must have abundant clean sources at the ready. We need terawatts of clean,

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 07:18, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: There's nothing apocalyptic about global warming. Human will survive as a species. At least so long as it doesn't trigger a nuclear war. But there will be a lot death and suffering. I agree. The question is whether our

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 07:34, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I rephrase my affirmation as a question, so that even a kid can understand it: The models of the earth nucleus predict an inversion of polatity every 14000 years, just what happens in the real Eart nucleus. What fact

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 08:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/15/2013 5:29 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: The fantastic amount of subsidies to the solar energy (That not even Germany will have enough budget to pay them) not only have destroyed the familiar and industrial economy with

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 07:01, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: The main problem is just size. I considered designing an energy storage system to be used with home, rooftop PVs. I looked around for something heavy that could be lifted up to store energy. My car. It weighs about 2600lb.

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Richard Ruquist
LizR 3:23 PM (29 minutes ago) to everything-list On 16 November 2013 07:34, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I rephrase my affirmation as a question, so that even a kid can understand it: The models of the earth nucleus predict an inversion of polatity every 14000 years, just

Re: The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
AHA, I can see from your avatar why you're so keen on Leibniz - you're almost his double! :) On 16 November 2013 04:57, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Nov 2013, at 16:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: Where's the math? Good question. I comment Roger below: On Fri, Nov 15,

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 11:06 AM, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:19 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com mailto:jami...@gmail.com wrote: And for nukes? I would say: O N L Y fusion! The 'old fashion' fission nuke may be even more danerous than fossil pollution. Lets look at

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:09 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: in the past, when the earth was much warmer, sea level was several meters higher. The sea was hundreds of meters higher in the past and will be so again someday, but at a rate of one inch a decade we'll have plenty of time

Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 01:01:44PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: On 11/15/2013 11:06 AM, John Clark wrote: Lets look at the disasters associated with various energy producing projects: In 1975 the Shimantan/Banqiao hydroelectric Dam in China failed and killed 171,000 people. In 1979 the Three

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
[image: Inline images 1] On 16 November 2013 09:54, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, Global temperatures fell from 1950 to 1980 while CO2 atm content was rising. Can you explain that? Richard Why should I? This is a complex system with an uncontrolled experiment running in it.

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
The resources are always the FIRST thing I think about, which is why I advocate subcritical reactors (well, it's one reason). Luckily we have a lot of thorium, or so I'm reliably informed, which is what subcritical reactors use. On 16 November 2013 10:19, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 10:07, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Straw man my ass, environmentalists never met a energy source they didn't hate. Wind farms are ugly, disrupt wind patterns are noisy and kill birdies. Geothermal smells bad and causes earthquakes. Hydroelectric floods the land

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:18:17AM +1300, LizR wrote: [image: Inline images 1] On 16 November 2013 09:54, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Liz, Global temperatures fell from 1950 to 1980 while CO2 atm content was rising. Can you explain that? Richard PS on the subject of

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 10:48, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: This is due to the presence of aerosols. Ironically, cleaning up our pollution has caused the planet to warm faster. Yes I thought it would be something like that. I recently heard there had been a (slight) drop in

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 10:44, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: That is not a predicion that test the validity of a model. I can do the same with a program with then lines by adjusting three parameters. A real model would reproduce the evolution of ancient climates transitions, for

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
My own models and the one of star trekkers, Star warriors and in general Sci-Fi aficionados indicates that the most probable catastrophe is an alien invasion in the next 100 years. We have only one planet to live. So I will consider you a bunch of retarded deniers and brainless morons if you do

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 11:13, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: My own models and the one of star trekkers, Star warriors and in general Sci-Fi aficionados indicates that the most probable catastrophe is an alien invasion in the next 100 years. We have only one planet to live. So I

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
As i said before, it si worthless to talk with sectarian apocalipticists. Your ideological ancestors were the worst people of the modern times. It is no surprise that you lack the tiniest sense of humor. You are a true danger. 2013/11/15 LizR lizj...@gmail.com On 16 November 2013 11:13,

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 2:38 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: As i said before, it si worthless to talk with sectarian apocalipticists. Your ideological ancestors were the worst people of the modern times. It is no surprise that you lack the tiniest sense of humor. You are a true danger. Alberto is

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Alberto G. Corona
You have shown what you are and what you represent. I have nothing more to say. You are your worst enemy. I suspect that we have touched not only the beliefs, but the business of some people here that live from big gobernment politics and ecoalarmist demagogy. 2013/11/15 meekerdb

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 11:38, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: As i said before, it si worthless to talk with sectarian apocalipticists. Your ideological ancestors were the worst people of the modern times. It is no surprise that you lack the tiniest sense of humor. You are a true

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 11:57, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: You have shown what you are and what you represent. I have nothing more to say. You are your worst enemy. I suspect that we have touched not only the beliefs, but the business of some people here that live from big

Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 3:16 PM, LizR wrote: On 16 November 2013 11:57, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com mailto:agocor...@gmail.com wrote: You have shown what you are and what you represent. I have nothing more to say. You are your worst enemy. I suspect that we have touched not only

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread spudboy100
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Re: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread LizR
On 16 November 2013 12:35, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/15/2013 3:16 PM, LizR wrote: So far, my climate denier models are spot on. How many times does you model predict Alberto will post that he's not going to say anymore? Just curious. :-) -- You received this message

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 4:11 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: What about thorium schemes Dr. Standish? Also, are things such as hydroelectric reservoirs built on the ocean, and lifting sea water as pumped storage workable, or is it an energy sink, where we expend more energy then we produce to accomplish

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
Show me these models that are 0% accurate – that is very hard to achieve, except in the land of polemics, which is where I suspect you reside. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 2:45

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:14 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness To perform a fix on the climate, and I am giving the IPCC

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:20 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Please understand, that unless your geothermal is really

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:30 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Global warming silliness The fantastic amount of subsidies to the solar energy (That not even Germany

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 5:33 AM To: everything-list Subject: Re: Global warming silliness I mean, the subsidies are for solar energy production. References

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:02 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/15/2013 12:15 AM, Chris de Morsella wrote: So the energy would

RE: Global warming silliness

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 11:07 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Global warming silliness On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:19 PM, John Mikes jami...@gmail.com

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:21 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power The resources are always the FIRST thing I think about, which is why I advocate

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:37 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 1:19 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Nov

Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread Samiya Illias
Neils Bohr is famously quoted as saying: 'Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded asreal. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.” What's your take on this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 6:48 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: LFTR reactors would produce U233 -- which is very nasty stuff. But they breed only what they consume, none of it is 'waste'. Still preferable to the fast neutron U-238 breeder types that would create the plutonium economy, but it is very

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread Jesse Mazer
I suspect this is one of those fake quotes that gets circulated around the internet; searching for everything we call real and bohr on books.google.com I mostly just find it in various religious/spiritual books, nothing scholarly (and nothing dating back to before 1986). Jesse On Fri, Nov 15,

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread Samiya Illias
Never mind who said it. Considering what we know of quantum mechanics, is everything real made of everything unreal? Does that mean that everything is actually unreal, a holograph, a reflection of our mind, if that is real? On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Jesse Mazer laserma...@gmail.com

RE: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 7:52 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 6:48 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: LFTR reactors would produce U233

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread Jesse Mazer
I see no reason to believe the quantum world is unreal, though I suppose it might depend on one's interpretation of quantum mechanics (but most non-Copenhagen interpretations, like the many-worlds interpretation and Bohmian mechanics, treat the state of quantum systems as completely objective).

Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 8:22 PM, Samiya Illias wrote: Never mind who said it. Considering what we know of quantum mechanics, is everything real made of everything unreal? Does that mean that everything is actually unreal, a holograph, a reflection of our mind, if that is real? I don't even know what

Re: Nuclear power

2013-11-15 Thread meekerdb
On 11/15/2013 8:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: *From:*everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *meekerdb *Sent:* Friday, November 15, 2013 7:52 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: Nuclear power On 11/15/2013 6:48 PM, Chris

R: Re: Everything is real or unreal?

2013-11-15 Thread scerir
(Brent wrote) Neils Bohr had a horseshoe nailed over the door to his office. When a graduate student asked him if he believed the supersition that this would bring good luck, Bohr said, I'm told it works whether you believe in it or not. -- Once, at the afternoon tea, in the Institute