Re: A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing

2014-06-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
That proof, like any multiverse with no assumptions, includes the possibility that the earth was supported by a giant over a turtle in a sea of water and then vanished moments before Magallanes circumnavigated the globe. But it add nothing to the beauty of the greek myth. In fact it add nothing a

RE: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:46 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back! On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Google does not seem to know o

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Kim Jones
On 25 Jun 2014, at 11:56 am, LizR wrote: >> My original post was only apparently about Americans and their negative >> qualities. That was just some content by which to,articulate the main >> purpose of the thread: a demonstration of "provocation" which is a known >> thinking skill. > > I

New consciousness paper

2014-06-24 Thread ColinHales
Dear Folk, I thought you might be interested in the following paper, which is essentially my PhD outcome packaged into a journal paper (49 pages!), contextualised with respect to consciousness, and now finally published in a special journal issue on the ‘Hard problem of Consciousness’. Onl

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread meekerdb
On 6/24/2014 2:29 AM, LizR wrote: On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote: If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes that role very mysterio

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread meekerdb
On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Google does not seem to know of its existence. The net does not know everything, and contains a lot of propaganda of many kinds. Bruno Have you read Scott Aaronson's latest blog in which he discusses the application of Google technology to th

RE: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Jones Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 1:51 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: American Intelligence On 25 Jun 2014, at 5:58 am, LizR wrote: I assumed Kim's original post

RE: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:17 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (U

Re: A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
This has a few interesting corollaries, ISTM. 1. It hints that there might be a way to distinguish the pilot wave interpretation of QM from the rest, which could be handy 2. It hints at eternal inflation (the second bit of support for this in the last few months, assuming the BICEP results stand

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 01:07, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, LizR wrote: > >> On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread meekerdb
On 6/23/2014 7:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: There is a problem with radical islamism, but the real problem is in the exploitation of that problem by bandits to hide their lucrative criminal activities. This is naive. Bandits do lucrative criminal acts to get money which can purchase goods, lux

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 08:50, Kim Jones wrote: > > My original post was only apparently about Americans and their negative > qualities. That was just some content by which to,articulate the main > purpose of the thread: a demonstration of "provocation" which is a known > thinking skill. > I see. So if

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 03:34, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > What about this Irish Times article? It seems to be out of the box > thinking. I don't know, if true, that it has any value for the human > species? But it might in my imagination. My imagination, pl

Re: A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
This item in further reading looks interesting too https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/7ef5eea6fd7a (Not that I'm not busy here at work...[?] ) On 25 June 2014 12:44, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Interesting synopsis of a paper on h

Re: Is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy really a wormhole?

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: LizR To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:37 PM Subject: Re: Is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy really a wormhole? Wait, what's this? "both black holes and wormholes sit behind an event horizon

Re: A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Interesting synopsis of a paper on http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1207 -- don't have access though -- so here is the write up. Not sure if this has already been discussed here or not. A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing A Mathematical Proof That T

Re: Is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy really a wormhole?

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
Wait, what's this? "both black holes and wormholes sit behind an event horizon from which light cannot escape" - in that case, what's the use of it? If nothing can get out (and nothing can if light can't) then how does it differ from a black hole? I thought the point of wormholes was that they are

Re: Is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy really a wormhole?

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
A stargate? I can already hear "Thus spake Zarathustra"... On 25 June 2014 11:47, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > and we should be able to tell pretty soon - Supermassive Black Hole At > The Centre Of The Galaxy May Be A Wormhole In Disguise,

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:13:32AM -0700, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: everything-list@googlegroups.com > [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:47 PM > To: everything-lis

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Right off the bat: sorry for this slightly OT post. There is stuff about discrimination/labeling in the linked video clip below, concerning the profound truth of "All men are rats", however. Higher standards, here we come! On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun

Re: Solar power's "bright future" [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 04:31:00PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > Russell: > you wrote: > > > *Not really - the peak of the solar spectrum is yellow light. The IR and UV* > *portions are relatively small components, and what little there is is > further absorbed by water vapour and the ozone layer re

Re: Is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy really a wormhole?

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
and we should be able to tell pretty soon - Supermassive Black Hole At The Centre Of The Galaxy May Be A Wormhole In Disguise, Say Astronomers Supermassive Black Hole At The Centre Of The Galaxy Ma... And if it is a wormhole, this is how it would look… View on medium.com Preview by Yahoo

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List To most "liberals/progressive/Marxists" is a wet dream, a fantasy come true for them. The "boi" thing is nice and I wish I thought of it. People are not xenophobic, if they actually have world, idiots actively seeing

RE: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
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Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 09:22, John Ross wrote: > The shell is mostly an approximately equal number of very cold electrons > and positrons, all traveling randomly at 2.19 X 106 m/s. They are going > too fast to combine as positronium. > > Why is a particle moving "too fast to combine into positronium" -

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 05:07, John Ross wrote: > “So what”. My point is you cannot prove Einstein’s relativity theories > are correct by citing small variations in the ticking of clocks. > You can't prove any theory is correct by any observation, you can only disprove theories. In this case the point

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 25 June 2014 04:48, John Ross wrote: > The light reflected by the shell of our Universe is the cosmic background > radiation that has been bouncing around our Universe since the Big Bang. > Radio wave radiation generated in our Universe reflects from the shell of > our Universe in about the sa

RE: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread John Ross
The shell is mostly an approximately equal number of very cold electrons and positrons, all traveling randomly at 2.19 X 106 m/s. They are going too fast to combine as positronium. J Ross From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, J

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Kim Jones
> On 25 Jun 2014, at 5:58 am, LizR wrote: > > I assumed Kim's original post was intended partly ironically. Clearly there > are a lot of intelligent Americans, but there does seem to be a bit of a > "dumbed down" culture there at times. My original post was only apparently about Americans and

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-24 Thread John Mikes
Bruno Hi-Ho for your doctors to doctors. I have a pacemaker inserted by a physician who is a physicist - or by a physicist who is a physician? I try to find out behind your English gaffes what you wanted to write. Easy for me: English is my 5th from 7 and have pitty for the bilinguists. John M On

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Yeah, I get the thing about religion and all that. This is a bit different since it speaks to inception (a decent movie) of the Hubble volume, and why things seem just so. I also like Everett's MWI. Maybe Hell was out-sourced to Bulgaria? I am guessing that God might be really good to talk with

Re: Solar power's "bright future" [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-24 Thread John Mikes
Russell: you wrote: *Not really - the peak of the solar spectrum is yellow light. The IR and UV* *portions are relatively small components, and what little there is is further absorbed by water vapour and the ozone layer respectively.* Is ALL you do mean the SOLAR (!) spectrum we can detect with

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
>From one of my favorite films of all time. Idiocracy. It's on topic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk -Original Message- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 3:58 pm Subject: Re: American Intelligence I assumed Kim's original post was intended partly

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread John Mikes
Mich: as long as the Faithful think of God in their (natural) mind the God they think of IS natural. We cannot think of a supernatural with our "natural" mentality and limitations. Anything " WE " think about God is within the (our!) natural order. Limited into our "model" of knowables. We can "T

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
To most "liberals/progressive/Marxists" is a wet dream, a fantasy come true for them. The "boi" thing is nice and I wish I thought of it. People are not xenophobic, if they actually have world, idiots actively seeing you go bye bye, Since the baddies have won the last US election, its their wor

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
No problem, Richard. I voted for Al Gore in 2000 because he talked about hydrogen cars, and the other dude was an oil boy, so it was a cinch for me. By 2004 I had changed my vote and allegiance's for some reason. Golly, I wonder what made the change in world view? My health is not bad, so it wa

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
I assumed Kim's original post was intended partly ironically. Clearly there are a lot of intelligent Americans, but there does seem to be a bit of a "dumbed down" culture there at times. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsu

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: spudboy100 via Everything List >>This will likely bring some sort of conflict, I am guessing. However, a >>destabilized, US, might be to your liking, emotionally, so as to fit your >>personal world view? In any case you can test out your national frie

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:52 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *If you had said that I would think that you were informing your world > view exclusively from the diet of flag wrapped drivel served up by the Fox > News corp* > > You ignore the news medi

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
If you had said that I would think that you were informing your world view exclusively from the diet of flag wrapped drivel served up by the Fox News corp You ignore the news media owned and operated by liberals have never criticized the American president and are members of the president's p

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
So what is this photon reflector shell made from? Why wouldn't it absorb rather than reflect. -Original Message- From: John Ross To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Jun 24, 2014 12:47 pm Subject: RE: TRONNIES - SPACE The light reflected by the shell of our Universe is the cosmic back

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Telmo Menezes >>I have to say, I find it a bit silly when people identify too much with their >>nationality (or profession, or gender...) to the point that they get offended >>when a generic remark is made. Perhaps we disagree here, but I find the

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Kim Jones >>Of course my founding post to this thread was "racist". Yes... we agree, it was.  It was a clear attempt to label a box and to shove all Americans in there. Not very smart, you suppose. Not if I myself were unconscious of the inherent

RE: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread John Ross
“So what”. My point is you cannot prove Einstein’s relativity theories are correct by citing small variations in the ticking of clocks. You know of at least two explanations of gravity: Einstein’s and mine. I assume you have read my Chapter XX, “Black Holes and Gravity”. My explanation i

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jun 2014, at 15:07, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, LizR wrote: On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb wrote: If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes that role ve

RE: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-24 Thread John Ross
The light reflected by the shell of our Universe is the cosmic background radiation that has been bouncing around our Universe since the Big Bang. Radio wave radiation generated in our Universe reflects from the shell of our Universe in about the same manner that radio waves generated on earth

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
What about this Irish Times article? It seems to be out of the box thinking. I don't know, if true, that it has any value for the human species? But it might in my imagination. My imagination, plus 3.50, can get me a coffee latte. Any thoughts, condemnatory or laudatory. http://www.irishti

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tuesday, June 24, 2014, LizR wrote: > On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb > wrote: > >> >>> If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or >>> for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes that >>> role very mysterious, so much that it is not clea

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy < multiplecit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Telmo Menezes > wrote: > >> I have to say, I find it a bit silly when people identify too much with >> their nationality (or profession, or gender...) to the point

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > I have to say, I find it a bit silly when people identify too much with > their nationality (or profession, or gender...) to the point that they get > offended when a generic remark is made. > > It is fairly obvious that Kim is not suggestin

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
I have to say, I find it a bit silly when people identify too much with their nationality (or profession, or gender...) to the point that they get offended when a generic remark is made. It is fairly obvious that Kim is not suggesting that Chris or Brent or any other specific American in this list

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Kim Jones
Of course my founding post to this thread was "racist". It was a clear attempt to label a box and to shove all Americans in there. Not very smart, you suppose. Not if I myself were unconscious of the inherent racism of what I said. But I was fully conscious of it. Is that still racism? It's not

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
On 24 June 2014 17:04, meekerdb wrote: > >> If primitive matter existed, and if it has a role for consciousness, or >> for consciousness instantiation, step 8, and the argument above, makes that >> role very mysterious, so much that it is not clear why we could still say >> yes to the doctor in v

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-06-24 Thread Kim Jones
How do we go with Iceland's model? 100% renewables. Just a small countrybut they jailed the banksters. No one else did that. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Iceland Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything

Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-06-24 Thread LizR
I just learned that this is the 351st consecutive month where the global temperature was hotter than the 20th century average. (On the plus side, my hot flushes can be explained...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscri

RE: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Jones Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:47 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: American Intelligence > On 24 Jun 2014, at 2:38 pm, "'Chris de Morsella'

Re: Disproving physicalism from COMP

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jun 2014, at 07:04, meekerdb wrote: On 6/22/2014 11:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 20 Jun 2014, at 01:20, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: And why do you say that anybody (whether zombie or not) can *prove* the existence o

Re: American Intelligence

2014-06-24 Thread Kim Jones
> On 24 Jun 2014, at 2:38 pm, "'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List" > wrote: > > Sure there are some A-holes in every bunch, but for the most part in my > experience people – everywhere -- are not the problem it is systems (be they > political, religious or economic) that dehumanize pe

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:39, Richard Ruquist wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Dear John, it is wasted time and effort to argue "who is right" in a question that raises 2 billion children in a 'faith' they will live by - AND such 'faith' does include the ki

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Jun 2014, at 18:29, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> according to you not believing in God is a variant of Christianity, and obviously believing in God is another variant of Christianity, therefore every human being who ever lived is a

RE: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (Update)

2014-06-24 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:47 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Germany sets record for peak energy use - 50 percent comes from solar (U