Re: In search of method

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:43:50 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 12:24:21 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:33:29 PM UTC-5, Tomasz Rola wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 09:56:01AM -0700, Philip Thrift wro

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:55:08 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-demonstrate-direct-brain-to-brain-communication-in-humans/ > uh oh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3NoBeNwfk @philipthrift -- You received this message because

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:16:48 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:55:08 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-demonstrate-direct-brain-to-brain-communication-in-humans/ >> > > uh oh > > https://www

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 2:39:49 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:16:48 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:55:08 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> >>> >>> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-dem

An inexpensive crystal makes a fine quantum time machine

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4335 >From a theoretical perspective, there’s nothi

Re: Superposition Misinterpreted

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 23:49, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 6:04:58 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 30 Oct 2019, at 21:50, Alan Grayson > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 5:53:10 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, Octo

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 14:36, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:45 AM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > >> If there was some deep existential problem you wanted to know more about I > >> can understand why you would want to discuss it with a mathematician or a

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 14:55, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > > I have no evidence that christianity was a fraud before 529. > > So you believe Jesus was the son of God, that God sent His only son to Earth > so humans

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 21:08, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 12:23 PM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 8:55:45 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:00 AM Bruno Marchal > wrote: > > >>> I have no evidenc

Re: Interesting lady; Susan Schneider

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 12:00, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 5:47:14 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 6:54 PM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > >> The computation is the same independently of the substrate of its > >> implementation. For example, y

Re: Is idealism fundamentally unthinkable ?

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Oct 2019, at 22:46, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 10/30/2019 2:46 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> On 29 Oct 2019, at 19:01, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/29/2019 4:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Obviously. But my poin

Re: Interesting lady; Susan Schneider

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 5:51:26 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 31 Oct 2019, at 12:00, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 5:47:14 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 6:54 PM Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> The computation is the

Re: In search of method

2019-11-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 31 Oct 2019, at 17:56, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html > > There is no crisis in physics, except for the problem o

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:22 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > >>> *I have no evidence that christianity was a fraud before 529.* > > >> So you believe Jesus was the son of God, that God sent His only son to > Earth so humans could torture him to death because that was the only way > God could forgive th

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:09 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: >> theology failed spectacularly, not only did it fail to provide any > answers it couldn't even find the right questions to ask. > > > It provided science. Science is born from religion > In the same way knowledge is born from ignorance perhap

Re: In search of method

2019-11-01 Thread Philip Thrift
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 6:05:38 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 31 Oct 2019, at 17:56, Philip Thrift > > wrote: > > > > > http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-physics-is-not-only-about.html > > > > There is no crisis in physics, except for the problem of making G

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-01 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 10/31/2019 11:55 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-demonstrate-direct-brain-to-brain-communication-in-humans/ Would it have been brain-to-brain if the receiver had just tapped the subject on the head?  This is not at all transmitting an experie

Re: Galileo!

2019-11-01 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 11/1/2019 3:22 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I think that the early educated christians were neoplatonist, and they were quickly fighting against the radicals who claimed that the legend of Jesus should be taken literally. In others words religion doesn't mean what the dictionary says. Theo

Re: Superposition Misinterpreted

2019-11-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 3:57:39 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 31 Oct 2019, at 23:49, Alan Grayson > > wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 6:04:58 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 30 Oct 2019, at 21:50, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 29

Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-01 Thread John Clark
Quantum Computer expert Scott Aaronson wrote a editorial in the October 30 2019 New York Times: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters * Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters* * By Scott

Re: An inexpensive crystal makes a fine quantum time machine

2019-11-01 Thread Lawrence Crowell
This is actually quite interesting. The OTO measurements indicating entanglement increase means there is an evolution towards nonlocality. It should be mentioned that QFT with equal time commutators and Wightman conditions do not consider this. This seems to point to how there can be a duality

Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstrated

2019-11-01 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Yeah, zombies via WiFi, where weaker personalities subsume, to that of the great leader. Thus, 10,000 Maniacs (go ahead, sing!) -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 3:16 am Subject: Re: Direct brain-to-brain communication allegedly demonstra

Re: Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters

2019-11-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 3:25:21 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > Quantum Computer expert Scott Aaronson wrote a editorial in the October > 30 2019 New York Times: > > Why Google’s Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters >