Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-05-01 Thread Philip Thrift
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/04/book-review-dream-universe-by-david.html Sabine Hossenfelder writes: In the end, Lindley [The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way, by David Lindley] puts the blame for the lack of progress in the foundations of physics on mathematical

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-01 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:18 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> What I want to know is your justification for your prior statement about > virtual particles and borrowing of energy. You can't just pull it out of a > hat as call it Gospel. * I sure as hell *can* pull it out of a hat if it has been EXPERI

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-05-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 30 Apr 2020, at 23:46, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > > > On 4/30/2020 5:21 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> I consider myself as an expert in the domain of lies, I collect them, and >> the domain of Israel is the only domain where the lies are more numerous in >> the Medi

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 5:17:42 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:18 PM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *> What I want to know is your justification for your prior statement >> about virtual particles and borrowing of energy. You can't just pull it out >> of a hat as call i

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-01 Thread John Clark
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:00 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *Firstly, concerning the postulates of QM and the UP,* > Mathematics has postulates. Science doesn't. The nearest equivalent for Science is experimental results. So it doesn't matter where you originally got an idea, if the idea allows you to

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-01 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 6:37:16 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:00 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > > *Firstly, concerning the postulates of QM and the UP,* >> > > Mathematics has postulates. Science doesn't. The nearest equivalent for > Science is experimental results. S

RE: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-05-01 Thread Philip Benjamin
[Philip Benjamin] The WAMP (defined elsewhere below) has done it again with respect to the pandemic COVID-19. Here the observer (National Geographic) about New Zealand’s elimination of COVID-19 is completely devoid of reality and creates one’s own non-existent reality. That is typical of the WAM

Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-05-01 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 10:15:38 AM UTC-5, medinuclear wrote: > > [*Philip Benjamin*] > > The *WAMP* > I thought the other day this WAMP was WMAP with a spelling error. WMAP was a CMB measurement spacecraft. Most of what is below is rather silly IMO. LC > (defined elsewhere below) has don

The orbit of two black holes timed by the passage thru accretion disk

2020-05-01 Thread Lawrence Crowell
This is quite interesting. LC https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-080 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubs