I received my letters at my door for years, what do you mean It hasn’t worked?

This is fucking shameful, yet I don’t know what to do against it.

I’m not sure that life is good, but I feel that I’m part of life and that life is part of me. I suppose it’s a natural instinct somehow… So I feel like something is better than nothing…

I know I’m atypical on that aspect, but I feel it much more deeply than most of my friends when I see somebody else getting bad. I cant claim some philosophical basis to it, it’s just there, for me…

Haha, I think I’d enjoy a long discussion with You on this topic around a drink or something!

I come from a totally different direction, yet I agree that the self is an illusion. I think that humans and everything we make is part of nature, even if it’s hard to see the similarities.

What exactly is a self? Is it the body of a person including gut biome? Only the collection of all the cells with the same DNA? Or the nerves only, or the brain only? Or is the self an emergent abstract construct resulting from the reactions occurring inside the brain?

Or maybe the self is the bosy and it’s direct environment it shaped (the clothes, the house, etc.)? Are offsprings part of the self? Is the extended family part of the self? Are we the part of Earth’s biosphere used for thinking?Are we the universe being counscious of itself?

I like to understand genocide as a bad thing because it reduces biodiversity, and thus reduces the chances of our species’ survival. Since our species is currently the only one capable of interplanetary travel, we are the biosphere’s best tool to continue growing forever!

Yeah, let’s not try to apply the scientific method to social problems, that can only end badly!

But let’s not apply absolute relativism to science unless we want to end up with climate denialism.

Cheers!

Yeah, I appologise for missing the context and coming with such an adversarial tone… Being a person that can easily pass as typical (ND white guy), I didn’t think of the social aspect of the topic.

Natural science methods cannot be applied on social sciences in an ethical way… I don’t want to push for that.

I also don’t want to hear “Climate change is subjective and doesn’t apply to my subjectivity, because it was cold this winter.”

From a scientific point of view, all type of gender and sexualities exist in nature, and I’m sure it’s a mistake to assume humans are binary. https://youtu.be/Jxs2yHP6K2E

I was, however, replying to a message that was specifically talking about gravitational pull, so i assumed it was understood i was referring to the same.

You know, reading the thread I had the completely opposite understanding of the topic that was being discussed. Even now, I believe the other user was talking about the concept of gravity at large.

When having this type if discussion in academic situations, almost half of the time will be spent on defining terms to prevent misunderstanding.

Just using the word “gravity” is not specific enough. I’d recommend to talk about “gravitational pull” or “force” for the general concept, the one that applies the same everywhere. Then there could be the gravitational acceleration near the surface of Earth (or Gee’s for short), which is subjective to the location of an object.

If really love to be able to subjectively stop eating and sleeping, waste of time… I’d be free from that.

There are many social constructs about which what you say is possible, but there is still some underlying world which will nit change.

Ignoring all of the world’s problems will not make them go away, you have to acknowledge them and face them. Although it’s okay to take breaks from the world to rest and recuperate! But don’t simply escape reality and let the bad people take it all…

That’s at least admitting that something exists, but it’s more complicated than what we currently understand of it!

My current standing is with “poetic naturalism”, in which we acknowledge that something exists and that we build, based on our subjective experience, models of knowledge. And that we must use epistemic tools (ex: the scientific method) to overcome our subjectivity.

The fact that people feel different gravitational pull based on where they are doesn’t make the concept of gravity different for each of them. You’re just using the wrong word to describe the acceleration produced by gravity, rather than gravity itself.

That’s why technical definitions (so we speak the same language) and education (si we understand that language) are important!

What about gravity? It doesn’t exist, we just collectively hallucinate that stuff falls

That’s just nihilism.

Where would be the best way to get this information? I onow it will depend kn the destination country, but you can’t really rely on Google for that one, and the destination country may not classify/name meds the same way as your home country. (Look at acetaminophen and paracetamol for example. )

Yeah that’s fair! I didn’t get through some of his videos, being more of a downer “grumpy style” 😉

I’ll try to watch that again

There was a full on mathematical war on YouTube, with numberphile coming back later to show that most partial sum methods also end up at -1/12.

As a science nerd, mathologer basically just took the camp of “old concensus” and gave no other argument than “this is alien math, nope, I don’t like it”. It just felt like mathologer was Pythagoras fighting against irrational numbers…

Boring real answer: stars in an image. It’s a robust pre-opencv image processing tool for astrophysics.

See also SAO Image DS9, which was the subsequent version after SAO Image Next Generation.

I have an autistic friend who loves watermelon and has watermelon socks, watermelon drinking glasses, watermelon everything. He wears his watermelon socks at work, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he had watermelon pins.

I would argue that the ban of watermelon imagery should be explained and it is definitely not clear for the general population.

I just learned about this symbolism today, and I’m usually more aware than the average person.

The tone of your messages come off as a bit confrontational, that’s probably the reason sorry!

Anyway, like many other situations before, there is probably no single fix to dark matter.

There’s probably a huge swath of cold hydrogen that still goes undetected that would explain part of the small scale stuff (bullet cluster and such), and then some quantum gravity or modified gravity to explain the very low range stuff.

Also, there are papers out there about how large scale simulations assume smooth distribution of matter, but then when computing with the actual distribution of matter, the some dark matter phenomenons tend to disappear.

Anyhow, exiting stuff to get new physics to learn about!

How do you explain the mounting evidences of double images and observing the same event twice (or more) with exactly the expected delay by grav lensing?

Anyhow, no new physics ever went against the old math, it always just adds corrective terms. Any new mathematics will need to be able to make the same predictions as GR in the limited cases of whatever this new limit will be (small distance or something?)

The old saying that “Einstein proved Newton was wrong” is a gross misunderstanding. A nevessary base principle for GR to be accepter was that it reduces to Newtonian mechanics at low speeds.

What is your definition of “detected”? If only direct interaction using the EM field is required, then we have never detected anything…

There are lots of gravitational lensing images of dark matter, we can even see some structures in its shape and distribution.

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

While there may be a part of it being “different gravity”, dark matter cannot 100% be explained by modified gravity of any kind.

Why do we know this? Well there are observable galaxies that survived collisions and have been stripped of their dark matter, and the reverse is also true (galaxy-sized dark matter blobs without baryonic matter in it).

I can refer you to this wonderful PBS Spacetime video about it: https://youtu.be/5t0jaE--l0Y