I like his statement: “if you believe Dirac’s number hypothesis, you have to throw away current models of cosmology.” Yep. What Dirac’s numbers show, I think, is that there is a deep connection between QM and GR, and as we all know, no one has any clue at this point what that is.
Numbers trump observations.
Observations have changed numbers.
Here’s an interview with Dirac (which in my mind is a bit like listening to an interview with Newton)
In it he refers to the universe being 18 billion years old, which I assume was based on the measurement of the Hubble Constant at the time. Current measurements imply a universe just shy of 14 billion years old. Not sure exactly how much impact that has on his ratio.
Sounds intriguing but, to me, he might as well be speaking ancient Babylonian.
People have different innate talents–one person an instinctive ability in art, another music, and for some it’s mathematics; talents that can be directed and improved by education and training.
Unfortunately, anything beyond basic mathematics has always been a mystery for me.
Perhaps I can put some of the blame on my teachers—not the best, I’m pretty sure—but I just could not grasp what it was they were trying to teach me. I couldn’t picture in my mind and understand the concepts and, more especially, how they related to one another.
I sensed that there was a whole world out there–a language, a particular way of looking at things–that I could just not grasp.
However, there was one glorious, if only fleeting exception, and that was in my undergraduate physics class we called “physics for dummies.”
Somehow, the instructor explained things in just the right way for me—he said the magic words–and for a couple of weeks I could look at the Lorentz-Fitzgerald equation and understand it, numbers and letters translated into action, as a picture formed in my mind.
Then, sadly, that insight just disappeared.
A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
All of us have experienced placing laundry into a washing machine and dryer, including pairs of socks (i.e., two socks per pair), along with all other articles of clothing.
When the dryer cycle is complete – and you remove all its contents, there invariably is a sock that is missing.
Further, is lost FOREVER !! It has just disappeared.
Perhaps it flew (dropped ?) into another physical dimension. Maybe when in the washing machine or dryer, thus unobserved, it decided to follow the theories applicable to quantum mechanics and, being unobserved, assumed any possible position within the universe.
Anywhere except where you could possibly find it.
I don’t think Dirac’s number explains it nor any theory of Einstein’s.
On a different note; physicists are still struggling to find a Theory of Everything (TOE). One theory (as opposed to the two currently needed) equally applicable describing the behavior of the very very small (presently described by quantum mechanics) and the very large (presently described by relativistic mechanics – Einstein’s stuff ). ;
The pursuit of a TOE is sort of a holy grail for physicists.
But there is hope for physicists; climate “scientists” have developed their own TOE, abbreviated AGW.
But that’s a story for another day.
West TX:
The word “criminal” is commonly used to mean “deplorable” when used as an adjective, as Peterson has done here.
“A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
Not true. My classmates and I during junior year while taking a break from solving Laplace’s equation in spherical coordinates, found the answer. The rotating drum of the dryer warps spacetime into a circular portal that opens into bizarro space. Socks, especially in pairs have an affinity to be attracted to bizarro space, and many find their way there, unfortunately usually without their partners.
“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say … something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand.” — P.A.M. Dirac
How precious. The gentleman grudgingly admits that the deep connection between QM and GR cannot be coincidental but cannot bring himself to mention, even as a possibility, the one explanation that fits… intelligent design.
“It appears that we live in a “Goldilocks Universe,” in which both the arrangement of matter at the cosmic beginning and the values of various physical parameters — such as the speed of light, the strength of gravitational attraction and the expansion rate of the universe – are just right.”
Michael Turner, astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and Fermilab: “The precision is as if one could throw a dart across the entire universe and hit a bulls eye one millimeter in diameter on the other side.”
President Joe Biden reiterated the United States would be a long-term ally of Ukraine in its war against Russia. “We are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,”
Translation: our committment is to the last dead Ukrainian.
Motivation: “This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.” Biden Adviser and director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese
The West’s leadership is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to war because Putin’s nationalism and rejection of the liberal hegemony and its cultural ‘values’ of “diversity, equity and inclusion” stand as a fundamental obstacle to the world-wide extension of the Liberal (formerly New) World Order.
BTW, it not just the democrat leadership that supports the New Liberal World Order. In 2018, Mike Pompao then Sec. State in a speech in Brussels expressed support for the Liberal World Order. Speaking of the world, he used the phrase “liberal order” 5 times.
“In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations of the world to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity for all.”
(Right out of the WEF playbook and transnationalist in its premises)
Translation: our committment is to the last dead Ukrainian.
Geoffrey, the only person responsible for dead Ukrainians is the man commanding the troops shooting at them.
“A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
This was solved some time ago – the missing socks turn up in your closet as wire hangers!!
Seems as if this depends on observations and measurements of the infinitely large and the infinitely small with, among other things, instruments and brains which approach neither.
Couple of mils of water condensation on something or other and the mass of the universe changes by a dozen “to the power of” s.
That said, if there really is a relationship, it means….
Now, I don’t posit ID or any divinity in such things but….with Occam looking over my shoulder.
Geoffrey can’t grasp that Vlad will be quite happy to eliminate the last Ukrainian for greater Roosia. Because WEF, Davos, NATO, and 13 minutes. Translation: broken eggs for greater Roosia.
NATO now will include Finland and Sweden, chaps your shorts, Geoffrey?
What pompeo thinks is liberal ans blinken thinks is liberal is different rather i say malley because hes just their charlie mccarthy
“Geoffrey, the only person responsible for dead Ukrainians is the man commanding the troops shooting at them.” Art
That’s true. It’s also true that the West’s unrelenting advancement of its “liberal hegemony” has, in Putin and his military adviser’s view, forced the decision to invade upon him. That you and others refuse to countenance that fundamentally salient factor changes it not in the least.
om,
I don’t doubt Putin’s determination to do what is necessary to achieve his goals. Nor have I ever disputed his ruthlessness.
My only concern with Sweden and especially with Finland joining NATO is that it will escalate future hostility with Russia. I realize that those countries are taking this measure as protection against what they believe to be Putin’s animosity. I think they’re mistaken in that perception and I do think it will deepen Putin’s and his supporters perception that it is the Western political leadership who hold animosity toward Putin because he’s not going along with ‘the program’.
The program being the Liberal World Order aka the New World Order. The liberal hegemony with the goal of a one world government. Whose leadership works together for a ‘better’ world, one in which they direct us, whether we agree or not.
Putin got the memo long ago and threw it in the trash, yelling Nyet! So he’s got to go, which is why Biden calmly states, “as long as it takes”.
He didnt get the memo the near enemy is the regime they are waging war on the permian on the Courts on the defenseless people in 100 cities on behalf of the criminal and anarchists they are all for twisting the bodies and mind of children i could go on now this war makes us weaker for the confrontation with China or Iran
It would be interesting if we could find some briefing notes for a Putin meeting maybe a year ago going into detail about trans athletes in women’s sports. Or how despicable cancel culture is.
Or who is going to enforce DIE on the Russian government and pronouns in the Russian military.
Nope. Not buying it. Putin came up through the KGB, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. From the point of view of a First Lieutenant–me–LTC is a long way up there. But if you’re there….you’re in no way alone. There are lots of these guys and not many make it to full colonel. Lots of retired LTC around, which isn’t a bad gig unless you really resent not making full bird.
But the KGB isn’t the Army. Scruples, morals, compassion, all are career handicaps.
You do bad things to people as a matter of course, lying at the least.
Putin wasn’t good enough at being a moral leper. What went wrong?
Occam tells us that Putin’s cockamamie dream of reuniting all of an older Russia–whichever map he likes–makes more sense than balancing cultural concerns about the West as a foundation of his motivation.
The problem of putting the liberal hegemony out there as if it’s a partly justified reason for attacking Ukraine to the extent he believes it is that it justifies attacking every other European country. Because if Russia has a border against the outside…wherever it is, outside of it is more outside onward to the Atlantic. In which case, stopping his sorry butt right the freak NOW is imperative.
Whatever his motivation, rewarding it by convincing his current victim, whichever one in the sequence, to roll belly-up isn’t going to discourage him.
It’s certainly useful to wonder if his likely very serious and–possibly related to him by his doctors–terminal illness allows him to dream big instead of finessing his rooks and bishops against a future move while trying to get his oligarch buddies onside with the Big Russia Dream.
And there is the example of the Rhineland in 1936.
Geoffrey continues his apology for Vlad. Nobody forced Vlad to annex Crimea or invade Ukraine.
Facebook, Google, Disney, apple, WEF didn’t send Vlad a list of demands. Nor did Hillary or BHO or Brandon. Much less did President Trump. Was it space aliens that made him do it?
Nobody. Geoffrey. It is Vlad’s own doing. Nobody but Vlad.
The Roosians view Ukraine as a colony, listen to the podcast. You might learn something. The Baltic states, Poland, and Finland remember old Russian behavior (not fondly IIRC). It wasn’t liberal hegemony.
While we’re at it, the George W. Bush Presidential has issued a tweet about the quondam president’s most recent art project: “cold wax renditions of floral arrangements”. And also, a notification of ‘reflections’ courtesy Marie Yovanovitch, formerly of the Foreign Service. Hmmm. Familiar name. And on the Dobbs decision, they offer…..nothing.
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I like his statement: “if you believe Dirac’s number hypothesis, you have to throw away current models of cosmology.” Yep. What Dirac’s numbers show, I think, is that there is a deep connection between QM and GR, and as we all know, no one has any clue at this point what that is.
Numbers trump observations.
Observations have changed numbers.
Here’s an interview with Dirac (which in my mind is a bit like listening to an interview with Newton)
https://www.google.com/search?q=dirac+interview&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia24DYwNr4AhUSDkQIHchSA50Q_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=414&bih=617&dpr=3#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:9e5fc41e,vid:-o8mUyq_Wwg,st:0
In it he refers to the universe being 18 billion years old, which I assume was based on the measurement of the Hubble Constant at the time. Current measurements imply a universe just shy of 14 billion years old. Not sure exactly how much impact that has on his ratio.
Sounds intriguing but, to me, he might as well be speaking ancient Babylonian.
People have different innate talents–one person an instinctive ability in art, another music, and for some it’s mathematics; talents that can be directed and improved by education and training.
Unfortunately, anything beyond basic mathematics has always been a mystery for me.
Perhaps I can put some of the blame on my teachers—not the best, I’m pretty sure—but I just could not grasp what it was they were trying to teach me. I couldn’t picture in my mind and understand the concepts and, more especially, how they related to one another.
I sensed that there was a whole world out there–a language, a particular way of looking at things–that I could just not grasp.
However, there was one glorious, if only fleeting exception, and that was in my undergraduate physics class we called “physics for dummies.”
Somehow, the instructor explained things in just the right way for me—he said the magic words–and for a couple of weeks I could look at the Lorentz-Fitzgerald equation and understand it, numbers and letters translated into action, as a picture formed in my mind.
Then, sadly, that insight just disappeared.
A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
All of us have experienced placing laundry into a washing machine and dryer, including pairs of socks (i.e., two socks per pair), along with all other articles of clothing.
When the dryer cycle is complete – and you remove all its contents, there invariably is a sock that is missing.
Further, is lost FOREVER !! It has just disappeared.
Perhaps it flew (dropped ?) into another physical dimension. Maybe when in the washing machine or dryer, thus unobserved, it decided to follow the theories applicable to quantum mechanics and, being unobserved, assumed any possible position within the universe.
Anywhere except where you could possibly find it.
I don’t think Dirac’s number explains it nor any theory of Einstein’s.
On a different note; physicists are still struggling to find a Theory of Everything (TOE). One theory (as opposed to the two currently needed) equally applicable describing the behavior of the very very small (presently described by quantum mechanics) and the very large (presently described by relativistic mechanics – Einstein’s stuff ). ;
The pursuit of a TOE is sort of a holy grail for physicists.
But there is hope for physicists; climate “scientists” have developed their own TOE, abbreviated AGW.
But that’s a story for another day.
West TX:
The word “criminal” is commonly used to mean “deplorable” when used as an adjective, as Peterson has done here.
back over macho grande
https://mobile.twitter.com/OANN/status/1543276327830261762
have they detected anything from that far back in the past, or is it just conjecture
one assumes the distance would be that way, up and down from the center point,
indeed
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1542862390341128192?cxt=HHwWgMC-me3KrOkqAAAA
concretizing the theoretical, is the only way to do it,
John Tyler:
A post about the socks and the dryer.
“A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
Not true. My classmates and I during junior year while taking a break from solving Laplace’s equation in spherical coordinates, found the answer. The rotating drum of the dryer warps spacetime into a circular portal that opens into bizarro space. Socks, especially in pairs have an affinity to be attracted to bizarro space, and many find their way there, unfortunately usually without their partners.
“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say … something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand.” — P.A.M. Dirac
that’s an intriguing way to put it,
https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1543282106759012353?cxt=HHwWgoCzmci56-oqAAAA
Open thread off topic, Ukraine War:
Is Ukraine Loosing?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UJITZJWWblM
Military History Not Visualized – 50 min., interviews
For a list and explanation of Dirac’s early contributions, see https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1006.4610.
How precious. The gentleman grudgingly admits that the deep connection between QM and GR cannot be coincidental but cannot bring himself to mention, even as a possibility, the one explanation that fits… intelligent design.
“It appears that we live in a “Goldilocks Universe,” in which both the arrangement of matter at the cosmic beginning and the values of various physical parameters — such as the speed of light, the strength of gravitational attraction and the expansion rate of the universe – are just right.”
Michael Turner, astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and Fermilab: “The precision is as if one could throw a dart across the entire universe and hit a bulls eye one millimeter in diameter on the other side.”
https://dennisprager.com/column/why-some-scientists-embrace-the-multiverse/
“Is Ukraine Loosing?”
Yes.
President Joe Biden reiterated the United States would be a long-term ally of Ukraine in its war against Russia. “We are going to support Ukraine as long as it takes,”
Translation: our committment is to the last dead Ukrainian.
Motivation: “This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.” Biden Adviser and director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese
The West’s leadership is willing to sacrifice Ukraine to war because Putin’s nationalism and rejection of the liberal hegemony and its cultural ‘values’ of “diversity, equity and inclusion” stand as a fundamental obstacle to the world-wide extension of the Liberal (formerly New) World Order.
BTW, it not just the democrat leadership that supports the
NewLiberal World Order. In 2018, Mike Pompao then Sec. State in a speech in Brussels expressed support for the Liberal World Order. Speaking of the world, he used the phrase “liberal order” 5 times.“In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations of the world to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity for all.”
(Right out of the WEF playbook and transnationalist in its premises)
https://ge.usembassy.gov/a-keynote-speech-by-u-s-secretary-of-state-michael-r-pompeo-at-german-marshall-fund-december-5/
Translation: our committment is to the last dead Ukrainian.
Geoffrey, the only person responsible for dead Ukrainians is the man commanding the troops shooting at them.
“A more down to earth mystery that physics has never been able to solve is that of the “missing sock.”
This was solved some time ago – the missing socks turn up in your closet as wire hangers!!
Seems as if this depends on observations and measurements of the infinitely large and the infinitely small with, among other things, instruments and brains which approach neither.
Couple of mils of water condensation on something or other and the mass of the universe changes by a dozen “to the power of” s.
That said, if there really is a relationship, it means….
Now, I don’t posit ID or any divinity in such things but….with Occam looking over my shoulder.
On a smaller stage, the math doesn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE
Geoffrey can’t grasp that Vlad will be quite happy to eliminate the last Ukrainian for greater Roosia. Because WEF, Davos, NATO, and 13 minutes. Translation: broken eggs for greater Roosia.
NATO now will include Finland and Sweden, chaps your shorts, Geoffrey?
What pompeo thinks is liberal ans blinken thinks is liberal is different rather i say malley because hes just their charlie mccarthy
“Geoffrey, the only person responsible for dead Ukrainians is the man commanding the troops shooting at them.” Art
That’s true. It’s also true that the West’s unrelenting advancement of its “liberal hegemony” has, in Putin and his military adviser’s view, forced the decision to invade upon him. That you and others refuse to countenance that fundamentally salient factor changes it not in the least.
om,
I don’t doubt Putin’s determination to do what is necessary to achieve his goals. Nor have I ever disputed his ruthlessness.
My only concern with Sweden and especially with Finland joining NATO is that it will escalate future hostility with Russia. I realize that those countries are taking this measure as protection against what they believe to be Putin’s animosity. I think they’re mistaken in that perception and I do think it will deepen Putin’s and his supporters perception that it is the Western political leadership who hold animosity toward Putin because he’s not going along with ‘the program’.
The program being the Liberal World Order aka the New World Order. The liberal hegemony with the goal of a one world government. Whose leadership works together for a ‘better’ world, one in which they direct us, whether we agree or not.
Putin got the memo long ago and threw it in the trash, yelling Nyet! So he’s got to go, which is why Biden calmly states, “as long as it takes”.
BTW, in denigrating the power structure I elucidate, you’re also declaring Prof. Hanson to be a fool; https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-biden-adviser-slips-reveals-true-agenda-live-tv-millions-view/
He didnt get the memo the near enemy is the regime they are waging war on the permian on the Courts on the defenseless people in 100 cities on behalf of the criminal and anarchists they are all for twisting the bodies and mind of children i could go on now this war makes us weaker for the confrontation with China or Iran
Richard Lindzen talks about the climate change panic: https://youtu.be/GD8SXP02h4c
It would be interesting if we could find some briefing notes for a Putin meeting maybe a year ago going into detail about trans athletes in women’s sports. Or how despicable cancel culture is.
Or who is going to enforce DIE on the Russian government and pronouns in the Russian military.
Nope. Not buying it. Putin came up through the KGB, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. From the point of view of a First Lieutenant–me–LTC is a long way up there. But if you’re there….you’re in no way alone. There are lots of these guys and not many make it to full colonel. Lots of retired LTC around, which isn’t a bad gig unless you really resent not making full bird.
But the KGB isn’t the Army. Scruples, morals, compassion, all are career handicaps.
You do bad things to people as a matter of course, lying at the least.
Putin wasn’t good enough at being a moral leper. What went wrong?
Occam tells us that Putin’s cockamamie dream of reuniting all of an older Russia–whichever map he likes–makes more sense than balancing cultural concerns about the West as a foundation of his motivation.
The problem of putting the liberal hegemony out there as if it’s a partly justified reason for attacking Ukraine to the extent he believes it is that it justifies attacking every other European country. Because if Russia has a border against the outside…wherever it is, outside of it is more outside onward to the Atlantic. In which case, stopping his sorry butt right the freak NOW is imperative.
Whatever his motivation, rewarding it by convincing his current victim, whichever one in the sequence, to roll belly-up isn’t going to discourage him.
It’s certainly useful to wonder if his likely very serious and–possibly related to him by his doctors–terminal illness allows him to dream big instead of finessing his rooks and bishops against a future move while trying to get his oligarch buddies onside with the Big Russia Dream.
And there is the example of the Rhineland in 1936.
Geoffrey continues his apology for Vlad. Nobody forced Vlad to annex Crimea or invade Ukraine.
Facebook, Google, Disney, apple, WEF didn’t send Vlad a list of demands. Nor did Hillary or BHO or Brandon. Much less did President Trump. Was it space aliens that made him do it?
Nobody. Geoffrey. It is Vlad’s own doing. Nobody but Vlad.
The Roosians view Ukraine as a colony, listen to the podcast. You might learn something. The Baltic states, Poland, and Finland remember old Russian behavior (not fondly IIRC). It wasn’t liberal hegemony.
Some sad and unexpected (for those outside the loop) news:
“Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, Early COVID Therapeutics Innovator, Dies at 48”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-vladimir-zelenko-early-covid-therapeutics-innovator-dies-at-48_4572049.html
Barukh dayan emet
R.I.P
(But others will continue the struggle.)
Dr. Zelenko, continued:
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2022/07/01/remembering-dr-valadimir-zelenko-physician-scientist-activist/
Open thread off topic:
Ukraine War: Snake Island by open source intelligence defense analyst H I Sutton
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGqI73NKI0
While we’re at it, the George W. Bush Presidential has issued a tweet about the quondam president’s most recent art project: “cold wax renditions of floral arrangements”. And also, a notification of ‘reflections’ courtesy Marie Yovanovitch, formerly of the Foreign Service. Hmmm. Familiar name. And on the Dobbs decision, they offer…..nothing.