Coincidences 1-5 are not impressive; especially since they use the cosmological constant which itself is in question given that “dark energy” has not been observed.
#6 is not a coincidence as much as it is part of the list of “fine tuning” puzzles. Those are puzzles I find most fascinating. The razor’s edge of the expansion of the universe, the fine structure constant, G, etc all seem to be exquisitely fine tuned to produced our current observed universe.
#7 involves the Standard model. I’m not impressed at all with the SM. While it “works” so far (where is the proton decay???), as an experimentalist I don’t like the idea that the fundamental entity (quark) is built into the theory such that it can never be observed. At it’s core the SM is built upon group theory which basically is a mathematical tracking of symmetries. I’ve used GT to help build molecular wavefunctions, but would never consider the GT to replace the basic underlying quantum. I once attended a lecture where the fellow developed a quark theory for a set of observed symmetries….his punch line at the end was that the symmetries he used were from the planetary orbits of the solar system. He asked, “do we throw out Newtonian/Einstein gravity for these quarks?” My hope is that the SM is a stepping stone to a more complete picture.
coincidence is the wrong way to put it, the preponderance of constants is how we know the science is consistent,
Dimensionless constants such as the fine-structure constant (or heck, even good old Pi) are always fascinating, especiall when thinking about the who “Fined-tuned Universe” thing.
Coincidence or coordination. The prevailing theories favor the latter explanation, typically with a binary symmetry.
There is a reason humans often find Numerology to be attractive.
We are pattern-matchers. It’s one of the core qualities which make us successful.
As a result, we tend to see patterns where none exists.
Isaac Asimov had a great little article on this (in one of his essay collections from the 70s/80s), wherein he made a long series of connections between various numbers… and of which he’d assembled out of whole cloth as a part of writing the article. There was no reason at all for those numbers to be connective in any way. But it was, still, a “chain of numbers that correlated”.
At which point, the astute are realizing: “Ah, but correlation is not causation.”
You have found apparent correlations. Not causations, not actual connectives.
Once you realize this is what is applying, you stop finding this as interesting as it might otherwise be. The only time it should be interesting is if you are actually of a mind that there IS a connection and want to figure out what the nature of it might be. 😉
Just out of curiosity, how do scientists know the size of the universe to derive the cosmological constant? I really have trouble imagining the universe existing without existing *in* something. Does it make sense to talk about the size of something when there are apparently no boundaries to the something?
Maybe it *is* turtles all the way down…
“About”, “approximately”, “nearly”. Words like that make me say “So what?”
Yukon,
The CC doesn’t depend on the size of the universe. It’s a “correction” factor due to the universe not expanding at a rate one would expect. Einstein introduced it as his equations yielded a dynamic universe, and he wanted a static one. He discarded it, only to have it reappear as dark energy.
Yes, it’s hard to visualize literal nothing.
1) Trump’ recent suggestion^^ to abolish the income tax is one of the attributes – executive attributes – that I like most about Trump: The Challenge.
^^ = as reported by Rep. Massie
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the idea of abolishing income taxes and replacing the primary government revenue source with tariffs, according to a Republican lawmaker.
The proposal was brought up by the 77-year-old presumptive GOP nominee for president during a joke-filled “pep talk” with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill, his first since leaving office in January 2021.
“Most intriguing policy idea from the GOP meeting at the Capitol Hill Club this morning,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) wrote on X. “Trump briefly floated the concept of eliminating the income tax and replacing it with tariffs.”
Tariffs were the main source of the federal government’s revenue prior to the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the power to levy taxes on income.
Experts argue that Trump’s idea would not be able to generate the amount of revenue that income taxes bring in and that it could hurt exporters.
“The individual income tax raises about $2 trillion annually on a tax base of personal income of roughly $15 trillion,” Erica York, senior economist and research director at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, wrote on X. “Customs duties currently raise about $80 billion annually on imports of $3.4 trillion.”
Lee Iacocca did not go down in history as “The father of the mustang” because he created & designed the car. He did so because he recognized the need, challenged his team, and then supported the tangible idea that would meet the need and his challenge.
2) Many citizens are aware of Trump’ stance to extend the 2017 TCJA/ tax relief package, but may not be aware of what else could be proposed if he is reelected.
(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump is under pressure from economists in his circle to embrace a flat tax rate [17%], soften his trade stance and to hold the line on the state and local tax deduction.
The minds behind these proposals include Steve Forbes, of Forbes Media, former White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and economists Stephen Moore and Arthur Laffer. The men, who aren’t official advisers to his campaign, typically emphasize unleashing the supply potential of the economy with lower taxes, and to a degree that would have been unremarkable in the 1980s but which places them outside the economics mainstream today.
The efforts demonstrate how people around the former president are already lobbying for their preferred economic policies ahead of a potential second term where both taxes and tariffs will be top priorities. Polls show voters trust Trump to handle the economy by a much higher margin than President Joe Biden.
3) Personally, I would like this country to also create a Sovereign Wealth Fund (see Norway).
Lastly, have never had any problem with Trump the executive expressing “whiteboard ideas” because I understand he is both challenging the Status Quo/ Conventional Wisdom, and stimulating the collective Thought Process – in order to address the Need. Also recognize that the Trump Doctrine is one of the most important doctrines in this nations’ history: Economic Security is National Security.
I would think its the inverse of the planck constant but thats just me.
Miguel,
Huh????
16 × 10 (12 power)
Re: Coincidences
When I watched the video, not long after it dropped, I hoped for some really Good Stuff. I found it interesting, but mostly unpersuasive.
I’m still trying to understand why pi and e are apparently the most important numbers in mathematics after 0 and 1.
Did you know that the proportion of primes less than x equals 1/(ln x) as x approaches infinity?
Why should e have anything to do with prime numbers? Yeah, I know the Sieve of Eratosthenes argument, but it still seems kinda magical.
Crap, she’s changed in the last year. That first sentence is backwards. The universe works and we’ve found equations that fit. As we learn more, we find the equations aren’t exactly right. So no rule, only description. If they ruled, they wouldn’t change
Words have meaning, use them correctly sci guys/gals.
huxley: Did you know that the proportion of primes less than x equals 1/(ln x) as x approaches infinity?
Where it becomes a spherical cow.
Sometimes you just gotta make people mad. Biden admin is set to build 100,000 acre wind turbine site in Idaho to provide energy for the people in California. Idahoans apparently don’t want it.
The people in Idaho weren’t going to vote for Biden anyway.
RE: UFOs, Nick Pope, and “The Secret That is Too Terrible to Be Told”
From time to time Lou Elizondo and others who are well informed and who have lots of defense and intelligence community contacts have mentioned that some insiders have told them that the reason why there has not been any real Disclosure about UFOs and NHIs is because the truth is just “too frightening, too terrible to be told.”
Nick Pope is a British ex-Ministry of Defence official who manned the Ministry’s UFO desk.
Up until now, it has seemed to me that the rather staid Mr. Pope could be counted on, not to go out on a limb, but to regurgitate whatever the current wisdom was on the subject of UFOs and NHI.
However, here is an interesting recent talk by Nick Pope, in which he throws out all sorts of “dark” possibilities as to why the truth about the UFO Phenomenon and NHIs might just be “Too Terrible to Be Told.” *
Coincidences 1-5 are not impressive; especially since they use the cosmological constant which itself is in question given that “dark energy” has not been observed.
#6 is not a coincidence as much as it is part of the list of “fine tuning” puzzles. Those are puzzles I find most fascinating. The razor’s edge of the expansion of the universe, the fine structure constant, G, etc all seem to be exquisitely fine tuned to produced our current observed universe.
#7 involves the Standard model. I’m not impressed at all with the SM. While it “works” so far (where is the proton decay???), as an experimentalist I don’t like the idea that the fundamental entity (quark) is built into the theory such that it can never be observed. At it’s core the SM is built upon group theory which basically is a mathematical tracking of symmetries. I’ve used GT to help build molecular wavefunctions, but would never consider the GT to replace the basic underlying quantum. I once attended a lecture where the fellow developed a quark theory for a set of observed symmetries….his punch line at the end was that the symmetries he used were from the planetary orbits of the solar system. He asked, “do we throw out Newtonian/Einstein gravity for these quarks?” My hope is that the SM is a stepping stone to a more complete picture.
coincidence is the wrong way to put it, the preponderance of constants is how we know the science is consistent,
Dimensionless constants such as the fine-structure constant (or heck, even good old Pi) are always fascinating, especiall when thinking about the who “Fined-tuned Universe” thing.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-4000-year-old-palace-with-maze-like-walls-found-on-greek-island-of-crete
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/the-inside-story-of-israels-dramatic-gaza-hostage-rescue-e2t1d8qu
Coincidence or coordination. The prevailing theories favor the latter explanation, typically with a binary symmetry.
There is a reason humans often find Numerology to be attractive.
We are pattern-matchers. It’s one of the core qualities which make us successful.
As a result, we tend to see patterns where none exists.
Isaac Asimov had a great little article on this (in one of his essay collections from the 70s/80s), wherein he made a long series of connections between various numbers… and of which he’d assembled out of whole cloth as a part of writing the article. There was no reason at all for those numbers to be connective in any way. But it was, still, a “chain of numbers that correlated”.
At which point, the astute are realizing: “Ah, but correlation is not causation.”
You have found apparent correlations. Not causations, not actual connectives.
Once you realize this is what is applying, you stop finding this as interesting as it might otherwise be. The only time it should be interesting is if you are actually of a mind that there IS a connection and want to figure out what the nature of it might be. 😉
Just out of curiosity, how do scientists know the size of the universe to derive the cosmological constant? I really have trouble imagining the universe existing without existing *in* something. Does it make sense to talk about the size of something when there are apparently no boundaries to the something?
Maybe it *is* turtles all the way down…
“About”, “approximately”, “nearly”. Words like that make me say “So what?”
Yukon,
The CC doesn’t depend on the size of the universe. It’s a “correction” factor due to the universe not expanding at a rate one would expect. Einstein introduced it as his equations yielded a dynamic universe, and he wanted a static one. He discarded it, only to have it reappear as dark energy.
Yes, it’s hard to visualize literal nothing.
1) Trump’ recent suggestion^^ to abolish the income tax is one of the attributes – executive attributes – that I like most about Trump: The Challenge.
^^ = as reported by Rep. Massie
https://nypost.com/2024/06/14/us-news/trump-floated-replacing-income-tax-with-tariffs-gop-rep-thomas-massie/
Lee Iacocca did not go down in history as “The father of the mustang” because he created & designed the car. He did so because he recognized the need, challenged his team, and then supported the tangible idea that would meet the need and his challenge.
2) Many citizens are aware of Trump’ stance to extend the 2017 TCJA/ tax relief package, but may not be aware of what else could be proposed if he is reelected.
https://taxfoundation.org/research/federal-tax/2024-tax-plans/#Candidates
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-pushed-to-embrace-17-income-tax-for-all
3) Personally, I would like this country to also create a Sovereign Wealth Fund (see Norway).
Lastly, have never had any problem with Trump the executive expressing “whiteboard ideas” because I understand he is both challenging the Status Quo/ Conventional Wisdom, and stimulating the collective Thought Process – in order to address the Need. Also recognize that the Trump Doctrine is one of the most important doctrines in this nations’ history: Economic Security is National Security.
I would think its the inverse of the planck constant but thats just me.
Miguel,
Huh????
16 × 10 (12 power)
Re: Coincidences
When I watched the video, not long after it dropped, I hoped for some really Good Stuff. I found it interesting, but mostly unpersuasive.
I’m still trying to understand why pi and e are apparently the most important numbers in mathematics after 0 and 1.
Did you know that the proportion of primes less than x equals 1/(ln x) as x approaches infinity?
Why should e have anything to do with prime numbers? Yeah, I know the Sieve of Eratosthenes argument, but it still seems kinda magical.
Crap, she’s changed in the last year. That first sentence is backwards. The universe works and we’ve found equations that fit. As we learn more, we find the equations aren’t exactly right. So no rule, only description. If they ruled, they wouldn’t change
Words have meaning, use them correctly sci guys/gals.
huxley:
Did you know that the proportion of primes less than x equals 1/(ln x) as x approaches infinity?
Where it becomes a spherical cow.
Sometimes you just gotta make people mad. Biden admin is set to build 100,000 acre wind turbine site in Idaho to provide energy for the people in California. Idahoans apparently don’t want it.
The people in Idaho weren’t going to vote for Biden anyway.
‘I Represent 1.8 Million Angry People—Angry At You’: Risch Goes Beast Mode On Tracy Stone-Manning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiZVcXN6Axs
RE: UFOs, Nick Pope, and “The Secret That is Too Terrible to Be Told”
From time to time Lou Elizondo and others who are well informed and who have lots of defense and intelligence community contacts have mentioned that some insiders have told them that the reason why there has not been any real Disclosure about UFOs and NHIs is because the truth is just “too frightening, too terrible to be told.”
Nick Pope is a British ex-Ministry of Defence official who manned the Ministry’s UFO desk.
Up until now, it has seemed to me that the rather staid Mr. Pope could be counted on, not to go out on a limb, but to regurgitate whatever the current wisdom was on the subject of UFOs and NHI.
However, here is an interesting recent talk by Nick Pope, in which he throws out all sorts of “dark” possibilities as to why the truth about the UFO Phenomenon and NHIs might just be “Too Terrible to Be Told.” *
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2sOp55_fos
The secrets two terrible to tell
and then again we could all be living in a simulation
Brian E, soon people in rural area who don’t like these eyesores will decide they make excellent targets. Better than road signs.