Comments by "Mike" (@StarNumbers) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Well, ehhm, if you don't see the cable running up to the "copter."
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  2. BS thru and thru. Blah but no results. Where is the measurement of the laser putting pressure on a mirror? Nowhere. Because then you would have to validate the energy-mass equation and that does not hold -- it is but a fantasy. And the biggest BS is when the author invites you to do scientific thinking. You may think you are scientist but science is built on the scientific method and if you do not hear the expression scientific method you are being fed crap, in this case the Veritasium crap. Sorry.
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  3. Don't think so. FE guys know there is a better way. And not mentioning that there is a cable powering the whole platform makes it, well, kind of a high school project.
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  4. Me like
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  5. Nobody so far understands that this 3n+1 conjecture is artificial. It is in the same category as the proof that God is not all-powerful by saying that if God were all-powerful then s/he could make a wall so high s/he could not jump over it. But by insisting that God must jump over the wall we artificially limit God to a particular method. So there, if I were God, I would just move right through the wall to the other side and do it in a way no earthling could. Or I could decide that today is not a good day to get to the other side. A better way of approaching our world is to ask what math components do we need to create stable forms? There is only one person I know who figured it out. It's the concept of computability (Roger Penrose). The next step is self-organization.
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  6.  @AlaiMacErc  Yeah, ok, so what's the (definition of) energy? Should not be confusing to you.
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  7.  @AlaiMacErc  Fine. My comment was about people not realizing that this math vid was artificial and I suggested a more practical use of math (computability). You answered that people know this vid is artificial but are confused. So my reply was along some practical math such as that associated with energy. Oh, and now you feel sorry for yourself for answering? You could've deleted your comment or even go out to a mall and get vaxxed (second or third ... time).
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  8.  @AlaiMacErc  You just made a great definition of grandstanding.
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  9. Video for the blind and brainless. In an accelerating spaceship/elevator, a beach ball will be pressed against the floor just as you or I but if you look at the beach ball it will not be spherical. That is how you will know the beach ball is not under gravitation as it is when it is dropping toward the sand on the beach, nicely round. In the rocket the beach ball is being pressed from one side and the beach ball is flattened. The so called gravitation-acceleration equivalence is an example of brainless thinking coming to you courtesy of Einstein's childish analogies. (That is why this channel is so naïve.) If you read a few things on/from Vik Grebennikov your mind will clear up. Ditto for The Philadelphia experiment. Ditto for any experiment where time is changed but the space is not.
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  10. Very nice
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  11. Hacking, squirmy smile Derek? You said a lot of things but did not say how we the consumers can stop it now, not later. It reflects on your character and I am not inclined to watch your videos ever again.
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  12. PhD physicist? Hmm, try flat earth with negative time and you will never say you have a PhD
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  13. Covid-19? Prove that. Political math, you are.
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  14. This vid is more about entertainment and selling stuff than anything else
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  15. Oh, Veritasium, the globe that's behind you is not the shape of the earth. Sorry
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  16. All the Mars stuff is fantasy. Look up at Mars with a superzoom. Mars is but a light. Ditto for Venus.
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  17. Isaiah40:22 Might be okay to look at other half-truths, but I for one do not pay for fraud.
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  18. Isaiah40:22 Why do you think we are surrounded by fraud? Somebody is making money on it -- but not off of me. I'm not even buying Tezla car from the Musk fraudster.
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  19. Isaiah40:22 It is simpler than that. The scientific method is well defined. Yet Nasa ignores one or two of its postulates while no academia members call Nasa on it. The truth is among us but is obscured. Try it out. Write down the definition of the scientific method. You will easily see which parts Nasa ignores.
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  20. There are two Pi's, each subject to diff (in-limit) properties of diff kinds of numbers. Think Pythagoras.
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  21. Nobody commented but I like that. Tells me nobody can think of an application for it.
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  22. Nice globus you have right next to you. The earth is flat you know not? As for the imaginary numbers they pop to complete the duality of nature you probably will not ever know.
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  23. Chemo? Sorry, gotta think before you say it.
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  24. Earth is flat and stationary. Get over it, snowflakes.
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  25. History is written by ...
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  26. The real error of this vid is taking Einstein seriously. Why do you use time dilation as a valid argument to dispute something? Time dilation is a theory to begin with. So, you are taking the easy way out and end up with nothing. It is just like taking the Globus you display behind you and assume that the earth is a ball. You deserve pity. If you were a bit smarter you could prove that the speed of light is direction independent by using symmetry. Have a triangular path and send light clockwise and CCW. An interferometer will tell you if both opposing direction trips take the same amount of time. Hello! But your greatest fault is not knowing much about Nik Tesla. He came up with the absolute clock that's used today for things like time ... sorry, you cannot handle the truth.
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  27. Ok, but no cigar. Heat means inefficiency. You've seen the cable, haven't you? The "low pressure" idea for tube train is unworkable.
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