Comments by "B. Xoit" (@b43xoit) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. per se
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  2. Bingo.
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  3.  @SabineHossenfelder  I don't see the grounds for accepting that the probability primarily depends just on the size. Compare a working brain to a mass such as you would get by pureeing a brain in a blender. There are a lot more ways to get a pureé brain mass than a working brain, so the probability isn't the same.
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  4. Yes and sometimes people who are stellar in some fields of study mouth off about what they know nothing about and come up with as bad hypotheses as those do who know nothing about anything.
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  5. Not to mention those block parties that the bees attend because they are so social.
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  6. To me, it sounds as though regulators should make the companies hold off until there are studies.
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  7. Adding up the costs on a shopping list requires calculating the dot product between the unit-cost vector and the quantity vector. I suppose you could arbitrarily take one of those to be the row vector and the other the column vector.
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  8. Ig Nobel.
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  9. Facebook friends.
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  10. Also, the credit roll.
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  11. People are not "assigned" a sex or gender at birth. Those who support assignment theory have the burden to lay out how it is to be detected happening, and to explain who is doing the "assigning", and where in the physical world the "assignment" resides.
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  12. So we always hear about bear raiding bee colonies for honey. That goes way back, at least in Britain or Denmark. The oldest writing in the Englisc language is the Beowulf poem, and "Beowulf" means "bee wolf" as a metaphor for an animal that predates on bees, so thereby, bear. I say "or Denmark", because that's where the events described in the poem are set.
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  13.  @thetruthchannel349  << internal visualization element >> Someone said that as the photon flies along, it contains a little arrow that goes around and around. If the photon splits up and goes by more than one route to a detection site, the little arrow goes around and around along each route, and where they come together, those add up, and so they could cancel. So your detection site could see nothing; it might be in the middle of a dark band of the interference fringe.
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  14. The refrigerator needed would weigh more than an adult human.
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  15. Desire's one thing, but how one acts on it or not, adds a wide range of freedom of movement.
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  16. How about reterraforming Earth?
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  17.  @KaiHouston-m6j  Scary because it suggests that all the intelligence eggs are in one handbasket.
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  18. When I think about watching Youtube while eating or whatever, the first attractant that comes to mind is the possibility that Prof. Hossenfelder has come out with another fascinating explanation for the general public.
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  19. Someone had to come first.
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  20.  @parva777  No idea.
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  21. The Webb telescope uses active cooling for some components. But the expense of cooling is not the sole problem with quantum computing. And if you are going to put our computing device in space, you have a limit on bandwidth to and from it.
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  22. Which, in fact, these are.
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  23. I'd propose an hierarchy of reviewers. There would be sort of a long-lasting grand jury at the top of it, maintained the same way as the boards that accredit colleges and physicians?
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  24. Well, take the double-slit experiment for example. You see an interference fringe because each electron goes through both slits and interferes with itself.
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  25.  @john-or9cf  I was referring to the severity of the storms, not the frequency, and the rest of your response is lies.
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  26. Another teacher who also shares those practices is Leonard Susskind. See his explanation of entanglement, which actually despite its title, amounts to an introduction to QM. It is so elementary, that to understand his points does not even require one differential equation. No calculus at all. Just some matrix arithmetic and complex numbers. All of which he explains in terms that anyone with HS math would get it.
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  27. "they're"
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  28. But it holds water.
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  29. Does her voice count?
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  30. OK, so for example, ball lightening may qualify as a phenomenon. But now and then, people try to dig for an explanation of it, don't they?
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  31. No.
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  32. Maybe there's potential in liquid thorium breeders.
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  33. That's easy. By body count.
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  34. There might have been some incident of someone slipping a dead fish into a tomographic machine and someone else misinterpreting it. Or I could have made up that memory.
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  35. *vacuua
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  36. Depends on whether you speak a rhotic variety of English or a non-rhotic one. I live in the US. We have both here. I am rhotic. I say "airn."
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  37. I think that if you vary the lengths, the fringes will just shift.
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  38. @ "Global heating", not "climate change". The latter term plays into the rhetoric of the enemy.
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  39. How does the comparison come out when LCOE is properly computed for wind and PV? And how does one take into account storage, which doesn't seem to be working yet?
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  40. An hour is 3600 seconds. So let's evaluate "1300 MWh". It's 4680000 MJ, which is 4680 GJ, i.e. 4.68 TJ.
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  41.  @GeoffryGifari But by the definition given, it would seem to have to be a quantum system. This leaves out ordinary objects.
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  42. Yes, Doppler effect.
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  43. Correct.
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  44. You mean within the nervous system? Or between people?
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  45. It follows a geodesic.
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  46. Fewer.
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  47. No, you have to use the Lorentz transformation, not Galilean relativity.
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  48. Zah-been-uh
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  49. Moments are not necessarily minutes. You are proposing a change of meaning.
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  50.  @emiljunvik3546  W'pedia backs up the definition you give. I was speaking from the way I had always heard it, including in high school.
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