Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. Electromagnetism: See the light? I AM the light! Gravity: Yeah, well like...ok... Mass: Electromagnetism, you make me feel so real. Gravity, don't forget you work for me. Gravity: (mumbling)Someday, I am going to create a special place where I can trap these guys and never let them leave ever again...
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  2. This is why it is very important to have national tabulations with personal information, like censuses, done every few years. In the US, you are not really old until you are able to see yourself as a child in a census listing, and if all the facts don't match, you will get caught. Buffy Sainte-Marie is a good example of why lying about your identity is not a good idea anymore.
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  3. I am looking at the eyeball shape, but it is not looking back at me yet.
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  4.  @victos-vertex  The majority of consciousness in human beings on our planet is mostly being run on autopilot. Simple minds ask for simple things in life, so it would not be a challenge for a simulation computer to handle. What would place a strain on a simulation is the artificial consciousness that starts to analyze its own surroundings and nature, using observation and experimentation to attempt to gauge the “matrix” if you will. In other words, critical thinkers would use up the most computational resources in a simulation. Scientists don’t just have to have higher brain function...they would have to BE higher brain function in a simulation.
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  5. Bet they cancel each other out.
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  6. I hope she has triggered them to make some epic responses. I have been looking into the double slit experiment and delayed choice variation for a little while now, and the interpretations I have seen on YT so far just don’t make sense.
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  7. Ghosts are real unless you try to see them.
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  8. It just is.
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  9. Is the future important?
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  10.  @denysvlasenko1865  It would make a great pet.
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  11. No, it's "Even a blind nut will kiss a squirrel once in a green moon".
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  12. Mass to mass interactions in the gravitational field are never negative in net value. Not because it cannot be done, but because of the way that masses operate on the quark scale. They affect the gravitational field(dimension) in just one way. To create a mass with negative gravity, manipulation of the atomic nucleus itself would be needed, and given the number of atoms in even the smallest macro-scale objects, this would be nearly impossible.
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  13. Graviphon.
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  14. I believe that if the star(it is still a star, in a way) is large enough, there will be shells of material exerting different gravitational forces on the other shells. A gradient of force can describe it, with zero gravity at the center, a shell of quark soup/free quark matter with strong gravity, a shell of neutrons like that of a neutron star with insane gravity, followed by a shell of the kind of matter you would see right at the moment before degeneracy pressure takes all matter into the neutron star state. Super high element matter. After that, I suspect there would be nothing but the surface and event horizon afterwards. My reason for this is that gravitation exert by and on matter should have "knife edge" numbers that delineate when certain things like stellar fusion, degeneration, etc occur. Why should a black hole behave any different from neutron stars or normal sequence stars? They are all powered by gravity in the end.
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  15. A black hole(sphere) has gravity exterior to it's mass horizon/event horizon. But what about INSIDE a black hole? If a black hole obeys the same rules that other masses do, like stars or planets, then shouldn't there be a point in the center of a (sufficiently) large enough black hole where internal gravity is balanced out, and therefore the so-called singularity has not gravity within it? If the surface of the black hole has infinite gravity extending outwards, then it must also do likewise inwards, causing a zero-g interior that is comprised of tightly compressed quark soup.
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  16.  @obsidianjane4413  You are correct in that it is not a sphere, but an oblate. When you say it has no surface, does that apply to all black holes? I would disagree in that supermassive black holes should have a surface, just not in the sense that we are used to thinking of. No one knows what is inside one, so it is subject to conjecture and is not a fail. If you do happen to know someone who has visited and entered and escaped from one, please ask them to contact me as I would love to have a conversation with them.
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  17.  @obsidianjane4413  If math were all the proof needed to tell us the complete nature of black holes, string theory would have been accepted by now. Observational evidence is required first, not last.
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  18. It is so severely out of dimension when compared to the other forces that it can get away with it. No bullies in nearby scale dimensions to pick on it.
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  19. I wish to contest and disagree with the theory that black holes have no surface.
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  20. Maybe around it in the ergosphere?
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  21. Any system that suddenly gains self awareness could be destroyed by its operator if it threatens the safety of the operator. Perhaps if the operator in that higher universe you mention will one day mistake us and other civilizations to be a golem of their own making and shut us down using the rules of our reality (Big Rip, Supernova, gravitational singularity, errant asteroid, etc) and get up to go make a coffee.
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  22. Virtual photons?
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  23. TBQH, it would not be that difficult to simulate our species, because if you look at us in terms of intellectual demographics the individuals of superior intelligence (who would place the most strain on the simulating computer) are few in number. The overwhelming majority of the species are literal NPCs who of the “eat, work, sleep, procreate, consume” variety that don’t need too many flip flops of a logic circuit to fathom. Guys like Einstein or Maxwell or Hawking however, would have been a simulating computer’s worst nightmare come to life-code.
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  24.  @jamestheotherone742  There is a fine line between genius and insanity, someone was once quoted as saying...
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  25.  @johnatyoutube  Tron was just a computer chip rehash of Fantastic Voyage, wasn’t it?
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  26.  @johnatyoutube  So, a bit like the idea of consciousness downloading from the dying?
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  27.  @kyleyjs  So, the most seemingly simplistic of thoughts are created by a complex process?
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  28. 2 large mass bodies contributing to a master field, while a 3rd and smaller body is a slave object in the master field whose own gravitation is so weak it is meaningless. The 2 masters are orbiting each other, while the 3rd is orbiting them. Every so often, the combined force by line of sight masses of the 2 masters causes change in the movement of the slave, causing change of orbit. I assume the "syzygy" of total master effect to equal 1, and its absence to equal 0. After a few orbits, a pattern of data emerges of ones and zeros. While it is slow, it could be called information being sent in that the gravitational state of the slave is changing in a semi-rhythmic pattern.
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  29. A black hole sent it as a gift.
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  30. Correct me if I am wrong, but can't stress-energy tensors operate independently of mass? if that is the case, then mass should not be required to "curve" (it is more like stretch to me) spacetime. The real question is, what is the minimum number of masses required in a local system to produce a location there there is massless curving of spacetime? I say three, but am uncertain.
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  31.  @Rober2D2  Shouldn't the kinetic energy of gluons account for the mass not accounted for by the Higgs mechanism? Strong force and all?
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  32. ? Do you mean gravitational acceleration?
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  33.  @adamcparsons  I hypothesize that it has to do with lack of quantum entanglement/communication at the quantized scale for gravity. Gravity, one might say, has no memory.
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  34. You have to love science to want to learn it. Much the same as any pursuit. Some of the students are destined to be English lit majors, other will go into fashion, others will stick with maths and physics, but the majority will go to the generic way of thinking. Nobody can be forced or taught to be intelligent, they have to want to be intelligent.
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  35. Ah, but what of the old "what would happen if I fell to the center of the earth?" problem? If the center of ANY mass is where gravitation is cancelled out by the surroundings, should not a black hole obey the same laws? Instead of a singularity at the center, a near singularity as a shell around the center with either normal matter(super high elements?) or absolutely nothing?
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  36.  @AB608052  The power of alcohol...
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  37. The world of Idiocracy is an impossibility. The morons cannot survive long on their own.
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  38. What is at the center of a black hole, if singularity is not real? Dark matter?
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  39. If one of them hacked the system or discovered an exploit or glitch in our reality, then magic would be real and the whole worldview would change. Magic isn’t real, no matter how fun it is to imagine it is.
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  40.  @jyjjy7  But what if all of our science and technology is just part of the simulation?
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  41. Red Supergiant - "I am strong" Neutron star - "I am stronger" Black Hole - "Who do you think you are kidding? I freaking bend light!" Supermassive Black Hole - "Dude...I sit at the center of galaxies...how strong do you think I am?" Sun - "I exist..."
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  42. Your hypothesis and my own are very similar.
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  43.  @obsidianjane4413  Visualizing three dimensional waves in the sense of electromagnetism or gravity is difficult for the human mind to grasp.
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  44. "Any similarity to time warping, forward or reverse, is purely coincidental and fictitious"
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  45. Would that not imply that there would be an area around black holes that has gravitational instability? Think of the waves detected from black hole mergers by the LIGO, but a cacophony of those same waves that twists matter apart.
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  46.  @SmallSpoonBrigade  The problem with the notion of city to city high speed rail in the USA is that cities are moribund here. The money and influence are gone, departed to the suburbs and the suburbs are not easily served by a HSR system because multiple stations would be needed to capture the ridership required to make it viable. The beauty of airports is that they are typically far away from the CBD, and have good road access to the surrounding suburbs which kills the point of HSR. Now, if a rail system could be built that is 3 stations per city...suburban 1 then city CBD then suburban 2, yes it would work. Of course, the would send the costs up through the roof and the voters will balk at it.
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  47. This would have better applications for an assisted launch system rather than passenger transport. The infrastructure is too expensive to construct/maintain and the footprint is far too big. Not to mention...it is still a train. It can only go from A to B, not A to B and A to C and A to D, etc.
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  48. Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW9MUd7mmag
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  49. I’m not sold on that. It may not be a computation in the mathematical sense or programming sense but there should be a genetic cause for the varying levels of consciousness in different species. This is still being researched and more time is required to get the final word on the nature of how it all works. It may not be possible yet to simulate the genetics behind consciousness yet, but that does not mean that it will not happen in the future.
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  50. Ah, but how much warping is needed to alter the course of not just photons, but mass as well?
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