Comments by "Barry On" (@barryon8706) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. In my experiments, lasers were able to create blind spots for human drivers, also causing them to run over pedestrians. I don't know why my paper was rejected.
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  2. Einstein already has a unit named for him. Ein Stein = 1 mug of beer.
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  3. "Accelerating protons -- where have we heard this before?" My genuine first thought: Ghostbusters!
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  4. You had me at "electromagnetic cannon." Though to be fair you would have had me at "pizza" either way.
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  5. Well, he does suggest it can change. 😊
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  6. Thank you, Sabine! And your wonderful staff, Alice and Bob. They don't get enough credit for the good they've done in physics and cryptography.
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  7. I'm concerned about Larry doing research. Curiosity is famously unhealthy for cats.
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  8. I thought that implicit in the Boltzmann brain idea was that the universe we think we observe doesn't have to match up with the real universe. My brain might have spontaneously come into existence with the experience of having watched this video already in existence, when my brain didn't even exist before I started typing this sentence.
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  9. A problem with that is that the difference in performance of male vs. female in records is far in excess of the variance within each sex. Sabine didn't mention that, but of course she can't include everything or she'd still be recording even now. In the 50 meter, the difference between the 18th place man and the 1st place woman (0.32s) is far larger than the difference between the 1st and 18th place in either sex (0.18s). Children and adults vary in performance, but we don't lead 25-year-olds into little league.
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  10.  @joey199412  Except that we do ban smoking or alcohol for minors Your very argument hilights the argument against just having anyone transition. Edit: The highest age restriction I've heard of is in the low 20s, which I think is the same age range under which which Baltimore(?) refuses to charge anyone for murder, and for the same reason but for opposite politics, that our brains aren't quite done yet.
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  11. I'm sure the h-bar was somewhere, but since we know it's velocity was zero...😀 Don't worry about it.
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  12. I have a theory that it's all your fault, but so far my theory has been untestable.
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  13.  @linamishima  Which means that both sides have been victims of threats of violence, and reacting with anger is normal.
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  14. Do we need to send unusually photogenic scientists on a mission to fix it?
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  15. Your assumption that people will get irrationally offended in the comments got someone irrationally offended. 🤪
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  16. Are you one of those "real communism has never been tried" types?
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  17. Not having an intuitive model can be a greater or lesser barrier to almost anyone, I think. There are people who won't believe that a photon can have characteristics of a particle and a wave, because it's so unintuitive to them. There are also people who think the earth is flat because they can't understand how "down" can be more complicated than they think.
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  18. It isn't smart to discard capitalism unless you have something better. Unless you just want to stop all economic activity?
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  19. I like the idea of subcritical reactors, but I figure those are probably more expensive than even standard nuclear power is. Still, for places where solar might not work due to latitude or weather, there may be a place for nuclear.
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  20. Last time I was this early, M-rays were pushing neutrinos faster than the speed of light.
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  21. In an uneven distribution of matter, I'm grateful that this region had the Sabine Hossenfelder to explain all this to me. I'm going to wait and see, but this sounds like it could be one of the bigger changes in cosmology in my lifetime.
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  22.  @1998wiwi  Is it better to have the parents decide that those should be random? That's also done without their consent. As is making them eat brussel sprouts.
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  23.  @robdel_actual  Humans can transition in gender for some people's definition of gender.
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  24. From Wikipedia: Wegener died in Greenland in around the middle of November 1930 while returning from an expedition to bring food to a group of researchers camped in the middle of an icecap. He supplied the camp successfully, but there was not enough food at the camp for him to stay there. He and a colleague, Rasmus Villumsen, took dog sleds to travel to another camp – which they never reached.
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  25. Any ideas on the Scharnhorst effect? I know it's like the least useful FTL ever (only slightly FTL, only over incredibly short differences). And thanks for that take on the causality argument! I've long considered causality the ultimate no-FTL-argument but I depend on people smarter than me for ideas that big. :)
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  26. My family's first computer was a Commodore 128. I heard that the CP/M mode was used more in Europe than here in the U.S. I still miss that machine.
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  27. My detector just challenges me to "define life." I should have never told it about prions.
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  28. "how scientific magazines charging significant fee for access to the newest discoveries move the innovation forward" You don't need to go through a magazine to utilize a discovery. Do you think Edison wrote a paper on the light bulb? " how the patent system allows to spread innovation" It helps generate innovation by giving people an incentive to innovate. Innovations spread because people want to use them. And patents expire after a couple decades. "the invisible hand of global IT corporations shoots down startups that may somehow theoretically decrease profits" How so? Anyone can create a new startu-up. Often the big guys buy up the little guys and try to make use of the. "Don’t stop showing us samples of the innovation built on top of cheap African/Asian labor. " And why do they work for that money? Because it's better than their alternatives, yes? "Please also mention countries that are not so happy, though they were never non-capitalistic, e.g. Mexico or any South American country. How come? " Where did anyone say that capitalism was a guarantee of paradise? "Better than the alternatives" doesn't mean "works every time for everybody." Your comment is cheese.
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  29. Is there a testable theory of everything?
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  30. You know those little packets of silica dioxide? With enough of those, global warming wouldn't be a problem.
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  31. I'd ask for his office, but if the universe doesn't exist then what's the point?
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  32. You might look up the tradition of the potlatch.
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  33. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." Germany has laws against Holocaust denial, and I've seen those very laws used to support Holocaust deniers.
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  34. I've heard a few times that American pronunciation is closer to how the British pronounced words around the time of the American revolution.
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  35.  @shockwave326  We know time dilation works. Particles at high speeds decay more slowly. Does electric universe explain that?
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  36.  @gerhardfritz7278  It doesn't matter what Einstein's degree was. General relativity has been tested, and has never failed a test.
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  37.  @Globovoyeur  Oh well. with Bruce Willis retired, it was only a matter of time until an asteroid got us anyway.
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  38. I went to the ER with pains and a lurching feeling in my chest. The doctors told me it was nothing to worry about. As it turned out... it was nothing to worry about. I'm glad I had it checked out, but I'm glad it was just gas behaving weird. So when a doctor tells a patient that they don't have condition X, sometimes they're right. When there is no objective test for a condition, there are of course going to be mistakes made in both directions,.
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  39. Does it make verifiable predictions?
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  40. The people who just want to get on with their lives without forcing anyone else to do anything aren't the loudest ones, so aren't the ones who get the most attention. I think the only way out of that is for us all to be trans-species, as it seems to be a part of the human condition.
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  41.  @augustgreig9420  That makes it harder to miss!
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  42. I read that planting hops could help bees fight sme parasitic mites. And even if it fails, you can make beer.
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  43. You're assuming a conspiracy among those with capital. You're also assuming that those without the means of production cannot collectively gather some. And there's nothing in capitalism that requires unlimited resources.
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  44.  @ZackWolfMusic  I think you just proved Sabine wrong. Flat earthers are stupid after all.
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  45. I'm a mouse, but I mostly watch for the common interest in cheese.
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  46. How often would these little black holes run through a neutron star? And would those be dense enough to grab them?
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  47. My sock accelerator would have solved an even bigger physics mystery and cost only a tenth of that. Mostly for the cats and balloons.
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  48. Being bipedal in New England in February is especially not easy. 😵
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  49. The reason that dark matter didn't affect the formation of old galaxies is because it's only been around as long as socks have been disappearing from dryers.
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  50. I think quantum mechanics experts tend to prefer cats, anyway.
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  51.  @pedrosso0  How many people escape from America to Cuba or North Korea?
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  52.  @zezia333 No, because cutting socialism off from money derived from capitalism shouldn't cause socialism to fail if socialism is better.
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  53. Actually, the super-rich tend to be workaholics.Look at Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc.
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  54. Barry 1 is a great name for a satellite. In my completely objective opinion.
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  55. sigh Look at the environmental record of socialist countries. Real capitalism or real socialism can be environmentally friendly or not depending on the regulations they operate under. It doesn't make either not "real" capitalism in the sense of "real socialism has never been tried" types, it just means that the solution must come from outside capitalism.4
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  56. My pet peeve: headlines phrasing a very unlikely possibility as a question as a silly "Well, we didn't actually say that a fifth force had been discovered that turns people into newts, we just asked what if it had been." Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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  57. Sunny is as good with science as she is fair.
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  58.  @Kaje_  That might be the case here, of course. I'll keep an open mind.
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  59. Use neutrinos. They'll trigger flashes of light when they encounter some kinds of matter. Yeah, you'll need a nuclear reactor nearby, but that's just an engineering detail.
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  60. Is the speed of light limitation really a problem as long as classical information can't be transmitted that way? Edit: Would the gravitational interaction with Titan count as a measurement?
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  61.  @Mandragara  It's not that you can't criticize. It's just that the criticisms don't mean anything unless you can show something better.
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  62. You claim the universe exists, but we only have a sampling size of one. I'm just not sure that's statistically significant.
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  63. Do they look like carrots or carats? 🤔
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  64.  @gabri41200  It was socialist, though.
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  65.  @MusicEngineeer  What if a single person or a small group supplies a disproportionate amount of the effort and resources to get the asteroid?
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  66. Minor correction to @4:00 There's a difference between the attempted suicide risk (which is higher for women) and the successful suicide risk (which is higher for men).
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  67. I heard about advanced waves that carry negative energy. I think that once upon a time, these were used to power Instagram and Twitter.
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  68. I've read that stratospheric cooling may lead to more ozone depletion. Though i think the reducing of ozone-depleting chemicals is having a greater positive effect.
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  69. I hear that helium is a pretty scarce resource. But I agree that using airships for transporting cargo makes a lot of sense if we can do it safely enough.
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  70.  @suokkos  I'm also not a physicist., so I could be talking ex gluteus on this one. I think the speed of light limit applies to classical information only. Quantum mechanics already seems to transmit information faster than light through entanglement, but that mechanism can't be used by us to send a message (the "No-communication theorem"). Basically, a measurement made here by Kirk could have an effect that would instantaneously limit the outcome of a measurement made by Spock around Alpha Centauri, but there's no way for someone to send a message that way. To determine what happened, Kirk and Spock would have to exchange information at lightspeed or less.
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  71.  @Anonymous-df8it  I did not know that!
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  72. Meson decays disagree with you.
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  73. Corporations don't own all the land. So... mission accomplished?
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  74. I think fuel is also used to burn the body. If you just set fire to the body and let it burn itself out you get a charred corpse, which you then still have to bury. Presumably with instructions not to open the coffin.
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  75. In before everybody asks you to look at their theory of the universe. I had one too, but it turns out duct tape doesn't work that way.
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  76. I think hydrogen was an attempt to have the best of EVs (pollution-wise) and gasoline (rapid refueling). It probably wouldn't have the range of a gas car, but if it takes minutes rather than hours to refuel then range anxiety isn't as much of an issue. Maybe metal hydrides could have handled the containment problem in the car, with ammonia being used to generate hydrogen at the fueling station to prevent containment issues there. If it came down to efficiency vs. refueling speed, I think hydrogen might have won.
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  77.  @DrDeuteron  It's feeling a little strange.
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  78. Confusing the gulf stream with the jetsreams might be easier because of jets called Gulfstreams.
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  79. It's anti-matter, so you spend anti-money to buy it. The more you buy, the higher your bank account balance. Um... that's how it works, right?
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  80. The retractions tend to be a little quieter than the initial stories. SCIENTISTS FIND SIGHS ON LIFE ON VENUS! woops wait never mind SCIENTISTS FIND FASTER-THAN-LIGHT NEUTRINOS! sorry my mistake SCIENTISTS FIND METEORS FROM MARS WITH FOSSILIZED LIFE! oh wait let me go check again LO! THERE HATH BEEN RAYS OF M! never thou mindest, the fault lieth not in our stares but in ourselves
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  81. My wife wants to try cannabis for some moderate chronic pain. I think I need to keep this story from her in hopes that the placebo effect will help. It might be a case of ignorance really being bliss.
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  82. 7:52: When I noticed the key. Then I got distracted by wondering what a computer would have to do to notice the key. Which might be a decent illustration for the upside and downside of the brain vs. the PC.
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  83.  @Kelberi  Anti-matter has positive energy, though. That's why when electrons and anti-electrons meet, energy is released.
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  84. I don't know. I heard Black Sabbath as a child and I turned out OK.
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  85. Because regulations are literally another story. Capitalism is an economic system, as is socialism, and you can run either one with any degree of environmental concern you want according to the laws they operate under.
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  86. That's not how nature works over a couple generations.
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  87. I'll go with the happy mean - the universe only goes halfway to infinity.
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  88. With lasers and Hawaii I was hoping there'd be a volcano lair involved. Oh well.... maybe 2024.
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  89. If geostationary orbits have to be equatorial, I'd think angle of incidence issues with the receiving antenna would effectively limit their latitudes? Even if the rectanna area can be used for agriculture. It's a pity because here in New England the direct solar power (aka sunlight) isn't enough to melt ice for a third of the year.
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  90. If all space originated in the Big Bang, then the Big Bang happened everywhere. Including land I own. I'm charging everybody rent!!!
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  91. If the universe was denser in the past, wouldn't gravitational time dilation also happen (in an incredibly small amount)?
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  92. there's no logical reason that being a physicist should imply she can't be a singer, and more than a basketball player couldn't be good at math
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  93. We should have some unusually attractive scientists around, just in case. That always works in the movies.
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  94. Until I get my jetpack, science ain't done yet!
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  95. Also, all the alternatives so far tried have been crap.
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  96. That's why we need more hard data. I will say that U've seen more people saying that gender-reassignment care helped, and I haven't seen a lot of people say that it hurt them, but on the other hand the people who have seem to suffer some pushback, too. In any case, the plural of anecdote is not data.
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  97.  @davidcroft7381  And it'll handle any nasty odors, too! Brilliant!
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  98. According to some, genders are purely a social construct with no objective criteria. Can anyone explain to me how it makes sense to divide sports along purely socially constructed lines? If not, maybe sports should be divided by sex rather than gender?
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  99.  @OSAS27  Could be :)
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  100. Reject. Malaria is more easily prevented and treated than sickle cell.
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  101. 300% would be unfortunate. If it generates more power than the sunlight hitting it contains, it'll contribute to global warming. Rewriting all the physics textbooks would also contribute, I guess.
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  102. Apparently there are a lot of ways for cold fusion to work -- once.
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  103. I wonder how much of the greater expense of narrow-band LEDs is inherent and how much is a matter of volume of production. I imagine there's more demand for sources of white light than yellowish light.
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  104.  @kviknayt  That's fair. Now I have a question for you that I think is fair, but which I think I won't get a straight answer to: why not try it somewhere else first? People flee to America and Europe, sometimes at risk of their lives. Since (1) real communism has never been tried and (2) the track record of replacing capitalism has been rather poor, why not try it in countries people are fleeing from? I realize that ideally communism has to be everywhere and without nations any more, but I think it would be a fair test.
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  105.  @HundredPercentLuck  So try real communism somewhere else first.
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  106.  @kerycktotebag8164 Of course we put up with capitalism. It's less awful than anything else tried so far.
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  107. That would apply to trans-men, who (I think) get testosterone, and I think very few trans-men are doing sports in men's leagues, and I think they wouldn't be very good at it. Trans-women (I think) get drugs that diminish performance (but still have a performance boost from past testosterone levels).
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  108.  @SabineHossenfelder  Just an FYI: Safire is based on "Electric Universe Theory", generally considered fringe science.
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  109.  @SearinoxNavras  That's fair. If it works, it works.
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  110.  @NathanielLapointe  Socialism encourages exploitation as well. It gives more power to the politically connected (even more than in typical capitalist countries). The people high up in the Party usually live a lot better than the common prole. I would say that capitlism assumed greed as a motive, whereas socialism does not.
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  111. Summers there seemed more humid the past few years as well, to me anyway.
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  112. You know Santa has been there or not when you check under the tree. Hoq does Santa get to all those houses? It's quantum or something.
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  113. A study has been done on de-transitioners, with the researcher refusing to release the results for fear of the results being weaponized to attack trans people. Any rational person is going to assume there is likely something in there that transgender activists would not like. The researcher's concern is understandable, but she didn't actually do anybody any good. Science tainted by political advocacy is going to be treated with more skepticism, and IMHO correctly so.
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  114. I want to know what will happen with the universe too. It's where I keep all my stuff!
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  115. I want to do my own research, but my grant requests for a particle accelerator keep getting turned down.
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  116.  @MN-vz8qm I may have been somewhat vague. The collapse function that many worlds gets rid of included how likely different outcomes are, and I think the many worlds interpretation would need a reason for the branching to follow those same probabilities.
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  117. That might work for school-based events, but when it comes to pro sports, who would tune in to see the games by The National Pretty Good Football League?
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  118. I wonder how much research has been done on getting soot and dust out of the atmosphere.
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  119. IIRC, smarter people tend to be more wealthy (though that's not unidirectional), and more wealthy people could better pay for healthier and smarter embryos to be selected. I like the idea of leaving this up to parents as long as the children are much more likely to benefit than be harmed (like vaccination, after all) with little government interference, but I admit that the long-term effects might be... complicated.
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  120.  @CrniWuk No, it's like responding to "casts are itchy" with "it's the best we have." If capitalism is better than the alternatives tried, doesn't it make sense to be cautious in getting rid of it?
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  121.  @tbrown3356  Looking at starlight bent during an eclipse. Which has been done. It's not an abstract idea, it comes with testable predictions which have been tested.
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  122. How do you calculate the true value of your labor?
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  123. It's honestly gotten to where any time I hear about a breakthrough in fusion, I get a little depressed. Needing lasers that are 100% efficient is a tremendous improvement over needing lasers that are 200% efficient... and yet it isn't.
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  124. Does the FDA know about the pion condensate in our food? They've done nothing at all about all that dihydrogen monoxide.
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  125. Haven't some galaxies been seen without dark matter?
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  126. So it's their fault I got that speeding ticket. Technically.
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  127. According to Wikipedia, it's because it's irregularly shaped, has a very eccentric orbit, and it close to the much larger Titan.
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  128.  @JaapVersteegh  it sounds to me as if that means it's another way of approaching the decoherence problem. That's me speaking from a radically non-expert POV though.
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  129.  @vast634  And if we run out of helium I think it will both hamper cryogenics and make it harder to sound like chipmunks when we talk.
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  130. Could weight be thought of as an apparent force? Centrifugal force is not a real force, but we can calculate it, measure it, etc. Not to say that weight has anything like the same cause as centrifugal force, of course.
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  131.  @alphagt62  Separating the carbon from the oxygen takes energy, though. If we used some clean power source to power that process, sure. Though it'd raise the question of why not use that power source to run civilization on instead of using fossil fuels.
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  132. Here in New England for at least the past couple years (maybe more; I'm new here) we got a lot more snow in March and April than January and February. Then again, a single storm dumps nine inches of snow, so...
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  133. But it's position along a vector?
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  134. If it moved toward you and had effects, you could see those effects. But if it was moving away from you, you'd be out of luck
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  135. Who's going to play Framtpon in the movie?
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  136.  @AndroidFerret  Oh! That never occurred to me. Without pineapple. I wonder if they do pineapple on pizza in Europe. And, if so, why???
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  137. Let's see.... Navy, Army, Marines, Air Force. The fifth force would be Space Force. Where's my Nobel Prize in fizziks?
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  138. Quantum mechanics makes my head hurt. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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  139.  @ZackWolfMusic  No proof, but lots and lots of observations that are consistent with a globe and not consistent with a flat earth. Look at the moon. Look how it doesn't shrink as it sets. Look how everyone on earth sees the same side. Look how we can bounce lasers or radio off it to see how far away it is. Gyrocompasses work, and they depend on the spin on the earth. Flight times in the southern hemisphere don't work on a flat earth. The stars rotate in different directions in the different hemispheres. I can go on and on and on.
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  140. I think it leads to the same potential for sending a signal int one's own past, and potential time paradoxes.
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  141. It's the fault of today's image-conscious culture. Nobody likes neutrinos after they gained weight.
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  142. All the cool stuff has already been discovered. People keep trying to find a fifth force, but when it really comes around it'll be something that makes wool itchy.
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  143. Would an axion star gravitationally attract matter? I'd think that you'd get a lot of plain old hydrogen/helium stars forming where an axion star is. You'd get stars shining more brightly than expected for their mass and composition.
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  144. We'd be canceled for not being vegan. People would say, "Eating meat is wrong now and it was wrong then."
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  145. Shouldn't an extraterrestrial signal be easy to distinguish by it not keeping up with the earth's rotation?
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  146. Very nice!
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  147. Is not seeing a Dark Big Bang evidence that it happened? 🙃
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  148.  @frankdimeglio8216  i think YouTube thumbs up don't have quite the weight as peer review.
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  149. I fear that a lot of people into fringe science cannot be dissuaded. In any case, neutrinos from the sun have been detected, suggesting it runs on thermonuclear fusion rather than undetected, titanic electrical currents.
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  150. My doctor told me that I was going to have to face it, I'm addicted to love.
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  151. We've seen time dilation. We've seen clocks slow down and speed up. GPS satellites take into account time dilation. Oh, and, by the way, earth isn't flat.
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  152.  @axeman2638  Sorry but it does. GPS satellites have well-documented adjustments for relativity. There's more; we see muons from high altitude cosmic rays events that can only reach the ground before decaying due to time dilation. We can see red-shift in radiation climbing out of earth's gravity well. An atomic clock was put aboard a jet and compared to one that was left on the ground, and the time difference was what was expected. Relativity confirmed.
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  153.  @ephesians6ten185  The bandwagon fallacy is deference to the opinion of the majority. I didn't do that. Try again. :)
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  154.  @axeman2638  Why should I believe Ron Hatch?
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  155.  @ephesians6ten185  Gravity works fine without buoyancy, but gravity is what gives direction to buoyancy. Mass has been repeatedly shown to attract mass, and it's not just droppity. If density and buoyancy was all that mattered then a pound of feathers would weigh as much as a ton of feathers. Earth isn't flat. Thank you for playing.
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  156. I'm not sure humans should drive cars. Give them enough iterations of the trolley problem and their wetware either takes too long to make a decision or crashes entirely.
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  157. I keep hoping for Lorentz assymetry. I don't have evidence or math, just hope.
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  158. Historically, capitalism, at least in the west, is especially good for the top 20% (of course), but it's been better for the middle class as well. That may be thrown off by having only a few socialist countries having existed in modern times, but look at the wealth of the PRC after they re-introduced market features.
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  159.  @rainbowkrampus  The problem with that is that you'd need powerful people to ensure that nobody gathered much power. You wouldn't if most everybody were saints, but almost any system would work with saints.
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  160.  @ajr993  I cannot disagree. Checks nd balances are probably the best we can do.
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  161.  @rainbowkrampus  Question for you: who makes the decisions for who gets paid how much?
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  162.  @rainbowkrampus  so all the business decisions are done by vote?
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  163. What about artificial pets? Can we get a CatGPT?
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  164. How do you prepare people for drilling? You drill them, of course.
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  165. The speed of light is pretty much the maximum speed of information transmission, and other than that speed everything else about them is pretty different.
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  166. The U.S. Air Force looked into the possibilities of a nuclear-powered bomber. IIRC the weight of the shielding for the reactor was the biggest problem. And you have to deal with crashes; anything that could keep the fuel intact would probably be very heavy as well.
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  167. I know how to travel faster than light. Take a rocket slower than light far enough away and cosmological expansion will eventually having you moving FTL relative to where you left. It's true that you can't make round trips that way, but if you've just spent billions of years getting away from the earth, why go back?
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  168. Yes, immortality would be terrible if it would be available to people you don't like. The horror. The horror.
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  169.  @WonkyWiIl  Let's see... death vs. accepting that there are people you disagree with. Yeah, tough choice there.
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  170. This quantum sock behavior explains why I can never get two of the same pair back out of the dryer.
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  171. Hens, sorry, hence, currency.
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  172. I'd legalize it America because I think that would cut down on crime overall, and prohibition seems futile. I wouldn't use it myself. But I'd take the same approach to fentanyl, so I'm definitely an outlier.
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  173. Just use 37. It's a very common random number.
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  174. I would think that if a hypothesis of quantum gravity pointed toward a resolution of the paradox, it'd be a positive sign.
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  175. Those avoiding sugar for blood sugar level reasons might want to check for sugar alcohols and identify their own reaction to each individual kind.
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  176. I was dismissing this until now, but now this looks less like an outlier and more like evidence confirming a trend that wasn't fitting the standard model.
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  177. The only advantage I can think of for hydrogen is that refuelling is a lot faster than recharging.
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  178. My condolences.
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  179. I tried to pet a byte, and ended up with a nibble.
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  180. I figure it at least gives the clerk a better opportunity to retrieve his or her own gun and end the threat.
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  181. I'm guessing the power source probably won't be internal combustion?
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  182. Cool.
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  183.  @hyperduality2838  So is that testable?
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  184.  @hyperduality2838  Any way to obtain experimental proof?
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  185.  @SabineHossenfelder  If you wear a Star Trek uniform, DON'T wear a red shirt!
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  186. Can I get support for my hamsteronic fusion approach? It has no chance of working but it's much, much cheaper.
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  187. Now I think the last words heard on earth will be, "But it was just a prank, yo!"
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  188. This is the best evidence yet that the universe is a simulation, because it needs a software patch.
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  189. The Krasnikov tube variant of warp drive might allow that
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  190. I was way ahead of particle physicists in realizing those particles were not made of component particles. Nobody makes duct tape that small. The Nobel committee has continued to ignore my calls.
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  191.  @simongross3122  As a child I was forced to eat them without my consent. But I took that trauma and forced myself to the peak of physical fitness, keeping a careful watch to ensure that brussel sprouts never conquer the earth.
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  192. Anti-monopoly and anti-collusion regulations. Because all those companies would have to agree to destroy good to keep its price high. If one producer sold food cheaper (equally good food), consumers would buy their food there, and that producer would get more profit.
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  193. Does Hawking radiation break baryon number conservation?
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  194. If wormholes can be made traversable by use of negative energy, and if negative energy exists, could a wormhole to a baby universe be kept open? What happens to the space the baby universe came from? Is it pinched off into the new cosmos? If I make enough baby universes between here and Alpha Centauri, could I get Alpha Centauri closer? Can I be the first to name a baby universe "Cosmo"? I think that name would be taken kind of quickly.
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  195. My cat does manage to get to higher places when not observed. Maybe she's Schrödinger's cat?
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  196. No more pacific ocean? Finally, something to lower real estate prices in California.
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  197. I can think of a few possibilities, none of which I'm an expert in. (1) men have more fast-twitch muscles, so might move the controller's buttons a little quicker. (2) in some cultures, men have better skill in spatial geometry and (3) men vary more widely in intelligence, so a group with very smart people will tend to have more men.
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  198. It's not like it'll necessarily build up year after year. If you can delay the energy imbalance until after hurricane season, the energy might redistribute itself through less destructive means.
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  199. Can I get out of a speeding ticket by pointing out that it didn't include the reference frame to measure from? Asking for a friend.
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  200. Has the EPA studied the impact of climate change on giant Martian wolfspiders? From looking at footage from our probes, they already seem to be an endangered species.
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  201. Charge people more per ticket if they have children. Problem solved!
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  202.  @lu544  Sorry, but you've made a classic mistake of lumping everyone on the other side into the same group. For some people, just calling themselves a woman (or a man) is what is being pushed. If you cannot accept someone just living their best life, then I think you have the problem. It's true that some will insist on you changing your language, too, but not all of them. There are trans people who are OK with you not calling them or considering them their self-identified gender.
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  203. Isn't this the plot from Godzilla?
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  204. Of course solar storms are dangerous. Suppose one of those storms rains hard enough to put the sun out? When you scientists want to know these things, just ask geniuses like me.
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  205. If male breasts didn't have nipples, they'd be pointless.
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  206. I want to b the first one to market "AI Soap".
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  207.  @ericmacrae6871 That's.. fair, I have to admit. But do you really think all trade from Cuba has been cut off? Why is trade from one particular capitalist economy so vital to a socialist paradise?
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  208. This is a solved problem. According to general consensus, if the AI tries to take over the world and annhiliate mankind, it has achieved consciousness.
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  209. Hurricanes are too powerful for our fusion bombs to disrupt, but there is an Achilles heel that scientists keep missing. They're ultimately powered by the sun. We need to nuke the sun.
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  210.  @rakha8812  Did I say that? Go back and read what I said, and then ask me an honest question.
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  211.  @saisyuumaho  I'm not saying that alone should get you more money, but there should be a benefit of setting up a system and organizing it.
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  212. People use the term in different ways. Sometime it's as you described, and sometimes it's the "don't deny me my life experiences" type of meaning.
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  213. Particles take longer to decay when moving at relativalistic velocity, too.
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  214.  @SabineHossenfelder  Thanks! Even though my plan for a backyard RTG was taking up way too many smoke detectors. 😀
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  215. I predicted that someone would win a Nobel prize. OK, I don't expect a Nobel prize for that. Maybe a cookie?
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  216. Anti-matter might help make it a lot easier to build a fusion rocket. Zap a pellet of fusion fuel with a bit a anti-matter and it could go boom, with fusion supplying most of the energy and the anti-matter only triggering it.
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  217.  @douglaswilkinson5700 Yep, and put that over a center of fusion fuel and you get a big more bang for your anti-buck.
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  218.  @douglaswilkinson5700  I wasn't saying that's wrong. I'm saying that if the fission fuel is wrapped around fusion fuel then the fission explosion can set off a fusion explosion.
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  219. I can't get the objection to each observer only being able to observe one outcome. Wouldn't the observers be splitting too, so each copy would only observe their branch's outcome?
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  220. I've read that the Alcubierre warp drive would have the inside causally disconnected from the outside. Do you know if this new warp drive solution have the same feature at subliminal speeds?
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  221. I think those motors are going to hate washboard roads.
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  222. I wonder if electric planes could be practical if they carried rectennas and were beamed microwaves.
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  223. Or clerk takes advantage of the robber's blindness and uses another gun to stop the threat.
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  224. Could they be other kinds of degrees of freedom instead of dimensions?
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  225. That's three dimensions. For example, north and south are just positions on one dimension.
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  226. Maybe the real reason people can't find quantum gravity is because someone did eat it?
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  227. A vaccine for poultry would be nice. A lot of people out here in the country have backyard poultry, including my wife and I. And she has pet birds she's very fond of.
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  228. Looks like there are more restrictions on guns than vibrators there.
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  229. If it lets me run at 60 MPH, sure. To log onto my computer? No. But except for genetic engineering this stuff just affects the people volunteering for it, so let 'em.
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  230. AFAIK, it hasn't been measured and won't be measured in or lifetimes. It's something that should happen as a consequence of quantum mechanics and event horizons, so physicists don't have a good reason for it not to happen. You've probably never put on a top hat and a cape then held up a purple teacup and let it go . But you've got a pretty good idea what happens to the teacup.
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  231. The only real solution to the global mental health crisis is a larger particle collider.
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  232. The best evidence that the universe can think is that it's almost all rushing away from us.
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  233.  @damunzy  And the alternatives to capitalism tried so far have been worse than capitalism.
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  234.  @ericmacrae6871 Capitlist countries also fix ecological problems domestically, so no. You lied. Secondly, we are also doing something about our environmental issues, as is western Europe. So?
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  235.  @damunzy  If they offered people in Haiti free tickets to move to North Korea, and allowed people in North Korea to move to Haiti, which country do you think would get more emigration and which would get more immigration?
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  236. What will they call it if they get a theory that explains GUT, quantum gravity, and cats?
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  237. It was made for me, and y'all are very late on your rent!
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  238. I used to subscribe to Einstein's gravity, but my subscription ran out and these days I mostly rely on duct tape.
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  239.  @TheMightyShell  Lysenkoism
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  240. If the broken system is better than anything else that's been tried, then I think you may confuse "broken" with "imperfect."
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  241. Speaking from my vast ignorance, it sounds akin to an analog computers. But quantum.
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  242. If a configuration was unstable, it would still take time for the configuration to collapse, wouldn't it? If a signal could be sent during that collapse, then would that really get rid of physicists' collective headaches regarding time travel?
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  243. I couldn't roll my Rs with a wheel. But I can give the rest a try to help me sound a little smarter, anyway. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
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  244. I think, therefore I am. Wait, I'm not sure, so maybe I
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  245. I don't think it's a science education issue, tbh. I think they're crazy. They're often really stupid, too, but they always seem to fight back against the people trying to educate them, even when those people suggest tests that the flat earthers can do themselves.
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  246. It's probably a lot less. The USAF's total aircraft has a little over the number of 767s, most of which are fighters producing less CO2 per flight, and the air force flies them a lot less. But the trouble of asking militaries to make do without aircraft is that the one who complies for the good of the planet is the one who loses. And if all governments could be counted on to be good to their word, we wouldn't need militaries at all.
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  247. This is unfortunate. I've been using "quantum" as a way to explain why it looks like the trash wasn't taken out. I told her that it was in a superposition of two states, taken out or not, and that she collapsed the wave function when she checked, so it's really her fault. The move toward realistic expectations was not something I was looking forward to.
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  248. Make your own video with a spinning space pizza, that'll show those dirty globers. :)
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  249. I don't like him, and it doesn't make him wrong. But, though the evidence is inconclusive, I suspect he's wrong.
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  250. Java applets, XHTML, etc. The web evolves rapidly, but it generates dead ends rapidly too. I'm waiting for WASM to take off, any year now; and like Java, that too may end up running on the servers a lot more than on the client.
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  251. It wouldn't increase from the point of view of the spaceship and those on board. From an observer at rest the mass of the fuel would increase, but the mass of the spaceship the fuel needs to accelerate would also increase by the same factor.
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  252.  @krisleaton4026  what test would distinguish it from mainstream physics?
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  253.  @krisleaton4026  thank you!
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  254. What would free will be if it's incompatible with determinism and randomness?
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  255. Good luck with your back! And hopefully he says something intelligent and he's not just quoting Einstein.
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  256. Who watches the watchmen? I'd much rather have people free to spread misinformation (e.g., the earth is flat, the Holocaust never happened, pineapple belongs on pizza) than have someone funded by the government declare that COVID definitely wasn't created in a lab, that the COVID vaccination is only supposed to lessen symptoms rather than prevent infection and simultaneously protect those who can't be vaccinated, and that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.
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  257.  @mrpedrobraga  No, that isn't how it already is. Lia is not female, whether or not she's a woman.
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  258. Could a string theory work if supersymmetry is ruled out, if 26 dimensions are postulated?
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  259. Why are our brains so good at seeing patterns? I can't explain it, so it must be aliens.
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  260. I think that would be "hadron"
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  261. Despite Ehrlich not just being wrong but ludicrously wrong (he said no crash programs could prevent the die-off, there were no crash programs, there was no die off), it doesn't make resources unlimited.
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  262. Create an alternative in one of the countries people flee from rather than where people flee to, and then we can have a fair discussion.
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  263. The East German Olympics team stands as a counterexample. People do care about things other than money.
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  264. Mostly the infrastructure cost, I imagine. Also keep in mind the CO2 outpt Trains are slower as well -- the fastest commercial train (Shanghai maglev) runs at 268PMH, less than half the speed of a typical commercial airliner.
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  265. Penrose is a smart guy, but he's more comfortable with out-there ideas than I am. Twistor theory, Orch OR. He's way smarter than I am, but I still take everything he says with more than a grain of salt.
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  266.  @buzhichun  To the first, if a capitalist can make money by selling you capital, he has an economic incentive, yes? People sell land. people sell 3d printers and lots of tools. My point to the second is that people aren't locked out of buying the means of production if they can purchase it collectively.
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  267. How seriously have you considered moving to a country that doesn't use capitalism?
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  268. I think it depends on the energy consumed. It's a whole new realm of potential propulsion possibilities, perhaps!
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  269. I moved from So Cal to rural New England a couple years back. Snow is a pain, but it's also fun.
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  270. I can't blame my expansion on cosmology? I guess I need to go on a diet after alll.
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  271. They're only locally equivalent.
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  272. I don't see what all the fuss is about. I've been using uncertainty in my calculations since grade school. 😃
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  273. I was hoping to speed up the earth to make leap years easier to handle.
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  274.  @antman7673  There are at least a few problems. One, some are demanding that other people change their behavior, definitions, etc. Two, women's sports were created when people generally agreed that "woman" meant "adult female humans", and dividing sports by a social identity makes no sense. Three, children may be making irreversible medical changes. If it were just people deciding, "I'm a man / woman / cat (seriously - xenogenders) / non-binary / gender-fluid today" I'd agree that there's little reason for any fuss. But if you demand changes from other people then it's no longer a case of "it's nobody's business but ours."
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  275.  @joansparky4439  Thank you!
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  276.  @kerycktotebag8164  Such the Holodomor? Decades of ruthless suppression of political dissent? Internal exile camps? Forbidding unlicensed mimeograph machines? The abuse of psychotherapeutics? Killing people because they wear eyeglasses? You compare the worst things allowed under capitalism with some of the most venial problems in socialism. Next time, try honesty.
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  277.  @Arisaem  It's true that parts of the U.S. are still rebounding from the last ice age's glaciers melted. But that was a lot more ice than climate change has melted.
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  278.  @chandra_creator  Do estrogen and progesterone increase athletic performance, though?
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  279.  @TML0677  I have no objection to Africa, Asia, S. America, or Antarctica doing their own thing economically. Though you mighjt ask the PRC to get rid of the market-oriented measures they've taken and see what they say.
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  280.  @absolutalles  Actually, capitalism is about getting by selling. What you're talking about is greed, and that's been a constant under any economic system.
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  281. It was young. Getting up stairs was easier.
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  282. I guess an electric charge would be conveyed from a black hole the same way? That is, the electric field is always there, even if photons cannot escape.
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  283.  @starventure  I'm still up in the air as to if virtual photons are supposed to be real or just a mathematical trick. If electric charge is conveyed by virtual photons then having them escape a black hole would be dicey. Though conveying electric charge in a medium where something with a charge is moving faster than the speed of light in that medium would also raise some questions.
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  284. They made math disappear? Where were they when I was taking calculus?!
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  285. We don't know everything that makes it work, but we can observe it working.
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  286. It only works for very larges values of 1.
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  287. I'd agree that science isn't done by consensus, but first let me check the poll numbers on that.
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  288. I'm in rural New England, at the edge of a town of fewer than 2,000, where it's a 20 minute walk to my closest neighbor, and I have fiber to the house. OTOH, East Germany had public funding for all its infrastructure. I wonder if this more mismanagement happens anywhere.
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  289. I had the perfect measurement for this, but it used the base unit of stopping your VCR from blinking "12:00". Alas...
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  290. Caveat: I'm talking way over my head. To me, it seems to involve signals sent into the past, but AFAIK the mainstream interpretation of QM involves instantaneous transmission of information across arbitrary distances, and in special relativity that's equivalent to time travel anyhow. As long as classical information cannot be sent that way, causality is saved and you don't kill your grandfather before you were born.
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  291. I'm not worried about climate change. Why? I'm old and I don't have kids. Good luck, everybody!
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  292. Can you point out where she said that?
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  293.  @NathanielLapointe I think that would work splendidly, if everyone just nautrally shared everything and nobody loved power. But then so would any other economic and political system. I'd say, try it somewhere else first. In the real world when we've seen governments collapse or just not control an area, new systems of power arise.
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  294. I wonder how much of our society we'll be able to understand.
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  295. You're reducing your exposure to NordVPN, where previously it was everybody in the infrastructure.
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  296. I think it's genes. Almost everybody I know has genes. If we could eliminate genes we definitely wouldn't be worrying about obesity.
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  297. Fleming discovered that a mold was exuding an antibiotic substance, and that subtance was later developed into penicillin. Florey and others turned it into medication. That's completely different from Edison, who stole all of Tesla's inventions, suppressed Tesla's free energy generators, stole Tesla's death ray ideas, and conquered the innocent and defenseless Squeeb people of Luna 5, leaving Tesla with no alternative but to make electric cars.
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  298. It sounds as if this can be mis-used (people could exercise less and eat more), but it's another tool that can be used wisely. The long-term consequences would have to be pretty bad to be worse overall than the long-term consequences of obesity.
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  299. He's got a point, but all the systems so far intended to replace the free market have, after a time, failed to work as well. And, perhaps predictably, have often been authoritarian; an economy encompasses a lot of what we do. While a UBI doesn't mean dystopia, a transition should be very carefully done.
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  300. I sense more pre-emptive pardons coming.
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  301.  @SPDLand  I think a layman might misinterpret results and take up positions unjustified by the actual data. Though maybe I should have said "sympathetic" rather than understandable.
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  302. I think this has gotten worse since they started putting pineapple on pizza (edit: 1962). That may be a coincidence, though. I think it needs a study?
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  303. Or asking academia to look into the effect of culture on success. Pearl clutching all over the place! 😂😂😂
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  304. if they accidentally create a new Big Bang they need to spin that as "physicists discover limitless free energy."
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  305. Extra benefits if they can be turned into bio-fuel.
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  306. Just do "what we could have" in countries people flee from rather than the ones people flee to. That way you can show it works and if it fails again, what's lost?
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  307. One of those days she's going to pick up that red phone and it's going to be Commissioner Gordon.
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  308. I'm pleasantly surprised that people in the comments don't seem to be confusing this with the simulation hypothesis.
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  309. I think you still need a way to figure out the probabilities of what the observer observes.
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  310.  @MN-vz8qm  But you still have to explain why branching occurrs along those lines of probability.
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  311.  @MN-vz8qm  If there is no branching then how are there many worlds?
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  312. If I lose weight, I contribute to global warming? That gives me another excuse to use on my doctor.
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  313.  @alexandertownsend3291  I'm not aware of anybody saying that trans people don't exist. Can you give me some references?
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  314.  @alexandertownsend3291  Now you're assuming motives and then attacking people for what you assume. That seems unfair, somehow. Here's my take: 'woman" is a word, and doesn't have an objective meaning. if you say "trans-women are women" that's your opinion, and you have a right to hold your opinion. If someone else says that gender and sex are the same, that's their opinion. People shouldn't be required to conform to someone else's opinion in issues with no objective criteria, such as semantics. If you care more about how trans people feel than about fairness in sports, that's fine. You and I will just disagree on this issue.
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  315.  @Mandragara That's totally a fair comparison because nobody has ever tried another way to make eggs.
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  316.  @Mandragara  It's perfectly valid to point out the problems of microwaving eggs. It isn't valid to say that microwaving eggs is a failure if you have never had a better way of cookiing eggs. If you do find something you swear is a better way to cook eggs, you have to show people that it's a better method. If you insist on forbidding people from microwaving eggs in favor of Method X without that, people are going to call you cracked.
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  317. That's going to be a very expensive box. When my wife tells me she wants nothing for her birthday, I'm going to have to tell her that I can't afford it.
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  318. Capitalism is the worst system -- except for all the others that have been tried. As far as environmental effects go, socialist nations have a rather poor track record. In practice, socialism has led to more authoritarianism, less innovation, and lower overall economic performance than capitalism. People seem to fall in love with the idea of socialism through hatred of the inequalities of outcome in capitalism rather than the actual performance of socialism. Exhibit A: A lot of people want socialism, but very few want to move somewhere socialist. And, no, the Nordic countries aren't socialist. Exhibit B: Try to make the PRC socialist again.
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  319. Kudzu? may not capture as much carbon per plant but it's famous for growing wildly on its own. Edit: Or build border walls out of rows of trees. That gets us bipartisan support!
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  320. Perfect choice of soundtrack.
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  321. I think it depends on what the data says. If males have a big advantage then it wouldn't be fair to rule out that people are trying to be fair.
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  322. This is all so Hollywood can reboot/re-imagine "Salvage 1" 🙃
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  323. Can you comment on my theory of everything? If time is money, and work creates money, then work and time are related. I've experimentally verified this by my wife giving me stuff to do over the weekend.
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  324. Frohe Weihnachten!
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  325. I'm not a tree, but my acting is kind of wooden.
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  326. Frohe Weihnachten, Sabine!
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  327. If AIs aren't intelligent for getting Bell's theorem wrong, what about humans who get it wrong?
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  328. For intercontinental hypersonic missiles I'm in complete agreement. But if you want a carrier gone, I think a barrage of hypersonic missiles might be better than short-range ballistic due to radar horizons. I'm sure it's more complicated than that, with airborne early warning aircraft being a thing, how vulnerable they are, etc. Also, @10:37: when something is so over the top silly that the most scientifically German of German scientists absolutely cannot keep a straight face.
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  329. I think this is where gravity and acceleration are only locally equivalent. A point particle couldn't tell the difference between the two at any instant, but you're large enough to have (very small) tidal effects. I could be 100% wrong though.
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  330.  @En_theo  That's where the locality matters, I think. It's not that the tidal force is tiny, it's that for a point mass there wouldn't be that difference. I think.
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  331. I'm surprised. I understood EVs to be a bad match for cold climates.
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  332. I don't think so. I think that from our point of view we can accelerate at 1G forever and never exceed the speed of light, but from a POV we left behind we'd be accelerating more and more slowly, foreshortening in the direction of acceleration, and our clocks would run more slowly.
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  333. String theory seems sufficiently maleable to be nigh unfalsifiable, but are there more testable alternatives out there? Could doubly special relativity overcome your objections to some quantum gavity theories?
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  334. Would doubly special relativity help reconcile LQG's minimal area with Lorentz invariance?
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  335. The radioisotope gave the cat eighteen half-lives
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  336. They're kind of right. Eliminate all of someone's vibrations and they won't catch any virus. But in that case the preventive is probably worse than the disease.
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  337. The dress is like string theory. It's not background-independent.
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  338. Why not all three? Marxist crickets using ultrasound and microwaves.
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  339.  @ivarbjornson533  Then we'll all be able to argue about what age to transition species at. And what animals; I suggest otters, who usually seem to be pretty happy.
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  340. Assume that Kirk's quantum information isn't transported. Assume that even some classical information isn't transported. Is Kirk dead? Naw. . Kirk doesn't wake up with all his atoms in the same state as the day before. He doesn't even always wake up with the same number of cell. If he dies when beaming, he dies when breathing, where he's exchanging whole molecules with his environment. It takes more than that to kill Kirk. Specifically, it takes an incompetent bald French guy pretending to be a Starfleet captain himself.
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  341. Scientists refude to give me the Nobel prize for the really real unified theory, that everthing is made of microscopic kittens. They're playing with the string.
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  342. Greater awareness makes sense. I do wonder how stimuli-overwhelmable and socially awkward someone has to be to qualify as abnormally so. And I have no idea what proportion of self-diagnosed people actually have the condition.
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  343. Guten tag! Oh, I hope you're not guten intolerant.
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  344. I imagine that a human couldn't get an answer before it was asked, but what about internal sub-operations?
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  345. If you consider the spread of life as not just the ultimate good but such a good that all others are irrelevant, I think longtermism makes sense. But a future where everyone is just treated as a cog in the mechanism to spread life doesn't seem like a future that would be very satisfying for those inhabiting it. In practical terms, though, I think I'm good letting longtermists be longtermists without giving them special power. People saying we need to make sacrifices for a better future could encompass those fighting climate change but also those who used to give shoot to kill orders for people trying to escape East Berlin. In the latter case, those saying they were in power for making a better future for all of humanity weren't the ones standing in the bread lines.
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  346. Compare the economy of the PRC before and after it introduced more free market mechanisms. It's still authoritarian, but it's a much, much richer authoritarianism now. Look at kibbutzes. Look at communes in the U.S. Time and again, human nature has show that people will work harder for the good of their own selves and families than for "everyone," that there will be freeloaders, and that people don't like freeloaders. It's not rational to say that capitalism has failed when all the alternatives have done worse or have ceased to be socialist.
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  347.  @jarnomon1 My requirement is: try the new system somewhere else first. The west is were people flee to, so try it where people flee from. Because it's rational to be leery of "this is better than capitalism" at the point, but a positive track record will do wonders.
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  348.  @jarnomon1  1. If the new system improves the country from which people fled, even if it doesn't turn it around completely, wouldn't that be evidence for the new system? 2. If the new system improves the country from which people fled, that in itself is a counter-point which reasonable people can argue to. Either way, if the alternative is to overhaul the best economies in the world in favor of something untested, shouldn't you expect resistance? Look at the track record of socialism, for instance.
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  349. I can give them an answer for just half that much.
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  350. If gravity isn't quite what we thought it is, would that affect the efforts to quantize gravity? I mean if physicists came out tomorrow with a quantized gravity that explains general relativity but then it couldn't accommodate galaxy falling off more slowly than inverse square at ultralong distances, and astronomers found out that gravity does need to be modified, then I think the physicists would be very unhappy.
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  351. Just buy more vinegar spray, that'll keep those nasty chemtrails away! LOL
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  352. She looks like Sabine and sounds like Sabine, but she's not wearing Sabine's shirt... what have you done with the real Sabine??
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  353. I didn't figure it out. I thought the light would have a gravitational effect on the neutron even if it didn't hit the neutron, which is probably true but so insignificant as to not contribute meaningfully.
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  354.  @MrRolnicek  Perhaps, but I am a bit unclear as to what happens after the freeze plug melts and the fuel drains into the tanks below. Can the fuel be recovered and used, or do you have to write off the reactor? If the latter, then I think the extra expense of a particle accelerator might be worth it.
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  355. If I'm accelerating just sitting here, am I radiating gravitational waves? Very weak ones, of course.
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  356. So objective reality does exist? That's good news in a way, but that does mean I have to go pay my bills.
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  357. I'll take good news where I can find it.
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  358. My wife had to stop using tramadol and is looking to use cannabis or a derivative. I think I'll avoid mentioning that it only has a mild effect; maybe the placebo effect will help more that way. Could be a genuine case where ignorance really is bliss.
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  359. @vinski_ Why not? Because, frankly, if the idea is that we have to give up the economic system with the best track record to try another alternative after a long string of those alternatives performing worse, I'd just as soon stick with what we have.
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  360.  @lor3122  Average wealth, economic freedom, individual liberty, CO2 emissions per capita. Whadya need?
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  361. @vinski_ "Socialism is not the alternative to capitalism." Um... could you tell that to the socialists? And you didn't answer my point.
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  362. That helps, doc. It bothered me that from light's POV the rest of the universe was moving infinitely fast. Thanks!
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  363. Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Now you know Sabine's gone far.
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