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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