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

  1. 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.
    2
  2. Apparently there are a lot of ways for cold fusion to work -- once.
    2
  3. 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.
    2
  4.  @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.
    2
  5.  @HundredPercentLuck  So try real communism somewhere else first.
    2
  6.  @kerycktotebag8164 Of course we put up with capitalism. It's less awful than anything else tried so far.
    2
  7. 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).
    2
  8.  @SabineHossenfelder  Just an FYI: Safire is based on "Electric Universe Theory", generally considered fringe science.
    2
  9.  @SearinoxNavras  That's fair. If it works, it works.
    2
  10.  @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.
    2
  11. Summers there seemed more humid the past few years as well, to me anyway.
    2
  12. 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.
    2
  13. 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.
    2
  14. I want to know what will happen with the universe too. It's where I keep all my stuff!
    2
  15. I want to do my own research, but my grant requests for a particle accelerator keep getting turned down.
    2
  16.  @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.
    2
  17. 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?
    2
  18. I wonder how much research has been done on getting soot and dust out of the atmosphere.
    2
  19. 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.
    2
  20.  @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?
    2
  21.  @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.
    2
  22. How do you calculate the true value of your labor?
    2
  23. 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.
    2
  24. Does the FDA know about the pion condensate in our food? They've done nothing at all about all that dihydrogen monoxide.
    2
  25. Haven't some galaxies been seen without dark matter?
    2
  26. So it's their fault I got that speeding ticket. Technically.
    1
  27. According to Wikipedia, it's because it's irregularly shaped, has a very eccentric orbit, and it close to the much larger Titan.
    1
  28.  @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.
    1
  29.  @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.
    1
  30. 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.
    1
  31.  @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.
    1
  32. 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...
    1
  33. But it's position along a vector?
    1
  34. 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
    1
  35. Who's going to play Framtpon in the movie?
    1
  36.  @AndroidFerret  Oh! That never occurred to me. Without pineapple. I wonder if they do pineapple on pizza in Europe. And, if so, why???
    1
  37. Let's see.... Navy, Army, Marines, Air Force. The fifth force would be Space Force. Where's my Nobel Prize in fizziks?
    1
  38. Quantum mechanics makes my head hurt. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
    1
  39.  @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.
    1
  40. I think it leads to the same potential for sending a signal int one's own past, and potential time paradoxes.
    1
  41. It's the fault of today's image-conscious culture. Nobody likes neutrinos after they gained weight.
    1
  42. 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.
    1
  43. 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.
    1
  44. We'd be canceled for not being vegan. People would say, "Eating meat is wrong now and it was wrong then."
    1
  45. Shouldn't an extraterrestrial signal be easy to distinguish by it not keeping up with the earth's rotation?
    1
  46. Very nice!
    1
  47. Is not seeing a Dark Big Bang evidence that it happened? 🙃
    1
  48.  @frankdimeglio8216  i think YouTube thumbs up don't have quite the weight as peer review.
    1
  49. 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.
    1
  50. My doctor told me that I was going to have to face it, I'm addicted to love.
    1