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Recent content by sjastro

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    Sugar Molecules Found In Space

    While you consider yourself a legend in your own mind, you display a stunning lack of critical thinking skills. If everything is so binary in your mind consider the case of fire, was it a gift from God as it provided warmth and cooking or a gift from Satan, as a weapon used by arsonists and...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    I thought it was a matter of perspective with the image tilted to give a 3D rendering but coming from the horse's mouth is an admission of error.
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    My idea of taking time slices of the spin direction deviations and stacking them was considered 'clever' by Gemini. The next step is get to get an astrophysicist to have a look at it, I'll try Brian Koberlein.
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    There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

    As usual you have a talent of contradicting your own words. This is what you stated. If you were stating the opposite, the "level of religion" would be more advanced for hunter gatherers than for cultures that had established settlements and were building temples of worship. The idea that...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    The image is slightly tilted to provide as 3D type rendition with the Earth sitting at the top of the paraboloid so the scaling does makes sense. However I questioned ChatGPT-5.5 on how it came up with the shape in the first place using the Gravity Probe B data. The answer was it didn't with the...
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    There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

    Stevie mentioned this in another thread. I recall he stated somewhere the Australian aboriginals lacked religious complexity like Christianity because they did not construct buildings such as churches. It shows cultural ignorance manifested as unintentional racism... or maybe it wasn't...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    In my previous post I mentioned free fall and tangent spaces. A tangent plane is a plane tangent to a curved surface, a tangent space is the same generalization for higher dimensions. In the 1950s scientists came up with the idea that if gyroscopes are in free fall in curved spacetime, their...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    Well sjastro's brain became addled as the spacetime time visualization was in fact very difficult to visualize, when the photon and particle trajectories are treated separately. For the case of photon trajectories, I used the gravitational bending of light as reference trajectories, the diagram...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    This doesn't work either. At best it is only a 3D spatial approximation which completely ignores the time element in spacetime. I got ChatGPT-5.5 to eventually 'understand' it needed to plot trajectories for 3 different types of scenarios to show how the trajectories react around Earth's curved...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    Good grief! This looks like an example of psychotic art which is used as therapy for patients. First the plaque, it can’t spell “SPATL”, “MCDELLING” (must have Scottish origins). “REMOVES FUNNEL ARTIFACTS AND DEMONSTRATES CONTINUOUS, UNIFORM GEOMETRY” is the human equivalent of word salad. As...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    The second diagram looks like Flamm’s paraboloid which is also an idealized representation of spacetime and is found in textbooks on GR. Take the Schwarzschild metric ds² = (1-2MG/c²r)c²dt² - dr² /(1-2MG/c²r) - r²(dθ² + sin²θdφ²) and a time slice or snapshot at some time t = T, then dt =0...
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    A question concerning gravity... and the animations thereof

    Here a relatively (pardon the the pun) mathematically friendly explanation. The diagram is not an accurate depiction of how gravity works or how space-time curves due to gravity (it does not). (1) The diagram shows a 2D plane and balls embedded in 3D space. (2) It incorrectly depicts gravity...
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    The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (from Nature Human Behavior)

    Your AI overview disagrees with you as would most individuals. Yes, whataboutism is a fallacious justification for threats and violence. Why It Is Logically Fallacious Tu Quoque Fallacy: It relies on the "you too" error. It deflects accusation by pointing out hypocrisy. Red Herring: It shifts...
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    The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (from Nature Human Behavior)

    l am going to give you the benefit of the doubt your whataboutism isn't in justifying threats and violence against scientists but your inability of understanding your comments come across that way.
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    The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA (from Nature Human Behavior)

    This shows how dumb you are, if you want to show symmetry give examples of scientists threatening to kill Christians or conservatives which at least would provide some credibility to your whataboutism nonsense.
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