There is no such thing as true randomness. Every action has a cause and effect. Everything that happens is caused by some previous event. There is a reason dice land a certain way, there's a reason a coin lands a certain way, and even computer generated "random numbers" are not truly random.
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Everything that happens is caused by some previous event.
then explain to us how & why the so-called BB happened. and while ur at it ?....tell us how matter came to be. iows, how & why s/t comes from n/t.
(see ?....isnt this fun ?!)
Feb 19, 2020
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#1004
MartySmith100 wrote:
There is no such thing as true randomness. Every action has a cause and effect. Everything that happens is caused by some previous event. There is a reason dice land a certain way, there's a reason a coin lands a certain way, and even computer generated "random numbers" are not truly random.
This fails with quantum mechanical systems.
Feb 19, 2020
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#1005
MustangMate wrote:
Space and Time are separate,
As I just told you, someone else's space and time are each mixtures of your space and time, and vice versa.
So it is inaccurate to say there is separate space or separate time. What is space or time is crucially dependent on the observer.
An analogy would be to ask if "forward/backward" and "left/right" are separate on the surface of the Earth. Different people point in different directions, so one person's notion of the forward dimension is a mixture of another's notions of the forward and leftward dimensions, depending on the difference in the directions they are pointing. Thus they are not truly separate.
Feb 19, 2020
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#1006
MustangMate wrote:
So all of the matter in the universe would fit into about 1 billion cubic light years, or a cube that's approximately 1,000 light years on each side. That means that only about 0.0000000000000000000042 percent of the universe contains any matter. The universe is a pretty empty place!
Even looking about, what wee are seeing is mostly empty space.Scientists insist there must be more matter, somewhere unseen and undetected, to account for current observations.
The Maths don't add up and the maths never lie. Hence, dark matter and dark energy are born. The ancients called it the aether an unseen medium that all matter travels in.
The vacuum exists. It does not have the properties of the aether.
What you describe is the scientific method in action. Observation of the rotation of galaxies showed there was more mass than can be explained by known substances, hence there is a new type of substance. Presently, the distribution of this substance is being mapped in increasing detail, but it has only been detected by gravitational effects so far.
Likewise the observation of the expansion of the Universe showed it was accelerating. Acceleration requires a cause and the explanation known as dark energy works very well.
Did you take your super thinking energy pills this morning or something Elroch?
An analogy would be to ask if "forward/backward" and "left/right" are separate on the surface of the Earth. Different people point in different directions, so one person's notion of the forward dimension is a mixture of another's notions of the forward and leftward dimensions, depending on the difference in the directions they are pointing. Thus they are not truly separate.
elroch's right for once. thats why u hafta say 'to YOUR left' or 'to MY left'.
Yeah, and don't forget that on the dance floor either, cos your partner will never forgive you. 
Feb 19, 2020
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#1010
Spacetime is a notion dependent on a belief, that space can be thought of as a "fabric", bending and curving as objects pass through it, effecting the behavior of the object. In a similar sense, the same can be said of the notion for the existence of an aether.
Feb 19, 2020
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#1011
MustangMate wrote:
Spacetime is a notion dependent on a belief, that space can be thought of as a "fabric", bending and curving as objects pass through it, effecting the behavior of the object. In a similar sense, the same can be said of the notion for the existence of an aether.
No. The difference could not be more crucial.
The aether hypothesis leads to false predictions - eg that the speed of light should vary with the motion of the observer. By contrast, no prediction of general relativity has been demonstrated to be false.
Feb 19, 2020
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#1012
MartySmith100 escribió:
There is no such thing as true randomness. Every action has a cause and effect.
That doesn't imply there isn't randomness...
....or this:
Me: I'm going out with summa my friends.
Lord Anti-Random: Uhh, I knew that.
Me: ....and I'm gonna wear my anti-random random club t-shirt.
Lord A-R: I already ironed it for u.
Me: ....oh (blink blink)
Must be nice to have lord D as your personal assistance : )
the 6' stringy thingy actually help me with visualizing the geodesic grid.
Optimissed wrote:
Einstein eventually identified the property of spacetime which is responsible for gravity as its curvature. ... This is the core of Einstein's theory of general relativity, which is often summed up in words as follows: "matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move".>>>
I think that you're right. in the following article Einstein refer to it as 'Ether'. but describe it somewhat as a structure?
Quote:"Recapitulating, we may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether. According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring-rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense. But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time. The idea of motion may not be applied to it."
http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Einstein_ether.html
yea king, apples in my sandwich. lol. if you ever like to give it a try, there's a hole in the wall named Ruddell’s Smokehouse just south of you in Cayucos.
they make it like no one else..
Feb 20, 2020
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#1017
A thing about the vacuum which makes it different to any physical material is that it looks exactly the same regardless of the speed you move relative to it.
Interestingly, it is believed that the vacuum does look different when you accelerate relative to it. In fact it has a temperature which is proportional to the acceleration. This is called the Unruh effect. However this temperature is extremely small for achievable accelerations, so has not been detected yet. The Unruh effect is closely related to the phenomenon of Hawking radiation.
And that sandwich looks AWESOME!
Yeah and when you put a Rainbow vacuum up against a Dyson... you get the "ruh-roh" effect! Some say the Rainbow wins... some say the Dyson....
it seem to me that einstein referred to some "magical structure" that remain even in a vacuum.
yea, this sandwich is something else : )
..i see now that you brought this whole QM thingy against true randomness again.. i'll quote it separately so it remain in context..
Elroch wrote:
MartySmith100 wrote:
There is no such thing as true randomness. Every action has a cause and effect. Everything that happens is caused by some previous event. There is a reason dice land a certain way, there's a reason a coin lands a certain way, and even computer generated "random numbers" are not truly random.
This fails with quantum mechanical systems.
unfortunately determinism doesn't fail with QM itself, it only fail the Copenhagen interpretation, and i start to think that interpretations should not be mixed with science at all, and should be left to philosophy, where they are more suitable.
the truth is that determinism may or may not exist. with our current knowledge we just don't know. both determinism and true randomness has the same standing.
Your theory Elroch seems to go along the line ... until proven otherwise, the best theory in town wins, which makes it unassailable
if i can say s/t here ?....he thinks via the better mouse trap theory. so when s/o poofs up a theory using math twisties ?....then he'll get on THAT spaceship. iows, he's married to scientism & free-thinking is not in his dna.