• Nothing is really secular, is it?
    It's exactly the opposite. It are a north and south pole. Of course, your poles are contrary because you, irrationally, don't believe and are not able to understand it as your inborn religious feeling is beaten into submission be a new theologyHillary

    :lol: What? So for you, North is not opposite South?
    I cant debate rationality with an irrational thinker, it's a waste of time.
  • Nothing is really secular, is it?
    Well, I'm not a true Scotsman I can't eat it without honey. :razz: And I have it for dinner.Tom Storm

    :rofl: Well,I've heard that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday Sun.
    Very strong midday Sun in Scotland is probably about as rare as someone putting honey in porridge, but I have seen a brand called 'quakers' who sell little packets of freeze-dried porridge with honey in it!
    Go figure! You are just a wild child rebel Tom!
    Philosophically speaking, does honey in your porridge mean you are more likely to rebel against, or advocate a society that considers theistic tenets when making economic, social and foreign policy?
  • Nothing is really secular, is it?
    If you argue that they are not true religions then I think you may be evoking that contested Scotsman.Tom Storm

    As a Scotsman, I do agree that I don't understand anyone who puts sugar in their porridge.
    It's like adding syrup to your chicken curry! :vomit:
    They are almost.....contradictory. Opposite sides of a magnet will repel but they can be 'forced together' and held in place.
    I suppose I feel the same way about combining the word 'true,' with the word 'religion(s).'
    It's more a matter of subjective taste based on a strongly grounded personal interpretation of the evidence involved, rather than individual ability to completely disprove the concept of sugar in your porridge being valid, even if someone says THEY like it or THEIR religion is true.
  • "Wasting the time of some users"

    The most shallow vessels make the loudest noise.
    You are lost!
  • A new argument for the existence of gods

    The most shallow vessels make the loudest noise.
    You are lost!
  • "Wasting the time of some users"

    Not worth my time anymore, I tried!
  • "Wasting the time of some users"
    Just think brother Uni, and dont be such an obedient slave to the scientific dogmas!Hillary

    Right back at ya! except, I would suggest you try to be more open-minded and not so convinced that your musings are correct just because they came from you. I said the same to the DIMP guy, who was much more apoplectic than you, if you suggested his T.o.E was probably wrong.
  • "Wasting the time of some users"
    How can an EM field absorb photons? The field is made of photons.Hillary

    That's like asking how can an ocean absorb a raindrop! Because the ocean is made of water!

    The momentum is absorbed, not the photon.Hillary
    The photon's energy is absorbed and is added back into the EM field.
    You say its momentum is absorbed. Momentum has magnitude and direction (a vector), so what big difference between absorbing energy and momentum are you making.

    Virtual particles are mathematical only they don't exist in reality!

    A photon works instantaneously. If it's send out herd on Earth, it instantaneously hits the universe.Hillary

    This means nothing, a photon travels as an excitation of the Universal EM field!
    A photonic excitation from the sun takes almost 8 minutes to traverse the EM field between the Sun and the Earth.
    If the sun exploded now, we would still have 8 minutes left.
    You say the effect is instant but the speed of light is finite, so what's your point?
  • A new argument for the existence of gods
    So I should have written it immediately after the offer? "The offer stands for 12 hours only!"?Hillary

    Follow-up time is very important when others offer to assist you.
    Especially when your credibility is already compromised Mr roleplaying athiest.
  • "Wasting the time of some users"
    I have told you a thousand times: a photon isnt absorbed! This is the wrong popular viewHillary

    A thousand times??? We have never exchanged regarding photon absorption!
    Nonsense! An EM field that absorbs photons? WTF wrote that?Hillary

    It's all over physics sites and in any physics textbooks. Your viewpoint is totally fringe, not mine.
  • A new argument for the existence of gods
    We were! I just saw you were online!Hillary

    Plausible yes but I don't see why I had to be online at the moment you send a PM with a physics question. I would have noticed the PM as soon as I came online.
  • A new argument for the existence of gods
    Check your mail... We were writing at the same timeHillary

    Of course we were :roll: Anyway, I like to give people a little rope. Let's see!
  • "Wasting the time of some users"
    nothing about a photon changes in the course of its existence.javi2541997

    How can a photon be absorbed then?

    A few internet quotes:
    Photons get absorbed by the EM fields surrounding the molecules of the material of whatever receives its kinetic energy. The energy in the photon contributes to the degree of excitation of the EM field.

    Photon absorption by an atomic electron occurs in the photoelectric effect process, in which the photon loses its entire energy to an atomic electron which is in turn liberated from the atom.
  • A new argument for the existence of gods

    So, I haven't received any of these burning physics questions you claim you have that physicists have so far refused to answer. I don't understand your delay, since your claim suggests these questions were created a long time ago so it's not like you would need time to form one of them.
    Your credibility has diminished further imo.
    I withdraw my offer to pose one of your 'burning' questions to the physicists who have answered my questions previously on Quora.
  • Abolish money
    Can't you two talk about smart bs in your discussion? If no one is interested in my topic then make it disappearVincent

    :rofl: Yeah, hopefully @hillary will PM me some of the physics questions he claims physicists won't answer. Sorry for hijacking your OP a little!
  • Abolish money
    Yes, that's a great idea. Ill PM you about the question. Its about the parts of quarks and leptons. Good idea! Ill formulate the question when return from walking woofwoof!Hillary

    ok :smile:
  • Abolish money
    Ah, I see. Idol is religious..Hillary

    Yes it is.

    You can PM a physics question to me or just post it here, that you want answered on quora.
    I will post it on quora as a 'question asked by another, that I would like an answer to.'
    I will target it toward physics specialists on quora who have answered me before and I will provide a link here to their responses. if you want.
  • Abolish money
    Huh? Isnt Carroll your idol?Hillary

    No, I am a fan of all current cosmologists, mostly equally.
    I am a great admirer of many scientists also, past and present.
  • Abolish money
    Like I said, Quora doesn't accept non standard physics. Physics forum and stack exchange neither. Banned before. Even from a science forum hereHillary

    So the conclusion is that those who moderate the forums you mention consider you a crank, based on the physics evidence you propose/offer?
  • Abolish money
    I have suggested it on almost all physics forums! They ban you or close the question. Im writing it all up now, little by little. I have a few hundred pages and write about a page a dayHillary

    So a page a day, how many pages in your paper/book? It should be easy to predict a finished date.
    Then we can find out how many physicists our there come out in support.
    I advise you not to end your book/paper with a phrase like.
    'So my final conclusion is. God(s) did it!'
  • Abolish money
    Who cares that your great idol doesn't understand. Not me! :lol:Hillary

    Hah! Whose projecting who? you have just projected 'fan' to 'great idol.'
    You should be busy forming questions for all those physicists on quora instead of complaining about Sean Carroll here.
  • Abolish money
    I meant my cosmology and view on particles and spacetimeHillary

    No, you misunderstand. I mean I don't get your complaint against Sean Carroll.
    He does answer questions people send in and he does answer questions that are in my opinion, fringe. I know because I watch his monthly mindscape podcasts and I find his answers balanced and informative. I don't know why he hasn't answered yours. Maybe he thought you didn't ask a question that was worth him answering, I have no idea. My point was, I don't think he will make much money out of the mindscape podcasts.

    Look. Carroll offers woowoo. He sells it. He asks money. For his books and even for an answer! What difference is there with any other woowoo salesman?Hillary

    I have already answered you on this, I disagree and I think you are bitter and I am a fan of Sean Carroll.

    An unbalanced critique? I just asked what he thought about the cosmology I hold. Literally no one has offered a serious counter! I begin to think that something so obvious is pretty difficult to understand after all!Hillary

    If no fully qualified physicist has EVER critiqued your origin posit based on your actual physics involved then the question indeed becomes why not? It may be because they think your physics is at the level of a crank. I don't think it can be because they are afraid you are completely correct.
    The majority of Physicists are attracted to truth in my opinion.
    You showed that Mr Harari offered a little credence to your position? Is that all you have?
    Why don't you ask a question on Quora and highlight it, particularly to people such as Victor T Toth.
    You can choose to ask your question to targeted physics professors on quora.
    Their profiles come up when you enter a question.
    Then you can provide a link here to their answers to the question you pose.
    I have had all my questions answered to my satisfaction on quora.
  • Abolish money
    It's a joke!Hillary

    I know that's how you see it but you are not in a pub with a group of knuckle-dragging male stereotypes. You are on a moderated public forum and the moderators have their job to do. You need to respect that or they will quite rightly ban you. They may ban me too if they think it's justified. They are the arbiters not you or I and I think they do a necessary job.

    Yes. The mindblog. But, as expected, no response.Hillary

    Well, I doubt they will respond if they think you offered an imbalanced critique.

    Talking about money... Money should be banned! Carroll is just a greedy man, taking advantage of his woowoo, which he obviously sells. I think nobody can see what I actually mean.Hillary

    Well, I certainly don't see what you mean. Do you have any actual evidence that Sean Carroll makes a lot of money out of his involvement with Patreon and the mindscape podcasts?
    I don't have evidence that he doesn't, other than the fact that a very small amount of money is involved in asking a question and Patreon is involved with hundreds of podcasts on youtube so he and they can't be making that much from his mindscape stuff.
    Why would he need to take a professorship if he was making a fortune from answering questions on internet podcasts?
  • Abolish money
    "Doctor, can my pussy be juiced up?"Hillary

    Save it for the shoutbox, you may get banned otherwise! :naughty:
  • Abolish money
    I commented in the April blog! :grin:Hillary

    Do you mean 'in response to' the April mindscape podcast?
  • Abolish money

    I am serious about future transhumanism. Genitalia will be involved for sure.
  • Abolish money
    Are you serious...?Hillary
    About what?
  • Abolish money
    You mean one on the back?Hillary

    You should discuss your particular needs with the developers. Maybe you need to direct some of your questions towards a person like Elon Musk rather than Sean Carroll!
    Elon has much more cash to invest!
  • Abolish money
    Brother Uni! A bionic penis? Don't we all long for one!Hillary

    depends on the functionality and improvements offered. Perhaps a bisexual will require different options to a heterosexual!
  • Abolish money
    Ill firgive you!Hillary

    :rofl: I firgive you too!
    A man should not have to give up his pink, nor a woman for that matter.
    Some circumcised men dont even protect their pink very well! :rofl:
  • Abolish money
    Any future human willing to give up his real pinkHillary

    :rofl:
    To paraphrase some theistic BS
    'Forgive him father he knows not what he types!'

    What a difference a 'y' makes!
  • Abolish money
    I'm...only human. :smile:Agent Smith

    That reminds me:
  • Abolish money
    We all adhere to woowoo, brother Uni. No one is free of woowoo, neither you, as we've discussed enough now. You can question woowoo, and rightly so, but without woowoo, we are blind. Which is okay for a transhuman maybe, but not for people. You, me, Vincent, Agent Smith (he's the embodiment of woowoo even!), without woowoo, no lifeHillary

    I endorse human imagination but we must distinguish the very useful, important aspects of human imagination that drive our pursuit of new knowledge and not the woo woo that comes from primal fears that manifest as BS woo woo from our Freudian ID.
  • Abolish money
    This forum is really a flop. I am gone. You will think of me when you run out of food.Vincent

    There are many others on the forum other that me and @hillary You can still exchange with them if you prefer.
  • Abolish money
    Of course. But then there have to be people without pinky's or eyes.Hillary

    No, some will happily give up their current pinky for an upgrade that will offer much more functionality and longevity. Hanging a very heavy weight from it, killing a human with one flick of it, lifting a heavy object trapping a person legs, etc etc. But still has all the same functionality of a human pinky, same sense of touch, gentle pressure, growing nail(f you want), pain(if you want) etc
  • Abolish money
    But it's more about woo-woo than about finding solutions. regrettableVincent

    You have introduced some woo woo yourself. Sometimes woo woo thinking must be dealt with within any exchange of opinions on a particular topic. The topic of money is certainly involved in selling woo woo or earning a living from woo woo or using the power of money to maintain or even enforce woo woo.
  • Abolish money
    Indeed. Not a transhuman but a lesshumanHillary

    Those with the bionic pinky may overthrow the puny humans with no bionic pinky.
    In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man can become king!
  • Abolish money
    I think you're someone who won't even believe it when it comes outVincent

    What you think accurately describes me is based on your own subjectivity.

    It is clear that you have not suffered much in your life.Vincent

    :rofl: You are full of assumptions arent you!
  • Abolish money
    No. That's someone with a pacemaker!Hillary

    So a future transhuman will be just someone with machine parts and organic parts. Just someone with a pacemaker.