Posted on 04/29/2020 2:39:05 AM PDT by LibWhacker
This could explain why we are in the sweet spot for life to appear. The other points in our universe don’t have the right values for natural forces to make life possible. That would make Earth a very special place indeed and quite likely forever alone in the universe.
But it seems to me that if there is a spatial directionality to the energy of the universe, it raises the question of a connection to the apparent directionality of time.
For those who continued to deny my existence they would have to have faith in multi universes . Believing in a multiverse is truly an enormous act of faith when mass-energy conservation is an obvious rule.
Our ‘elites’ outsourced whole industries to China in their bottomless hunger for cheap labor. Lots of products can’t be bought ‘made in American’ because we’ve lost that industry. Medical supplies and many pharmaceuticals are in that group.
It was probably a blessing China tipped their hand early - - forewarned is forearmed...
All this is way, way beyond my comprehension. I'm not only not in the same ballfield, I'm not even on the same continental plate.
I'm at the point where the Psalmist says, "LORD, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me."
And I'm pert'near certain there must be a "Hallelujah" in there somewhere.
Bringing that manufacturing capacity BACK to Americas can fuel one heck of a recovery boom, albeit a slow starter but it gains ‘yuge’ momentum.
Stay safe, be well. Don’t let the chicomfu get you down.
Nonetheless, I will do my best.
I found Max Planck's wikiquotes page and here are two other quotes that resonated for me:
Now I think this joy of scientific discovery is something that extends to all kinds of human labor and achievement. For instance:
And finally, in a poet's words:
Your sickness, they say, and your puny habit, require that thou do this or avoid that, but know that thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night, and do thou, sick or well, finish that stint. Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better.
We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.
Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! -- it seems to say, -- there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power."
Love the quotes.
I just watched some series about inventors, and the subject of that episode was the guy who transmitted the first image wirelessly.
IIRC, they way they told it, the guy thought the thing up his mind, build an elaborate machine to test the theory on, and the first time he turned it on...it worked, and transmitted an image.
But the thing was...as I watched it, not knowing the story, I thought “It is going to work on the first try!” and damned if it didn’t.
For most things, there is much trial and error. You fail, then look at it, figure out why, and try to figure out how not to do that again. But it is almost always some other thing. And you fix that, and so on.
This guy THOUGHT of it, and just...seemed to KNOW it was going to work.
Astonishing.
This wasn’t Philo Farnsworth plowing a line of light across a screen the same way he plowed a field?
Inventors and their creations.
One movie from years ago which still lingers in mind after all these years: “Young Tom Edison”, starring a youthful Mickey Rooney. Edison gave humanity more than he could ever imagine.
I think his name was Baird...
It’s interesting this story of the first image transmitted wirelessly.
Now perhaps he knew it would work because there’s great similarity between sending an image on a local network — computer to computer — and sending it wirelessly.
An image is nothing more than a series of information packets that are created on one end and reassembled on the other.
And those information packets are nothing but text which represents the colors of the pixels on your screen.
The trick with wireless is (probably) to ensure all the packets arrive because they are subject to all sorts of noise and interference.
Of course, Thomas Edison actually created a science for inventing things. He was the first to create an electric laboratory. He owned over 1,000 U.S. patents.
I like that - I’m going to work on it too.
Having our own industries back would make the country feel better too... it would hurt the greedy horrible elites... but they'll just have to get over it.
Thanks! The Planck quote appeared in a slightly different form in a book he wrote, but I believe it originated in his Nobel acceptance speech.
It doesn't explain it, because the Earth wasn't like it is now at any other point. Take "Rare Earth" and throw it into the trash where it belongs.
How many years has SETI been looking and found squat? Earth is a rare place. We assume elemental oxygen is a normal condition but seeing as how only fluorine is more reactive it’s amazing that somehow oxygen became 20% of the atmosphere. The mass of the moon is close enough to Earth’s to keep the tilt stable. There are other conditions as well but you get the point.
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