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by JProthero 6y ago
> It seems that the energy is being stored somewhere, and that matter itself allows us to tap into that, but is not the place where it is stored. Is there anything I can read to better understand what we know about this? Here are some q
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by JProthero 6y ago
The Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government, Patrick Vallance (who is a clinical pharmacologist, and formerly president of research and development at GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical multinational), said this in a Government pr
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by JProthero 6y ago
The news reported in the BBC article is that the first patients have been injected in a UK vaccine trial, and that they are the first such patients in Europe. The New York Times article discusses vaccine trials that have been approved, or w
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by JProthero 8y ago
That was an interesting read for me – thanks for the link. I'm interested in how the centuries-old debate about protectionism and free trade has reignited over the past few years, and I'm also concerned about how Wikipedia's
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by JProthero 8y ago
I think this sentence from the essay does a nice job of summing up Feynman's character: ' The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone else. ' I'd recommend Hillis' Web of Stories
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by JProthero 8y ago
A company founded by Craig Venter and Peter Diamandis (Human Longevity Inc) has been working on this and published a paper about it last year in PNAS [1], but it attracted some scepticism from other researchers in the field (the paper was
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by JProthero 8y ago
>One consciousness is simply extinguished forever. The other continues. If there is one instance of a widely-distributed program installed on a particular computer, and the instance of the program on that particular computer is deleted,
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by JProthero 8y ago
Well put; this is more or less what Everett actually proposed, and it's the interpretation that mainstream Everettians like Sean Carroll and Max Tegmark subscribe to.
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by JProthero 8y ago
>If you need to postulate such amazing complexity just to say basically nothing in terms of realism, then you’ve already lost. Defenders of the Many-Worlds Interpretation, and some other types of multiverse theory such as Eternal Inflati
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by JProthero 8y ago
The Many-Worlds Interpretation is seriously mischaracterised in the summary at the top of the article (presumably not written by Ball himself) when it says this: " The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every me
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by JProthero 8y ago
This is exactly the comprehensive reply I was hoping for, thanks. I dug up a Carroll post on the arrow of time and the big bang for this thread which turned out to be from 2004, so I know the feeling. If there are any other non-experts like
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by JProthero 8y ago
What do you think of the possibility of 'dark sector' interactions?[1] The idea that dark matter might consist of a class of self-interacting particles, and that we might be embedded in a universe full of hidden phenomena as rich
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by JProthero 8y ago
The analogy of an inflating balloon is a useful one because, as in the universe, an observer at any given position on the surface of the balloon sees all other points receding from them. This leads to the illusion that any observer's p
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by JProthero 8y ago
There's a good example of what pawelmurias is referring to on the Wikipedia vote page linked in the article [1]. Here are some quotes, from two editors on opposite sides of the Breitbart argument: "I find it incredibly hard to be
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by JProthero 8y ago
Interesting how this demonstrates that showrooming can affect online retailers too. Popular retail websites that introduce consumers to products can lose out on the sale if a discount is available by buying directly from a merchant, just as
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by JProthero 8y ago
My first reaction to the education and healthcare question was that growing demand must be an important factor. The idea that a university education is a requirement for anyone wanting a career that guarantees a comfortable lifestyle is rel
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by JProthero 8y ago
The construction and infrastructure boom in China over the past few decades suggests major projects can still be completed rapidly, even in spite of widespread corruption. Political will can be an important driving force for pushing through
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by JProthero 8y ago
Isn't there a meaningful difference in this case between the consequences of false positives from routine mammograms, or, say PSA testing, compared to detecting Atrial Fibrillation? False positives will always cause undue distress, and