“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Grab your popcorn, my fellow “anti-intellectuals”!
A special treat for us “science deplorables” who are arriving as barbarians at the gate, questioning the leftist sacrament of peer review!
Watching scientific peer review being demoted from censorious gatekeepers, back to “free speech” standards for both authors and critics, is truly enjoyable here.
(Just watch from 11:00 to around 20:00 if you want the part about peer review. If you want the full brutal fight in evolution, that is 2 1/2 hours long, beginning to end!)
But wait! There’s more! Evolution is having a food fight!
Likewise, many of us hillbillies who have always thought “hey, that prehistoric ape can’t be fully human” will enjoy watching this fight within evolution, in which a bunch of us evolutionists cry out either “hey, that dubious ape-like member of genus Homo likely didn’t practice burial and art” or “hey, let this guy prove his case” or even “hey, I need more popcorn!”
Seriously, I’m not sure which side I’m on with these papers – probably all three! But notice how evolutionists are now free to have a public dispute over edgy (and possibly wrong) science. “Decorum” is no longer the top priority, and “unity in the face of critics” is no longer the “stop vaccine hesitancy at all costs” of paleoanthropology.
I’m impressed. Trump is fixing things even more than I thought! And I’m giving Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. some credit, too!
Ah, yes. The clutching of pearls by all involved in academia is most satisfying!
In other news….. there is a LOT of WINNING.
Have a wonderful 4th of July, people! Patriots ARE in control, and this is exactly what we prayed for – AND voted for!
Yes, our prayers were answered, and I ask all of you this 4th of July to be thankful for what has transpired.
If you are a believer like me, I ask that you earnestly give thanks to God for our deliverance from leftist insanity.
We are undeserving, we must try to be more deserving. Reach out with the Good News – let people know why you are thankful! Let this Fourth also be another Thanksgiving – for the blessings we have received – and for the patriots who helped this winning happen!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
plegometer
noun
instrument for measuring the strength of a blow
device for measuring the force of a blow or stroke
Used in a sentence (from 1897)
In 1839, a meeting of the Miners’ Society was held at Redruth, and a wish was expressed that the duty might be calculated on a stroke measured by a plegometer instead of the method of ascertaining the number of strokes by a counter.
Not shown in a somewhat related video
MUSIC!
Some cool Wheatie epic orchestral music during this hot summer!
THE STUFF
This bears watching again!
The importance of Truth is clear to Elon, and he’s spreading the word.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
We’re almost done clearing YouTube tabs!
Here are a couple from a rather friendly Indian physics student who does the scientific equivalent of music reaction videos, when he finally figures something out.
Enjoy!
(1) The Speed of Light – Could it be Even More WTF Than We Thought? Yes!
(2) What the Heck is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
How about some smart kid math problems? You remember those gangling geeks with their Brillo-pad hair, buck teeth, pop-bottle-bottom glasses, high-water pants, and out-of-date dresses. Let’s look at what they did for fun!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
Our various sister sites, listed in the Blogroll in the sidebar
Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.
Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Joe Biden didn’t win.
And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.
Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:
procerity
noun
tallness
loftiness
height of stature
an archaic word meaning height or tallness, derived from Latin procerus, meaning high or tall
Used in a sentence
Procerity Inc. is a company that provides strategic and financial consulting services to senior levels of client organizations. Some of their clients include Royal Bank of Canada, Marsulex Inc., Ontario Provincial Police and private clients.
Shown in a picture
MUSIC!
Always remember Sunday!
THE STUFF
Patience is a thing, if you want to work in the mines of Neutrinoville. Welcome to the job. Take a seat and relax. You’re gonna be here a while.
This video may be three years old, but in Neutrinoville, that’s like yesterday. Speaking of which, what’s up, down at the mine?
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
This is an X thread that I told Aubergine about a while back, which I thought would be of interest to her because it borders on her metaphysical beliefs about time, God, and the universe.
The thread concerns a cosmological hypothesis which demonstrates that not only is time not absolute in our universe – the relativistic nature of time has resulted in UNEVEN AGING within the universe, due to the uneven nature of matter. There appear to be differences of age of billions of years between different parts of the universe, just according to their own clocks.
To be clear, the ages are still billions of years everywhere, but they’re different billions. Time has run faster (more billions) in the voids, and slower (fewer billions) near concentrations of matter, like clusters of galaxies.
Not only does this finer-grained look at time offer more physical and cosmological certainty about the rate of expansion of the universe – it helps us think more precisely about time at a metaphysical level. When we realize that time isn’t even homogeneous within our universe, it helps us to break free from the assumption that any kind of time, corresponding to our own, much less an absolute time similar to our own natural reckoning, necessarily exists beyond or outside of our own universe. When we try to consider a God capable of existing “outside of time”, we should consider the possibility that “time” itself may not even apply.
Try to follow along with this fascinating thread, which has sat in a long-preserved tab which I can now close!
(1)
This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology.
The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong.
The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies.
The standard workhorse of cosmology for the last 25 years has been the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) which assumes the universe is roughly homogenous.
Originally Lambda was Einsteins 'fudge factor' to explain why the universe wasn't collapsing under its own weight pic.twitter.com/vyHS4eUoxh
In 1929 Edwin Hubble made an incredible discovery: the further away a galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be moving away from this.
He was able to determine this by measuring Cepheid variable stars, which have a consistent relationship between their brightness and pulsation… pic.twitter.com/T3kucYJacc
In 1929 Edwin Hubble made an incredible discovery: the further away a galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be moving away from this. He was able to determine this by measuring Cepheid variable stars, which have a consistent relationship between their brightness and pulsation period, and so they can act as excellent distance markers. Using these markers Hubble found that the more distant a galaxy was, the more red-shifted its spectrum of light became, meaning it was moving away from us at a higher velocity. The further the distance to a galaxy, the faster it was receding. Therefore, the universe was expanding.
(5)
The fact the universe was expanding meant Lambda was no longer necessary to balance out gravity, and Einstein called it his 'greatest blunder' pic.twitter.com/haDwARAwDk
If you run this expanding universe backwards in time, it seems like everything is expanding from a single origin point, and in the 1960s astronomers detected faint radio signals coming from all directions in space.
This model of the universe, where things started from a single origin and uniformly expanded outwards, dominated for decades until the 1990s. Astronomers were looking at Type Ia supernova at high redshift to see how the expansion of the universe was slowing down over time Type 1a supernova are useful as ‘standard candles’ because they have constant brightness, since they form by a star stripping mass from its neighboring binary partner until they reach the Chanradesekar limit from below, at which point they expldoe. So, they always explode with the same energy and brightness.
(8)
Instead, at high redshift they found that supernova were much dimmer than expected than if the expansion had been slowed down by gravity.
On the contrary, the rate of expansion appeared to be accelerated. Lambda, the cosmological constant, was so back. pic.twitter.com/X4wZI3iVmo
This is the current mainstream cosmological model. Dark Energy, a mysterious unknown entity that makes accounts for 69% of the total energy constant, drives a constant volumetric expansion of space. More space means more expansion, which is why the size is accelerating. pic.twitter.com/1sLWsMTmn0
Mass curves spacetime to produce gravity. But, there's no difference between being accelerated by gravity or accelerating from a rocket.
This is called Einsteins Equivalence principle, and applying it to inhomogenous cosmology may eliminate Dark Energy altogether pic.twitter.com/dfmnphnf7n
This is because the further down a gravitational well you are, the slower clocks run compared to clocks further up-well.
You can reason this yourself if you consider bouncing a photon between two mirrors at the top and bottom of an accelerating rocket. Exercise for the reader pic.twitter.com/eSry9h7vdu
The important thing is this: In the voids between large galaxies time runs much faster than inside galaxies, and these voids are inhomogenous.
If you had an initial expansion of the universe from the Big Bang, more time has elapsed in the voids – possibly billions of years more pic.twitter.com/WqzWAccwtu
The researchers behind the Timescape model, as its known, used the familiar Type 1a supernova as standard candles and compared a goodness-of-fit Bayesian statistics to assess how timescape versus LCDM model can explain the observed redshift pic.twitter.com/WHoqjkz4x9
Now, you can do a lot of statistical trickery to get a favored result to your own pet theory. Why should Timescape model be taken seriously? Two big reasons:
– The universe is emphatically not homogenous, and so void regions DO have a faster clock-rate than galactic… pic.twitter.com/KIBHAxUqwT
Now, you can do a lot of statistical trickery to get a favored result to your own pet theory. Why should Timescape model be taken seriously? Two big reasons: – The universe is emphatically not homogenous, and so void regions DO have a faster clock-rate than galactic superclusters and filaments and this should be accounted for in any model of expansion. – Dark Energy is supposed to make up ~2/3rds of the universe’s energy content yet doesn’t correspond to anything we’ve ever observed experimentally. It solely exists to explain this anomaly of distant supernova redshift. In the timescape model, the universe very well may be slowing down in expansion after some initial Big Bang event – its yet to be determined. The future fate of the cosmos seems still to be determined as advances in cosmology regularly demand we revisit our models.
So there you have it. Does it make sense?
W
PS – something extra.
Aubergine posted this tweet…..
NEW: The man with the world's highest recorded IQ says he believes Jesus Christ is God and is "the way and the truth and the life."
"I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life."
NEW: The man with the world’s highest recorded IQ says he believes Jesus Christ is God and is “the way and the truth and the life.” “I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life.” YoungHoon Kim of South Korea is pointing to quantum physics to support his belief in God and afterlife. Kim was recognized by the Giga Society in April 2024 as having the highest IQ in the world at 276.
One of the replies included this image, alleging that it was from Werner Heisenberg.
Having been made too dubious by so many liars, I tracked that down to a source, which includes even more interesting material.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Time for more dumping of tabs!
(1) The Hafnium Bomb and/or the Nuclear Battery
A nice explanation of nuclear isomerism and why some people like DERPA are interested in it.
(2) Chess Game Reported Like College Football
You may have never seen anything like this. That’s OK – stick with it – it’s fun! The “sports reporter” is a hoot! I had no idea these people existed.
(3) Gravity, Inertia, and the Gravitational Constant
TL;DR – The gravitational constant pops out of the theory and I love it, but I still have to be skeptical that it might be an artifact.
Did we actually miss the solution to “what is gravity?” and “what is inertia?” when they were solved in the 1950s? Just listen to the guy – the equations are too small to read, but the explanations start to gel. At the very least, the opening / final cartoon is readily understood when you get to the end!
(4) Enjoy Some Relaxing Math & Fiddle Music
This is supposedly an exam question for Haaaaaahvaaaaaahd. Or you can just listen to the calming folk violin.
(5) Two Solutions to the Three-Body Problem
First, the no-solution solution, presented by that annoyingly perky British chick who is not Veritasium or the German one.
Now, Valerie Curren’s solution using string theory.
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Like highly welcomed but ultimately skimpy food on a woke airline, we are giving you three choices in random videos that were suggested by YouTube. Each video is interesting at first, but we’re not sure you’ll make it to the end of any of them.
Take your pick! And come back for seconds or thirds if you dare.
Too-Mild Chicken Wings – a somewhat tasty but incompletely breaded explanation of how an airplane wing REALLY works (Steve’s further explanations and corrections are welcome)
Crispy Crunchy Pork Rinds – a young anthropologist offers 5 MOAR reasons why there are massive problems with young-Earth creationism
Overpriced Mass-Produced Seafood – a fascinating documentary on the gnarly but tasty King Crab’s Atlantic invasion. NOT KOSHER!
Joe Biden never won. This is our Real President – 45, 46, 47.
AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
