VARIOUS & SUNDRY 24

(202204144) I think a big question atheists always ask against/to religious people is: "Why God would ask/need for our worship?":
((Sunni(te)) Islam (at least) clearly says that God do not really/actually need worship of anyone!)
How about we first consider, how almost all humans ready to do all kinds of hard (& often even if degrading/humiliating!) work in return for just a little bit (more) money!?
(I had read that "The Great Hero/Savior of The Jewish People" Bar Kokhba required people to cut-off one of their fingers, as a sign/evidence of loyalty/commitment to him & to his side/cause!)
& yet, if God asks for any (easy to do) worship from people, in return for erasing/forgiving their sins & giving them an eternal life of utter luxury/pleasure/fun/joy/happiness, that is still too much to ask?

(By the way, according to (Sunni(te)) Islam, nobody's good deeds/actions are really enough to actually deserve/earn an eternal life in Heaven! (& so, people go to Heaven really/actually as a gift from God!)
(Because, realize that, even if Heaven was just a luxury hotel that costs only the smallest amount of money per day, its total cost/worth would be infinite amount of money! & in a finite/limited (in every way) world, what good deed(s) could possibly really/actually have infinite value?))

(202204166) I had read that "The Prophet Of Atheists" Charles Darwin had called the concept of eternal punishment in Hell "a damnable doctrine"!
(I think he really maybe thought/called as "The Prophet Of Atheists", because Theory Of Evolution do not really/actually has an(y) true/absolute proof & so, belief of atheists in Theory Of Evolution is really/actually faith-based, just like belief of creationists in God!)

According to (Sunni(te)) Islam, the reason/justification seems/said to be, because, if those people had lived an eternal life on Earth, they would still never believe in The Correct/Valid/True God/Religion/Denomination!

Also, wouldn't it be really logical/natural to think/expect that, if there will/should/must be eternal life/reward in Heaven, also there will/should/must be eternal life/punishment in Hell?

Also, I think, for anything to really/actually/truly have a meaning/value, it needs to be permanent/eternal!
For example, our lives could really have a meaning/value, if there is no afterlife & our world/universe will surely end someday?
Do we really/actually have true ownership of anything, if it is only temporary? (I think true ownership of land/property/anything only really/actually exists in Heaven!)
& so, any reward/punishment is really/actually/true reward/punishment, if it is only temporary?

(202204177) How all future events/actions still could be fully predictable to God, despite existence of free-wills & randomness of QM?:
Realize that, if all/whole reality is really/actually created & run by God, similar to a computer simulation, then, all random number input data to the simulation would also need to be created & provided by God!
& similarly, God would be the one who somehow really/actually creates/provides all free-wills!
& if so then, is it really still surprising that God can predict all future events/actions?

(202204181) Tires filled w/ air require constant periodic inspections/maintenance & what is worse is, even a tiny unnoticed object can rupture/blowout a tire anytime!
Imagine a material that is aerogel/hydrogel-like (& soft & elastic) (or soft & solid balls/beads?) which can be filled into any existing tire to convert it into an airless tire!

(202204181) A paper/film-like material that creates only CO2 & H2O when burns (just like candle wax!?) that is infused w/ nicotine and/or THC to make cigar(ette/illo)!
(It could be made as 3 layers w/ a wavy middle layer to allow passage of air when rolled into cigar(ette/illo) shape!)

(202204225) According to the Islamic stories of The (Grand) Prophets (at least), it seems that people pretty much always strongly try to resist (& even fight!) against a(ny) new god/religion!
But, then, how they all acquired their old gods of Paganism/Idolatry exactly?
It seems that a certain hadith of Grand-Prophet Muhammad offering/providing an/the answer!:
It says that 3 Gods/Idols of 3 certain tribes were actually/originally the (human) leaders of their founding first families!
& after their deaths, the people of the tribes were built monuments in their names to always remember & honor them!
But, over time, the actual/original purposes of building those monuments were forgotten & they were turned into "The Gods/Idols" of those tribes!
& so, I think, for example, the names of Ancient Greek Gods (like Zeus, Ares, Hades, etc) also actually quite likely are the names of the founding leaders of The Greek Nation!

(But, what about each god having a special power/responsibility/job & what about countless stories/legends about each god?:
I do not think it is really hard to guess that, once people created many gods, they would also assign a separate special power/responsibility/job to each god, sooner or later!
& I think, it is also not really hard to guess that, sooner or later, some people who have story-telling talents would start creating & telling glorious (& fictional!) stories of their gods & in return would be showered w/ gifts/rewards!
(I think, even in Christianity, there is such a great example of that: Dante Alighieri!))

(& by the way, Islam (at least) actually clearly states/claims that, if there were really multiple gods, they would run into conflict(s) (sooner or later) & so the order/peace of the world/universe would suffer! & I think it really/actually makes perfect sense, as we can see, for example, people w/ different jobs/responsibilities run into disagreements, all-the-time, even under the best of circumstances!)

(202204262) Is it really true that "History is written by the victors!"?:
I remember that in one episode of the TV show "Xena: The Warrior Princess", Julius Caesar had killed his historian, because he had insisted writing about their defeat against "The British" in a sea battle/war! :-)
I had read that, in early Islamic history, there is a story of a bunch of Muslim warriors abducting a princess from a small island tower (in Istanbul) but Byzantine historical records have no mention of the event at all!
I had also read that most modern historians do not think The Exodus really/actually happened, because Egyptian historical records have no mention of those events (& neither of The Jews) (& even though Ancient Greeks really have mentioned them actually!)!
I think it is very naive to think that "If The Exodus really/actually happened then Egyptian historical records would mention it, for sure!"!
I think, today, "History is written by the victors!" is surely not true, only because it is pretty much impossible to alter/erase all/national/global historical records & governments have no such absolute power to execute/punish anybody (in any way!) they want!
We need to realize that, if The Exodus really/actually happened, then, it would be extremely embarrassing/harmful/bad for "The Glorious Egyptian National History" & "The Great Egyptian Gods/Religion"!
& so, it is extremely likely that, right afterwards The Exodus, The Egyptian Royalty would have issued extensive orders to destroy all written records about The Jews & ban everybody from talking about them, ever again!

(202204284) Check Deposit Fraud/Scam Problem of USA:
It seems that, when a customer deposit any check, the bank makes the money fully/partially immediately available somehow which enables massive amounts of frauds/scams, endlessly!
(Because, the scammers ask/tell people to deposit (fake) checks & send a portion of the money to them!)
I think this type of scam pretty much only happens in USA (true?), because check deposits are done THE RIGHT WAY in the rest of the world!:
The check deposit money needs to stay in PENDING (unavailable!) state, until the money actually comes from the provider of the check!
To solve the problem, it seems the USA banks & federal government (institutions) are simply/just keep trying to warn the public against the problem, instead of actually solving the problem permanently & I think it is utterly outrageous!
Isn't it very obvious that just keep trying to warn the public, would never ever really/actually/permanently solve such a common/massive/endless problem?
I think, what needs to be done is USA Federal Government ordering ALL USA banks to fix the way check deposits work/handled/done!

(Also, ALL (USA) banks should/must try/attempt to pull money of each check for 3 times (w/ 1/2/3 day(s) intervals) before giving-up (& sending back the check to the customer)!)

(202204295) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Could a big enough telescope see aliens directly?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-could-65743832

"There’s a trick that we’ve leveraged in very long wavelengths of light that could, in principle, work for optical wavelengths as well: very-long-baseline interferometry. If we could build a network of small optical telescopes distributed throughout the Solar System, we’d only get the light-gathering power of the sum of the areas of all of the individual telescopes, but we’d get the resolution of the separation between the telescopes!":

Absolutely agreed!

I think that needs to be the future general direction/goal of astronomical telescopes!

JWST is surely great work/success, but let's also realize, it could have easily failed for so many reasons (& cause a huge blow to all future funding requests for similar expensive single-piece telescopes)!

A network of small optical telescopes working as a single super-giant telescope would be a superior option, in many ways, compared to just keep trying to build larger & larger single-piece telescopes!

& of course, the tech needs to be developed/realized in steps:
First, a few small telescopes flying near-by in orbit!
Next, a global network of small telescopes in orbit!
& finally, a solar-system-size network of small telescopes!

(202204295) I think, as/since we can clearly see that all kinds of animals always try to get away from excessively hot/cold (or electrically shocking) places/objects etc, the ethical default rule/law needs to be that "Any animal species can sense/feel any kind of pain/suffering (similar to human species!) unless/until absolutely proven otherwise (for that animal species)!"!
(Instead of such opposite unethical default rule/law that "Any animal species cannot sense/feel any kind of pain/suffering unless/until absolutely proven otherwise (for that animal species)!"!)

(202204295) IMHO, allowing copyright and/or patent ownership for any AI hardware/software and/or any animal species is an extremely bad idea which would open floodgates of legal problems!
For example, who (& why) would get the money, if the copyright/patent is sold?
But, most importantly, what are the min & max limits, for how complicated/smart/intelligent to be, for any AI hardware/software and/or any animal species, to be allowed/qualified?
(& not to mention, how exactly we can accurately/objectively measure/qualify/verify that for any AI hardware/software and/or any animal species?) 

VARIOUS & SUNDRY 23

(202203255) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Should Alpha Centauri be our first interstellar target?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-should-64240069

I think only those people who cannot see the difference between humans & robots/lab-mice/aquarium-fish/cage-birds would/could think that generation(al) (star)ship is a good idea! :-)
Cryogenic/suspended animation would/could be the only way, IMHO!

(202203266) According to Islam, Satan/Iblis is a Jinn who is the leader of devils/demons (who are his children)!
He was joined the ranks of God's angels & over-time rose to the top & became their leader!
But later he disobeyed/betrayed God & turned into God's greatest enemy!
& here is a big question:
Why God allowed him to join the ranks of The Angels & rise to the top, all the while fully knowing he will disobey/betray & become the greatest enemy in the future?

First of all, consider the story of Moses:
The Pharaoh learns about him & does such a totally radical (& unethical) action as getting all newborn babies killed to eliminate the threat of Moses!
But, because of that, Moses gets found on the river as a baby & taken into the palace & raised there by The Family Of The Pharaoh & gets all the training/education/experience he would need to deal w/ The Pharaoh in the future!

According to Islam, each & every human has an angel & a devil/demon who are keep providing good & bad (subconscious) suggestions/advice all the time!
Now imagine that was God's goal/plan right in the beginning!
Realize that, while God surely had plenty of angels to provide good suggestions/advice to humans, who would give the bad suggestions/advice?
& so, what if, God just picked the worst of The Jinns (who is very smart but also full of arrogance/hubris) & provided him all the training/education/experience he would need for the job?

(As for why Satan & his children (absolutely) hate Adam & his children (& want/try to send them all to Hell (eternally)):
According to Islam (at least), when God ordered Satan & all angels to bow/kowtow/prostrate to(wards) Adam, Satan refused/rejected/disobeyed claiming to be superior to Adam!
(So, maybe kind of like how a human may see/claim himself/herself to be (far) superior to a chimp/monkey!?)
(Maybe the real/actual reason was just jealousy (kind of like jealousy of an older brother towards his younger one)!?)
& so, he lost (absolutely) everything (by going from eternal Heaven to eternal Hell)!
& so, it is not hard to guess that he is blaming & hating Adam (& his children) for the loss of his (& his children)!)

(According to a religious (Islamic) story I had read, one time, Satan told Moses that he is regretful & wants forgiveness from God & God said that he would be forgiven if he did bow/kowtow/prostrate to(wards) Adam's grave & then Satan got angry & left!)
(According to another religious (Islamic) story I had read, one time, long before creation of Adam, Satan noticed a writing somewhere in Heaven that said something like "One of my subjects will betray me!" & cursed/damned whoever that is (who later turned out to be himself)!)

(202203292) According to Islam, all supernatural miracles done by The Prophets are actually done by The God (who runs absolutely everything in our universe/reality)!
&, according to Islam, "The Antichrist" will also have supernatural powers! But how/why?:
My guess is, he is probably the worst of all those people who think/thought "The real reason The God wants faith/worship must be because of gaining power/energy from the faith of people!"!
Imagine, what if, The God picked the worst of those people & "played-along" to use him to test the people of whole world?
(& so, made him to think that he really has supernatural powers ("because of his very strong faith in himself") & that his supernatural powers would get stronger, if he can just get more people to have faith in him!? & so, he will travel the whole world, to try to make everybody believe that he is The God!?) 

(202204015) According to The Islamic Sources, one time Grand-Prophet Muhammad told a story about Grand-Prophet Moses speaking w/ Grand-Prophet Adam:
Moses asked God to allow/enable him to speak w/ Adam (like an inter-universal video-phone-call!) & said to Adam something like: "Whole humanity is paying the price for your sin/fault/crime!"
& Adam responded/countered by saying that it was really something bound/inevitable to happen as it was written to happen even long before he was created!
& according to the story, Grand-Prophet Muhammad thought/said that: "Adam won (the argument)!"
I think, story of Adam & Eve getting cast-out/thrown-out of Heaven is also an explanation/evidence/proof (provided by God) about why it would really be a bad idea for God to create all humanity directly in Heaven!
Realize that, for example, people who never experienced hardships/lessons of life (on Earth) would never really/truly understand/appreciate the value of life in Heaven & also they would always stay as very naive people (like Adam & Eve who easily got lied/tricked by Satan)!
(Not to mention, so many inferior/undeserving people would be forever enjoying life in Heaven (instead of their true nature ever coming-out (on Earth) & getting send to Hell)!)

(202204052) Superheroes who really/actually had superpowers ever existed in our world?:
I think the answer is really/actually yes, at least for people who believe in Abrahamic Religions (Judaism & Christianity & Islam)!
For example, famous immortal super-saint Al-Khidr who is told in countless (Sunni(te)) Islamic stories (& even in Koran/Quran & Hadith) appears to have many supernatural abilities, pretty much like an Islamic version of Doctor Strange or Doctor Fate!
(He appears to be effectively a never aging immortal! (Maybe by keep visiting a "Fountain Of Youth"!?))
As another example, (Prophet?) Samson who is told in all 3 Abrahamic Religions appears to have super-strength!
(According to an Islamic version of his story which I had read, he was captured & tied-up (by his own hair?) & he prayed to God & promised to keep fighting against non-believers for the rest of his life! & then afterwards an angel came & released him & he really kept his promise later! Now compare that to the attitude of some other people, who whenever in a really bad life-or-death situation, would think like:
"If really there was a (Good) God this would/could not happen to me! & so, there cannot be a (Good) God!")
(&, also, not to mention, what if, for example, first & foremost, the religion you believe-in is really/actually one of the wrong ones?!)

(202204063) On Noah's Flood:
How could be possible that Noah's Ark/Ship could really/actually hold/carry all pairs of all animal species?:
Islam (at least) makes it clear that God never asks/orders anyone anything more than they can really/actually do!
(& so, also, God does not hold people responsible for any parts of their tasks which they cannot really/actually do!)
& so, it is quite possible that Noah only really/actually needed to get all possible pairs of animals he can get & hold/carry in his ark/ship (& all the rest were handled by God)!
(& of course, God also could it in any other miraculous/supernatural way too, for example, by making all animals in the ark/ship very small (& light) (kind of like The Ant-Man Tech! :-) or by making the ark/ship "bigger on the inside" (like The TARDIS Tech of Doctor Who :-)!)
What I think can really/actually be scientifically analyzed about Noah's Flood is, if Earth really/actually has enough water for such a (deadly) global flood & if there is really/actually any geological record/evidence/proof for it!?
(But, of course, the best possible scientific evidence/proof for it would be, finding & identifying the remains of a/the (very large) ark/ship (very high) on a mountain (like Mount Ararat)!)
(As much as I understand, Islam (at least) seems to be implying that the main source of water for the flood was underground water!
& I remember reading an article in the past which was saying/claiming that amount of water Earth has deep underground was found to be vastly more than previously thought!)
Also, I think any geologists would quickly claim that there is no any evidence for the flood but I for 1 quite doubt that the possibility of the flood really/actually ever thoroughly scientifically researched!
(Because I think such scientific research would be quickly dismissed/rejected/ridiculed today! But, what is really the goal of science, if not really trying to thoroughly answer/settle any question that probably billions of people have?)
(Also, for example, isn't it really possible that North America etc was covered in ice at the time & so there is no evidence for the flood in there?)
(Could it be also possible that Antarctic ice cores may have evidence still preserved for a global flood layer?)

(202204096) Commented on the article:

"Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/did-fermilabs-in-64824317

I think discrepancies found for W-bosons & Muons maybe because SM is definitely still missing an elementary particle!

IMHO, Black Holes should/must be made of particles (just like Neutron Stars)!
& there is only 1 possible particle they could be made of (which was theorized decades ago): Planckion (Planck Particle)!
(Imagine a particle that already has minimum possible size (Planck length) & maximum possible mass/density (Planck mass)! & so it cannot be crushed or compressed any further (towards a singularity)!)
& so, SM should/must have Planckion as a currently missing member!
How to prove that?:
Realize that, if Planckion really is a member of SM then results of many theoretical calculations (involving/considering FULL set of SM particles) would change!
Then, it just need to be checked, if old calculations were closer to all experimental results/measurements or the new ones!?

I am not suggesting Planckions as a DM candidate, since they are unstable individually for sure (because of Hawking Radiation)!
But, I think they would be highly stable when created in massive numbers by a huge collapsing star!
(Similar to how neutrons are highly stable when when created in massive numbers by a huge collapsing star (even though they are unstable individually)!)

Also, I am well-aware that the idea of Planckions is not widely-known!
(Even the Wikipedia page for "Planck Particle" seems disappeared somehow, after many years being there!)
But maybe that is one the huge problems in whole theoretical physics community!:
Always everybody are keep working on what everybody else are keep working on!:
Very popular but actually long failed ideas!

Here, I will make some really/truly huge claims/predictions, which time will surely tell, if I was really right or wrong:

Black Holes have to be made of particles (just like everything else in our universe/reality)!

(Not to mention, idea of physical existence of zero-size/infinite-density singularities is absolutely illogical/ridiculous!)

& for that Planckion (Planck Particle) is the ONLY possible solution!

& so, scientific understanding of true nature/structure of Black Holes can NEVER EVER make any big/real/significant progress, unless/until theoretical physicists start considering/researching such a possibility!
(Regardless of how much time passed and/or how hard/many wishful-thinking tried/attempted!!)

(202204111) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Could “heavy light” be the missing dark matter?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-could-64870178

Here, I will make some really/truly huge claims/predictions, which time will surely tell, if I was really right or wrong:

Dark Matter is just a side-effect caused by (incoming) Dark Energy!
It is just where spacetime superfluid is denser!
& so, NEVER EVER any kind of Dark Matter Particle will be found!
(Regardless of how much time passed and/or how hard/many wishful-thinking tried/attempted!!)

Moreover, spacetime is a superfluid emergent property created by the gas-like medium of virtual particles of quantum vacuum!
& so, one & ONLY way to unite QM & Relativity is, first converting the equation GR to a superfluid & later (mathematically) showing/proving how (collective) gas-like equation(s) of virtual particles lead to that superfluid equation at macro-scale!
& so, QM & Relativity can NEVER EVER be united any other way!
(Regardless of how much time passed and/or how hard/many wishful-thinking tried/attempted!!)

(202204122) Islam (at least) seems to be saying/claiming that earlie(st/r) humans had much taller/bigger bodies!
Neanderthals (at least) also seem to have taller/bigger bodies!
Could it really be that human bodies (in general) are actually keep getting shorter/smaller over-time?
(& so, for example, could it really be that Neanderthals were not really a separate human subspecies that gone extinct but they were actually just the ancestors of modern humans?)
& could it really be that all insect/animal bodies are actually keep getting shorter/smaller over-time, too?
(I had seen so many news articles about insect fossils and/or animal skeletons/remains which look like much bigger versions of known/existing insects and/or animals!)

Islam (at least) also seems to be saying/claiming that earlie(st/r) humans had got all the basic knowledge for language, writing, math & geometry, agriculture directly from God!
(For example, Islam (at least) says that The Sons of Adam were growing wheat & raising sheep!)
& isn't it really/actually true that there are many known indigenous people/cultures which are/were thousands of years old but never discovered/invented any number systems, math & geometry, for example?

(202208081) Also, for example, let's notice/realize that, horses were eaten to extinction in The Americas, instead of humans ever discovering to use them for transportation!
Not to mention, they were never be able to invent metallurgy tech for copper & iron etc!

& by the way, according to (Sunni(te)) Islam, Prophet David was given knowledge of iron armor making (by God) & so, I think it is possible that was the first time humanity learned metallurgy tech for iron & that is also why it was unknown in The Americas!
Also according to (Sunni(te)) Islam, Grand-Prophet Moses was given the miracle of turning pieces of rock to pieces of copper (to sell (as his personal source of income))!
Which implies metallurgy tech for copper already existed in his time (or maybe started w/ him?)!

(Also according to (Sunni(te)) Islam, soap making tech was given to a close relative of Grand-Prophet Moses (who wanted to get (very) rich) & so, my guess is that, soap making tech was also unknown in The Americas!)

(202204122) Commented on the article:

"Einstein wasn’t a “lone genius” after all"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/einstein-wasnt-65026712

It seems to me that in pretty much all great advances/revolutions in physics, physical intuition/idea or data came first & mathematical expression(s) came later!
For example, for Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Faraday-Maxwell!
(& Feynman-Dyson too? Because I had read Dyson was saying Feynman was thinking "in terms of pictures" & he was expressing them mathematically!)
Today, on the other hand, new data is scarce & it seems to me that pretty much whole theoretical physics community firmly believe that new great advances/revolutions will come from purely mathematical analysis/constructions/derivations!
Theoretical physics world is out-of-touch w/ physical reality!
& I think that is why the progress is really/actually stuck!!

(202204122) Who are really the greatest geniuses of humanity?
People like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle or Galileo, Newton, Einstein (or maybe Euclid, Archimedes, Euler, Gauss)?
My guess is they are actually those people who were selected as prophets by God!
& so, I think the 6 grand-prophets (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad) are really/actually the 6 greatest geniuses of whole humanity ever!
Which I think could be really/actually clearly seen from many stories of those prophets!
(For example, one story I had read was saying that, one time, as a child/teenager, Jesus was lost & later he was found surrounded by people/scholars who were apparently learning things from him!)
(For example, The 6 Hadith Books (Kutub al-Sittah) of (Sunni(te)) Islam have so many examples of Grand-Prophet Muhammad answering questions of people etc & I think if any expert on intelligence/genius really closely/thoroughly examined those it should/must be very clear that he was really a great genius!)

(202204133) Commented on the article:

"Is the Universe infinite?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-universe-65021762

I think, our universe being finite & its global geometry (4D sphere!?) can really/actually be shown/proven, by designing/developing the right kind of computer simulation!

Imagine a simplified/spherical whole universe simulation that starts w/ a Big Bang & expands & creates a (simplified) cosmic web!
Imagine that it uses GR & also a limited speed of light conditions!
Its main goal would be creating a spherical observable universe in the end for a(ny) virtual observer!
(An observable universe similar to our real one (w/ more developed cosmic-web/galaxies near-by & less developed cosmic-web/galaxies farther-away)!)

Because, realize that, if our simulated universe started w/ Big Bang & expanded & created an observable universe that is really similar to the real one we see, then, who & how can still argue that our universe is infinite and/or have a different global geometry?
(Because, realize that, we could easily say, how about you also create a similar whole universe simulation (but as an infinite universe and/or w/ different global geometry) that also creates a similar observable universe in the end!?)

WHAT IF JESUS REALLY RETURNED?

How really The Christian World would respond, if Jesus really returned?

(I had seen an SNL cartoon many years ago in which The Christian Televangelists were trying to prevent The Returned Jesus from speaking to their audience! :-)

I think a huge lesson from the stories of the major prophets is that existing (religious/government) leaders/authorities are pretty much always overwhelmingly/strongly against The Prophets & try everything they can to stop/discredit/destroy them (& almost all the public always choose the side of their leaders/authorities)!
(& that is also true in the world of science! For example, consider the overwhelming resistance against revolutionary ideas of Galileo & Einstein!)
For example, consider how Moses performed many miracles & almost all The Egyptians still chose the side of The Pharaoh (who was claiming to be a god but was able to perform no miracle at all)!
Or, consider how Jesus performed many miracles & almost all The Jews still chose the side of their (religious/government) leaders/authorities (who were (basically) claiming that "Jesus is 'The Antichrist'")!

(It seems that (according to history) about a century after refusing/rejecting Jesus as their savior sent by God, The Jews fully accepted/embraced a man named "Bar Kokhba" as their true savior sent by God, but it did not ended well for them! & afterwards, it seems they gave-up on the idea of waiting for a savior from God!)

Islam also tells a similar story that the (religious/government) leaders/authorities of the city were overwhelmingly/strongly against The Prophet & tried everything they can to stop/discredit/destroy him (& almost all the public chose the side of their leaders/authorities)!
(I think the leaders/authorities were claiming The Prophet (who was performing many miracles) is a powerful magician (& wants to be their king)!
But, if that was really true, then why he did not use his "magical power" to make himself super rich and/or defeat/destroy all the resistance/opposition against him?)

So, I think if Jesus really returned someday:

If it really happened according to the expectations of The Christian World, there would be still huge problems, as there are many denominations/branches of Christianity w/ significant differences!
Because I do not think the leaders/authorities of the wrong denominations/branches (& neither most of their believers/followers) would really/actually easily accept they were (very) wrong!

But, if it really happened according to the expectations of The Islamic World, then, I think response of The Christian World would be very similar to how The Jewish World responded to arrival/appearance of Jesus:
Almost all The Christians would choose the side of their church leaders/authorities (who would be (basically) claiming that "The Returned Jesus is 'The Antichrist'")!

(According to Islam, The Real Antichrist will also come someday & claim to be The God!
My guess is that he will also claim that Judaism & Christianity are correct & Islam is wrong & then, pretty much all Jews & Christians will happily/gladly take his side!)

(By the way, why Jesus will come back after such a long time?
Isn't it really/actually very unusual for any prophet to come back?
(& an event like Noah's Flood isn't also really/actually very unusual for any prophet?)
According to Islam, each & every prophet is granted a special/personal/single wish/prayer by God (which can be almost anything)!
& Jesus (after keep getting frustrated because of The Jews for a long time) saw that God is saying really great things about The Last Prophet & his followers/believers (Muslims) in The (Real/Original) Bible!
& prayed for becoming one of them (Muslims)!
& so, he will come back & become a (Sunni(te)) Muslim & battle & kill The Real Antichrist (who is NOT himself (unlike what claimed by The Jews)) & even later get married & have children & live a long life to old age!
(& Noah's Flood happened because of him traveling the whole world for centuries & keep getting frustrated because of almost everybody refusing/rejecting his religion (& even keep making fun of him) & eventually he praying to God for not leaving any non-believers on Earth!))

VARIOUS & SUNDRY 22

(202202152) (Sunni(te)) Islam says/claims that:
After Hell was created (as cool & black in color):
It was heated for thousand years & it turned red!
It was heated for another thousand years & it turned white!
It was heated for another thousand years & it turned black again!
But, the modern Black-body Radiation Theory seems to be saying/claiming/predicting that it should/must have stayed white!
I think we need remember that the modern Black-body Radiation Theory is really/actually just a mathematical idealization & it cannot be always true (beyond some temperatures)!
I think/guess (Sunni(te)) Islam version (which is from 7th Century!) is actually correct/true!!!
(&, of course, how structure of Hell could withstand such temperatures?
Maybe that is an implication that a material that can withstand to even such temperatures is really possible?
(For example, depths of planets like Jupiter are thought to contain super-materials like metallic hydrogen etc!))
(Also, according to (Sunni(te)) Islam, Heaven & Hell are far bigger/larger (& no doubt heavier) structures than even our whole universe!
Which implies that structures of such size (& mass) theoretically/physically possible (to exist w/o collapsing (& turning to a Black Hole!))!)

(& of course, God could also be using modified/special-purpose laws of physics in/for special-purpose structures, like Hell & Heaven!!)

(202202163) I think it is interesting that we are living in times when more & more devices/things/objects (like personal computers, smart-phones/watches, appliances, toys etc) are made to talk w/ us!
& (paraphrasing) "Lifeless objects will talk!" actually happens to be one of the well-known future/end-times predictions of (Sunni(te)) Islam (from 7th Century!)!

(202202185) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: What does “Grand Unified Theory” mean?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-what-62721244

I for 1 think that GUT is yet another long-failed/wrong idea from 20th Century theoretical physics (just like Gravitons, ST, LQG etc), which never created any real progress!

The true "GUT" is uniting QM & Relativity by (mathematically) showing/explaining how the medium of virtual particles of quantum vacuum create spacetime (superfluid) as an emergent property!
(& so explain gravity as just bending of that created spacetime!)
& fortunately, it is already wellknown that spacetime of GR can be explained as a (super)fluid:
From Wikipedia:
"In general relativity, a fluid solution is an exact solution of the Einstein field equation in which the gravitational field is produced entirely by the mass, momentum, and stress density of a fluid."
Then, realize, the problem is actually similar to explaining how water is created by water molecules!
(Actually a much better analogy would be, how air fluid (weather at macro-scale) is created by air (gas) molecules (at micro-scale)!)

(& of course doing that would not be so easy & quite possibly will require so many theoretical physicists working together for some time!)

The only/huge question is (IMHO), theoretical physicists of our time really/actually ever want to MOVE-ON from 20th Century theoretical physics to 21st Century theoretical physics???

(202202196) A generalized method for measuring computer/processor speed/performance:
(Because, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) measurements are not general enough to compare ALL kinds of computers/processors against each other!)
Define a standard 1-bit processor instruction set & convert each & all instructions of any target processor to sets/groups of those!
(Which could be done by each processor manufacturer and/or by each measurement organization!)
Then, the MIPS measurement for any target computer/processor can be converted to MIPS measurement on the (hypothetical/theoretical) standard 1-bit processor!

(202202244) Commented on the article:

"I did a point-counterpoint debate on whether the Multiverse is real!"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-did-point-on-62999138

IMHO, there are basically 3 kinds of multiverse ideas:
Parallel quantum realities/universes!
Parallel universes w/ different physical constants!
Serial/cyclic universes!
& I for 1 absolutely have no doubt that none of them are real!

(202202266) Additional comment on the same article:

A totally out-of-subject comment on current Ukraine-Russia Crisis (just in case anyone interested):

IMHO, the root cause of the problem is, Ukraine wants to join NATO (& NATO wants it too!) but Russia thinks it would create a security risk for Russia!
(Imagine if UK wanted/decided to join Warsaw Pact, back in the 80s, for example! USA really would not have any problem w/ that?)
IMHO, the problem would disappear, if just both countries joined NATO together!

I read somewhere that Russia actually wanted to join NATO in the past but USA did not want/allow it!
Why an ex-Soviet Union country like Ukraine joining NATO is OK, but another ex-Soviet Union country like Russia joining NATO is NOT OK?

I think USA insisting on keep treating Russia as the enemy is the real problem here!
Russia actually has quite good relations w/ many NATO member countries, which is a very clear evidence/proof that friendly & greatly beneficial WIN-WIN relations w/ Russia is really/actually possible!

What I would really like to see is, POTUS publicly answering that "If Russia wanted to join NATO together w/ Ukraine, USA would support it or not? & if not then why exactly?"!

(202203093) I think there are some people who (seriously!) think that "the real/actual reason for why God wants people/humans to believe in God is/maybe/probably because that gives God (extra) power/energy"!
(Because I encountered such/that idea many times in the past (including some movies & TV shows)!)
IMHO, that is an utterly ridiculous idea, because imagine that, if you create something out of nothing, how it could give you back more energy than you spent to create it???
Also (IMHO) God already would (need to) have infinite power/energy, if God is (apparently) able to create universes like ours, just like (major) Abrahamic Religions (like Islam) already say!

(202203104) IMHO, having 2 separate parliaments (congress & senate) is keep causing huge problems for USA!
Because, public (voting) support of 2 parties are often very close & often each party has majority in either one of 2 parliaments!
(Not to mention, each party often tries to stop any new bill/law created by the other party, regardless of its benefits for the country!)
Solution (IMHO): Reduce/combine them into a single (large) parliament (somehow)!!
(I think it would be also better, if POTUS & all members of the parliament elected for 5 years (instead of 4) (& w/o any mid-term elections)!)
(I think election day always needs to be a Sunday (& also a national holiday)!)
(I think elections always also need to include an extensive/full set of public referendum questions (to nationally answer/settle all big questions/issues like capital punishment, abortion rights, internet/phone usage privacy, social media (for the underage), facial recognition, street/public cameras, license plate scanners etc)!)
(I think lobbyists/companies (or foreign governments) lobbying/influencing/manipulating any members of the parliament (or any government/military officials) should/must be absolutely banned/illegalized!!)

(202203137) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Can science prove the existence of God?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-can-of-63650655

Just some food for thought for anyone interested:

It seems that, according to (major) Abrahamic Religions (at least), God created our world/universe as a testing ground for humanity!
(To show/prove who is really worthy of Heaven or worthless of Hell!)
& if so then, realize, the (huge) question of existence of God should/must NOT have a scientific answer!
God would need to create the world/universe in such a way that people still could argue for either possibility!
Because, otherwise, there would be no choice/test anymore!

(As for "Why God would need to test people? Would not God already know all the answers?":
Realize that, if God sent any people directly to Hell, for example, they could complain to be getting punished for things they did not really/actually do!)

I had also read about an idea called "Problem Of Evil":
"If God exists then God should/must be evil because our world is full of evil!"

But how allowing bad people to do bad actions (& good people to do good actions) (using their free will) makes God bad, if God will provide justice to all in the end?

(What God was supposed to do to be not evil then?
Constantly police the world w/ an army of angels to prevent bad actions of bad people (against their free will)?
& allow them all into Heaven (together w/ good people) in the end too (since they did not do any bad actions)?)

(202203152) According to Islam, Jesus spoke as a baby & gave life to a bird made of mud!
& it seems that Christians think those are just random miracles which do not make any sense!
But here is the question:
If Jesus did not spoke as a baby to the crowd of people who were accusing Mary to commit adultery (& explained that he was a prophet born w/o father as a miracle of God!), what/who else could really save Mary (& Jesus too!?) from getting killed/executed?
& could it be that the reason Jesus gave life to a bird made of mud to prove to some people (who refuse/reject) that God creating Adam from mud & later giving life to him (how) was really/actually possible?

VARIOUS & SUNDRY 21

(202201171) Ideal Spreadsheet Software:
I do not know that if already there is/are any spreadsheet software works like this (below), but I think this would be the best way to work, for any/all spreadsheet software!:
(I decided so, after having endless problems w/ MS Excel, for so many years! :-)
Input/output data only w/ standard text-based data files, like CSV, XML, JSON, flat-file etc (instead of any (proprietary) binary-format files)!
Always load data from any data file as text only (w/o any modification)!
Always keep all cell data as text only!
(Formulas, macros/scripts, (user defined/activated) data formatting functions/features etc still can interpret/process cell/column/row data any way they want/need, but they write data into cells always as text only!)

(202201171) IMHO, everybody need to be well aware that some often/commonly repeated proverbial phrases in human society are actually quite wrong/unethical/immoral/dangerous!
Here are some examples:
"All is fair in love & war!":
Tricking the enemy in a war is surely justified, since it is quite literally a life-or-death situation (& there are so many known wars in history which was won/lost because of a trick done by one of the sides)!
But that is absolutely not mean, lying/cheating/tricking/manipulating a husband/wife/boyfriend/girlfriend or any love interest would be okay/justified!!!
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!":
Is it really hard to see that such thinking can cause so many kinds of bad/unethical/immoral actions to be seen as okay/justified?
(It can be interpreted in good ways too, for sure, but who can give such guarantee as that would be always the case?)
"If it moves you can eat it!" & "Animals are for people (to eat)!":
Is it really hard to see that humans eating all kinds of animals cannot really be okay/justified (for many good/important reasons)?
(I had read that there is also another Chinese/Asian saying that says something like "more pain(ful death) makes animal meat more delicious"!!!)

(202201182) Commented on the article:

"Has a new experiment just proven the quantum nature of gravity?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/has-new-just-of-61318505

I always thought that creating a Casimir force field is actually equivalent to creating an artificial gravitational field!
Maybe experiments like this one could be used to (dis)prove that?

(202201193) Commented on the article:

"What is astrophysics?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-is-61357172

"In every way that we’ve measured them, the laws of nature appear to be identical at all points in time and in space, and do not appear to change.":

I think it is also important to recognize that this is not really an absolutely proven (& unbreakable!) fact/law (but an extremely useful scientific principle/assumption)!
For example, can we really conclude from this, no supernatural events/miracles ever happened?: Sorry but no!

Or, for example, can we really conclude from (known) laws of physics that there is no free will & no afterlife & no God?
Again, sorry but no!
For example/analogy, realize that in all 3D computer games, human players provide (in a way) consciousness & free will to the game characters they control/command!
(Realize that, even in "The Matrix" movies, people in the matrix are actually controlled/commanded from "the real world" outside the matrix!)

Just some food for thought!

(202201204) IMHO, all patent documents should/must be written in concise/plain/understandable language!!!
Current situation is just like medieval times when only a handful of people of clergy could read/write books (in Latin)!
Current patent system is like specifically/only designed for participation of large/rich companies & expensive patent attorneys!
Current patent system is severely preventing/discouraging inventors w/ many new invention ideas!
Because, researching prior patents requires expertise in the special language of patents!
Each patent application requires so much money & takes a very long time to prepare/write!
Often finding patent attorneys w/ the right kind of tech expertise is nearly impossible!
So, most patents end up getting prepared by patent attorneys who do not really understand the invention idea(s)!
& they are the ones later supposed to defend the invention idea(s) against the objections of USPTO!!!
IMHO, if patents did not really required extremely specialized language, the inventors could do all the work much better/faster/cheaper, all by themselves!!!
IMHO, patent attorneys pretty much should/must be needed only in case of lawsuits between inventors, companies, USPTO & no other times!!!

(202201252) IMHO, the right solution for the problem between Russia & Ukraine is NOT:
1: Ukraine is joining/accepted into NATO (because it would be a big problem for Russia)!
2: Ukraine is NOT joining/accepted into NATO (because it would be a big problem for Ukraine & NATO)!
& it is really/actually:
3: Ukraine & Russia both together joining/accepted into NATO!
IMHO, greatly beneficial WIN-WIN relations between Russia & Turkey is already a very clear evidence/proof that Russia & countries of NATO can be friends!!!

(202201285) Commented on the article:

"Are we living in a baby universe that looks like a black hole to outsiders?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/are-we-living-in-61719967

Sorry but IMHO thinking that "our whole universe maybe a BH (& all BHs maybe universes)" is utterly ridiculous!
I think the huge question is, if "the size of our (observable) universe is equal to the size of an equivalent BH (which has same amount of mass/energy)" is something that is always true (past, present, future) or not?
(Because, if not then it would be a coincidence, but otherwise it would be an indication of a new physical law (which applies to the whole universe as well as all BHs)!
(Like maybe, there is always a constant ratio between total amounts of mass/energy (of real particles) & vacuum (zero-point) energy (of virtual particles)?))

(Realize that, if the whole universe was a BH (w/ The Big Bang being its center), then everything in the universe would be keep falling/moving towards The Big Bang! But in reality, the direction we are keep moving is the opposite (away from The Big Bang)!)

(202201285) I am often noticing that reporters/journalists abusing/exploiting Q&A sessions w/ government officials/politicians etc, by asking annoying questions, which I have no doubt intentionally decided/designed!
It is not hard to guess that is because of getting emotionally-charged answers/responses have much bigger sensational news value!
I think such tricks are quite unethical, since they can cause serious harm to reputations/careers of those government officials/politicians etc!
I think reporters/journalists are often also misrepresenting/manipulating questions & answers they get, to create sensational news (which is also harmful/dangerous)!
I do not think asking reporters/journalists to stop abusing/exploiting Q&A sessions would really ever (forever) work!
That is why I think direct face-to-face Q&A sessions w/ reporters should/must be always avoided/stopped!
Imagine, instead, all press/media offices could maintain a public blog w/ (daily) new posts about all news & answers to the questions submitted by reporters/journalists/public!
(Realize, then, if people of public see any alarming/concerning news at any mass media outlets, they can easily directly check the blog source themselves for most accurate/original news/information!)

(202201296) Problems w/ "The Matrix":
I think idea of a race of AI needing/using human bodies as an energy source is utterly ridiculous!
But, so is idea of a race of AI needing/using human brains as a computation power source!
Maybe a better idea/plot would be that humanity somehow getting divided into 2 & one side/part using the other as a food/meat source (like in "The Time Machine")! :-)
But, even in that case, it would be absolutely best to design the simulated world as a perfect Heaven!
(I had seen recent news about VR devices for cows which are claimed to reduce stress & increase happiness/yields!)
(In "The Matrix" movie, it was said that the first matrix was a Heaven but humans could not accept it as the real world, because it was too perfect!
Which is I think also utterly ridiculous! I cannot imagine people in Heaven ever complaining about perfect/happy life & wanting our (imperfect) world back! :-)
& so, I do not think our world could be really a simulation created/run by future AIs or humans!
(But, on the other hand, our world/universe being a simulation created/run by God makes perfect sense in many ways!)
(By the way, I actually really enjoyed all "The Matrix" movies!)

(202202056) Is it really/actually possible that other people know someone's (true) sexuality/sexual-orientation better than himself/herself?
(& isn't that really/actually quite common/widespread thinking/belief, which often leads to huge problems among coworkers/classmates/roommates?)
I think the answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
I think the character "Raj" in the TV show "The Big Bang Theory" is especially a great example to consider for this problem!
In the TV show, there was really/actually no problem, because his friends somehow knew that he was just shy around beautiful/attractive women!
But, is that really/actually what would happen in the real world though?
I think what would really/actually happen among the real world coworkers/classmates/roommates is this:
His coworkers/classmates/roommates sooner or later would decide among themselves that he is gay (but w/o ever telling/asking him)!
& afterwards, they maybe even start "trying to help him" by secretly keep trying to make him meet & talk w/ gay guys!
& would it really help, even if he eventually noticed/realized what is going on?
What would happen, for example, even if he tried to tell his coworkers/classmates/roommates that he was really/actually absolutely straight/heterosexual?
I think extremely most likely, they would not really/actually believe him & secretly continue to think/believe that "he is gay & he is just trying to hide it"! (Or, even, "he is really/actually gay but he does not know it even himself yet"!)
(& what would really/actually happen, even if he tried to do an official sexual harassment complaint?
I think most likely he would get fired/thrown-out (or at least all his coworkers/classmates/roommates would turn to enemies)!)
Wouldn't it be really/actually the best, if people always kept their thoughts/beliefs about other people's sexuality/sexual-orientation to themselves?
(& especially they never tried to "help", unless specifically/clearly asked for?)

(202202056) I frequently see (complaining) news/commentary in Turkish newspapers, about people/public keep getting outraged, because of countless criminals (doing numerous thefts etc) are getting released, right after getting arrested!
How such a thing could be really be possible (even though laws are clearly not getting followed!)?
Why there is never clear explanation from the government, for example?
IMHO, there could be really one explanation (dirty secret)!:
I think the real reason should/must be that all prisons are extremely/absolutely full!!!
& the root cause of that should/must be because of lack of capital punishment for violent criminals!
I think when violent criminals are not executed (as they should/must, for (true) justice!) the consequence is slowly filling of all prisons w/ violent criminals & so no room remaining for all other (non-violent) criminals!
& I think this is actually should/must be happening in all countries where there is no capital punishment for violent criminals!
& also this bad situation is really/actually only the beginning!
(Imagine that, over time, all prisons keep getting filled w/ more & more violent criminals & so any less violent ones are never sent to prisons anymore!)

(202202067) IMHO, current 401K system is not a good option for everybody, because it is extremely hard & costly to pull (full/partial) money from, if/whenever needed!
(Not to mention, it requires keep paying lots of fees/expenses!)
IMHO, a second alternative/option is needed, such as:
A precious metal (gold/silver/platinum/palladium/rhodium) account (in a bank of your choice)!
(So, any money sent by employer(s) is always converted to the equivalent amount for the selected precious metal (according to its current market price)!)
(& the owner of the account can sell any existing precious metal amount (according to its current market price), if/whenever needed!)

(202202067) IMHO, body cameras for all law enforcement is absolutely necessary/beneficial (for many good/important reasons)!
& their benefits could really/actually be extended much more (someday)!
For example, realize that there are always so many abuses/crimes/mistreatments occurring at schools, hospitals, work places (& even at homes)!
(Even imagine a future when everybody should/must wear an official body-cam all the time!
& it constantly in real time uploads its recordings to an official government server!
& nobody is ever allowed to access any of its recordings unless whenever there is an official investigation!)

(202202071) IMHO, especially USA & EU & Russia should/must create their own max large (physical!) strategic reserves of all kinds of precious metals (to ensure/increase economic stability/trust, as much as possible)!!!

(202202082) Commented on the article:

"Nuclear fusion explained"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/nuclear-fusion-62283743

Let's realize that we actually already have an efficient massive source of fusion power: H-bomb!!!
Then, here is a crazy idea to consider:
Imagine building a super-giant (vacuum-filled) (spherical) dome in a desert (w/ bottom-half below ground level)!
To generate energy, each time (a min size/power) H-bomb gets released from the top & explodes in the center!
(& the dome is designed to capture all the released energy & send it to a supercapacitor storage array (to convert it a continuous power source)!)

(202202141) How to accurately determine/measure/survey happiness/success/efficiency (percentage) of (a) whole country/humanity?:
I think simply asking "Do you think you are happy/successful?" to people, would not really provide accurate answer(s), since such concepts are really/actually quite subjective/relative!
But, imagine asking instead "Considering your past & current life & assuming if you had no dependents, would you choose/prefer to be never born?"!

(202202141) Hybrid jet engine ideas (for more efficient & less costly airliners etc):
Front-side + Back-side:
Pulsejet + Ramjet!
Electrojet + Ramjet!

VARIOUS & SUNDRY 20

(202112057) The secret of long lasting marriages:
Many times I had read news/opinions saying/claiming modern marriages last much less than marriages of old times (in general)!
Of course, there can be many different reasons for any marriage to end, but what maybe the biggest/main reason?
I think, it is "irreconcilable differences" & its root cause is the lack of certainty/clarity of leadership in modern marriages!
Any marriage would naturally require endless/countless big/important decisions & often there would be disagreements/conflicts on them!
& so, IMHO, it would be extremely important for people to decide/agree on "Who will be the head of household (making the final decisions on all disagreements/conflicts)?", BEFORE getting married!
Because, otherwise, each disagreement/conflict would often end in a way that is quite unsatisfactory for one/both side(s) & overtime their bad/harmful effects would be keep accumulating/increasing!
(& so, IMHO, the biggest/main reason for marriages of old times lasted longer, was because "the head of household" was always clear, right from the beginning, unlike in modern times!)

(Also, (IMHO) people who are getting married, first & foremost, should/must agree that either side will be absolutely free to end the marriage, anytime they want, w/o being required to explain why & regardless of local divorce laws!)

(Some people may say/ask "isn't such a marriage would be a form of slavery"?:
Then, I would say/ask "how it is slavery, if done voluntarily upon agreement & can be ended anytime"? Marriages of old times were definitely NOT slavery!
Of course, it is always possible that people in a marriage can change their minds on leadership later (after experiencing some bad/unsatisfactory decisions/results, for example)!
Then, of course, "the head of household" would need to be re-decided! & the marriage should/must end peacefully/voluntarily, if there is no agreement possible!)
(& IMHO it would be really/extremely good idea to make (standard) prenuptial/premarital agreements mandatory by law!)

 

(202112094) Commented on the article:

"What if Einstein never existed?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-if-einstein-59631097

IMHO, thinking that revolutions in physics would still happen, even w/o true geniuses (like Galileo, Newton, Einstein) is a bit naive!

For example, isn't it really true that many false physics ideas from Ancient Greek times thought to be "obviously true" for more than a thousand years?

Are we realizing that how hard it really was for Galileo's or Einstein's true ideas to be accepted by "The Establishment"?

The way I see it, revolutions in physics only happen when there are very strong revolutionary leaders!

Otherwise, false ideas (like String Theory) take over the whole world of physics (& become extremely hard to defeat!) all the while true ideas (like emergent superfluid spacetime) stay on the fringes!!

(202112094) Commented on the article:

"I wrote the book on warp drive. No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-wrote-book-on-59703181

"The Casimir effect isn’t equivalent to a warp bubble, but could, in principle, be used to warp space in the negative fashion that would be needed to create one.":

Producing attracting/repelling Casimir Force (which is experimentally proven to be possible!) surely means creating positive/negative spacetime curvature!

I always thought that spacetime is a superfluid emergent property created by medium of virtual particles of quantum vacuum everywhere!
So, I think producing Casimir Force is actually truly equivalent of creating an artificial gravitational field!

(202112105) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Are galaxies without dark matter actually real?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-are-59743071

(I think existence of galaxies w/o DM is actually bad for the idea of DM being made of any kind of old/new particle!)

IMHO, actually the key to solving DM mystery is analyzing/uncovering true physical/geometric structure of the real Cosmic Web!

I had seen some old articles from the 80s saying/claiming that Cosmic Web appears to be made of bubbles (where galaxies located on the surfaces of those bubbles)!

But the modern pictures of Cosmic Web created using computer simulations do not look like made of bubbles at all!
(I think because they are created based on gravitational collapse assumption (which is actually wrong!)!)

So which one is the true physical/geometric structure of the real Cosmic Web?

Why that is really important for solving the DM puzzle?:

Imagine that if spacetime was a superfluid & the effect of incoming Dark Energy was bubbling that superfluid!
(Similar to the surface of a boiling soup or inside of a rising dough!)
Then, realize, we would get a Cosmic Web made of bubbles & most galaxies would be located on the surfaces of those bubbles (withing denser spacetime superfluid!)!
& naturally, there would be also a small percentage of galaxies which are located away from those bubble surfaces & would look like DM free galaxies to us!
(& there would be also galaxies located in (large) bubble intersections, which would look like (unexpectedly!) having too much DM to us!)

(I think, if Cosmic Web really made of bubbles, that would also be a huge blow to the idea that DE being an intrinsic property of spacetime (like a Cosmological Constant)!)

(202112153) Commented on the article:

"Here’s how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will unveil the unknown Universe"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/heres-how-nasas-59940662

I fully support JWST but I also think space-based astronomy needs to move away from just keep trying to build bigger & bigger telescopes (at astronomical cost & huge risk)!
How?:
By doing R&D to design/create arrays/networks of (very) small (CubeSat) telescopes that work as a single (very) large telescope (which can be extended over time to larger & larger sizes, if needed/wanted!)!

(I also think that ultimate future of (optical) ground/space telescopes is just arrays of thin/flat panels!)

Here is more info on what I was talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_optical_interferometry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_satellite_imaging

(202112164) 3 possibilities for space-based telescopes made of multiple satellites:
1: Multiple satellites flying in tandem!
2: Multiple satellites joined together into a honeycomb structure!
3: Multiple satellites in polar orbits creating a global grid!
(Imagine that, any given time, a bunch of the satellites in one side/part of Earth assigned to observe a certain object!
Each satellite is keep switching between assignments, as it keep moving over different locations on Earth!)

(202112186) My personal advice to anybody who still really/actually/truly value morality/ethics/honesty/justice/altruism is this:
Absolutely avoid having/fathering/mothering any child(ren)!!!

(& always avoid people as much as possible!!!)

(202112197) The way I see it, whole human society is full of social diseases (wrong/bad/worthless/harmful ideas/views/opinions/beliefs/assumptions) which are transmitted thru (in)direct social contact(s)!
& the obvious way to minimize chances of acquiring the new ones & maximize chances of healing from the old ones is minimizing (in)direct social contact(s)!!!

(202112201) Always minimizing (in)direct social contact(s), would also always minimize one's chances of getting manipulated/exploited!!!
(I also think that probably the greatest (& the most dangerous!!!) weakness of we humans is easily trusting/friending other people because of their good/friendly talk (which is often full of flattery & cute jokes etc)!)

 

(202112212) IMHO, whole porch pirating problem would disappear, if all online shopping companies/websites were forced by law to provide delivery company choices, which should/must include (at least) USPS!
(For example, in all rental apartments I ever lived, the situation was that only USPS delivery workers had keys to the apartment buildings & their mail boxes! & for large packages, they would leave notifications to pick-up anytime later, from the local post office!)

 

(202112271) Let's realize that paints are a massive source of pollution for whole world!
IMHO, humanity should/must work towards making ALL land/sea/air vehicles from stainless steel & aluminum & eventually titanium!

(202112271) IMHO, ALL EV companies need to realize that, so many people still do not have (easy) access to EV charging infrastructure!
& so, it is extremely important that ALL EVs should/must have add-on option (by law!?) for including a ((bio)diesel/(bio)fuel) flex-fuel (gas-turbine!?) auto-recharger/range-extender, to make them "backward-compatible" w/ ICE vehicles (to really enable full/wide-scale adoption of EVs)!
(Which would effectively make those EVs "series-hybrid" & they would be still significantly more efficient (& less polluting!) than ICE vehicles, no doubt!)

 

(202112282) Imagine a future world where/when all home/building heating/cooling & cooking done using electricity only & almost everybody charges electric cars/trucks/vehicles (at home/work) every night!
& so IMHO, it is extremely important that ALL country/state/city/town/building/house electricity/power grids to be upgraded ASAP, to be ready to handle such massive constant load!
(This would also enable disabling/removing all natural gas grids in cities/towns (which are always constant risk/danger for explosions or poisonings)/(& using natural gas to produce electricity for cities/towns, instead)!)

 

(202112282) Commented on the article:

"Is The Universe Actually A Fractal?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-universe-60424689

I think fractals were seen as purely artificial/exceptional (even pathological!) human inventions, when they were first created!
But later, they were found to be quite literally everywhere in nature! :-)

I had seen recent articles saying/claiming that complex (2D) numbers were found to be foundational (& natural!) parts of our (quantum) reality!
(Instead of simply being useful (& artificial!) mathematical tools!)

I think, quite possibly, quaternions (4D numbers) & octonions (8D numbers) are also foundational (& natural!) parts of our (quantum) reality! (& maybe even sedenions (16D numbers)!)

I also think that quantum computers are also not really/purely human inventions but our whole reality itself is actually a quantum computer (like I had said before)!

I had read that Ancient Greek Pythagoreans believed that "all (everything) is number"!
I think it is actually quite true! :-)
I think it is also the reason for why our universe/reality is so extremely (but not perfectly) mathematical (which is something that surprised many great scientists)!
(& "not perfectly" because, for example, 0D points (singularities) or 1D ring singularities (or strings etc) do not physically exist & fields/spacetime are not really continuous (IMHO)!)

(202112304) Commented on the article:

"This is why physicists suspect the Multiverse very likely exists"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-is-why-very-60492881

The idea of multiverse is really closely related to Anthropic Principle (which is the proposed solution for Fine-tuning Problem)!
& I think there is actually a huge problem w/ it!:

Our universe & world do not simply/just have necessary conditions for life & humanity to exist, but actually have absolutely the perfect conditions for them!
Our universe & world extremely easily could have conditions for life & humanity to barely exist!
Realize that, probability for life & humanity to barely exist, would actually be vastly/extremely/incomparably greater than probability for life & humanity to perfectly exist!
Imagine that, if the situation really is (as very strongly appears to be!), a single planet in a vast universe & both the universe & the planet have absolutely the perfect conditions for life & humanity to exist, then, is it still really logical/reasonable to think that it is just because of dumb luck?
At least to me, the answer is definitely no!!

(202112315) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: How long until our calendar needs replacing?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-how-60547549

I think what is way more urgently needed, before worrying about replacing/fixing date/time measurement system, is replacing/fixing all other measurements! :-)

I think it is way past time for USA to switch to the metric system, like the rest of the world/humanity (for many good/important reasons!)!

What needed is a (federal) law that makes using metric system mandatory, starting by a future date (something like 10 years ahead)!

(202201053) Commented on the article:

"The Universe is already in its sixth and final era"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/universe-is-in-60754467

Could it be really just a coincidence that (major) Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity & Islam) are saying/claiming that God created our Universe in 6 "days" & it appears that our Universe passed thru 6 stages/eras, since the Big Bang?
(I for 1 do not think so!)

(202201064) Commented on the article:

"How the unstable muon could revolutionize experimental particle physics"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-unstable-60798268

IMHO, it is quite/extremely likely that there are no new particles until Planck Scale!
Ideas like FCC or Muon Collider are only provide very limited collision energy increases for really massive cost!
It is extremely likely that they would find no new particle(s) & turn into truly huge disappointments/wastes!
& then, they would discourage/prevent better collider designs from getting realized!

Then, what is the right path for future particle physics research?:

IMHO, right path for going towards & eventually reaching Planck Scale collision energies is that humanity learning to accelerate & collide heavier & heavier (ionized) molecules!
(Which would require truly new accelerator/collider designs, for sure!)
Imagine, for example, being able to accelerate/collide (individual) C60 molecules someday!
Imagine, ultimately, being able to accelerate/collide (individual) tiny (charged) (iron) beads/balls (which have Planck mass) someday!

Realize that, if really there are any new particle(s), before reaching Planck Scale, above strategy would already show/detect that, too!
& even if there are no new particles, then, above strategy would still allow learning everything about all kinds of Neutron Star matter & Quark-Gluon Plasmas & eventually Black Holes!

(If the problem is "colliding large molecules would not gives us clean data" then I would say "we have AI to help us analyze all data now"!)

(202201075) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Could the ‘Breakthrough Starshot’ project even survive its planned journey?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-could-60853758

IMHO, such a project is actually possible but the current approach is absolutely wrong/impractical!
The right/practical approach would be first designing/creating arrays/panels of massive numbers of tiny/efficient (solid-state) lasers or (white) LEDs & having/carrying them onboard the probe!
(& use a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) as the power source!)
Yes, the thrust produced would be tiny but it would be continuous (just like wanted/required)!
& the whole project would be far less costly/risky!

(202201112) What is the best government system?:
I think, what pretty much whole human history really shows/proves is that, kingdoms/empires/nations/states/countries prosper when good/talented/smart/patriotic leaders come to power, regardless of what political government system is used!!!
So, the answer really/clearly/obviously is: MERITOCRACY!
Also, another huge lesson from whole human history is that people w/ great merits can come from all kinds of different backgrounds (like from poor/minority families)!
So, for creating/establishing best possible meritocracy, first thing to do would/could be creating/using a national general exam (that measures intelligence/understanding/creativity & general basic knowledge) that people from all kinds of different backgrounds can enter!
& then making sure (by law!) candidates for all kinds of government/public/private jobs are selected/ranked based on scores from that national exam!
(I think, such meritocracy system still would not be perfect though!
Because, especially people given top government/public/private job positions also need to be truthful/honest & unselfish & patriotic & such personal qualities/merits cannot be determined/measured by any oral/written exam, unless an extremely accurate lie detector tech is available/used!)

VARIOUS & SUNDRY 19

(202111011) It seems to me, pretty much our whole world, is in huge/desperate need of, long-lasting (at least a year!) (w/o freezer/fridge!) basic/staple food!
Like these, for example:
1/2/3 raw/boiled eggs in a can!
Baked French Fries in a can/box/package!
Baked French Baguette Bread (or bagels) in a can/box/package!
Mozzarella cheese!
Mixed dried fruits/vegetables in a can/box/package! (Also could be in Turkish Delight form!)
(Also, IMHO, all kinds of milk need to be (very) long-lasting (w/o fridge!) UHT milk, by national/global law!)

(202111044) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: What if the Universe lives in a false vacuum state?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-what-58282912

"We had just measured the value of the vacuum energy inherent to space, and it was very small, but very importantly, greater than zero."

IMHO, physical reality of virtual particles of quantum vacuum is unquestionable because of overwhelming evidences & reasons!
& if that is true, then, I think, it is no surprise at all that measured vacuum energy is very small & positive!

Imagine, for example, if a particle like electron is keep popping in & out of existence everywhere then realize that it would be like having a static field everywhere (when looked/measured from large/higher scales)!
Then, realize, we could calculate vacuum energy for a certain volume by calculating how many electrons would be in existence, on average, any given moment, in there!
(Which, would be a very small & positive value, no doubt!)

So, IMHO, to calculate the true value of vacuum energy, what we need to know would be the full composition/properties of virtual particle medium of quantum vacuum (everywhere)!
(Like, what kind of particles it contains exactly & w/ what probabilities!?)

(202111066) Additional comment on the same article:

(By the way, if anyone interested, as I am a firm believer of our universe (reality) being a quantum computer (which is just keep processing real & virtual particle movements/decays/interactions), idea of our universe being like soap bubble that can pop anytime (false vacuum decay) is absolutely impossible to me!)

(202111125) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Why can’t black holes be made of dark matter?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-why-be-58623361

First of all, IMHO, thinking/assuming Black Holes contain singularities (which have zero-size & infinite-density!) is utterly ridiculous!
(How any 2 BHs could have different physical properties (like mass & spin), in that case, for example?)
I think progress in theoretical physics is pretty much stuck today, because of this kind of physically out-of-touch thinking!
Assuming that, if anything mathematically/geometrically possible, it is also physically possible!
Assuming that, our universe is made of perfect/ideal mathematical/geometric objects, like 0D points and/or 1D rings/strings etc!
Just like when Kepler wasted many years trying to explain whole celestial mechanics using 5 (perfect!) Platonic Solids!

BHs should/must be made of particles, just like everything else in our universe!
& guess what?: There is only 1 possible/suitable particle then: Planckion!
A particle that has min possible size (Planck length) & max possible density (Planck mass) & so can never be crushed or compressed any further!
A particle that is itself is a micro-BH! (Realize, for example, a Neutron Star is just like a giant neutron!)

(202111151) Additional comment on the same article:

Imagine, 2 zero-size(!) objects: one of them has the mass of a large star(!) & the other has the mass of a galaxy!
Logically/physically this really makes any sense?

& also, isn't it really unbelievable/outrageous that even ideas like this below get serious consideration by the theoretical physicists but not a logically straightforward idea like possibility of BHs being made of planckion particles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)

Not to mention, possibility of BHs being made of planckion particles comes w/ (dis)provable consequences, like these:

Good/bad differences in values of any theoretical calculations which require including ALL SM (virtual) particles!

It could mean, GWs being discrete in units of Planck mass/energy!

& of course, it would mean all BH masses (micro to macro) being discrete in units of Planck mass!

(202111173) Keeping people in medically-induced coma (MIC) long enough may cure all addiction problems & overweightness & type 2 diabetes etc?

(202111254) Commented on the article:

"The science lesson we should all be thankful for in 2021"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/science-lesson-59120130

I had read that methane gas released by cows is also a significant contributor of GW!
If so, then, why not humanity do some R&D to permanently alter/augment gut microbiome of cows, so that methane gas is converted to any other harmless chemical?
(Realize that, such tech would be also really useful for humans & pets too!)

"This is a novel coronavirus that entered the human population in late 2019":

A little personal story for anyone interested:

In the beginning of NOVEMBER 2019 I got a severe case of "flu", for about a week, even though I had a flushot already!
Afterwards I never had any similar sickness, even though chances of me catching COVID-19 was really overwhelming, for sure!
Not to mention, I lost my sense of smell maybe close to 2 years! (Even now I am not sure my sense of smell fully healed!)
I do not think flu ever caused me to lose my sense of smell for more than about a week!
I never got tested for COVID-19 but I have no doubt that disease was COVID-19!
In the middle of USA (Omaha, NE) & months before China informed the World!

(Actually, multiple times I had seen news stories later, claiming COVID-19 was already in USA months before generally known!)

(202111265) Additional comment on the same article:

By the way, I think probably the biggest reason for why COVID-19 death toll was/is really high in USA is because most people (including me) always try to avoid visiting doctors/hospitals!
Because (as I experienced myself before) health insurance companies often refuse to pay for some medical treatments/procedures/operations afterwards, which costs huge to the patients later!
I think healthcare is a basic human right & superpower of the world USA being unable to provide universal healthcare for its citizens (while so many lesser countries do) is a total embarrassment!!!

(I also think that it needs to be the responsibility of healthcare providers to make sure the patient never gets any treatment/procedure/operation that the insurance company would not pay for! & it should/must be their responsibility to pay for those, if happen!)

(202111291) If God really sent new (major) religions, each time, because of extensive/fundamental corruption of the previous one (as (Sunni(te)) Islam says/claims), then, what are (or could be) the major/clear signs of fundamental corruption in Christianity, for example (since it is the previous/most-recent (major) religion came before (Sunni(te)) Islam)?
(By the way, I know that this is actually a subject which was also covered (in much more detail!) by some old great Islamic scholars!)
1: Believing in 3 Gods in contradiction to the very first of 10 Commandments!
(So, before Trinity/Jesus, there was "Duality" but God forgot (or did not consider as important) to tell to Abraham/Moses?)
2: Believing in Jesus being son of God!
(My guess is somebody "reasoned" that having no human father means/makes God is the father of Jesus!
(Probably for making The Christians feel special and/or superior to The Jews and/or appealing to "the target audience" of The Romans/Greeks (who believed in King God Zeus who had children w/ human mothers)!)
But of course, then, what about Adam (who had neither father nor mother)?)
3: Believing in drinking wine/alcohol & eating pork is okay!
(So, God banned them to The Jews (for thousands of years!) (because they are bad/harmful/dangerous!?) but later changed his mind for The Christians?)
4: Isn't really wellknown that The Bible is full of contradictions & isn't that really imply/mean that it is not really suitable/trustable as a holy book anymore?
(For example, many times I had read many people criticize Islamic holy book Koran (mainly for "encouraging violence" (which is just an out-of-context interpretation by the way!)) but never for having any contradictions!
Not to mention, Koran is wellknown to be the exactly same, since the beginning times of Islam (w/o any changes/modifications)!
Current Bible, on the other hand, is wellknown to be selected & put-together from hundreds of different versions!)
(Not to mention, Koran has some features which clearly imply that it cannot be a book created by any human (especially in 7th Century!)!
For example, it has some advanced mathematical orders/properties (quite probably (mainly) as protection against any alteration attempts!)!
& it clearly talks about some scientific facts which were completely unknown until modern times! (For example, the fact that our universe is expanding!))

(202112013) Commented on the article:

"Why “F = ma” is the most important equation in physics"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-f-ma-is-most-59366050

"an object in motion remains in constant motion" (in empty space!):

Which is actually true for all objects submerged/moving in superfluids & I think that is actually because of spacetime itself being a superfluid!

& it is actually a rule/law that can be broken/bent!

Because, if spacetime is a superfluid, then, gravitational waves would be like its sound waves!
& today, there are many kinds of devices/tech, which can control/command motions of tiny objects in mid-air using sound waves!
& if so, then, it should/must be possible to do the same, in empty space, using gravitational waves (at least theoretically)!

(Also, for example, it is already wellknown that satellites in orbit experience tiny changes in speed because of passing thru tiny changes in Earth's gravitational field!)

(I have no doubt that F=ma is also true for all objects submerged in superfluids & it could be proven w/ experiments!)

If spacetime is a superfluid then what really are gravitational fields?:

I think they are just locations where the spacetime superfluid is denser!
(Just like any object submerged in a any fluid creates a pressure field all-around!)

I think QM is also imply that all real particles are surrounded by (denser) clouds of virtual particles!
Which, I think, would lead to medium of virtual particles (which create the spacetime superfluid as an emergent property!) being denser around all objects made of real particles (like stars & planets etc)!

(202112035) Higher pressure locations in a (super)fluid would also have higher index of refraction (which would cause bending of light!)!
& all motion (of submerged objects) would slowdown at those places (which would explain slowdown of time in superfluid spacetime!)!

Also, superfluid spacetime can easily explain relativistic local slowdown of time & compression of space!
Because, realize that, any moving object (throughly inside & out) submerged in any fluid would experience higher local pressure & compression in its direction of motion!
(Just like gravitational field would also cause slowdown of time & compression of space!)

(202112035) I had read that old Sufis of Islam believed that all creation is "dream" of God!
Maybe because they did not have a word for "imagination"?
Islam is also clear that God's creation of everything is continuous & everything would instantly disappear, if God really/actually stopped doing anything!
So, just like a world/universe created/run in a computer simulation!

(Also, realize that would also explain how God could see/hear/know everything going on everywhere & could do any kind of supernatural miracles!)

 

(Islam also says "God is everywhere & nowhere!" which is also just like a world/universe created/run in a computer simulation, if you really think about it!
Imagine that, if the people in the simulation ask "Where is the computer running the simulation?" : It is everywhere & nowhere (in the simulation)!)

(By the way, I am NOT really/actually claiming that God is literally a physical computer! But, realize that, God is creating/running whole/all reality just like a computer simulation would really/actually make perfect sense in many ways (& would really/actually be better/superior than any other way!)!)

Why creating/running a(ny) world/universe as a computer simulation would be better/superior than any other way?:
As an analogy, imagine a hyper-intelligent/powerful alien who wanted to create a whole new world/universe!
Which way/method of creation would really be better/superior, as physically or as a computer simulation?
Realize that (only) creation as a computer simulation would give you perfect/absolute information/control/command (at all times)!
(Which you would absolutely prefer/choose because chances of anything happening in a way you do not want/allow would be absolutely zero!)
(Then, some people may ask: Why God is allowing bad/evil people doing bad/evil actions then?:
What if, that is because God created our world/universe as a testing ground, to clearly show/prove which people worthy of Heaven or worthless of Hell (just like religions like Islam say!)?)