VARIOUS & SUNDRY 5

(20200905) Commented on the article:

"Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other"
http://nautil.us/issue/89/the-dark-side/why-mathematicians-should-stop-naming-things-after-each-other

IMHO there are much bigger naming problems in whole science!
For example, naming countless species after names of certain people, even many celebrities!
Naming stars, galaxies etc after names of certain people!
Naming elements after names of certain people!
& maybe the worst of all, naming a fundamental particle of our Universe/reality, after name of a certain person:
"Higgs Boson"
His name is raised far above of all other scientists in whole history of humanity, or not???
Is it really fair to all other scientists in whole history of humanity???

IMHO, all such certain people names need to be taken out of whole science!!!

(It is not like names of them would be forgotten anyway! Anybody researching about such things would immediately find out name(s) of its discoverer(s), anyway!)

(20200905) Commented on the article:

"New evidence that the quantum world is even stranger than we thought"
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-evidence-quantum-world-stranger-thought.html

Quasiparticles are obviously extremely common everywhere in our reality/universe!
What if, even all elementary particles are actually quasiparticles (of a Planck-scale quantum computer crystal/grid/matrix)!
THINK!

(20200910) Commented on the article:

"It’s Still Not Too Late To Fight COVID-19 Like A Scientist"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-still-not-to-41445344

IMHO, everybody will catch COVID-19, sooner or later, regardless of any kind of prevention attempts/measures!

What is really/most important is, to keep new infection numbers low enough to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed!
& as long as that is achieved, it is really a success
& whole economy & education system etc should/must be kept open/running, as much as possible (to minimize all damage to them)!

& so, IMHO, as long as new infection numbers stay low enough to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed, further restrictions would only really cause harm & no real benefit!
(For example, imagine, if the total population infection (& following total immunity) would normally take 1 year & instead, we pushed it to 2 years, because of more strict restrictions!
Then, it would just mean longer time of enduring more strict restrictions (& more harm to whole economy & education system etc)!)

& I am definitely NOT aware of USA hospitals getting overwhelmed anywhere! (Or, are they?)

(20200912) Commented on the article:

"New Hubble Observations Suggest Gap in Current Dark Matter Models"
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/09/12/160256/new-hubble-observations-suggest-gap-in-current-dark-matter-models

IMHO, Dark Matter is just a side effect caused by Dark Energy!

Think of how rising dough/bread creates bubbles & (so) a web-like structure! & now imagine that, Dark Energy creates (keep growing) large bubbles of intergalactic voids & so the Cosmic Web!

(Imagine that, spacetime is a superfluid medium that made of (gas-like) virtual particles of quantum vacuum! & now imagine that, the Cosmic Web is made of denser spacetime superfluid (because of constant push from bubbles created by Dark Energy)!)

If you THINK, this view would easily explain:
Why there is no such thing as any kind of "Dark Matter Particle" to find!
Why a small percentage of galaxies appear to have no DM!
Why some galaxies could appear to have too much DM!

(20200914) Commented (again) on the article:

"It’s Still Not Too Late To Fight COVID-19 Like A Scientist"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/its-still-not-to-41445344

This is out of subject/context here, but since you mentioned "war on drugs":

IMHO, drugs which do not easily cause overdose deaths (like THC, LSD, Psilocybin etc) legally should/must be treated same as alcohol (which is really just another (similar) kind of drug)!

IMHO, just like prohibition of alcohol had caused so much crime in the past (& that is why it was repealed many years later), prohibition of many similar drugs are causing so much crime today! We need to take lesson from history!

(20200914) Commented on the article:

"When Math Gets Impossibly Hard"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-math-gets-impossibly-hard-20200914

"Hippasus’ discovery flew in the face of the Pythagorean credo that “all is number,”"

What if all is really number? :-)

Notice that it really becomes wrong, only when ideal/perfect geometric objects are considered!

IMHO, there is really every reason to think our whole reality/universe is discrete (made of (only) real/virtual quantum particles)!

(IMHO, actually our whole reality/universe is some kind of quantum computer (& quantum particles are like its variables of data to process)! & so for example, what we think of as "conservation of energy" is actually "conservation of information"!)

IMHO, that is also the main reason, why many TOE candidate theories, like String Theory for example, are wrong! Our reality/universe do NOT really/actually/physically contain any kind of ideal/perfect geometric objects, like 1-dimensional (0 thickness!) strings or 0-dimensional (infinite density!) singularities!

(20200916) Commented on the article:

"Will The Most Important Observatory In Astronomy’s History Survive The 2020 Wildfires?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/will-most-in-41660592

IMHO, real/main cause of all large wildfires, everywhere, always is the same:
POOR FOREST MANAGEMENT!!!

IMHO, humanity definitely has the necessary tech & methods to prevent all large wildfires! We just need to use them whenever/where-ever they are really needed!
(Today actually there are even more superior tech possibilities, like doing R&D to create a fully automated drone patrol system that can constantly watch over all forests & detect all fires very early!)

IMHO, what happened in CA (& also many other places in the country/world) also always is the same:
Some naive/misguided people who thought/claimed they are protecting some wildlife, by preventing/stopping all forest management!
But the result is always the exact opposite: massive/total loss of all wildlife (by burning to death alive)!
& also, not to mention, massive/total loss of all trees & plants & massive property damage!

& now, the people who could save the future of all their forests, by bringing back proper forest management policies, are seem to be refusing to do what really needs to be done & instead SHAMELESSLY KEEP BLAMING GLOBAL WARMING!!!

(20200925) Commented on the article:

"Google removes street view virtual tour of Australia's Uluru"
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-09-google-street-view-virtual-australia.html

"Thousands of tourists climbed to the top of Uluru each year in defiance of the wishes of its traditional owners."

World history makes it very clear that, there is no such thing as any nation or group of people or person being the real/true/permanent owner(s) of any piece of land! (Consider how many times any piece of land exchanged owner(s) in (Central) Europe for example! Which one(s) were/are the real/true/permanent owner(s)?) So, if there is only 1 real/true/permanent land owner that is whole humanity & nobody else!

So, the only real/true land owner of WHOLE Australia is the Australian Government (at least currently)! IMHO, giving up legal ownership of Ayers Rock (AKA Uluru) to any group of people who closed access to tourists (& prevented/preventing lots of income) is a HUGE MISTAKE that needs to be corrected ASAP! (Unless you want them to claim to be real/true/permanent owner(s) of WHOLE Australia, step by step over time that is! Because giving such lands opens the way for it!)

(20200929) Commented on the article:

"Why Are Scientists So Cruel To New Ideas?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-are-so-cruel-42140780

"reproduce all the successes of the prevailing theory,
explain a phenomenon more successfully than the current theory can,
and make novel predictions that can be tested that differ from the theory it’s attempting to supersede."

I want to add that, it is also very important (for all theoretical physicists) to be able to recognize, when a new physical theory fails some/all of these conditions, it maybe only because its still in very early stages of its development & NOT really because it is an incorrect theory!

For example, imagine if Einstein was just proposed the equivalence principle (which is the core idea that leads to General Relativity), for the first time, it could easily be dismissed by the whole community of theoretical physicists, by checking/demanding these 3 conditions!

(20200930) Commented on the article:

"No, There Isn’t A Black Hole At The Center Of The Earth"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/no-there-isnt-at-42180875

Before LHC was built, there were concerns/fears about it may create a micro-BH!

It is really fortunate for us that any such micro-BH would be extremely short-lived/unstable! :-)

Because, I think that is actually the most promising next frontier for the whole science of (theoretical & experimental) physics:

Designing/building a whole new kind of accelerator/collider that creates micro-BHs (for Quantum-Relativity research/experiments)!
(By accelerating 2 micro (iron?) objects (w/ Planck mass) to relativistic speeds & colliding them (each time)!)

My prediction is, as the masses and/or collision speeds (kinetic energies) of the 2 colliding objects increased, for each new collision/experiment, it would be found that masses of the micro-BHs created are always integer multiples of Planck mass!
& so meaning/proving that BHs are made of Planck particles (which is quite probably the true final member of Standard Model)!

& not to mention, such an accelerator/collider would also verify/prove everything about Hawking & Unruh radiations & also everything about Neutron Stars (because (intentionally) slower collisions would create "micro-NS", instead of micro-BH)!

(So, all these are really good enough reasons or not, for humanity to really attempt to build such an accelerator/collider someday? :-)

(20201002) If Dark Matter is really just a side effect caused by Dark Energy (1), instead of being a(ny) kind of particle that only interacts gravitationally (2), then Cosmic Web of our universe would look geometrically different:
1: Spherical/Elliptic geometry (positive Gaussian curvature) based Cosmic Web!
2: Hyperbolic geometry (negative Gaussian curvature) based Cosmic Web!
Then the big question is, geometric structure of real Cosmic Web matches/similar/closer to the which one?

(20201002) Commented on the article:

"Ask Ethan: Can Dark Matter Really Explain The Universe’s Structure?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-can-42274902

Some thoughts for anyone interested:

As I had already said before, I think Dark Matter is just a side effect caused by Dark Energy!
(Think of how rising dough/bread creates bubbles & (so) a web-like structure! & now imagine that, Dark Energy creates (keep growing) large bubbles of intergalactic voids & so the Cosmic Web!)

For example, this view would easily explain:
Why there is no such thing as any kind of "Dark Matter Particle" to find!
Why a small percentage of galaxies appear to have no DM!
Why some galaxies could appear to have too much DM!

& I think it should be actually possible to (dis)prove this idea:

If Dark Matter is really just a side effect caused by Dark Energy (1),
instead of being any kind of particle that only interacts gravitationally (2),
then Cosmic Web of our universe would look geometrically (quite) different:

1 would create spherical/elliptic geometry (positive Gaussian curvature) based Cosmic Web!

2 would create hyperbolic geometry (negative Gaussian curvature) based Cosmic Web!

Then the big question is, geometric structure of the real Cosmic Web matches/similar/closer to the which one? (Which I think should be possible to (dis)prove using/analyzing large scale astronomical observations/surveys (someday)!)

(20201007) Commented on the article:

"The Incredible Science Behind Black Holes, Gravity, And The 2020 Nobel Prize"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/incredible-black-42472829

"Albert Einstein never won a Nobel Prize for General Relativity, and he himself thought that black holes were purely mathematical creations, not actual, physical objects."

I do not think there is really anything hard to believe about any object/star having/acquiring enough mass so that its escape velocity is greater than speed of light!
(In fact, possibility of such objects/stars were considered long before Einstein!)

So, what Einstein thought "were purely mathematical creations, not actual, physical objects" maybe not really black holes but actually singularities (objects w/ zero size & infinite density)???

& by the way, there is still really no evidence whatsoever that any singularity actually/physically exist in our universe!

Not to mention, known laws of physics are quite compatible w/ universe having a minimum size limit (Planck length) for any physical object!

(Not to mention, known laws of physics are already predicting a particle (w/ min possible size & max possible density) that Black Holes could be really made of: Planck particle!)

(20201010) A solution for (massive) unwanted children problem (which is really bad for both children & parent(s)):
Biological parent(s) should/must be allowed to easily give/leave any/all their unwanted child(ren) to government care!
But w/ the condition that biological parent(s) should/must go thru compulsory/mandatory/permanent castration/sterilization procedure first! (Otherwise irresponsible parent(s) could easily continue, having more unwanted children, to take care by government, using taxpayer money!) (& if only one of the biological parents is available, then the other one needs to be added to police/FBI wanted list, to be brought in later, for compulsory/mandatory/permanent castration/sterilization procedure!)(& if both of the biological parents are unavailable, then both need to be added to police/FBI wanted list, to be brought in later, for compulsory/mandatory/permanent castration/sterilization procedure!)

(20201017) IMHO, Human-like True AI is absolutely impossible, because of absolute impossibility of artificially creating Free Will (to control/command mental focus/attention)!
But, the same end result may be achieved someday, by using a living human brain of a person to provide the Free Will to a (quantum) (AI) supercomputer! (By creating a (super advanced) brain-computer interface that enables a human brain to directly control (superior) mental capabilities of the supercomputer (by mapping human brain (memory etc) areas/centers to the supercomputer provided ones)!)
(Like for example in the TV show episode "The Nth Degree" of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"!)