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We can easily set up a classical equivalent of quantum entanglement. I buy a deck of playing cards and throw away all but two: the ace of spades and the ace of hearts. I seal each card in an envelope. I give one envelope to Bob and another to Alice. I inform them that one envelope holds the ace of ...

And why is that? Quantum Entanglement is a method of faster-than-light travel of information. No it is not!!! :o It is. You're being willfully ignorant right now. quantum entanglement looks like a space-like faster-than-light something or other but that something is not "information". The...

Let us say that Embankment Observer and Train Observer had shared consciousness. Let us say that both have two cameras and tv screen connected with a live feed. The Embankment Observer had a TV,  with camera looking at the Embankment from the Train's own POV and a camera looking at the inside of th...

Has this forum gone absolutely fucking mad? :lol: No, this happens every now and then when some other forum collapses or expels members. What's happening is the ideology of liberal leftism which has dominated for centuries is collapsing. Have you read Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature"...

Free will is a very difficult thing to talk about without it obviously coming apart - like a souffle. If science is understood to be chains of physical cause and effect, then nothing happens inside a person that wasn't caused. For one thing, free will was "granted" - by what / whom ? When ...

I read the section 'how does time work?' and I have a question. If stickgirl is on an embankment and stickman on a train, wouldn't stickgirl see stickman's light-clock take an extra distance? If so, would the reverse also happen for stickman looking at stickgirl? Or not? I think not, because if I'm...

The case where each person is moving in a straight line relative to the other does create clock paradoxes which rely on a concept of extended simultaneity in an inertial frame. But the very idea of extended simultaneity is just a convenience, and can be done away with. There are cases in circling SR...

Nobody travelling with one of these clocks finds it to be moving slower. Everybody measures that a moving clock is moving slower. On person finds another's clock is moving slower and vice versa. The apparent contradiction is relativity. If we are both on different ships passing one another on a fog...

Let's assume time changes because of time dilation and length contraction. Now, would that mean that the distance/time travelled would be different for each light clock thus making it 'tick' faster or slower? If so, then that means that the following still stands: "If we relied upon a light-cl...

Just spitballing here, but the Moon will have a longer and more consistent gravitational influence than the mosquito...

Good read here regarding men or women or other types of person having *essential* characteristics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Generally a boy growing up and a girl growing up are subjected to very different social pressures which mold their personalities, along with whatever is inher...

Then why do SJW's blame whites for all the world's problems and genocides?? :o Your aim is to be as irrational as a group whom you consider irrational? Black, white, man, woman, SJW, Atheist - these are all groups with plenty of diversity. It may be somewhat effective to generalize up to a point - ...

Where does culture come from? How a mind believes life should be, or thin air? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G501Ii0X0NE Nobody is to blame. Certainly, no *group* is to blame for anything. No race or other grouping can be thought of a monolithic entity which performs actions and deserves blame or...

In short what I said still stands. Women are not sexually attracted to money. Women are sexually attracted to tall virile, rude males about 20 years old. Ie. Guy from Clockwork Orange. Women marry unnattractive men for their money because they just want money. And then they try to twist and warp th...

Rap music is not a conspiracy enforced by whites, they litterally just love it because of their genetics. No white forces them to listen to it. Actually other blacks are the ones forcing rap music on people and themselves. And if you listen to the lyrics, its just so savage. There isn't even any fe...