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Happy holidays to you and your families. Just a closing remark: What you observe when looking at a passing rod is the position of the nose at an earlier time than the position of the tail at the instant of time you are looking at the rod. You are thus not seeing the actaul nose and rear positions of...

Why do you not do the actual Lorentz coordinate transformations instead of thinking in Galilean terms? Only according to the Galilean transformation is it true what you have just claimed. According to the Lorentz tranformation both the lengths and time intervals adjust in both directions so that th...

Let me quote Einstein from his book: "Relativity: The special and general theory" page 26: He is now talking about the observer on the train: "Now in reality (considered with reference to the railway embankment) he is hastening towards the light beam coming from B, whilst he is riding on ahead of t...

I'd like to see a free market where collaboration not competition is the dominating mindset. Competition is good. So is collaboration. I see both. It is all good. As long as government doesn't put its fingers on the scale. I'm not saying competition is bad. It's a good driver of human ingenuity. It...

Were the numbers not so overwhelming, you might have an argument, but as homosexual molestation of males is far larger than even the most generous estimation on the percentage of the homosexual population at large, it renders any other explanation unlikely. Correlation alone can never prove causati...

A very interesting read. It raises the big question of how such a change of attitude, among businessmen and others, could be brought about. The incentives seem to be pointing the wrong way... Offer the typical businessman the opportunity to escape the constant pressures of market competition, and fe...

The ether Einstein rejected is an unique stationary substance within which light is moving with the speed c predicted by Maxwell's equations. This would mean that when an observer moves relative to such a substance he/she will measure another speed for light than c. Einstein concluded that it does ...

Luzr wrote:Yes, I believe that greens and ludites would be happy to see the collapse.

Bailout or collapse is a false dichotomy.

Isn't it simpler to prevent the need for treatment? You mean WoD-like simple? That's apparently not simple at all and quite damaging in other areas. Why, did humans and narcotics evolve so much in the last hundred years that the outcome would be somehow different? Legal drugs would spread addiction...

Einstein's Theory of Relativity is based on the postulate that there is no absolute refrence frame, like the ether, relative to which different speeds for different inertial refrence frames can be measured. I believe once one holds that all observable processes are conducted through the aether – in...

Are you aware that bailoout does not mean "pay bankers" and those money are being paid back? And are you aware that without bailout, everybody would have lost everything? A bailout keeps alive structures which have led to failure. Neither bankers nor investors deserve to get more money out of an en...

Many thanks for the link, Brent. I'll have a look at the London one in January.

Yes, the Drug Cartel was called "the United Kingdom" and the law they dictated was "Opium will be LEGAL." Exactly. Legalisation was not the cause of the problem. There IS no such thing. Dope works directly on biochemistry. Tampering with the pleasure center of your brain cannot be repaired by medic...

But you don't know that legal drugs are a bad thing because you haven't lived long enough to discover it, and are unable to apply the lesson of what happened to China. That is my point exactly! The Consequences are too far away from the initiating event! Opium was illegal in China when its consumpt...

As an example of social complexity, inbreeding has consequences that do not become obvious until a great deal of time has passed, after which people recognize that it is a bad thing. They don't know WHY it is a bad thing, they just know that it is. Except we know now why it's a bad thing. And if we...