How long do I have to be here before condescending? Is that a question I should address to a moderator? No, "condescending" is when you tell God how the universe must be, and then believe it actually aligns with your presuppositions. That's condescending! The "parallel universes"...

Hi Harry! (I think you'll like it here. Yeah, the software has a higher learning curve, but you gain some power, as a result.) But what would be the force law for love? Would it be like an inverse square kinda thing? I often think about a similar issue surrounding prayer. My aunt often engages a pra...

Penelope, Music and acoustical theory at the wave level (where I often live) has many commonalities with quantum physics. They both deal in waves, and they both involve extremely similar mathematics. Standing waves, "wave packets", interference, FFTs, and many other things are treated with...

Chris, (Or anyone?) Is there an easy way to post an audio file to one of these threads? At present, it looks to me like all I can do is post a link to some file that is published elsewhere. I want to post a home-made audio file, an .mp3 or quicktime file. Any suggestions? (Sorry if this is off topic...

I don't understand Randall's musical analogy. It just looks like the problem of continuity that is solved by calculus. Like Zeno's paradox, iirc, about the two racers of whom one is always twice as far from the finish line as the other, so they approach the line asymptotically. This looks just like...

I don't believe you. It is just speculative dreams. Matter is real and does not continuously split and multiply in parallel universes. Might I suggest that you work out the physics of a diffraction grating using your methodology? Without using quantum logic? Might I further suggest that it is unimp...

<t>And that unity is that they are quantum in nature. All quantum evidence (which is everything measurable) is subsumed under the Sum-over-Histories treatment of quantum field theory, and it's generalizations. Certainly, the Many Worlds interpretation sits very comfortably into that outlook. Your id...

Welcome! What kind of schenanigans were they up to over at Amazon? There seems to be a new de facto censorship policy that "selectively prosecutes" persons who strike me as quite reasonable, creative and eloquent--all the while leaving the dregs of repetitive, unoriginal bible-thumpers an...

But that does not mean that there is not one reality. Of course there is. ??? How can you support this assumption without knowing what that "one reality" might be? Why can't the "Many Worlds" view be reality? There is certainly no good way to sweep this possibility under the rug...

<t>Great to see you, Enki-cum-Robby!<br/> <br/> Well, I promised you a deductive proof, algebraically.<br/> <br/> Here is a formula:<br/> <br/> n^2 = (n-1)^2 + (2n - 1)<br/> <br/> I say it is true for all n. Here's why:<br/> <br/> For concreteness, let's say n = 4. So then, 4*4 = 16, and (4-1)(4-1) ...