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The strength of the interaction may fall off as R^-2 and maybe the amount of interaction will rise as R^3 (on a large enough scale) If my understanding is correct (a very dubious prospect mostly) this is the basis of why the inertia we experience is the fruit of our (non-instantaneous)...

Aren't we navigating up another tributary of the great river Anthropogenus? To resume... Physics is about interactions. If the effects of interactions were transmitted instantly then everything would affect everything else. In that were the case then the Universe would be a seething...

Well, er, reproduction...:blushing:

Unfortunately, there are countries willing to stand up for what they believe in and others willing to let others stand up for them. The Dutch can choose. It's their right. Just don't ask the world to be fair. It is not as complicated as you think.

I don't know much about Dutch politics but I do know that if you have not the worked out whether you want to go to war or not it may be best to stay home, though in that case you may also find that the bad guys are coming to a polder near you.

Thank you for your answer. I get the impression that the idea that the Big Bang was a quantum fluctuation has little to recommend it. The fact that we are here to observe the CMB suggests that whatever happened was big enough for us to arrive on the scene. So we fall into a well of anthropic...

Twofish-quant wrote I'm not sure I agree with your logic that small fluctuations are more likely than large ones. Yes that is certainly true now because small and large can be measured on some scale - electron-positron pairs yes, Ferrari-antiFerrari pair in my driveway no. However, if the...

I did not suggest that. I said that you would lose a lot of evolutionary niches. Mangrove swamps, estuaries, and wetlands come to mind. The moon also plays a role in traditional forms of agriculture. Many peasants still pay more attention to the lunar calendar. I think Vanadium is correct...

Well no moon would mean no tide worth speaking of. Bang goes a whole lot of evolutionary niches.

Ilya Prigogine wrote a book on this called "The End of Certainty" http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ilya_Prigogine"

Well, now couldn't we test this with some rather large Young's two slit experiment? Case1 : Space expands while wavefronts are in transit. Wavelengths lengthen. Measure the distance between interference fringes with a big ruler. Interference pattern will be more spread out than expected...

Three pages of bright and vigorous debate about antimatter and the fact that cosmologists, astrophysicists and high energy physicists may not be singing from the same hymnbook. And all because I couldn't finish reading a popular science rag at the airport. Sweet!

An airport. A plane to catch. A magazine with an eye-catching cover. A quick flip through the pages then off to the plane. All the elements were there for a deep and critical understanding of the role of antimatter in the formation of the Universe. Or not. The facts as told by the journalist...

Not like Chalnoth to make a mistake!

I have made this point before but never received any comment about it. 1. Inertia is a form of gravitational interaction. 2. Matter further away has more impact on the inertia of an object than matter close by simply because there is much more of it. 3. In the early universe the...