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I'm a middle-aged freelance legal transcriptionist with specialty in court steno but also certified by the U.S. federal courts to transcribe taped trials. In litigation support, I specialize in technical testimony from experts, ranging in subject from patent law to metallurgy to asbestosis. I...

Straight The only reason glass is "clear" is because, like diamond, the crystalline structures pass photons with very little diffusion. If you think about it, every other form of gemstone is valued from color, and that's a function of diffraction, producing a shifted spectral effect. Metal...

Bell's bottom (line, that is) You know, I don't address Bell's Theorem directly but I've got to say that you can't even invoke it unless you know ALL the variables. For example: I think it's easy in physics to get "centric" in our thinking, on at least two levels: 1) we reduce things...

c'mon. The standard textbook example of entanglement, first in physical observation and then in underlying postulation: "Under certain circumstances, an ultraviolet photon can spontaneously split into two lower-energy infrared photons - this is known as down-conversion. The polarizations of...

Focusing... Moni, Nate, Nacho, et al., With regard to my comment about being able to demonstrate that we may all exist in our own relative and independent framesets of perceived reality, this is expounded upon by what Nate said: "Invoking something like the Banach-Tarski paradox is pretty...

Nature of the photon, again See, it doesn't ultimately matter how many photons go THROUGH the glass because it's the same effect as the photons daisy-chaining their way through the glass. All that hinders transparency is how many photons are ABSORBED by the glass. Again, in materials science...

It's really possible, as far as I'm concerned, to demonstrate that we all live in our own relative framesets. That means that what you said is demonstrably true. I think...

Well said. I've actually considered that the universe might be something else, but I've come to the conclusion that it's BOTH -- particle physics is merely a subset of electromagnetics, etc. This is actually the standard model. It's how we expound upon it that makes it interestings. I don't see...

This concept is really interesting in that if you change the value of c slightly slower, this (obviously) means that c has increased. We've recently discovered, supposedly, that the universe is expanding, and in an accelerating fashion. If the extreme concepts of so-called "string" theory are...

Just as follow-up, I've got to note that quantum physics, a'la Planck, does not say that the universe is analog; rather,that it's digital in nature. This, to me, just puts us in an analog sandwich with Infinity on either side and Pi smack-dab in the middle. Academe say there was a Big Bang...

Let me expound... See, I revisit Planck, but it's to demonstrate that you cannot just accept the fundamentals as a given - you must reconcile the new data with the old posits and "go with the flow." In reply to the message above, you write: "We taught that the universe consists of Energy...

Ah, but my question goes to, What does a particle consist of? If we define a particle as something that can affect our universe in the form of force, friction, etc., by saying "this is a particle" you limit it by your perception but that does not change what that particle inherently IS. The...

You have to understand the nature of the photon. You turn on a lamp, and a photon is generated from the filament; it then passes through the glass of the bulb and into your ambient (atom-rich) atmosphere, thus diffusing into the room. Photons travel only in a straight line, so it has to be...

I originally posted this in the Relativity forum but I thought it was cogent to this topic so I'm repeating it. Sorry for the redundancy: Is the Universe Analog or Digital? First, I'm new to this forum, so I'm sorry if I'm being redundant or naive. Anyway, a while ago, I'd seen the...

First, I'm new to this forum, so I'm sorry if I'm being redundant or naive. Anyway, a while ago, I'd seen the question posed, "Is the universe digital or analog in nature?" Seemed like such a complex question at first, but then I came up with the following answer, and it's not what some...