Recent content by osotou

Curious onlookers and layfolk such as myself often approach these subjects without even a clear idea of Newtonian physics. I personally realize now that I have glossed over that stuff because it seems boring -- the deeper subject matter is mysterious and wonderful! The really great thing about...

I'm admittedly a lurker and a layperson. So much of this is way above my head. I did skim the paper and this stood out to me at the conclusion: What happens if we think of time as a physical force? Decouple time and space, give them each a separate frame, what happens? Space retains the...

I should've said "when I read the URL .. " home/baez/crackpot.html It struck me as funny when I first read the URL because I thought of Joan Baez, and since she is a topical singer-songwriter, some people on the right would say she's a crackpot ... what I didn't realize is that she is the...

It's another topic altogether, but worth mentioning: Search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc, filter search results based on our preferences. It's bad enough that we're susceptible to confirmation bias, nowadays we have to consciously avoid being stuck in an echo chamber. I wonder how...

I'm afraid for me, it's just cockroaches. I mean, not these in particular, but they've been around for 320 million years or so!

When I first saw that link I thought "No, well that's unfair to Joan Baez, she's just a topical songwriter!" ... and then I clicked through and had a good laugh! It's so funny because it's so true! The thing I like best about these forums is that they are well moderated, and that keeps down...

That's really very good advice! Thanks, and I'll keep it in mind!

From my view point as an amateur enthusiast who has largely forgotten basic high school physics, mathematics, science, cosmology etc., as I find myself taking up a renewed interest in these topics, I'm astonished at how easy it is to wander into the mine-field speculative, crack pot theories...

Funny! No stockings were actually harmed. I didn't glue any sand on them, honest! As a matter of fact all the stockings she has in her drawer have runs in the fabric .. well that would require a new thread altogether! Don't know why she keeps them, why does she keep them?

Yes, and Thank you! I read it and it was very helpful. And I'll for the moment (hopefully wisely) shy away from exploring metric expansion, although I was reaching for it in my analogy. It's enough to know that it's there for the moment ... I've a deep dread that the metric itself is fractal...

I guess to make my analogy more clear, I'll liken the threads to transmission cables that can be infinitely stretched and infinitely woven. The 'stretching'? is the metric - all bodies keep their cosmic address within the region of their local motion upon the fabric. Information about the...

For a lay person such as myself, it's very easy to get confused and stumble around a bit, trying to understand how galaxies can be receding greater than the speed of light when the speed of light is the cosmological speed limit. It's easy to make the mistake of saying 'Ha! There are whole...

Hello! I'm 41 years old and definitely in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Since I can't afford a sports car and I love my wife dearly, I won't be cruising around in a new corvette with a girl half my age! whew! dodged a bullet, haven't I? Instead, I'll turn my gaze toward the fastest...