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phinds reacted to Andy Resnick's post in the thread Share Animal Pictures: For Animal Lovers with
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Since COVID lockdown, successive generations of red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) have taken peanuts from our feeder... -
phinds reacted to BWV's post in the thread I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity with
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you do realize your intuition is worthless? Intuition comes from past learning and experiences. I am sure trained physicists develop... -
phinds replied to the thread I Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity.what part of the Michelson-Morley experiment do you not understand ?
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phinds reacted to Iskandarani's post in the thread Introduction: Independent Researcher in Foundational Physics with
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Thank you both, @phinds and @berkeman, for the welcome and for the immediate clarification. My sincere apologies, I clearly... -
phinds replied to the thread Introduction: Independent Researcher in Foundational Physics.Welcome to the forum. Please read the rules. This forum is for mainstream (already published) science. We do not critique new theories...
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phinds reacted to TensorCalculus's post in the thread Hello! My name is Chris! Thanks for having me! with Agree.
Welcome to PF! You're in good company: many are here in this community for the same reason :) :welcome:
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If you want to be remembered after you die, borrow money from everyone you know.
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phinds replied to the thread Hello! My name is Chris! Thanks for having me!.Welcome to the forum.
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Right down the road from the local, looks like someone tangled with MAYHEM.
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phinds reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets? with
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It is not gravitational field strength (local gravity) that matters. What matters is gravitational potential. Or, almost equivalently... -
phinds reacted to Ibix's post in the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets? with Agree.
Totally negligible, correct. There's no scientific basis for such a thing, so you can give it any properties you like.
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phinds reacted to Ibix's post in the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets? with Informative.
The figure you're quoting is way too high. The gravitational time dilation depends on potential difference, and the time dilation factor...
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phinds replied to the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets?.I think so, since we are in a noticeably higher gravity well than the surface of Pluto (Pluto is 63% of Earth's gravity). I haven't...
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phinds reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets? with Like.
I was almost about to include a similar clarification, but choose to wait until the OP in a reply would indicate actual confusion about...
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phinds replied to the thread B Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets?.But locally, the clocks would still be ticking at the same one second per second as our clocks. This is a point that many people miss...
