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andre i tend to agree with your 'composite' thoughts; i see these flips as either coming from a 'local' physics or a 'celestial' physics. it's probably a combination of both; after all who said physics was simple except physicists! i would like to see a fly-by of Jupiter at the time of a...

what is the armagedden prophecy? this is an interesting thread centreing on science, but let's look at what the 'good book' says: for instance Matthew 24: 24 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed her light; the stars will fall...

forgot to mention; years ago i read a text by R.W.King (from memory) and it was all about 'electromagnetic' or elastic collisions between particles; I'm going to find it within the garage somewhere and drag it out; i think it'll tell me when a collision becomes 'inelastic'; seems to me this must...

well, first of all, g'day marlon, glad to see you alive and kicking; what i mean is that a point-particle at the origin is going to have problems, 'cos of infinities as we all know via quantum theory and renormalization ( any point particle at zero is by definition dogged by problems. BUT...

this question of mine about self-field theory may allow us to go beyind the common or garden point particle; if a particle has an internal structure then it's not a point particle; so in addition to string theory say, we have another avenue that doesn't necassarily lead to quantum problems such...

we should consider the regions of the planet and its rotation speed. what i mean is that rotation speed (the day/night cycle) on Earth dictates we sleep and wake; what about insects? do they have a rhythm? does it fit in with earth?

thought you might be interested in a follow up or two here; I described a flying dream I've had from time to time over the years; it turns out my 26 year old daughter has a very similar dream, flying over the neighbourhood! not saying this is anything but coincidence but it does raise an...

i guess this seems like particle physics 101 to you guys, but it's important to sorting out IF and when a linearized version of self-field theory can be used. i went back to Jackson's book on 'classical electromagnetics' and he talks about when EM becomes non-linear, such as inside the atom...

the trouble with all this is that people who venture into your 'lion's den' finds that you all are sitting there waiting...waiting...waiting...like caged beasts, waiting for some poor little shrinking violet... mmmm sounds like me I'm talking about there! :-p seems as long as we try to 'teach'...

so one point is we see a non-linear problem converted into a linear one via our choice of co-ordinates; can we apply this knowledge to some of most pressing problems??

take a point A(x_1,y_1) on a circe centre B (x_2, y_2) and allow the circle to roll along an X-axis; now we all know that the cycloid equation to point A is highly non-linear; so now if we take the point B, we find the problem has been converted into a linear problem; now do this to E-fields...

when I'm in that same 'semi-state', i see a 'matrix' vanish before my eyes! as if one image is becoming overtaken by the conscious one; at about this time, i realize I'm awake; the other thing is i often dream of flying over my suburb, even over the coast line i live near. i even have to 'land'...

wow , really interesting, :rolleyes: maybe that tends to demonstrate that dreams are visuals, acoustics and other sensory inputs into the pool. so i guess Bin Qasim can see something in conscious 'reality' that gets intermingled with touch taste, hearing, emotions, so that he gets an...

ok, thanks, Moonbear ( i got it right this time huh? LOL), actually that's nice to know, i'd hate to be dreaming the same as my grandfather who fought in the Great War (LOL); i agree about the anthropological myths and legends, but this dall doesn't answer bin qasim;why does he see places he...

many thanks for that humanino much appreciated; ok, then what makes the collision or scatteriong process non-linear and linear? is it a whether its a 'deep' or 'small' deviation? for instance if you have two particles going in and two coming out that might (or might not?) be linear, but 2 in 3...