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message 401: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments Scout wrote: "I didn't understand anything in the article about Time Reflections. What should I know?"

I have no idea either, but I suspect we would need a lot more detailed information to have much of a chance.


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Scout (goodreadscomscout) | 8073 comments Thanks, Ian.


message 403: by J. (last edited Mar 19, 2023 04:30AM) (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments I'm afraid that most of the paper on temporal reflections is behind a paywall, but the abstract is available.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...

As I understand it, they created an unstable high energy circuit which they could quickly reverse. They then sent a broadband signal through the circuit as it was cycled. On the other side, they received both the original signal and a copy of the signal in which a section had been reversed. (It read back to front.)

Imagine that you're in a cave, and you yell. The echo you hear will be in the same order in which you yelled the original words. So if you yell, "I love you!", the echo will return as, "I love you!" The partially time reversed echo which they generated was received as, "I evol you!"


message 404: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments I would have thought that is a spatial reflection. For a temporal reflection, you should receive part of the signal before you send it. A wave reflection might do that, but still in ordinary time, although since the wave will travel at light speed it will look more or less simultaneous


message 405: by J. (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ian wrote: "I would have thought that is a spatial reflection. For a temporal reflection, you should receive part of the signal before you send it. A wave reflection might do that, but still in ordinary time, ..."

For the reversed section, they received the end of signal before the beginning of the signal.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Did the 2014 Ebola outbreak begin as a lab leak?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=u32u0UA1v...


message 407: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments J. wrote: "Ian wrote: "I would have thought that is a spatial reflection. For a temporal reflection, you should receive part of the signal before you send it. A wave reflection might do that, but still in ord..."

It would need details explained, but you could get that effect with certain forms of reflection because reflection often comes from two surfaces, and mixing the surfaces could give that. Temporal reflection, to me, needs a significant shift to be sure because there are so many other possibilities. However, they could well be right - it would need a really detailed explanation of what was going on to be sure.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Pentagon officials suggest alien mothership in our solar system could send mini probes to Earth
https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/pentago...


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Ian Miller | 1857 comments I love the paradox in the link


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Ian Miller | 1857 comments And not even any music :-)


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments 2 high schoolers say they've found proof for the Pythagorean theorem, which mathematicians thought was impossible
https://news.yahoo.com/2-high-schoole...


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments This is perhaps the most important area of mathematics in human history.

New maths formula answers long-standing party problem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...


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Nik Krasno | 19850 comments Yep, parties should be an important discipline for research


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ancient ‘miracle plant,’ believed extinct, said rediscovered in Turkey
https://www.timesofisrael.com/miracle...


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Strange Material Breaks a Classic Rule of Physics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...


message 418: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments Not entirely unexpected. Thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity seem related. If you put enough pressure on sodium metal, it goes transparent and becomes an electrical insulator.


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Scout (goodreadscomscout) | 8073 comments J. where do you get all this stuff you post?


message 420: by J. (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Scout wrote: "J. where do you get all this stuff you post?"

I've been following the weird for a long time.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...


message 422: by Papaphilly (new)

Papaphilly | 5042 comments J. wrote: "Scout wrote: "J. where do you get all this stuff you post?"

I've been following the weird for a long time."


Somehow I figured.....8^)


message 423: by J. (last edited Apr 02, 2023 06:16PM) (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Weird makes the world go round.

Over the next few weeks Jerusalem will be the center of attention for billions of people.

The city exists because a late bronze age tribal leader decided that a particular hill was the best place to store some holy relics which were the focus of God's wrath on Earth. Of course, those relics have gone missing.

A bit later, a religious figure, who claimed to be descended from that tribal leader, rode an ass into town and picked a fight. That all went badly, and a religion started.

Eventually, the locals annoyed the Romans so badly that Hadrian started thinking Carthage II: Imperial Boogaloo.

Then about a thousand years ago, an Arab, who claimed that the voices he heard while squatting in a cave were God and his angels, told everyone that Jerusalem was the launch site for his trip to the Moon.

Tell me how that series of events isn't weird.


message 424: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments J. wrote: "The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie..."


Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to say what the changes are doing.


message 425: by Papaphilly (new)

Papaphilly | 5042 comments J. wrote: "Weird makes the world go round.

Over the next few weeks Jerusalem will be the center of attention for billions of people.

The city exists because a late bronze age tribal leader decided that a pa..."


You have to come to NYC and I will buy you too many beers and we can discuss weirdness....


message 426: by Nik (new)

Nik Krasno | 19850 comments Chernobyl dogs 🐶 will eventually turn humans (or sentient canis for that matter), once these humans are erased over some petty nuisance blown into a global disaster.
Jerusalem somehow turned into a center of earth for much of the spiritual, mental, divine and freak over the centuries .


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments An all-female lizard species that reproduces asexually stress-eats to cope with the deafening racket of jets at a nearby military base
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-f...


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Papaphilly | 5042 comments J. wrote: "An all-female lizard species that reproduces asexually stress-eats to cope with the deafening racket of jets at a nearby military base
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-f......"


There is such a great joke.....I will not touch it....I will not touch it....I WILL NOT TOUCH IT...8^)


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments The lost 'Temple of Lemminkäinen'
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0fdwn...


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Ian Miller | 1857 comments Papaphilly wrote: "J. wrote: "An all-female lizard species that reproduces asexually stress-eats to cope with the deafening racket of jets at a nearby military base
https://www.businessinsider.com/all-f......"


Aw, come on. You know you really want to. Give in to temptation :-)


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Which way do you think he's not leaning, Häagen-Dazs and self loathing or non-binary reeeeeing?


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ancient Mummies From Mexico Might Be Infecting Humans
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...


message 433: by J. (last edited Apr 05, 2023 03:20PM) (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ian wrote: "Aw, come on. You know you really want to. Give in to temptation :-)"

So, how many of your books involve a bargain made with a stranger at the crossroads? 😈


message 434: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments J. wrote: "Ian wrote: "Aw, come on. You know you really want to. Give in to temptation :-)"

So, how many of your books involve a bargain made with a stranger at the crossroads? 😈"


As I recall, none. Hmmm. Is that why I'm not a top-seller? :-(


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Climate Change Juicing Homers
https://apnews.com/article/baseball-h....


message 436: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments That explanation requires that the air pressure is reducing. That would require them to be playing more often in low pressure systems, yet the really fine days tend to be under high pressure systems (at least here). Are more games being played as rain approaches?

An alternative is that the batters are getting more muscular through better food and better training.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ian wrote: "An alternative is that the batters are getting more muscular through better food and better training."

And...
https://youtu.be/qNKvMwMA4sA

Technically, it's still Fringe science. It's just fringe pharmacology and biochemistry.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn't Make Sense.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...


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Papaphilly | 5042 comments J. wrote: "A New Statue Suddenly Appeared on Easter Island. That Doesn't Make Sense.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/scie..."


The only Moai not found on Easter Island is found at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.. It was a gift from a chieftain to the U.S.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments 'Intriguing’ reports of cave-dwelling creature led to discovery of new species in India
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Extent and reproduction of coastal species on plastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments The galaxies that shouldn't EXIST: Experts are baffled as NASA's $10bn James Webb telescope discovers six super-sized star clusters that are too big for their age
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Blue-Eyed Coyotes in California Leave Experts Puzzled
https://www.newsweek.com/blue-eyed-co...


message 444: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments J. wrote: "The galaxies that shouldn't EXIST: Experts are baffled as NASA's $10bn James Webb telescope discovers six super-sized star clusters that are too big for their age
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scien..."


Probably indicates the initial theory is erroneous


message 445: by J. (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Ian wrote: "Probably indicates the initial theory is erroneous"

The Big Bang, gravity, and Stellar Genesis, which one are you betting against?


message 446: by Ian (new)

Ian Miller | 1857 comments The ΛCDM model. It represents what happened after the so-called big bang. Apart from the fact there is no way of settling the bet, I would bet against the singularity and the inflaton. We really have no idea what happened prior to the period labelled 300,000 years after big bang.


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J. Gowin | 7977 comments Because I know somebody will ask, I'm linking a short overview.
https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/educatio...


message 448: by Scout (new)

Scout (goodreadscomscout) | 8073 comments Anybody have a theory about what preceded the Big Bang? :-)


message 449: by Papaphilly (new)

Papaphilly | 5042 comments Scout wrote: "Anybody have a theory about what preceded the Big Bang? :-)"

Sure....Whats your sign? Do you come here often? What is a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?....8^)


message 450: by J. (last edited Apr 19, 2023 03:55AM) (new)

J. Gowin | 7977 comments Scout wrote: "Anybody have a theory about what preceded the Big Bang? :-)"

You're going to hate this one...

Time is a function of the Universe. Without a universe there is no time. Therefore, there was no before the Big Bang.

There are multiverse theories which consider what goes on outside of our universe. But IF those hypotheses are true, they concern events outside of our universe and therefore don't relate to our timeline. They are not before, after, or current. They are other.


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