Eventually, the matter in our expanding universe will be so cold and devoid of energy that there'll be nothing left to power the dark energy. At this point, the universe will have reached its coldest possible temperature (Gibbons-Hawking temperature). This will be the last moment our universe retai...

I might come back and deal with this more deeply. Cuz I ran across a similar [sorta similar, you have some twists] thought, and thought to myself "I could write book on that...." and rapidly realized what I'd need to know to do it would take more lifetimes than I have to do it well and st...

peter, yea, it has everything to do with the skin, the surroundings, and heat movement. You already knew that, though, I'm pretty sure, being a Euro dude. A dry sauna and a steam sauna have vastly different safe temp ranges. [U.S. people don't do those so much, most of them. Too bad. I'd do them da...

with such certainty to be so adamant about it? It is the nature of things that causes math to work as much as it does...not the nature of math that causes the universe to be what it is. That's just another way of saying that the nature of things is mathematical! I'm not saying that the nature of ma...

Why can we say "silly" but not "dumb?" Is there a list of safe insults? I think the distinction is rather arbitrary It could be arbitrary cuz I'm the boss and I don't like dumb, and silly amuses me. Or it could have just been I thought it was funny, and you could lighten up. L-L...

As I'm typing this I'm remembering of a great episode of the Orville where they find an Earth time capsule that has cigarettes in it. Bortis, an alien crew member who is invulnerable to most Earth maladies, doesn't have to worry about carcinogens but gets hooked on nicotine. It's pretty funny. I qu...

If you tune a whole instrument, all the notes, in those perfect ratios it will sound like total shit/out of tune very quickly.[/color] I'm not sure I believe that. But regardless, the western eight-note scale is based on those ratios. It's true, though. The tuning is approximate, not perfect. If yo...

But this aside, the problem of time/distance in long-distance space travel will as Hashi says, have (I'd guess) to hinge around some kind of futuristic ability to interchange between the energy-data of physical materiality and that of electromagnetic waves. There's an easier way. Cryo. Vitrificatio...

In order to partially falsify the statement 'nature is quantized' You misread what I said. I specifically did not say nature isn't quantized...it looks right now like that's highly probable. I said that quantization is a physical property, not a mathematical one. The math has a semi-descriptive rel...

The biggest error peter makes is to suggest that "western culture" and "capitalism" are different/unique in regards to colonialism/expansionism and all the crap that comes from such. They aren't. Not even close. Merely the most successful so far...partly by luck, because they ar...

peter wrote:
On a lighter note the weekends revelations about the drug related indiscretions of any number of

Certainly more amusing and less troubling than when Maggie and many others were pretending to be the Catholic Church and covering up for pedophiles.

Thats an interesting question. Does foreign aid do more harm than good? If so nations like the US are justified in their isolationist position re foreign affairs. I think British Imperialism was definitely not altruistic, nor other colonial exploits 😉 pretty much exploitative, the Spanish, the Dutc...

Am now listening to David Copperfield by Dickens. Looks like my audiobooks are going to be classics, and my actual reading is scifi/fantasy... Funny thing about audiobooks that messed me up. I listened to quite a number while on the road a lot a while ago. I liked it [despite hating some of the rea...

Peter, your question is actually rather dumb. You only need to produce some music to know the answer. No, it isn't dumb. And that following sentence [and most of the rest] is non sequitur, not evidence. Don't call questions dumb here...unless they're actually dumb like "do co2 emissions cause ...

Truthfully, I was not aware that the Moon had any geological activity. I suppose that should be "lunological", but let's not split hairs. Anyway, I thought the only activity was the random meteor strike on its surface. You may not have known it...but you could certainly have expected it i...

Spooky or what :lol: It is spooky. But the thing is that all the AI is doing a fundamentally different thing than living brains are. It's not a composer, it's an analyser and simulator. And way less spooky than robot mates. :lol: The music BUSINESS is both interested in and terrified of AI creation...

Agree that GEB is a great damn book. BUT it surely goes too far often...lots of things do, though [like the whole "unreasonable effectiveness of math" thing, and "most of western philosophy is footnotes to Plato bullshit.] On topic: no, music isn't freaking math. They do seem to shar...

Well this is fun stuff. Coulda gone in graphene thread...there is one, isn't there?...but it's quite a bit broader than just the material.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-twis ... -20190430/

Yes - I'm particularly interested that the intended message of a piece and it's aesthetic quality are though related, to a degree interdependent on each other. The former may shift in meaning in manners beyond the artists intention without in any way impinging upon the artistic value of the work. Y...

Linna, there appears to be some confusion as to your meaning. When you say "incoming exhibitionist content", is it porn / erotica that your friend's household are seeking to block? Yea, confusing question...and weird language. I'm not entirely convinced it IS Linna. But...pretty much ever...