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that's grasping at straws. if you do a replication, the effect should appear every single time, maybe not at a statistically significant level. If that's not the case, that raises questions about the quality of the respective studies, and the possibility that certain researchers would not...

hovered above the A9 near Calvine for 10 minutes in broad daylight, and apparently nobody else saw it

your research would be interesting if a reputable physicist (or the JRF?) had been able to replicate it as it stands, we're supposed to take the word of the snake oil salesman that his snake oil cures all illnesses

that's the same impression I got, thank you for addressing it more in-depth than I could

"interesting" is right, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Physics_Essays#Fringe_journal thinks "Physics Essays" is a fringe journal that "publishes crackpot nonsense", and it's been dropped from major indexes.

I believe your argument goes "I know dice without negative numbers, therefore dice have no negative numbers. I know physical scales without negative numbers, therefore physical scales have no negative numbers". If it doesn't, I don't really see how it applies to my argument, "since that amount...

I'd say it admits the possibility without leading to immediate contradiction. In 1942, Paul Dirac wrote a paper "The Physical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics"[1] where he introduced the concept of negative energies and negative probabilities: The idea of negative probabilities later...

So it can be negative. QED.

reminds me of the Peterson thread for the pure amount of sophistry on display energy has a finite variety of forms a quantum of energy has a certain amount, measured in Joule or in eV, and that's its most important property since that amount is a number, it can theoretically be negative if...

in silicone moulds, the process to shrink a mould is to use solvents mixed in the material, make the mould, and have it shrink as the solvents evaporate. though I still think it'd be simpler to have a child-size mould ready (made beforehand) and switch it out using sleight-of-hand.

thinness, complex gestures, withdrawing the hand without breaking the mold: all done by elementary school kids: Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd5WjupR738 the big thing with woo and conspiracy theories is that, much like click-bait, they play off people's credulity/incredulity, which...

Sleight of hand. James Randi has demonstrated that scientists are easy to fool; what you need as observer is a magician. If you want to know how to "materialize" something, talk to the people who can pull a rabbit from an empty hat.

no, but having an infection chain end up at the wet market is actually more unlikely a person whose job choice is medicine was involved in a possible biosecurity breach involving SARS is likely to isolate once they see symptoms, because they realize what it means if they don't, and that runs...

• interdimensional motion/teleportation • non-Einsteinian space-time distortion • artificial life the old question of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin" also remains unaddressed by mainstream physics

let's look at this paper, "Novel sarbecovirus bispecific neutralizing antibodies with exceptional breadth and potency against currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants and sarbecoviruses", https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35443747/ . the authors' institutions are located in Shanghai, Wuhan...

no, these new theories have a huge impact on how we behave by telling us more about how the world behaves, every single one of these theories restricted what we could potentially do and added to what we could actually do (space can't be "wasted". if you store the universe most...

the technical term for what these gifs show is libration.

That's why there's virology labs all over the globe, as well. Also, I notice your argument is dropping the comparison: if you conclude a natural spillover seems unlikely, you shouldn't then turn around and champion an even more unlikely hypothesis uncritically.

well, pre-Einstein they could've travelled faster than light. 1610 already knew rockets. It's not the lack of knowledge that constrains, it's the knowledge.

it's different when you consider population dynamics, because then any R-value >1 is bad—an individual "pretty unlikely" eventually overwhelms the population if left to grow. the wuhan problem is that the lab worker living next to the market is statistically unlikely, and that a customer...