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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Feynman Lectures
« on: October 19, 2015, 03:32:26 AM »
Do you have a point?

Does there need to be a point to share scientific knowledge? The Feynman Lectures are famous for their explanations of theoretical and quantum physics. And it's not as difficult to understand as you may think :)

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Science & Alternative Science / Feynman Lectures
« on: October 18, 2015, 08:30:22 PM »
http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

No need to pay to learn advanced sciences in this day and age ;-)

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Very interesting FE experiement
« on: October 18, 2015, 07:58:34 PM »
Yes they have - https://youtu.be/9ZEdApyi9Vw

A bit more interesting than a balloon floating on the surface of a sink full of water...

Have you reproduced this yourself?

Why would you need to? Observing an experiment is not any less informative than performing the experiment.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Very interesting FE experiement
« on: October 18, 2015, 07:55:42 PM »
Has anybody heard of or been able to reproduce this experiment? The implications are staggering.

https://www.facebook.com/100008896901875/videos/1479554505684432/

He fails to explain what he is trying to do with his experiment. What was his hypothesis and how did the balloon reacting to the running water and extra mass of toothpaste on the outside of the balloon tell him anything?

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Aliens
« on: October 18, 2015, 07:49:42 PM »
I nice example of the media skewing what's said in order to get interest in the story (or maybe they do only hear the moronic drivel they push, which would explain a lot). It's hard to take the media seriously, especially when it comes to what they say scientists say...

What the media says: "strange star has scientists talking about alien megastructure"

What scientists really said: "We have no clue what is going on with that star, so an advanced alien society is just as likely as any other explanation until we get more information."

Big difference.

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If some garlic will kill cancer, then lots of garlic will cure cancer. It's not really such a difficult leap. You might as well tell me it's only possible to get a little wet from my refrigerator's water dispenser.

I am afraid that you do not make sense... going from there is a chemical in garlic that has properties that help fight cancer to a lot of garlic will cure cancer is a huge leap and not backed by any evidence or research. On the contrary, research does not back your idea.

Do you even know the mechanisms behind the cancer diseases? Do you look at the research being done and the results? There are many foods that prevent cancer, but eating them in any quantity does not mean that you will not get cancer - it only reduces the risks. And they are not universal either. They are specific to certain regions of the body. For instance, broccoli helps reduce chances of colon cancer by up to 50%.

Pushing garlic as a beneficial preventative for cancer - not a bad idea.
Pushing garlic as a cure for cancer - fallacious.

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Right now, I am really happy you are not a doctor (specifically an oncologist)... you would kill a lot of patients.

If I were an oncologist practicing traditional oncology 60% of my patients would be dead within 5 years.

According to that same article, in the 1930's before modern oncology, 75% of cancer patients would have died within 5 years. 1 in 4 would people would have survived by their own natural survival mechanisms without any medical help at all.

Modern medicine and its trillions of dollars have added a whooping 15% survival rate, and this is ignoring the many people who regress years later. So how great is modern oncology at fighting cancer, really?

How great is modern oncology at fighting cancer? Not great. No one said it was. That's why there is constant research to find better ways to fight cancer. That said, modern oncology treatments are more effective the alternative treatments (like garlic) pushed by those who distrust modern medicine. In spite of individual success stories, a higher percentage of patients die under alternative treatments than through standard oncology. While the success stories fuel their propoganda, they conveniently ignore the deaths...

Cancer is natural. Your body produces (on average) 300 cancer cells a day. In a healthy body, our natural defenses recognize these abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and destroy them. It is when these cells multiply so much that they overwhelm our defenses that the disease 'cancer' emerges and can lead to death. Our body's natural defenses do not go away and continue to fight the cancer. In some cases, simple changes in diet (like consuming garlic, which has been shown to have anti-carcenogenic propoerties) that can boost your natural defenses can be enough to push you into recovery. In most cases, however, you need more help in order to fight.

Chemotherapy. One of the most common forms of modern oncology treatment. Many complain that it is poison that we are putting into our bodies and not helpful. Yes, it is a lot of bad stuff (which is why you would not use it if you didn't have cancer), but the properties of the items in the concoction is why it is effective. It targets dividing cells. Since most cells in our bodies are not dividing (there is always division going on, but cells are not in a constant state of division), it does not affect most of our body. Cancer cells are in a constant state of division and are therefore targeted by the treatment. Other parts of the body are in constant states of cell division though, so we see side-effects: hair follicles, which is why chemotherapy patients lose their hair, gastro-intestinal linings, which is why they have nausea and diarhea, sex-organs, which is why chemotherapy can cause sterility and early menopause and bone marrow, which is why patients can have low red-blood counts. The effects on the red-blood counts, as well as the damage chemotherapy causes the liver and kidneys, is why there is a decent amount of space in between treatments.

Cancer is a nasty beast. The earlier the cancer is discovered, the better the survival rate.

That is not to say that alternative treatments do not have their benefits. Like your original post, where you talked about garlic. Garlic has been definitively shown to have anti-cancer affects and will certainly boost your body's ability to fight cancer. However, to call it a cure is deceptive. It is not a cure. At best, it is a boost to your body's defense against cancer.

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Cancer is a defense mechanism response to parasites and disease. Tumors are usually benign, and go away, but if the body is too compromised with disease, those growth genes will not switch off and the cancer will grow and spread as the body's last ditch effort to survive.

See this article by Andreas Mortiz: Cancer is not a Disease - It's a Survival Mechanism

Right now, I am really happy you are not a doctor (specifically an oncologist)... you would kill a lot of patients.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Watch Scott Kelly's launch live
« on: September 15, 2015, 09:41:15 PM »
Just a follow-up infographic on how space is affecting Scott Kelly's body:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/infographic_yearinspace

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Earth's rotation??!??
« on: September 15, 2015, 09:39:16 PM »
I still see no deceit,
but there is more!  That clip says "EARTH'S ROTATION" too!! 




Message to honorable and intelligent folks: 
Was I right to stop the video at that time??  Did I miss anything?

You missed the whole explanation of tides. You missed how the typical explanation for how tides work is incorrect in spite of having the right information. You simply missed learning.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Earth's Tides
« on: September 15, 2015, 09:36:44 PM »
The part that shows up at the end of 0:16, throughout 0:17 and ends at the beginning of 0:18?
Yes, that one exactly. The 18-second mark shows it quite clearly.
the 18-second mark is 1-second long. Something that shows up for a tenth of a second can hardly be said to show something clearly.

0:17 would have made more sense then.
It would have certainly helped prevent your blunder. Then again, so would you exercising the bare minimum of competence.

Ahh... there we are. Insults. The retort of the unintelligent :)

Like I said, anyone who doesn't want to learn can simply not watch.
Certainly. Similarly, if you don't want to hear dissent, you can simply not read the responses to your threads.

lol - errant claims of falsehood is hardly dissent.

I love intelligent exchanges of ideas, but that is sorely lacking as these comments are evidence of.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Earth's Tides
« on: September 12, 2015, 09:16:29 PM »
At 0:18 into the video you see the words "Space Time" superimposed over a space-themed background.
He was presumably referring to the 0:18 mark, as opposed to another point in time that happens to be shortly after the mark.

Here, let me help:


The part that shows up at the end of 0:16, throughout 0:17 and ends at the beginning of 0:18? 0:17 would have made more sense then.

I still see no deceit, only a good explanation of tides.
Like I said, anyone who doesn't want to learn can simply not watch.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Earth's Tides
« on: September 10, 2015, 07:23:51 AM »
Which deceit are you referring to?
I already said:  at time 0:18seconds.  What do you see at that time??!??

Now having re-watched the 1st 20 seconds of that video, I realize that I should have turned it off much sooner:  as soon as the actor-shill mentioned the word "gravity" in his leading question.

At 0:18 into the video you see the words "Space Time" superimposed over a space-themed background.
Space Time is the name of the series, this is simply an episode of it.

This is merely an educational video. You have no obligation to watch it. It was posted for those who want to learn. If you are not one of them, carry on.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Earth's Tides
« on: September 08, 2015, 09:46:49 AM »
Here is the best video I have seen:  Tides & The Electromagnetic Energy of the Sun & Moon

Best ...
...?? 
I turned it off at time 0:18seconds.  I have no patience for artists of deceit.
But he didn't start with the deceit until later on in the video.

lol

Which deceit are you referring to?
He openly tells you when the diagrams are exadurated for the sake of making the concept understandable as well as telling you why the assumptions are made.

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Science & Alternative Science / Earth's Tides
« on: August 29, 2015, 04:43:39 AM »
Best explanation of tides I have found in a while.


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Flat Earth Theory / Re: For those who believe in a flat Earth.
« on: May 27, 2015, 03:01:27 AM »
I believe in the FET because the Vatican burned people at the stake for not believing it.

Thankfully they have come to their senses since then :)

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: What do you see
« on: May 26, 2015, 09:54:38 AM »
But the image was flat until you proved that it was round.

The people who proved the earth was round are proven liars. There are many inexplicable things in the photos and footage from space. Therefore, those sources cannot be trusted and the earth is flat until proven otherwise.

Incorrect. The image was always round. Your limited perception due to a small portion of the picture led you to believe that it was a line being shown and not an arc.

The true liars are those that try to present the world as flat. The Earth has been proven to be round for centuries and all the data collected since has only further enhanced the fact that the Earth is round. On the contrary, those that try to present 'evidence' in their pseudoscientific view that the Earth is flat have all been refuted. There has yet to be a single piece of scientific data that shows the Earth flat. There are multitudes of observations and measurements that show the Earth is round.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Basic physics laws
« on: May 23, 2015, 08:29:21 PM »


But it is not attractive, not now, not in the past, not ever in the future.

Gases do not obey an attractive gravitational law:

SEMIDIURNAL CHANGES IN BAROMETRIC PRESSURE

The weight of the atmosphere is constantly changing as the changing barometric pressure indicates. Low pressure areas are not necessarily encircled by high pressure belts. The semidiurnal changes in barometric pressure are not explainable by the mechanistic principles of gravitation and the heat effect of solar radiation. The cause of these variations is unknown.


“It has been known now for two and a half centuries, that there are more or less daily variations in the height of the barometer, culminating in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours. The same observation has been made and puzzled over at every station at which pressure records were kept and studied, but without success in finding for it the complete physical explanation. In speaking of the diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the barometer, Lord Rayleigh says: ‘The relative magnitude of the latter [semidiurnal variations], as observed at most parts of the earth’s surface, is still a mystery, all the attempted explanations being illusory.’”


One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.




GASES IN THE ATMOSPHERE DO NOT OBEY AN ATTRACTIVE GRAVITATIONAL LAW

The ingredients of the air—oxygen, nitrogen, argon and other gases—though not in a compound but in a mixture, are found in equal proportions at various levels of the atmosphere despite great differences in specific weights. The explanation accepted in science is this: “Swift winds keep the gases thoroughly mixed, so that except for water-vapor the composition of the atmosphere is the same throughout the troposphere to a high degree of approximation.”  This explanation cannot be true. If it were true, then the moment the wind subsides, the nitrogen should stream upward, and the oxygen should drop, preceded by the argon. If winds are caused by a difference in weight between warm and cold air, the difference in weight between heavy gases high in the atmosphere and light gases at the lower levels should create storms, which would subside only after they had carried each gas to its natural place in accordance with its gravity or specific weight. But nothing of the kind happens.

When some aviators expressed the belief that “pockets of noxious gas” are in the air, the scientists replied:

“There are no ‘pockets of noxious gas.’ No single gas, and no other likely mixture of gases, has, at ordinary temperatures and pressures, the same density as atmospheric air. Therefore, a pocket of foreign gas in that atmosphere would almost certainly either bob up like a balloon, or sink like a stone in water.”

Why, then, do not the atmospheric gases separate and stay apart in accordance with the specific gravities?


Ozone, though heavier than oxygen, is absent in the lower layers of the atmosphere, is present in the upper layers, and is not subject to the “mixing effect of the wind.” The presence of ozone high in the atmosphere suggests that oxygen must be still higher: “As oxygen is less dense than ozone, it will tend to rise to even greater heights.”  Nowhere is it asked why ozone does not descend of its own weight or at least why it is not mixed by the wind with other gases.


Liquids do not obey an attractive gravitational law:

Over the oceans, the gravitational pull is greater than over the continents, though according to the theory of gravitation the reverse should be true; the hypothesis of isostasy also is unable to explain this phenomenon. The gravitational pull drops at the coast line of the continents. Furthermore, the distribution of gravitation in the sea often has the peculiarity of being stronger where the water is deeper. “In the whole Gulf and Caribbean region the generalization seems to hold that the deeper the water, the more strongly positive the anomalies.”

As far as observations could establish, the sea tides do not influence the plumb line, which is contrary to what is expected. Observations on reservoirs of water, where the mass of water could be increased and decreased, gave none of the results anticipated on the basis of the theory of gravitation.


Solids do not obey an attractive gravitational law:

Dr Kozyrev's experiments began in the 1950s and were conducted since the 1970s with the ongoing assistance of Dr V. V. Nasonov, who helped to standardise the laboratory methods and the statistical analysis of the results. Detectors using rotation and vibration were specially designed and made that would react in the presence of torsion fields, which Kozyrev called the "flow of time".

It is important to remember that these experiments were conducted under the strictest conditions, repeated in hundreds or in many cases thousands of trials and were written about in extensive mathematical detail. They have been rigorously peer-reviewed, and Lavrentyev and others have replicated the results independently.


According to the theory developed by N.A.Kozyrev, time and rotation are closely interconnected. In order to verify his theory, N.A.Kozyrev conducted a series of experiments with spinning gyroscopes. The goal of these experiments was to make a measurement of the forces arising while the gyroscope was spinning. N.A.Kozyrev detected that the weight of the spinning gyroscope changes slightly depending on the angular velocity and the direction of rotation. The effect he discovered was not large, but the nature of the arising forces could not be explained by existing theories. N.A.Kozyrev explained the observed effect as being the manifestation of some "physical properties of time".



In Dr. Bruce DePalma's Spinning Ball Experiment, a ball spinning at 27,000 RPM and a non-spinning ball were catapulted side-by-side with equal momentum and projection angle. In defiance of all who reject the ether as unrealistic, the spinning ball actually weighed less, and traveled higher than its non-spinning counterpart.


DePalma and his assistants were experts for photograph recording of high speed motions. In 1974 they studied parabolic curves of bodies thrown upward, using ball bearings and catapults. Ball bearings were put into rotation before start and also not-rotating likely objects were used for comparison. In 1977 these experiments were repeated by most precisely working equipment and Bruce DePalma published paper entitled ´Understanding the Dropping of the Spinning Ball Experiment´. His astonishment clearly is expressed, e.g. by this section:

Basically the spinning object going higher than the identical non-rotating control with the same initial velocity, and, then falling faster than the identical non-rotating control; present a dilemma which can only be resolved or understood -- on the basis of radically new concepts in physics -- concepts so radical that only the heretofore un-understood results of other experiments, (the elastic collision of a rotating and an identical non- rotating object, et al.), and new conceptions of physics growing out of the many discussions and correspondence pertaining to rotation, inertia, gravity, and motion in general.

It CANNOT be explained without the ether concept: the flagrant violation of Newton's laws, means that for the same mass, the same supposed law of universal gravitation, the spinning ball actually weighed less.


http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,50942.msg1248776.html#msg1248776

(Mountainous masses do not exert the gravitational pull expected by the theory of gravitation)

Wow - nice rambling by someone who doesn't have a clue...

First of all, gases do follow the laws of gravitation. There is simply more at work than gravity as you would have learned from a high school chemistry class if you paid attention to the chapter on gas pressures. The atmosphere on Earth is gravitationally attracted to the Earth - that's why we have an atmosphere to begin with. Heavier gases have a greater force of attraction, which is why you find the heavier gases (Oxygen for example) closer to the Earth. The upper atmosphere contains only helium and hydrogen, which are much lighter gases. So, your statement "The ingredients of the air—oxygen, nitrogen, argon and other gases—though not in a compound but in a mixture, are found in equal proportions at various levels of the atmosphere despite great differences in specific weights." is an outright lie.

Funny that you should mention changes in barometric pressure and indicate that it "occurs in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours"... did you know that tides also occur twice a day with 2 high tides and 2 low tides? Can you guess what causes tides? It's the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth. Did you know that the Earth's atmosphere is also affected by the gravitational pull of our celestial neighbors? Now you do.

I am going to stop there... you wrote a lot more lies but it is clear to see just from this simple explanation of the atmosphere that you have no clue about what you are talking about. Please stop embarassing yourself.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Basic physics laws
« on: May 22, 2015, 11:11:27 PM »



You seem to be ignoring the fact that the theory of gravity falls apart at any level outside of a star system.  It seems awfully convenient for you to leave that part out of your lecture.
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You are incorrect in your statement. While I did not mention anything outside of a star system, that does not mean that the laws of gravitation fail when you look at the bigger picture. On the contrary, the laws of gravitation work well enough that we are able to calculate the relative size of the Milky Way's central black hole based on the stars orbiting it. Even when calculating the effects of gravity between galaxies, the mathematics works pretty well.

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