The anthropic principle can only be applied in a predictive fashion if the universe is part of a statistical distribution of universes with different constants, where we could only exist in a subset of universes similar to the one we observe. Observation of varying constants is important to building such a theory.
I actually have taken a nap in an MRI machine. I get scanned regularly after having a tumor removed a few years back, and with practice I've found it is possible to shut the noise out and doze a while.
Radiation therapy is actually on its way to becoming less aggressive and more specific. For example proton beam radiotherapy, while not yet widely available, is able to conform much closer to the target tumor while sparing much more healthy tissue than traditional xray treatments.
Full disclosure: I'm a former proton radiation patient and now work for a medical physics department at a hospital which delivers the treatment.
The small percentage of people who have found true success will tell you to use donations. For everyone for whom that didn't work, I have no idea. Perhaps paid support or extras?
Most of Nasa's workforce is relatively old. I suspect many former shuttle engineers will retire rather than rejoin the workforce in a less interesting sector.
Post-Constellation, we're not. The current NASA plan is to develop a heavy lift launcher capable of manned missions to unspecified targets such as the moon/mars/asteroids. Atlas is a fine ride to LEO but you need something larger to go farther.
So does that mean that kids whose parents are teachers in Missouri now have legal recourse to avoid embarassing posts on their facebook walls? We all should be so lucky...
The difference is that ultimately, science is open source, and so others can find out how discoveries were made. It might take a lot of work, you might have to pay to read some papers, and you might not personally have the technical know-how or required equipment, but it's possible to reproduce any results you read. And every so often, when another team tries to do so, results don't hold up and new discoveries are discarded.
A security question as usually implemented is literally a second password that's easier to guess. How anyone can possibly still think that adds security is beyond me.
I think CP violation in the neutrino sector might have different physical implications than in kaons. It would certainly be dependent on a different set of mixing angles.
I think one of the attractive things to a lot of people about the idea of consciousness as quantum is that it leaves room for free will. The quantum universe in inherently nondeterministic, so if consciousness is a quantum phenomenon then we could describe the choices we make in the same way we describe a quantum measurement which collapses a wavefunction. Of course, such an argument is actually just dreamy philosophizing.
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The anthropic principle can only be applied in a predictive fashion if the universe is part of a statistical distribution of universes with different constants, where we could only exist in a subset of universes similar to the one we observe. Observation of varying constants is important to building such a theory.
I actually have taken a nap in an MRI machine. I get scanned regularly after having a tumor removed a few years back, and with practice I've found it is possible to shut the noise out and doze a while.
The IAU generated a terrible definition of planet in 2006. That doesn't mean Pluto belongs to the club.
Radiation therapy is actually on its way to becoming less aggressive and more specific. For example proton beam radiotherapy, while not yet widely available, is able to conform much closer to the target tumor while sparing much more healthy tissue than traditional xray treatments. Full disclosure: I'm a former proton radiation patient and now work for a medical physics department at a hospital which delivers the treatment.
Which is what company, if I may?
Mind tricks don't work on me. Only money.
The small percentage of people who have found true success will tell you to use donations. For everyone for whom that didn't work, I have no idea. Perhaps paid support or extras?
Well, on weekdays most people have work or school.
I wonder if his 200000 followers have something to say about that
I hope fore our sake that the better analogy here is dog breeders and not beef farmers.
Most of Nasa's workforce is relatively old. I suspect many former shuttle engineers will retire rather than rejoin the workforce in a less interesting sector.
Some pretty smart people designed well-optimised capsule shapes in the 60's. Physics hasn't changed in the half-century since then.
Post-Constellation, we're not. The current NASA plan is to develop a heavy lift launcher capable of manned missions to unspecified targets such as the moon/mars/asteroids. Atlas is a fine ride to LEO but you need something larger to go farther.
Does facebook still have pokes? It's been years since i've noticed the feature.
So does that mean that kids whose parents are teachers in Missouri now have legal recourse to avoid embarassing posts on their facebook walls? We all should be so lucky...
Actually the last Firefox UI was Chrome. Or at least I stopped being able to tell the difference.
The difference is that ultimately, science is open source, and so others can find out how discoveries were made. It might take a lot of work, you might have to pay to read some papers, and you might not personally have the technical know-how or required equipment, but it's possible to reproduce any results you read. And every so often, when another team tries to do so, results don't hold up and new discoveries are discarded.
That seems to have worked great so far...
A security question as usually implemented is literally a second password that's easier to guess. How anyone can possibly still think that adds security is beyond me.
If that was a reason to shut the game down it would have happened years ago.
Well you can't really expect a machine that doesn't install security updates to be secure, can you?
Mods need to stop marking funny things insightful. It messes with my head.
I think CP violation in the neutrino sector might have different physical implications than in kaons. It would certainly be dependent on a different set of mixing angles.
I think one of the attractive things to a lot of people about the idea of consciousness as quantum is that it leaves room for free will. The quantum universe in inherently nondeterministic, so if consciousness is a quantum phenomenon then we could describe the choices we make in the same way we describe a quantum measurement which collapses a wavefunction. Of course, such an argument is actually just dreamy philosophizing.
Yeah. I made the switch to Chrome recently when I realized that Firefox was turning into it anyway.