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    • Martin
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    • Martin
    • June 27, 2024 at 9:54 AM

    The question "What is the primary cause of atomic motion?" does not make much sense in Epicurean physics. "Atomic weight" as the answer is wrong because there is no primary cause since the atoms have already been in motion since an eternity in Epicurean physics.

  • Looking for a book recommendation

    • Martin
    • June 19, 2024 at 6:44 AM

    When one of my most experienced coworkers asked the analogous question for more training to my boss of 2004 - 2016, the analogy of his answer would be: If you do not find any more new books on the topic, it is time to start writing books.

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    • June 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM

    Welcome here, too!

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    • June 14, 2024 at 4:13 PM

    Welcome David!

    The meaning of "energy" is much more narrow in physics than in general usage of the word. The meaning in physics became clear only with Newton. Therefore, we can at best expect analogies between what is meant by energy in ancient Epicurean texts and what it means now. I remember that energy used in Lucretius appears to be closer to how it is used today in Esotericism than in physics.

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    • June 10, 2024 at 4:42 AM

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    • Martin
    • May 26, 2024 at 4:58 AM

    Welcome Josh!

    I am one of those Krauts mentioned by Cassius. You can ask me in German to clarify what appears to be difficult in English.

  • Episode 224 - Special Reading - The 1429 Letter of Cosma Raimondi

    • Martin
    • May 19, 2024 at 5:50 AM

    This could be very useful. However, the results which I have seen in other videos' subtitles created by software which converts speech into text contain a lot of wrong words so far.

  • Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images

    • Martin
    • May 19, 2024 at 5:30 AM

    Julian Jaynes' "breakdown" of the bicameral mind seems to have been refuted, partly because his evidence from ancient texts is cherry-picked and evidence to the contrary in ancient texts is ignored by him. There are probably more reasons why it is nonsense, but I am not interested to dig deeper into it to find out.

  • What Determines That Which Is Possible And That Which is Impossible?

    • Martin
    • May 15, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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    So would modern science include 1, 2, and 4 from Bryan's list in post 15?

    1 and 2 yes with some caveats, 4 only for illustration.

  • New Article Attacking Epicurean Physics: "Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument "

    • Martin
    • May 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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    Donating an infinitely large number of typewriters to an infinitely large number monkeys for an infinite time will NEVER produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

    It would infinite times because the number of letters on a typewriter is finite and the number of letters in Shakespeare's works is finite!

    The formation of life on Earth had similar odds.

  • Dealing With Electric Grid Disruption

    • Martin
    • May 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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    "The US has many nuclear power plants, and overall is supplied mostly from large fossil fuel plants or large dams, like the Hoover dam. Each of those can black-start...

    Nuclear power stations cannot black-start.
    Morever, nuclear power is a dead end and unreliable under unusual conditions. E.g. in the summer of 2022, more than half of the French nuclear power plants were temporarily off the grid, and France had to buy considerable amounts of electricity from Germany, which was provided predominantly by gas power stations.

  • Dealing With Electric Grid Disruption

    • Martin
    • May 11, 2024 at 5:04 AM

    From my reading of the past, I got the impression that the North American power grid is more vulnerable than the European. California should have particular difficulties to restart when a long black-out happens.

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    • May 6, 2024 at 6:55 AM

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  • Determinism & Chaos Theory

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    • May 5, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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    Physics (modern physics) does seem to say we live in a deterministic universe due to physical laws.

    Some physicists interpret the known physics such that the universe is deterministic, others (including me) interpret it such that it has fundamental indeterminacy, not just difficulty for prediction.

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    ... that in the future some far-advanced hyper-super-quantum computing machine is able to plot the current state of all matter in the universe at every given microsecond... then, yes, theoretically, all future states are "predictable" due to the laws of physics; ...

    Such a computer is not conceivable because it would be like a 1:1 scale map of everything, that means the universe would be used to calculate itself, which makes it pointless. A fundamental indeterminacy at the present can only be resolved by waiting for the future to see which way the system has moved.

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