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hurdygurdy
reply to post by rickymouse
What if every country was in possession of free energy technology? That would be a paradigm changer for sure.
Like waking from a dream to a NWO with no borders, no greed, no weapons, no war...
MystikMushroom
Humans would destroy themselves with free energy. Mankind's progress would accelerate far to quickly, and lead to a swift downfall. There are more than just economic reasons for keeping free energy suppressed (if it even is a real thing).
It would be like giving a selfish 8 year old unlimited candy.
GetHyped
This whole Vortex Math nonsense again? It's appealing to the mathematically illiterate and considerably easier to (cough) "understand" than actual math so that must explain a lot, really.
reply to post by purplemer
The first one-way acoustic isolator lets you listen in without being heard
Earlier this year, Irvine’s team used water displacing objects called hydrofoils, created through 3-D printing, to fashion a trefoil knot out of a water vortex — the first vortex knot ever created in the lab.
For decades, scientists have suspected the rules governing these knots could offer clues for untangling turbulence — one of the last great unknowns of classical physics — but any order exhibited by the knots was lost in the surrounding chaos.
WeRpeons
reply to post by purplemer
The first one-way acoustic isolator lets you listen in without being heard
I doubt we have all the answers regarding physics. Scientist still can't wrap their heads around black holes.
Not exactly.
Hawking is now leaning that there never were any black holes...
In reality, the headlines should not be “black holes don’t exist” but “black holes are more complicated than we thought, but we are not going to really know how complicated until gravity and quantum mechanics try to get along”.
Sly1one
GetHyped
This whole Vortex Math nonsense again? It's appealing to the mathematically illiterate and considerably easier to (cough) "understand" than actual math so that must explain a lot, really.
Complexity is rarely if ever a great indicator of a natural truth...simplicity is actually one of the main goals of the mathematical process...edit on 31-1-2014 by Sly1one because: (no reason given)
Phage
reply to post by Sly1one
Not exactly.
Hawking is now leaning that there never were any black holes...
From your source:
In reality, the headlines should not be “black holes don’t exist” but “black holes are more complicated than we thought, but we are not going to really know how complicated until gravity and quantum mechanics try to get along”.
www.space.com...
Not exactly. Science has attempted to describe observations about the Universe and the relationships within it in such a way that inferences and predictions can be made about them. Black holes are a good example. The math predicted certain things should be observed and, son of a gun, they were. Einstein predicted that the Sun would appear to bend the light from distant stars and, son of a gun, it does!
Science has long attempted to explain what they observe in the Universe through brute force mechanics.
Like I said, what predictions does this math make? The predictions of relativity are tested and borne out continually. Where are the predictions of this math? How can it be tested?
The one "constant" with any "new math" is time... will it predict observed behaviors and stand up to the "test of time".
Actually, it was observations which changed it. "Hey, the expansion of the Universe is accelerating!" The math came afterward.
there was a time when the steady-state model was accepted, until new math (at that time) changed perceptions.
If it has validity in the real world it should be able to demonstrate how it relates to the real world. I sure don't see that in the video, other than pretty pictures. "Look at the pretty spiral. The world is a spiral. Energy is a spiral. No wait, it's a torus."
If it has validity, it should be able to stand up on its own...
MystikMushroom
Humans would destroy themselves with free energy. Mankind's progress would accelerate far to quickly, and lead to a swift downfall. There are more than just economic reasons for keeping free energy suppressed (if it even is a real thing).
It would be like giving a selfish 8 year old unlimited candy.
mbkennel
mrkeen
reply to post by purplemer
Mathematics is not something that can be 'discovered'. Every theory is based on a set of axioms, and the rest follows.
In reality, it isn't like that. Mathematics beyond the most elementary actually is discovered. Humans have to make leaps of intuition beyond computer like a->b->c->d deductive computations.
Great mathematicians make extraordinary leaps and then fill in the bricks and mortar in between. if it were 'deducing from axioms' then you wouldn't have some mathematicians making enormous conceptual breakthroughs that eluded hundreds of other equally stupendously intelligent colleagues.