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-03-30-2010 #1RedskinsFan Guest
Just Curious
Hey guys. I'm just curious to know what the Rams are doing with their pick. I trust you guys would know the situation better than anybody right? I know it started with Clausen, then Suh, now Bradford?
Honestly I think Bradford/Clausen would fall apart starting for you guys on day one, (no disrespect) and am curious to know what you guys think?
Any talk on Jason Campbell?
-03-30-2010 #2
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Right now the popular vote is Bradford with Suh a close second. Our line is not as bad a previously thought with two people that have the potential to be pro bowlers in it, just some questions at RG. There was some speculation on a Campbell trade, and I wouldnt have minded it before we landed in the #1 spot, but since we are in the position for bradford now I would give the chance of this happening less then 20%. Unless the Skins give us campbell and their first second and third round pick
-03-30-2010 #3RedskinsFan Guest
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Yeah, you guys do have a pretty good oline.. Not nearly as bad as ours atleast lol. Yeah nothing wrong with Jason Campbell, just needs to see a new team at this point in his career. It's a bit sad for our team right now at fourth though, considering we have Haynesworth so no need for mccoy or suh, and our favorite (bradford) all of a sudden hit the rams sights.
I've read a few things mentioning how Spag only has one more year to prove himself and drafting a QB at one could threaten that.
Either way, let's hope it works out best for both teams I guess eh? I really do hope taht for your teams sake too Bradford doesn't hold out on signing a contract with the Rams which I've also read.
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-03-30-2010 #5Drummerman1011 Guest
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Honestly, all the reports that the redskins are the better fit for him or that Bradford wants to play for the redskins and all those negative rumors are just spread by the Washington press to somehow help their team. Just like how the Philadelphia media spread rumors about our team the other week as well.
Bottom line, unless we get a ridiculous trade offer for the #1 pick. Bradford is wearing Ram horns next season.
-03-30-2010 #6RedskinsFan Guest
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I don't mean from the oline.
Marc Bulger for example over the years developped this whole, "I'm gonna throw the ball into coverage because I dont' wanna get sacked" type of instinct.
Don't get me wrong I have nothing but respect for all of you loyal Rams fans, but you're team is the worst in the NFL. I wouldn't be surprised if Bradford pulled an Eli Manning type thing leading towards April 22nd.
-03-30-2010 #7RedskinsFan Guest
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Who are you trying to convince... us or yourself?
The Rams played the Redskins in Washington last year, and Washington won 9-7. The Rams also played the Redskins in Washington in 2008, and the Rams won 19-17. So, if the Rams are the worst team in the NFL, what does that make the Redskins?
Better coaches? Well, Mike Shanahan does have a very good track record, but past success does not guarantee future results (i.e. Joe Gibbs 2.0). Spagnuolo is a new HC, and we'll have to see what he is like in the long run.
Better owners? Dan Snyder is a lousy owner. He has made bad deal after bad deal, signing expensive FAs who have done nothing to turn the Skins into a winner. The Rams' ownership is in a state of flux. We don't know what the new owner will be like.
More money? Who cares? The Rams have enough money to pay Bradford his market value.
Seriously... I really think you are here to convince yourself that the Rams will simply pass on Bradford and let him fall to Washington, or that Bradford will refuse to play for the Rams.
I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you.
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Welcome has been worn out, go home skins fan. Would Bradford a popular native american really play for the REDSKINS idk.
-03-30-2010 #10RedskinsFan Guest
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Okay now the question is who are you trying to kid saying the Rams aren't the worst team in the NFL? You know that so well and you're in denial, but either way you can keep convincing yourself that.
Dan Snyder isn't a lousy owner, he just happens to have so much money that he throws it out to people who aren't deserving some would make a case for.
I'm not trying to convince myself anything. I'm just dedicated and have an open mind to every team in the league, I think you should maybe realize that the Rams are anything but an improving football team.
Again, the Rams did beat us in 08 and lose in 09, but we're a bad team IMPROVING. Not getting worse.
-03-30-2010 #11Warner4prez Guest
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Yes, the rock solid addition of Larry Johnson will carry you miles.
-03-30-2010 #12
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well no sh*** they were bad last year they blew up the roster (dumped those has beens in holt pace etc...) and were one of the youngest teams...//// lmao snyder likes to hand out big money eh....hall and haynesworth have done wonders huh? lmao ....the oline stinks gave up more sacsk then the rams with fewer passing attempts...have no RBS ...portis is a scrub ....sure the owner ship is unsettled but at the end of the day in the long run the rams have better chance then the redskins...+if that cap come back by next year free agency theyll have hte most cap room
-03-30-2010 #13RedskinsFan Guest
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Have you guys added anyone? How do you expect to improve without adding one free agent for depth and leadership.
You have two positions worth mentioning, Jackson and Atogwe who will most likely get picked up by another team.
Let's not even get into your receivers. In fact what are their names?
-03-30-2010 #14molar_pistol Guest
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how are the redskins improving? by my watch they've been getting worse every year, despite their quarterback improving every year and the owner throwing record contracts at people every offseason. the rams released about half their roster last year, and are in full rebuilding mode, despite all that we were a donnie avery fumble away from beating you guys two years in a row. i think we know where this is going, bottom line is don't call the kettle black.
-03-30-2010 #15Dominating D Guest
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I live in the DC metro area so when you say the Skins are a bad team improving and suggest the Rams are not is so ignorant and shows you know very little about your team.
The skins have alot of veteran players past their prime. They have way too many overated and over payed players and are stuck with them. On the other hand the Rams are much younger and will continue to get better and better as they continue to add talent through the draft and future free agnency.
The Rams tend to hold on to draft picks and acquire extra picks while your Skins seem to give them up just like your 3rd round pick you lost cause your so called great owner got his hands caught in the cookie jar.
Go Rams
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Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") I have taken the liberty of creating a new thread since this sub-discussion in Local realism ruled out? had diverged a bit from the OP. You distinguish two isomorphic things by distinct values of their observables, or in the case of coherent bosonic composites, you needn't distinguish them to count them. It comes down to whether all observables are space-time observables which I point out is not the case. We can consider lepton-number or weak isospin or strong color. I can for example discuss a pair creation event and distinguish either by the one going this-away vs going that-away (invoking spatial degrees of freedom) or I can distinguish the one with positive charge vs the one with negative charge. Yes eventually I must observe that charge with a device possessing spatio-temporal qualities. That isn't the issue. The issue is this: In factoring the system of e.g. anti-correlated electron-positron pair. I can speak of the electron and likewise the positron each of which being in a superposition of "this-away" vs. "that-away" spatial motion. OR I can speak of the "this-away" particle as in a superposition of being an electron vs a positron and likewise the "that-away" particle. I may use either momentum or charge as the observable I use to speak of and distinguish components using "the". Neither of these (nor the continuum of admixtures of ways in between) is more or less valid and each is a different "reality model" of the composite as a pair of components. Remember "superposition" isn't a system property, it is a frame relationship. We choose one basis (eigen-basis of a given non-degenerate observable) and then prepare a system by assuring a distinct value of that observable. Choosing a different basis yields that "non-superposition" system now as a superposition. That then carries into resolving components of a composite system via various distinct values of common observables, said observables needn't necessarily be position, or momentum. Reality is relative in QM and the choice of how to factor is no different from a choice of inertial frame (time axis) for observers in SR. I struggle here in part because e.g. QM is fundamentally time based, as relativistic QFT is fundamentally space-time based. Indeed there is the classic fiber-bundle structures in each case and "based" has literal meaning. But fiber-bundles indicate non-stable non-semi-simple choices of description. SR transformed the space fibers over time base into a unified space-time. To unify gauge and space and time we must go beyond field theories which are inherently fibrated. To say what I am trying to say more clearly probably will require a different language than QM or QFT,... say a language of quantized events (not necessarily localized in space-time) rather than of quantum systems (persisting over time). Heck, Feynman diagrams are almost such a language already.
Re: Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") As long as you have different quantum numbers, you're ok. But, you have to use SOMETHING to distinquish two particles with the same quantum numbers, otherwise your formalism violates the principle of identity and it will be impossible for anyone to follow it. Multiplicity iff discernibility. No matter how you approach the pregeometry (topological versions of space & time & stuff), you must recover trans-temporal objects which, other than spatial location, are identical. That's an empirical fact in accord with current physics and your theory must make correspondence with current successful theory. I don't yet see how these qualities (spatiality and temporality) emerge from anything you've proposed without being put in a priori. You've conceded that maybe time has to be put in topologically, but then I'm curious to see how you get Lorentz invariance because, as you said, if you're using pregeometric time but not a pregeometric space, you'll need to mix these notions at the geometric level without a basis for that mixing at the topological level. We solved that problem by using graphical relations to co-define topologically what we mean by space, time and sources in a way that leads to Lorentz invariance at the geometric level, so I'm curious to see if it can be done with one less item, i.e., without a topological notion of space, as you propose. Fundamentally it strikes me as impossible, because I can't see how to avoid identity and differentiation in the construct of "things," plural, no matter what the "things" are. Again, multiplicity iff discernibility. But, as you said, that's simply a statement of ignorance.
Re: Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") Quite correct. But if the quanta are fermions then that isn't a problem as the statistics dictates their distinctness. But again why need they be necessarily distinguishable? One can factor a system into independent isomorphic components which sometimes have identical q-numbers and thus are not distinguishable, but other times can be given distinct q-numbers one distinct one of which may be used to index them. One would hope so. And it is the recovery of such which is the ultimate goal. But in the process one would hope to also get some prediction as to how this recovery may manifest, especially (dare one hope) a dynamics of the variable geometry a.k.a. quantum gravity. Note I don't even have what could be remotely called a theory. Only a notion of an approach. But note Lorentz invariance was already there in Maxwell's theory before it was recognized and invoked as a principle and the theory reformulated with manifest Lorentz covariance. Also note that, e.g. in the aggregate water, consisting of anisotropic components, is none the less isotropic. The lack of SO(3) symmetry of the components doesn't interfere with the SO(3) symmetry of the composite. One similliarly might manifest Lorentz symmetry. What's more, the symmetry is there only in the vacuum and indeed defines the vacuum. It's really Lorentz covariance one needs to invoke. Not impossible. You just are not considering all the degrees of freedom, some of which would eventually manifest as location. As I've said I don't have a theory yet but consider a simple 2-dimensional model of spin-1/2/ particles. Firstly we need to compactify our space so let our 2-D universe be a 2-sphere with SO(3) symmetry. We can then identify the spherical harmonics on this 2-sphere with the wave-function of a given particle. But that spherical harmonic is also an element of an irreducible representation of SO(3) representable as a totally symmetrized tensor product of an even number of fundamental su(2) irreps. We can then in essence treat the single scalar particle as a composite of say N "spinons". Whats more we can add singlet pairs of spinons to pad the total number to fit some universal maximum for our toy universe. Picture a young diagram of N boxes (#) of the form: ##...####...# ##...# supposing there are k boxes in the second row and thus 2k of the N total component irreps are in "singlet" pairs contributing 0 to the total SO(3) observables. The remainder form a tensor irrep equivalent to a given set of spherical harmonics: [tex] \{ Y^m_\ell: \ell =N-2k, |m|\le \ell\}[/tex] Thus this set of N su(2) "spinons" models a single particle in 2-dimensional spherical space. The tensor product of them (letting them have Maxwell Boltzmann statistics) separates into the irreps of the above form defining a full set of modes up to some maximum total momentum for our single 2-d "particle". Note also the Hamiltonian (in the absence of any other "things" in our 2-space to interact with) is the trivial one, H is the Casimir operator. Now this is of course, just math, but the math that shows how one may construct a non-relativistic space from pre-geometric entities these "spinons" are just "qubits". I am also at this stage putting the geometry in by hand by picking a specific connection between the various partons' internal su(2) groups. But to me that's a pre-local gauge condition. It suffices to pick some random connection, an arbitrary SO(3) subgroup of the SO(3)^N Lie group for the N components. The components themselves are not distinguishable in the sense you're insist upon. They are isomorphic parts of the whole with abstract degrees of freedom. But again the components themselves are not the "things" which are to emerge as having full spatial degrees of freedom. BTW I can extend the above construction to incorporate Poincare (or deSitter) composite symmetry plus additional gauge degrees of freedom. This also gives the composite system a "unified field of many quanta" rather than single particle interpretation as well.
Re: Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") You brought spatiality in the back door in two respects. First, you started with a 2 sphere and ended up with a 2 sphere space. You did identify points on the 2 sphere with the symmetry group SO(3), so you can use that association to distinguish otherwise identical points. If you don't do it that way, you can use the atlas, as part of the definition of a differentiable manifold, to provide mathematical rescue. Often people say, "Imagine a 2 sphere whose points are indistinguishable." This relates to the second means by which you tacitly used spatiality to create multiplicity, i.e., you want to believe you have more than one # without any mathematical baggage (such as elements of SO(3) or the atlas in the case of S2). Do you truly have multiplicity without discernibility? Of course not,. The way you communicated the notion of multiple # was to make rows and columns on the page, i.e., you used the spatiality of the page. You have not avoided multiplicity iff discernibility with this example. The distinction between Lorentz invariance and covariance is only relevant to algebraic approaches where one has state vectors (invariance) and operators (covariance). In our graphical approach, for example, there is no such distinction.
Re: Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") You aren't paying attention. It's not sneaking "space" in or not. It's constructing the locality of space-time from a pre-local format. As I said we're arguing diagonal to each other. First I started with the relativity group of a quantum 2-dimensional system. The group is the group. That's just mathematical isomorphism. The structure of the irreducible su(2),SO(3) representations is representable as, and thus able to model scalar and spinor wave-functions on that 2-sphere. Clearly I can't model space without modeling space. The proper observation to make at this stage is that this mathematical sphere is not yet a representation of a space on which object interact locally. It is simply a starting point. For example, in Galilean relativity we have for example the group ISO(3) of spatial translations and rotations and we have a distinct ISO(3) group of velocity frame translations and rotations. The mathematical isomorphism is not physical identification. Are you saying I should be constructing spatial points or space-time points? They don't exist. I'm trying to show you how to construct a model of composite physical objects where by virtue of their composite nature they manifest the degrees of freedom reflecting spatial relationships. I do not have to distinguish space-time points. They are not distinguishable. Space-time events, and spatial objects are distinguishable by virtue of not having identical values for their observables. Even indistinguishable quanta (such as the photons in a laser beam) are yet quantifiable. Tell it to lasers! You are just being argumentative here. The #'s represent a Young diagram, a standard notation of irreducible representations of the unitary groups. Next you'll be telling me I'm sneaking space in because the symbols I use have spatial extent. Huh? Execute an active Lorentz transformation on an electron and it is no longer in the same state. It is not invariant. Here again I think I see the difference in our perspectives. Please withhold judgment about which approach is best for the moment and just let me know if I have correctly expressed your half of it. As I see it space-time itself (GR not withstanding) is not physically real. This is not to say that it is any less physically meaningful but just that spatial, and space-time points are not themselves physical "things". Recall the idea of six degrees of separation which is to say on average a chain of acquaintanceship exists between any two people not longer than six links long. Now you could sit down and pick a random person, construct a weighted network with closest associates having closest links. You could estimate the dimension and topology of this network based on how fast the number of associates grew as you moved outward from any one node. You would have then a simple spatial model of relationships. The physically real entities are the people, i.e. the nodes. The relationships are not the people. Carry this further, let the relationships reflect e.g. how long it has been since two people last physically met or communicated with each other and then allow that model to evolve over time. Replace people with elementary quanta and you have what I envision as spatial structure defined as the model describing the structure of the relationships between interacting quanta. The quanta themselves may be isomorphic but are distinguished by their relationships to other quanta. In some cases the distinct elements may not be spatially distinguishable (like a close knit family each member sharing the same associations) like quarks in a nucleon. As I then see it it is sufficient to model these physical quanta in such a way that the relationships may be defined but needn't manifest as physical links, only definitional ones as e.g. rate of intimate communication and numbers of links in causal interaction. Now as I'm sensing you see things, and as field theories generally model physics, one considers a spatial array of systems which are "real in the model" but such that the physical objects we study in nature are aggregates of excitations of the components of the array. I.e. bosons are excitations of an array of simple harmonic oscillators (like phonons in a crystal.) Thus in particular you are concerned with the identification and distinguishability of each component system of the model. They in effect are the spatial points. Is that a clear qualification of your position? Now my position is now well formulated. As I've repeatedly said it is at present a notion not a theory or model. It really is only half a notion at that as the real physics is in the dynamics not the kinematic model. The principle problem I have it to explain the manifestation of dynamic locality in this picture. As it starts out pre-local there is not yet a reason to forbid every object from interacting intimately with every other object. As I am starting basically with "just mathematics" I probably am going to have to introduce the actual space-time structure, by hand as selection rules restricting causal interactions. Now as to distinquishability. Consider an electron. We cannot truly separate the electron from the electro-magnetic field around it. As we see when we renormalize the mass of that electron is a manifestion of its self interaction. As we see in semi-conductor theory the electrons and holes conducting in the crystal are different, having different effective masses than free electrons principally because each particle's induced e-m field behaves differently in the distinct environments. We nonetheless can quantify charge and count the quantized charges which is what leads us to describe these electronic charge carriers. From another vantage, we could enumerate types of elementary particles in different ways. We may speak of an electron while meaning a class of electrons with various spins or we may be more specific and speak of an L-electron or a R-electron. We can be less specific and speak of a lepton without being specific about its weak isospin charge, treating electrons and e-neutrinos as just different cases of the same lepton system. In each case we write down e.g. a wave-function representing the system in question. More generally I would specify its Hilbert space and possibly give a density operator representing partial knowledge about it. Implicit in all of this is the space-time degrees of freedom for "the particle". There again we can be more or less specific as the application dictates. Now when it comes to making distinctions, consider if I speak of two leptons, they are isomorphic and not distinguishable in that context. However if I speak of an electron, and an e-neutrino I have a.) reduced the context by b.) implying an observation has been made, and thus distinguished them. When it comes to describing a single electron I also describe its spatial degrees of freedom, its momentum or position or superpositions thereof. Typically in a lab we may describe isomorphic cases of e.g. an electron in a cavity with our cavities distinct (e.g. in different labs) and thus we are picking two subspaces of the big Hilbert space for an electron in the universe. Now I wish to stay finite so I am considering theories where space is compact, e.g. a 3-sphere. That plus an upper cutoff on momentum lets me approximate the description in a finite Hilbert space. It is still of very large dimension. In that very large Hilbert space the electron in your cavity of your lab is distinguishable from my electron in my isomorphic cavity in my lab via distinct values for observables, i.e. we have observed different values for observables sufficiently to project into distinct though isomorphic subspace of the grand electron hilbert space. I say this to be sure that you know that I know this is the case. Clearly no matter what I do I'm going to have to distinguish, distinct particles by what will be spatial degrees of freedom. I've made the point that spatial degrees of freedom are not the only means to distinguish particle, e.g. we can look at isospin. I've made the point that we can construct the large degrees of freedom isomorphic to spatial ones, from atomic components, (my "spinons") Naturally the component group will be isomorphic to the spatial group I seek to model. Firstly because I want it to and secondly because the number of low rank compact groups is quite limited and coincidence will occur (and I'm counting on it). This however does not mean I am "sneaking space-time in the back door" by any means. Firstly the example I gave doesn't even have the true dynamic structure of space yet. As I said I haven't begun to construct the dynamics in that example. It was meant to show how the kinematic structure could be constructed without invoking an array of spatial point systems as you're doing with your discrete field theory. Now in that "spinon" model I did put a bit of spatial geometry in by hand in a sense. I think I mentioned that I implied a connection by which N component partons manifest a representation of SO(3). Let me elaborate a bit on that. The composite of those N qubits each has a unitary group of su(2) ~ SO(3), or more properly u(2)~SO(3)xU(1) (this is the group of possible dynamic evolutions, i.e.: [tex]iH \in \mathfrak{so}(3)\oplus \mathfrak{u}(1)[/tex]. Considered as a (maxwell boltzman) composite the total has a unitary group: [tex]U(2^N)[/tex] A specific factorization (turning off any interactions) gives the sub-group with Lie algebra: [tex]N\cdot \mathfrak{u}(2)=\bigoplus_{k=1}^N \mathfrak{u}(2)[/tex] The connection of which I spoke is an isomorphism mapping from the SO(3) group which will manifest as spatial transformations to each copy of the N U(2) groups. Without that this the geometry I construct is meaningless, and which irreducible or reducible representation of SO(3) this aggregate of partons manifest is likewise meaningless. My notion is that the selection of such, and even the factorization itself must evolve from the dynamics of the system. The dynamics itself is some generator of the big [tex]U(2^N)[/tex] group. For an arbitrary factorization as I described I can write that generator as a sum of U(2) dynamics for each component plus interaction terms between components. Since the factorization, and dynamic, are at this point arbitrary, doing so is pretty meaningless at this point. (Again I'm still really only playing with the math here.) However I can consider how varying the choice of factorization for a given dynamic guided by some meaningful principle could lead to a relatively unique class of factorizations... wherein the dynamics of the composite, now expressed in terms of treating that SO(3) group as a coordinate transformation group, leads to meaningful localization of interactions w.r.t. coordinates, then I will have demonstrated a means to manifest the spatial structure from the causal structure (dynamics). In short I suppose one could find how the choice of global dynamic leads to a manifestation of what we perceive as localized object interacting in space. Now I don't think it can work here because, for one, we don't see a 2-dim universe. My thoughts are to a more involved model with, hopefully the manifestation of certain gauge degrees of freedom are necessary to get the sought-after locality. (Really it is a delocalization i.e. the distancing of objects manifest by weakened interaction.) The real golden apple would be if such a program actually manifested the standard model plus gravity but that's really wishing hard on little substance. The realistic hope is the usual alternative paradigm for expressing observed nature with less put in by hand than is currently done with QFT and the standard model. And let me also state that I whipped out this example to show how one might go about deriving spatial structure from the causal structure of the dynamics. It needn't be the only way or the best way. Finally let me recall my original position which prompted this discussion. I claim that we should treat causal structure as primary and space-time geometry as derivative from that. I reiterate that in the case of my example which lacks as yet any dynamic thus any causal structure and thus its large 2-sphere may be as easily model spatial degrees of freedom as it may model a single particle with a very very large isospin. This is why I called it "prelocal" without the dynamics it doesn't yet have causal structure to make it local. Where you object to me "sneaking space in the back-door" I would point out I haven't as I haven't yet manifested the causal structure of space-time. Many systems may have isomorphic group structure without being identical or even similar dynamically. Where you object that I must use space to distinguish things I say I first must distinguish things to relate them spatially and define coordinates. I would point out that a computer can encode a cube as a series of numbers in memory. It is not the numbers which make the cube but the computer code and hardware an how it treats those numbers. Imagine if the entire universe was "virtual" and then ask yourself what is the difference? The meaning is in the interactions which manifest our observations. We don't observe space, we observe objects in space.
Re: Non-spatial resolution of quanta (split off from "Local realism ruled out?") You have some interesting ideas which I'm eager to discuss. However, I need to clarify a problem I've created by my violation of the principle of identity (A = A). I've been using the word "spatiality/space" to mean differentiation generally and the "space" of spacetime specifically. It's a problem inherited from math, e.g., vector space, Hilbert space, etc., but in this context I have to be careful. Confusion of this sort is evidence of what happens when we violate a principle of logic. Now let me explain why the same will obtain if we violate multiplicity iff discernibility (MiD). I'll begin by showing you how it applies in standard set theory. Let the domain of discourse be that of proper names. You claim to have a set of order unity. I ask you to show me the set and you give me {Bob, Tim}. I conclude that the order of your set exceeds unity – discernibility is sufficient for multiplicity. You claim to have a set whose order exceeds unity. I ask you to show me the set and you give me {Bob}. I conclude that the order of your set does not exceed unity – discernibility is necessary for multiplicity. [This is the basis for A = A of standard logic.] Like any principle of logic, a violation of MiD can cause confusion. Suppose, for example, that you introduce the set {Bob} in a discussion. Anyone seeing that set will assume it is order unity, so if you want it to represent "5 indiscernibles" (akin to your example of photons), you'll have to add a qualifier (which then creates discernibility). I didn't qualify (provide discernibility for) my use of the word "spatiality" in what were intended to be different contexts and it caused confusion. Given MiD, I define "topological" bases for time and space as follows: Identification (basis for time) – the construct of apparent identity from true multiplicity. "Me at 2 years old" is discernible from "me today," yet we consider "me" to be "one thing." Differentiation (basis for space of spacetime) – the construct of true multiplicity from apparent identity. I have two hydrogen atoms in this jar. So, from now on I will try to use the word "space" to mean that subset of spacetime, rather than "differentiation" in general. Of course, we'll have problems if we want to use "differentiation" to mean "taking derivatives," but thus far we've been safe in that respect. Let me pause here and see if you're on board. If so, let's move on to your ideas.


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The shrine is dedicated to konohanasakuya-hime, a goddess of Japanese myth. She is worshiped as the goddess of marriage because the famous Ninigi-no-mikoto coming from Takamagahara, the land of the gods, fell in love with her at first sight, and also as a goddess of easy delivery because she gave birth to triplets of Ninigi.
A part of the grounds is open to local residents as Tsuma Park. The park with a pond, river (the Sakura River) and wisteria trellis is a beautiful antique-looking place. The main shrine, front shrine and shrine office are also quaint-looking old buildings with very historical atmosphere. Tsuma-no-kusu, a Natural Monument of Japan, inside the grounds is a huge camphor tree that is estimated to have lived 1200 years. It appears dead at its trunk but is growing green leaves above. The tree that used to be 40-meters high is now 20-meters due to repeated damage by fire and strong wind but is still standing here exuding a very strong life force and mystic atmosphere.
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Don't tell me you never had this question asked to you, subsequently to your, usually politely, explaining to whoever asks about your religion, that you're an atheist and do not believe in any god; you're an atheist and do not believe that a god exists; or whatever combination of words you choose.
That's pretty much how it goes.
Even people who know that atheists do not believe in a god will sometimes still assume they share a common set of beliefs or principles, and have common political tendencies.
"So, what do atheists believe?", is their question.
If you ask me, I've had a wide variety of comebacks, depending on my mood at the moment, most of them facetious, but most likely, after explaining that atheists (as a group) do not have a common set of beliefs, I say that *I* believe in love, in humanity and our good faith... just to keep it simple... because, quite frankly, we don't "believe" in science - we find it verifiable. We don't "believe" in the universe and its wonders, we have seen them through amazing telescopes. I guess you get my point.
So what do you, fellow atheist, believe in, or what do you think is the best answer to this question?
Side note: This discussion is focused rather on the best comeback to the question in it, which in this specific context, is always asked as "opposed to your non-belief in god, what do atheists believe?"
yep. nothing substantial on hand, so next step is starting with personal attacks....
nothing new under the sun......
Case for atheism? How about religions are just fairy tales and that it's rather stupid to believe in fairy tales. That good enough?
Hahaha. I agree. One reason for believing in atheism and objective reality is that, otherwise, we'd be left with superstition and reassuring, but false, fairy tales.
Hello everyone!
Dear Angelo: we all appreciate your insight if you really do have one. However, calling other people's assertions "boring" is not really insightful.
Having said that, I'm gonna paraphrase one of my tweets: I don't have to prove god doesn't exist. However, show me how you would prove Zeus and Ra don't exist, and I'll use your method.
People who truly find an assertion boring should simply not respond at all. Otherwise, they are trolling. If a person has a reasonable assertion to make, they should make it. If not, there are always other posts to respond to.
hello Monica
its neither, that i am called infantile, and that i am trolling. But that does not disturb you, isnt it ?
How about to answer the question you made : What do YOU believe in ? Do you have evidence, strong atheism is true ? Some answer on hand, how our universe , and life, could have arised and evolved without a intelligent creator ?
Well, thats actually what its all about. You tell me , what you believe, in regard of the relevant questions of our existence, as a more valuable alternative to a creator God, and i will examine it, and see if there is something substantial about it.......hard to answer that question ???
A creator God really is a ridiculous explanation for all of reality. "the universe was created by some really big and important guy"...this doesn't sound silly to you? To me, it's far easier to believe that the reality we know is simply a particular reality in a larger reality whose existence is probably beyond our ability to understand. Science is starting to show that are perceptions of time and space are far from the truth.
And if God were going to reveal himself, why would He do so through some obscure tribe in the Middle East and not in a more general fashion?
The way one frames the question frames the answer to a great extent. When one asks "who or what created the universe" you are already limiting answers to just those explanations which involve a creator. It's kind of like the famed "have you stopped beating your wife? question, where the only way to answer it yes or no involves admitting to beating one's wife.
"How did the universe come about?" doesn't imply a creator, but instead a process.
I forgot. I stand corrected. The discussion's been going on for a while and I guess I lost track somewhere along the way.
I believe in rationality. Specifically, important words need definitions. Otherwise public discussion reduces to expressions of bias and emotionality.
I also believe it isn't rational to dismiss written history. I don't doubt the Old Testament. I just don't find it to be relevant to me. Furthermore, there isn't any rule book out there. We all have to figure out what life means for ourself.
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1. utstaff said on Nov. 14, 2011
When do we get a report on staff productivity? Oh wait, I guess we don't need our salaries justified because they're so low, and we don't get raises anymore.
Nov. 12, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas at Austin instructors generate nearly twice as much revenue through research funding and educational dollars as they cost the state in salary and benefits, according to a report on faculty productivity issued by the university.
The report analyzes data released earlier this year by The University of Texas System related to class sizes and research funding for about 4,000 instructors from graduate assistants to tenured professors. The report emphasizes that faculty impact cannot be fully measured by limited pieces of data from a single point in time. Still, it finds that the state receives a large return on its investment in instructors at the flagship university.
"The data show that professors at The University of Texas at Austin continue to fulfill the promise set forth by the university's founders to create and maintain a university of the first class for the state and its people," author Marc Musick, a sociology professor and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, writes in "An Analysis of Faculty Instructional and Grant-based Productivity at The University of Texas at Austin."
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1. utstaff said on Nov. 14, 2011
When do we get a report on staff productivity? Oh wait, I guess we don't need our salaries justified because they're so low, and we don't get raises anymore.
2. Don Lawhorne said on Nov. 14, 2011
Isn't the real issue what is done with what is reaped above costs?
3. Sakena said on Nov. 14, 2011
Research intensive faculty find it hard to balance research time and time to teach. These faculty are essential to the research experience and the students they mentor and financially support through jobs paid by research grants. Faculty who are not research intensive in CNS have heavier teaching loads. The College of Natural Sciences faculty are researching, teaching, generating funds for the students, employing hundreds of people, and are contributing to finding solutions for everything from living a longer-better life to understanding the universe. UT Austin is an amazing place to be and our faculty rock. Hook'em!
4. RP said on Nov. 14, 2011
Excellent! I assume that all faculty salaries will be doubled? If not, where is all this money going??
5. utstaff said on Nov. 15, 2011
@Don - The staff sure would like to know.
6. Sheri Parr said on Nov. 17, 2011
I'm a staffer and I have the benefit of taking courses at this university and I have to say I'm thrilled to know our young people are receiving the education that they do at UT. They are tomorrows future and I'm pleased to know they are in good hands. Thank you President Powers for caring about education in this country!
7. utstaff said on Nov. 17, 2011
@RP - If it's not going to regular staff or faculty, I can only assume it's lining upper management (Deans, etc.) pockets. Or we're going to be the only university playing football on a money-covered field. Take your pick!
@Sheri P. - Some entire colleges will not let their staff take courses It's sad.
8. Meusebach said on Nov. 24, 2011
A country that does not value education for it's own sake has no future. Given the promising intellectual start in the Hill Country 150 years ago, how did we get here? Long live the Banana Republic of Texas.


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Earth's magnetic field has flipped many times over the last billion years, according to the geologic record. But only in the past decade have scientists developed and evolved a computer model to demonstrate how these reversals occur. "We can see reversals in the rocks, but they don't tell us how it happens," said Gary Glatzmaier, an earth scientist and magnetic field expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Based on a set of physics equations that describe what scientists believe are the forces that create and maintain the magnetic field, Glatzmaier and colleague Paul Roberts at the University of California, Los Angeles, created a computer model to simulate the conditions in the Earth's interior. The computer-generated magnetic field even reverses itself, allowing scientists to examine the process. Computer Model Scientists believe Earth's magnetic field is generated deep inside our planet. There, the heat of the Earth's solid inner core churns a liquid outer core composed of iron and nickel. The churning acts like convection, which generates electric currents and, as a result, a magnetic field. This magnetic field shields most of the habited parts of our planet from charged particles that emanate from space, mainly from the sun. The field deflects the speeding particles toward Earth's Poles. Our planet's magnetic field reverses about once every 200,000 years on average. However, the time between reversals is highly variable. The last time Earth's magnetic field flipped was 780,000 years ago, according to the geologic record of Earth's polarity. The information is captured when molten lava erupts onto Earth's crust and hardens, much in the way that iron filings on a piece of cardboard align themselves to the field of a magnet held beneath it. Most scientists believe our planet's magnetic field is sustained by what's known as the geodynamo. The term describes the theoretical phenomenon believed to generate and maintain Earth's magnetic field. However, there is no way to peer 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) into Earth's center to observe the process in action. That inability spurred Glatzmaier and Roberts to develop their computer model in 1995. Since then, they have continued to refine and evolve the model using ever more sophisticated and faster computers. The model is essentially a set of equations that describe the physics of the geodynamo. The equations are continually solved, each solution advancing the clock forward about a week. At its longest stretch, the model ran the equivalent of 500,000 years, Glatzmaier said. By studying the model, the scientists discovered that, as the geodynamo generates new magnetic fields, the new fields usually line up in the direction of the existing magnetic field. "But once in a while a disturbance will twist the magnetic field in a different direction and induce a little bit of a pole reversal," Glatzmaier said. These bits of a pole reversal are referred to as instabilities. They constantly occur in the fluid flow of the core, tracking through it like little hurricanes, though at a much slower paceabout one degree of latitude per year. Typically, instabilities are temporary. But on very rare occasions, conditions are favorable enough that the reversed polarity gets bigger and bigger as the original polarity decays. If this new polarity takes over the entire core, it causes a pole reversal. "It's a very complicated, chaotic system, and it has a life of its own," Glatzmaier said. Weak Spot Peter Olson, a geophysicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, said scientists can now pinpoint the core-mantle boundary where these instabilities in the magnetic field are happening. One such disturbance Olson has been observing recently formed over the east-central Atlantic Ocean. Like a little hurricane, the anomaly swept toward the Caribbean and is moving up in the direction of North America. "It's a new one, a little thing," Olson said. "Time will tell whether it develops into something significant. But it is here in the North Atlantic, moving towards the Pentagon. We can track it over the next couple of decades." Instabilities such as this, Olson added, are causing Earth's magnetic field to weaken. Today the field is about 10 percent weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss first began measuring it in 1845. Some scientists speculate the field is headed for a reversal. Don't Miss a Discovery Sign up for the free Inside National Geographic newsletter. Every two weeks we'll send you our top news stories by e-mail. For more magnetic field stories, scroll to bottom. |
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