The Nature of the Universe, Time Travel and More...

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I realised I forgot to ask ChatGPT about the costs of image and video generation. This was its response:

Practical rule of thumb

• Short message = 1 points
• Long message = 3–4 points
• 1 image ≈ 20 points
• 1 short video ≈ 200+ points

Bottom line

• Text is cheap → you can use it freely
• Images are mid-cost → use sparingly but comfortably
• Video is expensive → use deliberately

As the daily allowance on the Go plan is about 100 to 150 points, video generation seems out of the question.

 

[Will The Serious]

The Aharonov-Bohm Effect
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-simulation-famous-quantum-effect-reveals.html#google_vignette

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What's curious to me, reading about these concepts, is the thought that the field effects have been successfully isolated.

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Here, you can't "break" locality, because any effect measured by an isolated system demonstrates that there is something there.
Tesla was of the opinion that the electromagnetic force and gravity were related, so, even if the electromagnetic force, as we understand it, is absent, gravity (related by Tesla's proposal) is still there. Even if we agree that Tesla was wrong about such a relationship, electrons have mass, and are therefore affected by their presence in a gravitational field.
In the water experiment, the drain functions, not just by gravity, but the water is connected by its liquid matrix. It also is subject to the coriolis effect.
In the original Aharonov-Bohm effect, was the wave form's rotation affected by the direction of the solenoid wrap? Apparently it is. Reversing the electron flow (the magnetic field poles) or reversing the wire turn direction, changes the phase sign and consequently, reverses the wave pattern.

This all means that the electromagnetic field is not so easy to isolate?

-Will

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The usual answer is to invoke the magnetic vector potential, A, whose curl yields the magnetic field, B. It is not possible to measure the potential directly, but it leads to such effects because A can be non-zero even when B is zero. I've mentioned it here previously, I believe.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

i am one of those peeps who still believe in time travel and the multiverse lol

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I experience travelling into the future at one second per second. Doesn't mean it's real. Even if there are many conscious states that identify as me yet this one might never experience, does that constitute a multiverse. I have the illusion of choosing a path, but so do all the other conscious states that have a different perceived path. It's more many-minds than many-worlds. The substrate is perhaps a mathematical abstraction that exists as a possible fluctuation away from non-existence.

A thread of correlated conscious states creates the perception of an external universe that might as well be real as we experience agency over it and not over the path through possible conscious states. Of course, each of the many versions of you in the different branches naturally believes it is unique - that's judged to be the most parsimonious solution given the available evidence. That conclusion was already written into the state. Choosing a different conclusion occupies many fewer states.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Spoiler: Sabine HossenFelder - FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research

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This is concerning, how so many scientists have gone missing or have died in a short span of time.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Spoiler: Sabine HossenFelder - FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research

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This is concerning, how so many scientists have gone missing or have died in a short span of time.

Yeah, I 'd like to hear a proper statistical assessment of the likelihood of that supposed cluster of deaths. Also I think her guess about the number of people connected with classified programs in the US might be at least one order of magnitude too small, especially if retired people were also affected.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Spoiler: Sabine HossenFelder - FBI investigates suspicious disappearances of scientists tied to classified research

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This is concerning, how so many scientists have gone missing or have died in a short span of time.

sounds like something out of a movie and or out of a tv show

 

[Will The Serious]

Yeah, I 'd like to hear a proper statistical assessment of the likelihood of that supposed cluster of deaths. Also I think her guess about the number of people connected with classified programs in the US might be at least one order of magnitude too small, especially if retired people were also affected.

My thoughts exactly. I would guess that, "loose" association with classified programs could even extend to research groups who were not classified and only provided peripheral research at the university level. That could grow that figure to nearly a million students, professors, engineers, scientists, and administrators.

-Will

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The death of Amy Eskridge is perhaps the most concerning of the deaths. It would be very easy to dismiss it as just another conspiracy theory.

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[Will The Serious]

A HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE ON
ANTI-GRAVITY
TECHNOLOGY- by Amy Eskridge
She mentions Thomas Townsend Brown, a central figure in the Anti-Gravity conspiracy world. His experiences with work in electro-gravitics is reported to be consistent with the whole government cover-up rhetoric.

-Will

 

[Will The Serious]

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I have done this thing that the Emperor did. I clipped the flight feathers of my turkeys to keep them safely on my land where I could take care of them, and they were happy, then a bear came along.

-Will

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

A video on the recent murder of astronomer Carl Grillmair.

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Tragic, but it does seem like the murderer was merely unhinged and not part of a conspiracy.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

heres a theory lol

what if those missing scientists are time traveling or traveling to alternate earths in the multiverse

 

[Will The Serious]

That IS one theory. More of a conjecture, really

If we consider the multiverse, and each universe in the multiverse is exactly like it's neighboring universe, AND we consider the structure of the multiverse is such that there is a closer and farther neighbor in terms of whatever may be defined as the space in which the universes exist, then when one scientist, we'll assume time travelers are primarily scientists; then when one scientist jumps to another universe, it will probably be the nearest neighboring universe. So, when the scientist jumps to the next universe, does he run the risk of bumping into his other self or has the other-self jumped into the next universe will his other-self on the other side jump into his universe while he is away? It's the Hilbert's Infinite Grand Hotel.

-Will

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

So, when the scientist jumps to the next universe, does he run the risk of bumping into his other self or has the other-self jumped into the next universe will his other-self on the other side jump into his universe while he is away?

Yes he might run into his doppelganger.

Think "Sliders" TV show.

The chances of you encountering your identical counter-part increases the moment you jump between parallel worlds.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

No guarantee you jump to the same point in time or space for your alternate Earth. There can be no universal frame of reference nor universal clock, just like there is no universal now. Even in the single block universe of Albert Einstein, the past and future coexist. According to Max Tegmark, all possible types of multiverse exist, each with potentially an infinite number of copies of any individual. If base reality is all possible conscious states, anything that is possible to imagine exists simultaneously. Testing any of this is pretty darn difficult, if not impossible - but that might be a failure of my illusory imagination in the thread of perceptual states that one instantiation threads.

 

[Will The Serious]

there is no universal now. Even in the single block universe of Albert Einstein, the past and future coexist.

I think the point of the block universe is that there is a universal time, exactly as there is a universal meter and a universal 360 degree circle. The meter and the degree are, of course, arbitrary measures of humans, as is the second, but they are defined the same and behave the same no matter where we go on the xyzt axis of universal coordinates. We exist at one point, and to move to another point, we must move through all the intervening points, both positionally and across time.

So, to jump to another universe in the block universe, would mean that if there was an adjacent "parallel" to a parallel universe, that's where we would have to go first to travel across to it. That is simply the adjacent point. You'd be guaranteed to collide with your identical counterpart unless your identical counterpart was jumping across to the next block universe at the same time; actually moving out of the way.

Personally, I hate the idea of Einstein's block universe and time as a relative 4th dimension to space's 3. It take away cause and effect. Where everything exists at once in the block, there is no reason for things to happen. We fall because that is our destiny, not because of gravity.

Ultimately, as time is tied in as a 4th dimension, what motivates movement in time? A ball sitting on a one dimensional "x" axis, still needs a reason to move to another point on that axis. So to would it need motivation to move to another point along the "t" axis. Where is that cause and effect in a block universe?

-Will

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I think the point of the block universe is that there is a universal time, exactly as there is a universal meter and a universal 360 degree circle. The meter and the degree are, of course, arbitrary measures of humans, as is the second, but they are defined the same and behave the same no matter where we go on the xyzt axis of universal coordinates. We exist at one point, and to move to another point, we must move through all the intervening points, both positionally and across time.

So, to jump to another universe in the block universe, would mean that if there was an adjacent "parallel" to a parallel universe, that's where we would have to go first to travel across to it. That is simply the adjacent point. You'd be guaranteed to collide with your identical counterpart unless your identical counterpart was jumping across to the next block universe at the same time; actually moving out of the way.

Personally, I hate the idea of Einstein's block universe and time as a relative 4th dimension to space's 3. It take away cause and effect. Where everything exists at once in the block, there is no reason for things to happen. We fall because that is our destiny, not because of gravity.

Ultimately, as time is tied in as a 4th dimension, what motivates movement in time? A ball sitting on a one dimensional "x" axis, still needs a reason to move to another point on that axis. So to would it need motivation to move to another point along the "t" axis. Where is that cause and effect in a block universe?

-Will

You might think that, but you'd be wrong. Still, what you believe to be the truth is up to you.

 

[Cicero]

Yeah, I 'd like to hear a proper statistical assessment of the likelihood of that supposed cluster of deaths. Also I think her guess about the number of people connected with classified programs in the US might be at least one order of magnitude too small, especially if retired people were also affected.

Relatives of 10 'missing scientists' grapple with impact of wild speculation

Conspiracies are running rampant online after the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 people tied to sensitive US research.

www.bbc.com

"The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West wrote on 16 April on his Substack.

"Ordinary mortality over 22 months predicts ~4,000 deaths, ~70 homicides, and ~180 suicides. The list has 10 … The deaths are real. The families' grief is real. The pattern is not."

Louise Grillmair, similarly, says that - while her husband "would laugh" at speculation that the deaths might be connected - he would also "probably talk statistically" to squelch conspiracies.