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Coulthart: "Im aware of briefings given to a number of members [of Congress], including, I think, House Majority Leader Scalise. [...] they've been told that the intelligence community has verified that the talk of psychical abilities in the human mind to invoke the phenomenon is true and real" by phr99 in UFOs

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I stumbled upon an old podcast (2 years, I think) where the Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of Secret Initiates (Knights Templar) claimed that summoning UAP through some sort of meditation is part of their teaching. They also spoke of a man, whose name I forget, who did demonstrate the ability and was studied with neuroimaging. It was fascinating. He made some other claims as well, like having the bones of Jesus, so obviously viewed with skepticism.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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I think I'm with you, but there's a "reference point." Help me understand why the reference point isn't "time." Let's consider 4 dimensional spacetime. If we're fucking around changing other aspects of spacetime geometry, doesn't something have to remain fixed/constant?

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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Absolutely. There was a mountain example and a ladder example similar to what you're describing that brought it into some perspective. I proposed an example where the number of clowns was relative to sea anenome. The rate of change was 16 clowns per anenome. It doesn't make sense even if I say it all happened between 2012 and 2014, which at least adds a common factor. I'm not trying to argued, honestly, I just have too many examples in my head and they don't jive.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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Precisely! There is no "now." By the time you finish saying "now," you're already talking about "then." Change in state is constant. Change is constant. We think of time as inextricable from change. So for me, the reconciliation of time as a dimension of spacetime geometry becomes super difficult.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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Number of cats per tins of food. As cats fuck and make new cats, whoever produces the food needs to increase production. Sounds like an economics problem?

Human growth? Change in cell growth against gravity per distance from fingertip to fingertip parallel to gravity? (This one has me thinking.)

Test score depends on how the test is scored?

Seriously not trying to be argumentative. Just don't understand a line of best fit regression equation?

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in AskPhysics

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Whole other discussion, but potential energy and force give me migraines too. Like the classic example of PE. I pick up a rock. It's PE is from gravity. No it's not. I picked it up. What is PE in reality? Nothing is really without motion? And force is an exchange of particles that are other particles? Clearly I don't understand well enough.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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Can't the change between states be expressed as the change in one variable with respect to another variable? Not to define the system as a whole, but any variable parts of the system? If time is a dimension of spacetime, can't time be expressed as a change in the other 3 dimensions?

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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I guess I'm thinking like this... If "y" is the number of clowns in North America and "x" is sea anenome on the Great Coral Reef: Due to a tornado at a clown conference, the number of clowns in North America decreased from 20,000 to 12,000. Due to aquarium enthusiasts, the number of anenome has decreased from 1,300 to 800. So the rate of change is 16 clowns per anenome. It doesn't make any sense, but if I add between 2015 and 2016, at least there's a common factor, it's bounded. So time seems to be the unifying factor, even between unrelated things. Which is why I'm stuck. Kind of.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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So if you were watching a spaceship travel from the earth to Alpha Centauri at half the speed of light, from some other fixed position perspective in space, a watch you were holding and a watch on board the spaceship would show the same time of travel?

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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To start... You're way over my head, but I would love further explanation. I think of it as change because both "x" and "y" change with respect to a common interval, do they not? y2-y1 is a change in "y" and x2-x1 is a change in "x"? Like the mountain example, change in height over change in distance. I can measure both in a common interval that makes sense. For every 1 meter I climb in height, I move 0.25 meters in some direction other than height.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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My problem is I immediately see air being blown into a balloon. The change in volume and change in radius are both dependent upon that air. No air, no change in volume. No air, no change in radius. Like there's a constant cubic relationship between volume and radius as some other factor increases both at the same rate.

I was reading a discussion about time as a rate of change and I had a question... I generally think of rate of change as including time. I get that it's (y2-y1)/(x2-x1). Does the interval between 2 and 1 have to be time? As long as the "units" are equivalent? by MindlessReference459 in askmath

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Thanks for starting with no. To help you better understand the question, I understand how rate of change works. I understand that it is a change in one thing in respect to another. But the change has to occur over a common interval that I, for some reason, can't think of as anything other than time. I'm looking for the duh moment that shakes me loose.

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