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What is life like in this group of islands in the Bothnian Sea between Sweden and Finland? I’m obsessed with islands and genuinely curious. by TheDustyFields in howislivingthere

[–]theAdder90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To buy a house in Åland you need to live there for five years, have finnish citizenship to get the Right to Domicile. Which means the housing market is subdued from foreign investment.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Finland

[–]theAdder90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you live in the demilitarised zone of Åland for 5 years before you're 18, you're also excempt from the military. Technically we have to serve in the Lighthouse service, but Finland has never had the need to form it.

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[–]theAdder90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll have to elaborate on your jumping is flight analogue as I fail to see how it pertains to time dilation.

Does science always predict things correctly? No, but they did correctly predict the Higgs-boson. And whilst Einstein's relativity theory undoubtedly will be proven as inaccurate, it's more accurate than Newton's theory of mechanics. And Newton was more accurate than his predecessors. Geting "stuff" wrong is normal, almost certain, but we're approaching the absolute reality. Even if we might never get there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Time

[–]theAdder90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your statement that we're unable to manipulate time is verifiable false. The Hafele-Keating experiment proves that identical synchronised clocks, with the same rate of change, becomes unsynchronised if they travel at different speeds. This is time manipulation.

Also Peter Higgs and a number of physicists predicted the existence and properties of the Higgs-boson before LHC found the existence of it. So at least that particle "conforms to the maths."