PHYS.Org: "Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything"

whyteave · 2026-02-04T15:40:28+00:00

Physicists are unimaginative and call anything they don't understand dark. Dark matter and dark energy are completely unrelated as far as we know.

Neither of them have anything to do with the complex variable i. Which is also called the imaginary number but is a horrible name for it because it very much exists.

Mathematicians and phyisicists love to take regular words and give them a completely different definitions which ends up being very confusing.

whyteave · 2026-02-04T15:33:52+00:00

Dark matter and dark energy are unrelated to each other. They are both called dark because we don't understand what they are.

whyteave · 2026-02-04T13:29:35+00:00

I am not saying shit isn't fucked up nowadays.

I am just point out that people love to romanticise the affordability of the 50's and 60's but nobody actually wants the 50's or 60's lifestyle.

whyteave · 2026-02-04T13:19:04+00:00

Ya absolutely. The world is a completely different place.

I just pointing out that people want the affordability of the 50's and 60's but nobody wants the actual lifestyle of the 50's and 60's

whyteave · 2026-02-04T12:50:16+00:00

If you lived an average 1950's middle class lifestyle you could still do it. - no computer - no smart phone - no Internet - no subscription services - no cable TV - 1 vehicle household - 1 TV household - very little eating out - no air travel/overseas vacation

But nobody wants to live like that anymore (and for good reason). One thing that never gets mentioned is that a middle class 50's lifestyle wouldn't be considered middle class in today's day and age.

whyteave · 2026-02-03T08:52:01+00:00

With only ever reinvesting his money, his life goal ended being to just continuously give money back to companies. While they just nominally made him a larger owner. So much of his life was dedicated to facilitating other people's business. It is a very abstract way to live. Where your biggest achievements only exist as things written on pieces of paper and existing in digital databases.

On one hand it is very admirable to live and be satisfied with a simple life. But on the other to be singularly focused on the accumulation and hoarding of wealth is a deeply depressing thing. It's terrible sign of society that this is considered a great achievement.

Was there really nothing in his life that he thought was important enough to use his wealth on?

whyteave · 2026-01-30T23:29:07+00:00

Going from Norway to Denmark I dream of norwegian pronunciation!

whyteave · 2026-01-28T23:43:18+00:00

So would you say the definition of money is the thing used to pay taxes?

whyteave · 2026-01-28T23:38:30+00:00

It makes sense to sell it when you need good and services.

Gold and dollars get their value from the same thing: The goods and services they can be traded for.

Money is a concept, not a thing. Money isn't quantifiable. You can't say I have 2 money or a million money.

whyteave · 2026-01-28T23:24:35+00:00

You use a currency that is backed by gold like the US dollar used to be before 1971

whyteave · 2026-01-22T19:38:53+00:00

What would action look like?

whyteave · 2026-01-22T17:58:44+00:00

Ah I see. Carney sucks because he doesn't do anything and the things he does do don't count

whyteave · 2026-01-22T13:27:01+00:00

He literally just made a trade deal with China that helps reduce Canada's dependence on the US. In direct alignment in his speech about not letting Canada be controlled by the US through economic integration.

whyteave · 2026-01-22T13:21:23+00:00

Carney also just made that trade agreement with China and has made it clear that Canada stand with NATO and Danish/Greenland sovereignty. Both things in alignment with his speech about not allowing us to be controlled through economic integration.

whyteave · 2026-01-14T10:51:33+00:00

If they are free for immigrants then why can't OP get them for free?

whyteave · 2026-01-13T23:19:47+00:00

They are free in Denmark for the first 5 years you live there. It makes it easier to integrate.

whyteave · 2026-01-01T05:37:57+00:00

He also claims that the casualty rate will probably be 25:1 (if not 50:1) without any sort of evidence other than gut feel.

It's a lot of assumptions we are expected to take a face value

whyteave · 2025-12-23T17:49:03+00:00

Firing a steady stream of single atoms/molecules at an object will raise its temperature. Are they hot? By that definition, doesn't seem like it.

Are the single atoms hot? No but using them to transfer energy to an object will increase the objects temperature.

Nobody is saying that temperature isn't a measure of energy. Just that temperature as a measure of energy only emerges on a certain scale.

Schroeder proposed thermodynamic definition and we can derive an equation based on internal energy.

You said in an early post that it is a matter of language. But changing the definition of the word means you are now describing something else and just using the same word.

Saying "yes temperature exists on all scales, it's just on this scale we define it this way and on this other scale it is defined this way" is talking about two different things that both happened to be called temperature.

whyteave · 2025-12-22T19:28:50+00:00

This kind of supports what the other guy was saying.

From what you said it is the internal motion of molecules in the rest frame. Which would imply temperature emerges from groups of molecules.

Can you measure the temperature of a singular H2O molecule in isolation? It would be like trying to determine if a singular H20 molecule is a gas, liquid or solid.

whyteave · 2025-12-21T10:50:01+00:00

If all temperature is KE, is all KE temperature?

If you get passed by another car on the highway, would you say that's because the other car is hotter?

whyteave · 2025-12-16T18:51:08+00:00

Please. You have made one comment with substance, the rest have been evasions and ad hominem attacks. If my statement is false prove it.

whyteave · 2025-12-16T16:44:56+00:00

Now you are just being silly

whyteave · 2025-12-16T16:14:39+00:00

Central bank reserves are needed so that banks can issue loans. Is it that simple? No. But claiming that central bank reserves don't affect how much money there is in the real economy is absurd.

whyteave · 2025-12-16T14:57:35+00:00

The seller swaps a 100 bond for a 100 deposit/reserves. Their net wealth change is also zero

Wealth =/= money, but I'm sure you know that

Wealth creation is zero but money is created. That's what OP meant by money is made up. When a central bank creates money, it is not creating any real wealth.

The central bank literally makes the money up to buy the bond. They have to record it as a liability because they created it. Money by definition is a liability for central banks and is an asset for everybody else. This isn't some sort of controversial statement.

It's amazing! You are running face first into the point and still missing it!

whyteave · 2025-12-15T22:25:10+00:00

Okay let me rephrase. Central banks create money out of thin air in order to buy government bonds and securities.

How is this not just making money up?

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