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2 months agoNot necessarily. In fact, it’s possible for gravity at the event horizon to be less than Earth’s gravity.
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51·3 months agoThe study he references also did not bother to test for sugar, only fructose.
When they later repeated their analysis, they found that Mexican Coca Cola actually does contain sugar, unlike American Coca Cola.
The paper cited in that video had serious flaws in their methodology.
A repeat analysis by the same group found that Mexican Coca Cola actually does contain table sugar (sucrose) as well as fructose, whereas American Coca Cola contains no table sugar and more fructose than the Mexican version.
The difference is that you can completely avoid lead poisoning if you eliminate exposure to lead, but you can’t completely avoid cancer even if you eliminate exposure to carcinogens.
And eliminating exposure to aspartame would have only a minimal effect, at best, on your overall risk of cancer.
Don’t forget cell phones, which are in the same risk category as aspartame.
Ok, then it takes two Planck times if you write it in base Rayo.
No. The amount of time it takes to write Rayo’s number is 1, in units of Rayotime.
protons don’t exist as a particle-wave
They do, but protons have a much shorter wavelength due to their greater mass.
She was on the fringe even when she was talking about physics.
Her claim to fame is espousing an interpretation of quantum mechanics that doesn’t have much support among other physicists (doesn’t necessarily make it wrong, but definitely fringe).
1·5 months agoNo different than buying an iPhone from a country that is persecuting Uyghirs.
Finland isn’t funding the IDF, either
Denmark isn’t sending arms to Israel, so why are their ships being attacked?
Ultimately, this is a “Iran and Houthi opposition to the West” thing.
Nonsense, China is Israel’s second biggest trading partner.
Depends. “Retaliation” is not necessarily military. Russia could retaliate by seizing property from Latvians living in Russia, and NATO would not respond.
Why are you so insistent that the MSM has no bias against Palestinians?
I don’t insist that, at all. Maybe they do.
I’m just evaluating the Intercept’s methodology, which is garbage. So the article doesn’t persuade me in either direction, and like you I’ll have to do my own research.
similar rises
No, the article doesn’t even attempt to measure the rises, much less show that they were similar.
humanize the deaths on the Israeli side.
No, the Intercept is again looking for an axe to grind. For example:
The Gaza Health Ministry said Friday that 1,799 people have been killed in the territory, including more than 580 under the age of 18 and 351 women. Hamas’s assault last Saturday killed more than 1,300 people in Israel, including women, children and young music festivalgoers.
Here the Israeli children are uncounted. Is that an example of anti-Israeli bias? No, because despite counting only Palestinian children the media made the mistake of describing their methodology: children are those under 18. Less precise language would be better. Does “children” even appear elsewhere in that article?
“We have wounded, we have elderly, we have children who are in hospitals,” she said.
Clearly those are Israeli children. No? They are Palestinian? Yeah but this was 10/13 so what about all the mentions of Israeli children still in hospitals? None? The same article only mentions Palestinian “children” in hospitals? Ok, well the Intercept will have to report that as a counterpoint. Just kidding, this is the Intercept after all:
The aforementioned front-page New York Times report and a Washington Post column are rare exceptions to the dearth of coverage about Palestinian children.
The Intercept is worse than lazy, they think their readers are too dumb to remember the news.
Just the first six hits from just one Google search:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/03/gaza-premature-babies-dead-nasr/
The rest of the article is also flawed.
For instance “[the media] mentioned antisemitism more than Islamophobia”. This presupposes that antisemitism should not be mentioned more than Islamophobia. But why?
If I said “The media mentioned Islamophobia more than Francophobia” then that’s not an example of bias, because Islamophobia has been newsworthy for years and nobody pays attention to the French.
So is antisemitism more newsworthy than Islamophobia? Maybe so, given the Stefanik hearings. Maybe not. But the Intercept hasn’t even considered this.
Likewise, they count usage of words like “massacre” and “slaughter”. But what is that supposed to prove? The Intercept presupposes an unbiased source would not associate “massacre” with Hamas more than Israelis, but why?
Finally, the Intercept wonders why “children” is not used more often in reporting. Here’s one possibility: the media treated dead adults and dead children equally, lumping them together in “total dead”. They are not singling groups out in a way that the Intercept would prefer. That’s the opposite of bias.
Thought experiment: if the media constantly reported “X deaths, of whom Y were Christians” wouldn’t that be kind of creepy? Why does someone’s religion even matter when tallying the dead? Well, the same could be said of someone’s age.
The Intercept is measuring “bias” by comparing the ratio of Palestinians/Israeli deaths to the ratio of using the words “Palestinian” and “Israeli” in the media.
Which means according to the Intercept, if CNN writes “There have been 20000 Palestinian deaths and 1000 Israeli deaths” then this is another example of bias, because CNN only used “Palestinian” once in that sentence. Which is nonsense.
I did read the article. I think the methods are questionable. Making a graph doesn’t mean the methods are sound.
For example:
For every two Palestinian deaths, Palestinians are mentioned once. For every Israeli death, Israelis are mentioned eight times — or a rate 16 times more per death that of Palestinians.
In other words “There have been 20000 Palestinian deaths and 1000 Israeli deaths” is considered biased, and that sentence should have used the word “Palestinian” twenty times because there were twenty times as many deaths.
Gravity at the event horizon is inversely related to the mass of the black hole. So for a supermassive black hole, gravity at the event horizon can be weak. But you still can’t escape because it’s too large.
Imagine light trying to escape the Earth’s gravity. Its path is slightly deviated by the Earth, then it gets far enough away that the Earth has little further effect.
Now suppose at that distance, it still experienced the same gravity. So the trajectory of light is deviated a little more. It keeps moving farther away but gravity barely changes, even at huge distances. Eventually all those little deviations add up and it’s going back where it came from. Light can’t escape. It’s a black hole.