Hey, the swedish far right party did the same thing basically. They played the same song at a party, singing the racist lines infront of a journalist who was recording, then tried to steal the equipment of the journalist. “It’s just a joke”.

I don’t remember.

I’m guessing this is a pun that people are missing?

This is how I handle code at work, almost. Program not working? Who has the last commit on the code? You get the question!

Come on! You need those red crosses to know it fails as it should. Thats what I would say they are there for :-)

I’ve heard this joke about emacs, not sure if it is true though.

Well… And so can scalars, sure, like in string theory where scalar fields represent various kinds of aspects of geometry of the extra dimensions. But they are, also this scalar, dynamical fields (which the CC is not) and these fields would correspond to “particles”. You couple this field to all the other fields of the SM and you get interactions, you have particles. Its a particle.

This is why I know this is generally a problem, in string theory you have all these scalars that comes from compactification, you need to explain why they are not seen by experiments = make them heavy. Otherwise you get new particles, new forces, lots of physics that is not real.

Sure. In model building like this I would assume that you’d make the particle heavy to explain absence from experiments, or you’d make it couple in strange ways. Do the authors here do either? Higgs was hard to find because a little bit of both, dark matter is from the couplings entirely (no coupling to the SM). The scalar, I assume, is not dark matter (that is the claim here), so it must couple to SM so unless heavy it most likely should have shown up at LHC. It is a similar problem, but not the same. If it is the couplings and not the mass that should explain the absence then is there anything in the model that would give a hint to how it couples to anything in the SM? I doubt it, because this is basically pure GR work from what I understand, and not QFT. But, I don’t know, I’m just being sceptical here.

Well, guess what the Λ in ΛCDM is? They just put it in there to be able to fit the theory to the observation. And it’s absurd to say, that they would’ve found that in the LHC, when they also did not find dark matter particles, even though they are actively looking for those.

Kind of, but also not really. It is a bit different to add a CC which we can implicitly measure the size and equation of state of instead of adding a scalar which we observationally only have a lower bound on the mass on (from not being found in LHC). If their fit makes the mass very high, then they are fine is all I’m saying. The CC and dark matter are different, so yeah, it… would be strange to ask to find the CC att LHC because it did not find dark matter…? What?

It’s quite common for research groups to do this, because their work is quite complex and takes time. They proved that their approach might have some merit and now other groups can help them going forward with it.

Absolutely. This is perfectly fine. I’m just saying with how far this direction has come right now, I’m not convinced, but that shouldn’t mean much :-)

Just some superquick thoughts…

Regarding “TL” from wikipedia:

Despite periodic re-examination of the concept, tired light has not been supported by observational tests and remains a fringe topic in astrophysics.[4]

It is not very reliable to use a component to build a model that has “no support from observations”. This is a theoretical result, I don’t mind them doing this work, one needs to do these things to understand the various aspects of a problem.

From one of Gutas papers, re. “CCC” (I think they are referencing the “CCC” here at least):

A scalar-tensor theory of gravity is considered […]

Yeah, it is not generally a good idea to just throw in more components, like here a scalar. I’m guessing it cannot be the inflaton, since it is has to matter for late-time cosmology, so they either have to explain why this scalar has not been found by the LHC or that it is the Higgs. Maybe they do?

The paper linked in the article is also about fitting some cosmological data. Does it still explain galaxy rotations? What about other cosmological data, like equation of state parameter and such?

I’d say this is very teoretical work, on some quite unstable legs. I would not throw out the ΛCDM+dark matter just yet.

E = mc^2 is not an equation relating to gravity in the way you imply, that’d be the Einstein Field Equation [1], which still depend on G. And as far as we know, c is also a constant.

Then I’d guess a bunch of statistical constants probably show up in the humanities all the time. Is that what you are looking for, or some closed form expression with the constant?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations

I think they were moving in that direction at some point. The PiS party of Poland, Orban in Hungary, was in discussions with Russia to start an alternative bloc to the EU, iirc.

What would be the accuracy on something like a 64bit unsigned integer?

I’m confused about the definition. They are moved? Forcefully if needed, or they are offered the position? Also what kind of position are they moved to you mean? Like the person best in the world in welding, they will atrificially be placed in a position of influece? Influece over what, policy? Culture? Or they will be the boss of other welders? How is the demostrated ability measured? Do people take exams in like welding to compete on who is better than someone else? If so, is the test the only thing that matters? If the best welder in the world is also a complete asshole, they still get the position of power? If not, where is the trade-off on how good a welder do you have to be to be a certain amount of asshole?

The swedish PM is right wing piece of shit backed by a party which has Victor Orban’s Hungary as an inspiration.

I know a professor who was kind to a crackpot. Talked to him a bunch, explaind stuff, corrected him where he was wrong. Should not have done that… The crackpot writes a crazy book with just made up shit, and thanking the professor for helping with the book in the book for everyone to see.

I think the premise of the article is generally true, but it can go sideways.

I usually say “There are an infinite number of integers. That does not mean that one of them is a banana”.

Italy has a lot of problems with their fascists and their relation to their role in ww2, as a nation, no doubt. But also, what I have seen in italy is something I have not seen in any other country. Anti-facists occupations of buildings hosting clubs, womens refuges, theaters and jobs for immigrants and refugees. I was on a city walk with one of these movments associated with other occupations, and they toured the city showing the anti-fascist graffiti, showed city maintained plaques of anti-fascist actions and told stories about the resistance movements during ww2. For an italian, I can imagine there is some escape from their nation’s responsibilities embedded in that event, but I can also see how it was obvious how it was fueled by a distain for fascism and anti-semitism.

So the attack would just be a } then?

The interview with the spokesperson: https://da.se/2023/10/teslas-svar-om-strejkbrytare-ar-det-verkligen-olagligt-att-flytta-personal-inom-landet/ On the lobbyist: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/l3PQdM/tesla-forsokte-paverka-regeringen-via-mejl