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Comment Re:My favorite test (Score 1) 147

Seems no different to flipping a coin until you get heads. When you flip heads, stop.

Not quite sure how it provide evidence of anything, though. Someone who flips 10 tails in a row either a) has found themselves in a 10-tail universe with a probability of 1/1024 or b) happens to have flipped 10 tails in a row in the one universe which exists, also with a probability of 1/1024.

Comment Re:Typo (Score 2) 51

until a better way to correct that outcome is implemented

Yes, if only there was a way to bring attention to words which are not correctly spelled. Perhaps they could be checked against a list of some kind, a "dictionary," if you will. This system could highlight said words so that someone could "edit" the mistake. One could even call these people "editors" and pay them money to do a half-decent job.

Comment Re:Ok, but the thing is ... (Score 1) 214

They are supposed to be opposites, and let's presume they cancel each other out ...

Well, no, let's not - at least not without good reason.

Positive mass and negative mass have oppositely-signed masses. Why would that mean they'd be opposite in all other ways?

I'm no particle physicist, but negative mass seems to integrate very poorly into the system here.

Or it could just be that, not being a particle physicist, integrating negative mass into "the system" could be beyond you. It's certainly beyond me, so I'm not even going to try.

And presumably negative mass would have particles of some sort

That's an awful lot of presumptions.

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