- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Well well well!

Israel: Sunday-Thursday, 8.5h
Russia: Monday-Friday, 8h
United Arab Emirates: Sunday-Thursday, 8h
Saudi Arabia: Sunday-Thursday, 10h

China: Monday-Friday, hours unlisted.

So the short-list got shorter. Here I was thinking everybody worked the same days.

- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ru...

Russia has no shortage of enemies who might false-flag them, but the short-list is still manageable. Dragonfly probably won't be able to move much without being attributed.

Threat-level: minimal. Political gun which can not actually be used.

In conducting the experiment, they among other things caused harm through inducing depression which persisted even after the experiment. Causing harm was part of the intent even if not the ultimate intent.

Your argument was: the means justify the end.

No, it would not... Government bureaucracy so rigid that we can have much better guesses than that. We should be able to eliminate most countries in this range, and their enemies to accommodate false-flag ops, and subtract according to capability. You get a short-list and then you just wait for the smoking gun.

"...the group mostly worked between Monday and Friday, with activity mainly concentrated in a nine-hour period that corresponded to a 9am to 6pm working day in the UTC +4 time zone."

Which government has working days like that? Is it the Russians?

I was addressing whether or not there could be legal issues, so the subject of intent becomes very relevant.
The intent, for half the people affected, was to cause harm.

There are laws against assault, bullying, and so on. The positive spin in innocuous but the negative spin is not.

With 700 000 potential victims, the numbers are against them because when your sample size is that large outliers are the rule and not the exception.

The risk of copycat suicide for example should have been obvious to those conducting this study.

I should explain, I'm being bullheaded about this since bosons have interesting behavior (e.g. laser action) because they lack charge. So much of our claims of understanding physics comes out of mathematical frameworks that my instinct for natural philosophy tells me that re-factoring old mathematics is a great idea to try.

I was watching a presentation by Susskind about black holes today and was rather confused about the holes he left in explaining the reasoning.
Primarily; he said you analyse a black hole by constructing it out of single bits of information. The idea to use a photon of the same size as the black hole is brilliant, but it ignores the elliptic polarization of the EM field of photons in free flight, and the example he showed an already existing large black hole on which he made just a single measurement. Extreme cases, like where the existing event horizon is around plank-length and the photon contained more energy than the known universe, was apparently ignored. He appeared to then conclude that photon energy vs. black hole growth was invariant from a single point of data...

After this, he concluded that a planar section of a sphere with plank thickness was 2-dimensional, and objected to the implications of the faulty reasoning. What I learned from this was that if we humans are so intent of mistaking the map for the terrain, then we need much better maps. 'Maps' here of course meaning mathematics.

A vote-selling union to counter-act party politics? I like the way you think!

That convinces me. Much obliged.

Thought I still want |z| to be thought of as potentially half-dimensional... :b

Since you're an AC I'll ask for references, or accuse you of trolling.

Thanks for the tip on the video lectures! This might help me understand laser action on a much more fundamental level. =)

I actually did know about Hawking radiation... But I wish to add more nails to the coffins of outdated and poorly worded scientific names. Another source of annoyance for me is 'complex' numbers, which IMO would be better described as e.g. 1.5-dimensional numbers. - Thoughts on this?

It sounds like public disclosure of private facts. - http://privacy.uslegal.com/wha...

Seems like he had already incriminated himself when he talked to the cops. That's a strange thing for a lawyer to do to begin with...

J.D. Franson's research appears to be Nobel prize worthy for its implications, and how much it could simplify our understanding of the universe. Wanting a first post on this is understandable.

Anyway, nothing 'virtual' at all about virtual particles. - Who would thought?

Rather hilarious that anyone other than a rival nation state would seek to challenge the NOAA. Right or wrong, decision makers listen to the NOAA either directly or indirectly since they do most of the US's recce.