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Comment Re:Gravitational Waves (Score 1) 87

Yep. By "Gravity doesn't exist" he means "Gravity is not a force". He didn't say that "Gravitational waves don't exist". The confusion is when you think gravity is a force. Even Newton didn't like gravity being a force because how can the Sun and Earth pull on each other over a large distance. It took Einstein to show that mass bends space and bent space makes matter move on curved lines from some perspectives. The gravitational wave detections in 2016 proved that the propogation of bent space happens at precisely the speed of light, because the gravitational waves and light waves from these mergers reached us simultaneously after billions of years. But we already knew this from the perturbations in Mercury's orbit.

Comment Why behind closed doors? (Score 2) 99

If senators are elected representatives, why are those represented excluded from the contents of these meetings? These senators work for us, they are public servants, not anything else. Remember government for the people, BY the people. Anything that happens in those meetings MUST be public, otherwise there is no democracy.

Comment Re:foiled again (Score 3, Informative) 187

I think you're forgetting about some important stuff about GR and the real universe. LIGO has shown spectacular application of GR for neutron star merger, massive glack holes etc. Gravitational lensing is teaching us a lot about Dark Matter itself. GR has demonstrated astounding predictive and quantifiable alignment with the megascale of the universe, not just your observation of Mercury that has more than 100 years ago. So far, it seems to me, *every* predication of GR has turned out to be 100% accurate. Can you name me a single counter-example? Maybe they were also anomalous data spikes.

Comment Re:foiled again (Score 1) 187

exactly, whoever wrote this piece of fluff didn't get Thompson, Rutherford and Bohr and all they worked through. How can he be a chem professor and forget Rutherford????

Comment Re:Yes and No (Score 1) 122

I've been doing taxes myself on my country's finance ministry's website for 20 years. When I get stuck I call their free number and they answer the phone immediately.
When I lived in USA for 2 years I used Turbotax to prepare my data and then submitted it myself to IRS, paying turbotax nothing. I even got a 5000$ refund from IRS.

Comment Pay attention you Americans (Score 1, Interesting) 283

This is what democracy means. In a democracy, politicians make decisions that are in the best interest of citizens, not corporations. Come to think of it, Americans don't even know what the word "citizen" means. If you ask an American what a citizen is, they probably say "Kane".

Comment Re:What makes this (Score 1) 18

Back in 2019 a lot of attention was put on this exact topic. Katy Bouman, https://www.cms.caltech.edu/pe..., who invented the algorithm, demonstrated that she could enhance images using a data set trained on celestial images, but could also get the same result when trained on images of cats. This showed to her that her method was independent of the training set. We are now a few years later and there are smarter, better, more optimized ideas, but that doesn't invalidate the incredible work of before. AI work is developing so quickly, we see dramatic improvements in just months in some cases.

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