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I have only read a bit about the philosophy of free will, but I have thought a lot about physical determinism. Lately I've had an idea that seems to me to put things in a new light; but perhaps it's not as good as I think. The idea is: Whatever is controlling you is you. It seems to me to make sense...

Can you derive Kepler's Laws from your theory? hahaha I don't have to do s h 1 t in order to start trying to explain how to go beyond general relativity. All I have to do is be a BS detector. :D Everything's a Scam :mrgreen: :geek: :ugeek: I'm going to take that as a "No." Isaac Newton derived Kepl...

Yes, General Relativity needs some kind of improvement. Without equations, though, you are not going beyond General Relativity. You are failing to come up as high as its boot heels. Can you derive Kepler's Laws from your theory? That would at least be a start, matching the physics of 1687. Then we c...

Current physics is not a "convoluted mess of models". It's a lean and elegant structure with few assumptions. It only seems convoluted if you don't know enough math. It does have a big problem reconciling General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. No mere phrases and images about aether annihilating ...

If you want to know what gravity is, you need to learn about General Relativity . Gravity is the geometry of spacetime. What we mostly think of as gravity is actually a very slight difference in how fast time flows in different places. It flows very slightly slower the closer you are to a heavier ma...

Why do stars get big when they start to “run out of fuel”? It’s an interesting mechanism. Stellar fusion is self-limiting. It would go faster and hotter if the star were denser, but with heat there is pressure. The star’s own gravity packs it together but the pressure from all that fusion limits the...

I don’t know about libertarianism but I’m firmly committed to ish.

Some people really have had unusually large impacts on history. Some people really do have unusual talents or circumstances of some kind. But what also really does happen is that some people have unusually strong psychological urges to feel that they are special and important. Anyone who is even beg...

The three great epics of Classical antiquity are all very episodic. So are the Gospels and Acts. To clarify my previous posts, pointing out ways in which the Book of Mormon is simpler than a long novel was not meant just to dump on the Book of Mormon as a bad book. As Kishkumen points out, there ar...

Yes, and that made them much easier to compose than a novel. I don’t know how much education their ancient authors would have had, but I’m guessing it might have been less than Smith’s.