Let us look at what he wrote:

That's what's great about physics. You can say whatever you want in areas that are beyond the capabilities of current science.

People do make conjectures about things that are beyond Science. Think String theory. So how do we falsify that? Hint - we don't, we either accept it because it is convenient, or be skeptical about it. That doesn't stop String theorists from discussion or agitating for their hypothesis. Back to the subject at hand.

If you read the paper referenced here, it does invite a bit of healthy skepticism. They pretty much admit it.

So let's put it to the test using me as the villain.

I think that string theory is convenient bullshit, and that people agitating for it are engaging in mutual mental masturbation. And no, they don't like that.

Does that make me an anti intellectual? It would be the first time in my life I've ever been accused of that. On the contrary, I usually get asked to tone down the big words and simplify things. And since the respondent decided to make it about Trump and his merry band of incompetents, does that make a person who hasn't voted Republican in over 25 years a MAGA?

The respondent who connected the OP with MAGA is at siting at +5 insightful. We live in an age where it is very fashionable and approved to use Cheeto as a way of castigating anyone they disagree with. And truth is apparently irrelevant.

How about some good discussion about the paper? Both the science aspects of the paper, and I think it would be interesting to discuss if disagreeing with or heavily skeptical of the paper is determinant of one's political party.

Looking over the paper, I can see some issues. Assumptions must be made of course, but IMO, there are just too many assumptions made, and they even use Gedankenexperiment in their paper. Gedankenexperiment is good to get a discussion going, because you can use anything at all to forward what you are thinking.

And if a dullard like me sees problems, it might seem that smarter people will as well.

And that, ladies and gentlemen is how we got TikTok.

I have always been concerned that the nature of AI will lead to it referencing itself, which can make it spit out things that are completely wrong, yet somehow become facts. Ironically, the best answer I got was AI generated:

"When AI starts referencing itself, it can create a feedback loop where AI-generated content is used to train new models, potentially leading to inaccuracies and a decline in the quality of information. This process can result in models that produce less reliable outputs, as they may rely on flawed or misleading data from previous AI generations."

And I agree 100 percent.

I hope you realize that trying to connect this to Trump somehow is kind of disingenuous, and alerts the worker to the concept that politics is as important as science ion the upcoming argument. Not always, but a non-zero chance.

The guy is expressing skepticism, usually considered a good trait in matters of science.

Maybe we should start over again.

The authors of the paper are using a rather large number of assumptions - indeed they admit the paper is a Gedankenexperiment.

And despite some folks disagreement - Gedankenexperiment is more or less mental mutual masturbation. It's more or less normal, despite the rude term. I'm no expert on cosmology, but I left more skeptical after reading the paper.

Just between us chinchillas, I'm hard pressed to consider Gedankenexperiment as evidence based model. YMMV. I suspect Ms Hossenfelder will have a field day with this one.

There is a grocery store in rural PA, a rather large one, that utilizes this very thing. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fburkholdersmarket.com%2F... They have a solar installation covering their parking lot. It is a cost saver as well, because grocery stores use a lot of electricity.

Our solar farms here in PA have plenty of vegetation growing beneath them. They even serve as nesting places for birds on the underside. The idea that everything under them is just dirt with no plants, held by some, is incorrect. They even help a number of animals.

Sorry, but your calculations are off by a lot. There was a shitload more power needed to generate the power the fusion device needed. Qtot is around .01. That's the important number. Qin to Qout looks good on press releases, but ignores the power needed to produce the Qin.

This. So much this. We orgasm over tiny increments, while ignoring the elephant in the room. I've made jokes about needing a fission reactor beside every fusion power source, for tw things. One is to create the tritium the fusion reactor will gullible up, and the other is to provide 10 times the power of the output of the fusion reactor.

All while there is already a well functioning fusion reactor some 93 million miles away. And we're capturing power from it already.

Not certain, but sounds about right.

I hope that the Democrats might do some deep introspection, they lost so much, while expecting a blue tsunami, and now have no political weapons other than filibuster.

I agree that one must take supposed news on YouTube with a healthy dose of skepticism, but it isn't all Maga, there are other sources who echo the sentiment. Asia Times probably isn't a MAGA rando

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasiatimes.com%2F2025%2F05%2F...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediabiasfactcheck.com...

Then again, perhaps China is immune to any economic problems,

It is nothing short of idiocy to believe that punitive tariffs won't be reciprocated.

We are part of the world.

While the intentions were probably to stimulate in-country manufacturing, this isn't the 1940's any more. Gotta find a different approach.

There is a certain amount of arbitrariness to the assignments of so called generations. Certainly there is some overlap as well, which fuzzes things a bit.

Generalizations follow

As a mid stage boomer, many of us tried something different in raising our children. The business of being our children's best friends, and protecting them from all adversity. That really didn't work out as we thought it would. Many didn't grow to be adults. In the University environment, things got a little strange. When the millennials started coming to college, the cell phone became an electronic umbilical cord. The young folk who never were taught the boundaries they needed, might call mommy or daddy about some professor they didn't like, and mommy or daddy would call wanting the professor fired. Sometimes the parents would come along on job interviews. Cringe level 1000.

We ended up separating the parents from their children for one get together on the orientation weekends. Told them that at 18, their children were now adults, and part of the college experience was for the kids to become adults and make their own decisions and take their own responsibility.

It wasn't super successful, but a few parents paid attention.

And there is something I believe we can lay at the feet of the boomers. The desire to protect their little buddies from all adversity, the refusal to allow the kids any time not supervised by adults, and some social issues I won't go into here, resulted in a non-optimal situation. Physical adults who didn't quite grow up.

That is the big failing of the boomers.

And time marches on.

You seem to want to go out of your way to interpret everything I say as wrong, yet you kinda look pretty obvious doing it.

Here are some companies that are producing batteries as we speak https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsodiumbatteryhub.com%2F2...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbcapcodes.org%2Fsodium-i... They are not producing batteries? And the Sodium-ion batteries I can buy right now off Amazon Do not actually exist and were never in production?

not in production? Utterly bizarre. Your weird logic demands that Lithium ion batteries are not in production either, because not every combination of chemistry is being used. Of course it isn't, I either case.

Rather than spouting bullshit, respond with your knowledge that sodium ion batteries are not introduction - provide the cites. Otherwise you're just performing a sad and failing attempt at trolling.

You are making a fool of yourself, and if you want to have an adult conversation tell me about the batteries, Support your absurd claims - otherwise, I won't waste my time in responding to your "inane replies.

Fame and money. If Michael Jackson had been an average schmo, he would have been in jail, not looking like an accident victim with failed plastic surgery, and many less kiddies diddled.

Howard Hughes, managed to not be committed even though he had serious issues.

In the present day, we can see that Elmo might be heading down the same path.