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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
How the Sun Works
The sun isn't actually our only source of heat. It's by far the largest source, but rogue planets generate their own heat all on their own, as well, as well as getting heat from gravitational interactions with other bodies, radiation from other planets, universal background radiation and so forth. The planet does freeze without the sun, but it doesn't approach 0K without it, just very, very cold.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sun's radiation
I know waves are hard to define, but I'd be careful using a definition that requires a medium. Light waves do not use a medium for travel, photons pass through the lack of medium. The requirement for light to have a medium is æther theory, the ancient Greek belief that there was no empty space, but rather an undetectable medium called æther through which things traveled. This is considered non-scientific and just a religious belief of the ancient Greeks, nothing to be taken seriously.
Light is actually photon based, not wave based. Waves describe a behavious of photos, but it's not truly a wave. Light can be detected on a unit basis, photon by photon. It is digital, whereas a wave is continuous or analogue. What makes physics interesting is the wave-like behaviour that photons generally posses, but it's a behaviour without a medium.
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@jmoore think of it this way....
Flat earthers don't have any reason to believe that the earth is flat, as there is literally no indicators of this, none (because it isn't.) Yet they doubt the evidence that the earth is round - obviously because they've not looked into it since the slightest checking tells you that it is, in fact, round. It's trivial to observe this even with the human eye, at sea level (by the water.)
It's fine to challenge the concept that the earth is round, we need people to question assumptions. But to do so effectively, one would have to look at the evidence presented of it being round (like that we can fly around it, we can see it from space, we can see ships go over the horizon, and you can see the curve from a tall building, and so forth) and then determine how that evidence could be wrong.
That's where we are here. You think that there is going to be evidence that the sun affects the earth's climate (rather than its weather) but do so without evidence (because it doesn't, so there isn't really any.) And you then believe that all of the evidence that we have that humans are changes the climate are wrong. But you aren't looking into that evidence and then disputing it, you are just saying you think it must be wrong without any basis for that.
It's almost exactly the flat earth problem. There's no evidence to support your theory, and mountains of evidence that the obvious, common sense factors are, in reality, the actual factors. Without producing evidence to the one effect (because none exists) and by simply not looking at all the existing evidence (which is overwhelming) you are then presenting a belief that the things you've not researched, even to the expected "all members of society are supposed to know this to a certain level", are wrong. That's a pretty dramatic stance to take, given the total lack of supporting evidence, observation, or common sense.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
but not doing any research.
I never said I did not do any research. I did say I have read a lot about this over the years. I have seen both sides of opinions and many of each.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
crazy and counter-intuitive is true without doing even 30 seconds of research that it took to come up with solid research on it
Well this is the hard part. Astrophysicists don't even know what causes the Sun's magnetism for sure or how its internals work, or the effect dust clouds have, or how solar winds affect our atmosphere, or the effect of the Sun's rotation on everything around it. There are way too many variables to say for sure one way or the other.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
But wait, didn't we just determine that you'd not looked into this at all yet and hadn't done even cursory research on the subject? Something is off here.
You determined this yes. It never came from me. I am just modest in what I say about myself. I have read and studied, astronomy, calculus physics 1 and 2, modern physics, computational physics, and astrophysics. I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot. the more I study the less I realize I know about anything.
I also never said I was not aware of research that has been put out. I have read about this for a long time and I also talk to friends that are professors and a couple others that work in physics fields. Is anyone truly qualified to give an opinion on any of this? I am not sure. One thing I have gleaned from my many discussions of this and other topics is that media that have strong opinions on things usually have financial reasons behind it because not enough data has been collected for a long enough period of time. I tend to believe that. It makes no sense to be as absolutely sure of anything as we are with as little as we know about anything in our galaxy. I am just saying its my opinion that it isn't entirely accurate and there are probably financial reason behind so many people pushing the same thing. Money is about the only thing that truly unites people unfortunately.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
The sun isn't actually our only source of heat.
You are right, it is not. I need to correct that. That was a mental lapse when I wrote that. It is at least 99% of our heat though. -
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
I know waves are hard to define, but I'd be careful using a definition that requires a medium.
Well some types of energy do require a medium though. This is why there is no sound in space, because there is no medium compatible for sound waves to travel through. I understand what your saying though. The early philosophers were quite off in their ideas on certain things for sure and aether theory is certainly one of them. They were reaching for something but it was just too early so they made up this artificial construct to help describe their world.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Light is actually photon based, not wave based.
I will have to partly disagree with you here. Light is an example of both. Light moves as a wave but when it is absorbed by something it becomes a photon. The wave kind of collapses into its photon counterpart.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Light is actually photon based, not wave based.
I will have to partly disagree with you here. Light is an example of both. Light moves as a wave but when it is absorbed by something it becomes a photon. The wave kind of collapses into its photon counterpart.
I mean like... that's not how the science of it works.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
Well some types of energy do require a medium though.
Absolutely, but it's not a requirement of a wave and light is the perfect example, which is the one that you were describing, that has no medium. That something can have a medium isn't the same as having the requirement of the medium be part of the definition.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
The early philosophers were quite off in their ideas on certain things for sure and aether theory is certainly one of them. They were reaching for something but it was just too early so they made up this artificial construct to help describe their world.
Right, they were using philosophy as a substitute for science. Which is fine, in the absence of the capacity for science, but they often presented it as science, which is always wrong.
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@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
But wait, didn't we just determine that you'd not looked into this at all yet and hadn't done even cursory research on the subject? Something is off here.
You determined this yes. It never came from me. I am just modest in what I say about myself. I have read and studied, astronomy, calculus physics 1 and 2, modern physics, computational physics, and astrophysics. I'll be the first to admit I don't know a lot. the more I study the less I realize I know about anything.
I also never said I was not aware of research that has been put out. I have read about this for a long time and I also talk to friends that are professors and a couple others that work in physics fields. Is anyone truly qualified to give an opinion on any of this? I am not sure. One thing I have gleaned from my many discussions of this and other topics is that media that have strong opinions on things usually have financial reasons behind it because not enough data has been collected for a long enough period of time. I tend to believe that. It makes no sense to be as absolutely sure of anything as we are with as little as we know about anything in our galaxy. I am just saying its my opinion that it isn't entirely accurate and there are probably financial reason behind so many people pushing the same thing. Money is about the only thing that truly unites people unfortunately.
Sure, but that's where I'm saying we should be skeptical, but also understand the corpus of existing study and evidence and while we should question it, we should not assume that without counteracting evidence that it is wrong. When there is a huge body of science, from all sides, and it matches observation and common sense and expected answers, we should be pretty cautious of thinking it to not be true. Caution and skepticism are very different than disbelief. But we should certainly not counter it with things that are demonstrable untrue. If there is going to be an argument against the corpus of belief, it will come as evidence itself.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
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@Pete-S said in Non-IT News Thread:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.
shit fuck.
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