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we may learn soon if this is true in our life time. The electric charge is a quantum number and remains symmetrical in our modeling.

I happen to like Paul Mason, the ex BBC journalist. I also see the same problems with post industrial France in the Alsace Lorraine region since my early student years and have always suspected that the EU and Thatcher serve the big capital.

I always suspected their instrumentation and secret desire to hit the media. I wasn't taken in.

the tabloids reflect and amplify the view of their readership. Disagree as much as you want, they represent about half the people who buy newspapers and they go out to vote.

the evidence seems to mount. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19429-laws-of-physics-may-change-across-the-universe/ the reason for it: the theory of relativity has evolved a lot since A. Einstein created it. It is possible that the laws of physics changed with space time. I mentioned the...

I learned Schroedinger's first, then Pauli's, then Dirac's in that order. I must say I have never paid much attention to any history connecting these three, just three sets of equations/theories in the same module following the increase in complexity and applicable scope. Dirac's is the most...

they are assumptions in the sense that the EU can change the rate of contribution, the role of the ECJ, the freedom of movement and whether it wants to build a superstate. At the moment, those are reasonable near term projections.

we've gone some way from that qualitative > quantitative approach. A. Einstein used thought experiments, not to explain observable phenomena, but his maths. So he built the theory first and imagine how it can be tested. Einstein method is used a lot nowadays.

the assumptions are not that many: 1. 1% of GDP in gross contribution to EU budget 2. The ever expanding role of the ECJ hurts our national pride 3. We cannot stop EU citizens to come and settle here 4. The EU is going to become the united states of Europe

no. Occam's razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor) is appealing to the mind but has no scientific basis. Empirical evidence is useful but cannot replace reasoning.

at your weight, any good bike with 17AH battery will give you the desired range without anxiety. From my bikes, I would suggest the Krieger 2017 with 17AH battery @ £1,129. It's a crank driven bike, already fitted with full sized chainguard, mudguards, lights bell and rack. The tyres are...

the problem with physics as an exact science is that we are physically earth bound while our imagination is not. It becomes clearer by the day that different regions of space may have different physical laws, different elements and possibly different atomic and subatomic particles. if there is a...

I left uni in 1975 so my knowledge of maths, physics and chemistry is dated as of that time. Still, triangles are a definition, agreed between people who study Euclidean geometry. If you go one step further and assume that you only have curves between two points in space and/or your space has...

I've been sitting at a desk for almost my entire career, until I got type 2 diabetes so I thought a bike shop is just what I need to save myself from the disease. As for why Chinese bikes, I've always like getting a bit more for my money.

I must have a very low Midi-chlorian count because the force is seldomly with me. OG and OT are not convinced by my jedi suggestions.

I have never seen any universal truth, besides the human intuitive sense of right and wrong. All exact sciences rely on principles, those that members agree to be true as in measuring systems. If you change the reference or the units, they cease to be correct. Besides principles, axioms are the...

yes, I have no problem with that. Even foolishness is a relative value. In order to measure anything, you need some reference.

I think all participants on this thread agree at least on one point, the need to be informed. But if you need popular support, you have to sell your idea because a lot of people for one reason or another, won't be sufficiently informed to the point of reaching certainty.

you don't need to be an expert to buy the deal. flecc agreed that our government could sell EFTA.

A recent poll suggests that if EFTA was adopted by our government, about 7 out of 10 voters would support it.