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GPS is just one very relatable example of a system that is effected by relativity. Everything! There's actually more to it than just one transmission of a radio wave, there are several. The satellites communicate both with the ground and with each other via radio waves and the distances they...

Seems like I remember Dr. Brown saying that they did but I can't find it on the online book and so maybe I'm remembering that wrong.

Not sufficiently to prevent it from freezing if it's even sort of close to absolute zero.

This is the conventional understanding of time dilation. The videos are there to present another view. It is 100% entirely and totally about nothing else but the clocks. It isn't about distances. The effect on the clocks are quite real and cannot be ignored if we want certain technologies we...

The point I was making is that the mineral content is irrelevant. If you get water, no mater how impure, anywhere near absolute zero, it's going to freeze to the point that it's harder than granite.

Now it is you who are making a false equivalence. A clock is not time. Time is not a clock. Motion effects clocks, not time. Time is not a thing, it is an idea and cannot be effected my physical forces. Clocks, on the other hand, can be and are. A person's watch will run slower at the equator...

Maybe I need to rewatch the video because what you are describing as an objection sounds to me like the point they were making. The idea is to give an explanation for what we observe without resorting to time being an ontological thing that is somehow changing.

There is experimental proof that they do not do so.

Not to "near absolute zero", though, right?

How so?

I see nothing about it that is irrational. On the contrary, contradictions do not exist in reality and these phenomena have been experimentally observed to happen and very very complex and hyper-expensive scientific instruments have these effects very intentionally engineered into the way they...

No. I've never heard of Justin Johnson. Watching his video on the attributes of God now. (I won't have to time to watch it all this morning.)

He's certainly the best that is on Christian television - by a mile! I'm pretty sure he was an Acts 2 dispensationalist, which led to some unavoidable errors, but, leaving relatively minor doctrinal issues aside, he was indeed an outstanding teacher. I cannot, however, agree that he was the...

Asking GPT about accelerating the dime within super-critical water was smart. I hadn't thought to do that. However, I read nothing there that's inconsistent with what I'm saying. The mechanical stresses alone.... "it could heat up enough to start melting or even vaporizing, depending on the...

Excellent argument. There are online resources that can give you the numbers, not the least of which is ChatGPT, which is easily the most readily accessible. When I asked GPT the question, it seemed, without being baited into doing so, to verify that there is no material that could survive such...

Okay Lon, I didn't see this post until this morning because I've had you on ignore for a while. I can no longer remember specifically why I put you on ignore which I usually use as good enough of a reason to take people off of ignore. Here's hoping it lasts, because this is one of my favorite...

Because 360 is a very much easier number to work with. That's one interpretation but superstitious cultures probably liked the "perfection" implied by the number 360 and they concocted all sorts of beliefs and ceremonies and rituals and the like surrounding the extra days. So what? Are you...

The videos explain the answer to both questions.

Escape velocity, I have no problem with. It's the idea that these very large amounts of material were flung, not just into orbit around the Earth and not just around the Sun in extremely eccentric orbits but that way more material than that was flung clear past Mars and even out past Neptune...

So, look you guys, it doesn't do anyone any good just to relegate these ideas to something so simplistic as parallax and/or the apparent angular size of an object in one's field of vision. These effects are real and have been experimentally verified to happen. In high-energy particle...