One thing that I found out recently that blew my mind, is according to gravity calculations, neutron stars bend light almost as much as black holes, but because they still emit light from their surface, this means you would be able to see basically the entire star at once.
I.e. You would be able to see the front and the back of the star simultaneously. It looks like a weird morphing Mercator projected map.
Here is a random video showing the idea, I have no idea how precise the simulation is though.
Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. A single kid sucks more time than you have in a regular day. You are sleep deprived, and in survival mode for the first part.
If you have a lot of kids, after a certain age, the older ones can start to help around depending on age. It's how humanity survives in self-sufficient conditions.
For serial kid rearing families there is a plateau in difficulty, and then a steady decline (depending on the personality and health of the kids of course).
I agree that we should teach the quantum basis of things earlier. I just think a lot of people don't know it, and we don't have a good curriculum for kids to start with.
We'd also need to revamp some of the math, chemistry, and physics curricula to build on the quantum basis of things.
To be fair, what he proposed isn't (immediately obviously) mutually exclusive with your points. If it were true it would be almost impossible to detect experimentally.
So it gets tossed on the stack with all the other complex-and-unfalsifiable theories for which no evidence exists.
> To be fair, what he proposed isn't (immediately obviously) mutually exclusive with your points. If it were true it would be almost impossible to detect experimentally.
The obviousness or lack thereof is subjective, but the exclusivity is firmly established. The absolute indistinguishability of particles is deeply woven into quantum mechanics; you don't get a Pauli exclusion principle without it, for example. If the particles remembered their previous lives, and an electron that used to be tied to an iron nucleus weren't completely identical to one that used to be stuck to a carbon nucleus, all of quantum mechanics as we know it would be impossible.
I don't see why? They could be indistinguishable from our perspective while mysteriously being affected in some way if certain things happened to their "partner". We can experimentally set an upper bound on the permissible weirdness but I don't think we can eliminate the possibility.
Experimentally you'd be attempting to detect inexplicable single particle events above some level of rarity. You'd have access to only one side of the pair - you can't tell which one the other side is even if it's right in front of you (and it almost certainly isn't). So there's no discernible (to you) trigger for these events you're trying to detect. So you'd be trying to correlate frequency counts with bulk conditions as averaged across more or less the entire universe.
In the same vein as the God of the gaps the phenomenon could always be hiding below the noise floor.
I fell off a countertop and got a concussion when I was 2.5, it's a very vivid and painful memory. I also moved to a different state when I was 5.
I have a very clear delineation of before and after the age of 5, and I have hundreds of memories from before the move. Most are rather intense events, but I even remember the layout of my house, construction sites, my daycare, neighbors, friends houses, holidays, first bike ride, first lizard I caught, my pets, even some dreams I had, etc...
I didn't have a good idea of time yet, but I can retroactively tell when things occurred based on facts I later learned, like when certain neighbors moved, even my sister was born, etc...
It's pretty wild to be how young babies can start signing compared to speech development.
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