tomo,
Well, yes. We can hope for the green slope, but you seem to have slipped onto a black diamond.

tomo,
Well, yes. We can hope for the green slope, but you seem to have slipped onto a black diamond.

The USA approval process for a hepatitis B vaccine in 2018 is, um, impressive.

Perhaps it's reassuring to know that the same problems were around a couple of millenia ago:

  quis custodiet ipsos custodes (Juvenal)
  sic omnia fatis in peius ruere (Virgil)

And Virgil's was a bit on the pessimistic side. Things occasionally improve before resuming the steady march downhill.

tomo,
I do enjoy cosmology stuff, but as light entertainment. It helps to underline the deeper jokes in Red Dwarf. For the business of light/EMR being a wave in the aether, it starts getting a bit like Feynman's "Oomph" explanation for everything (that really explains nothing).

Thought this sounded a more plausible explanation for the violence in the Gaza relief supply lines. Perhaps just confirming my biases...

Hope Greta enjoyed the film presentation.

Bonus picture. (King's Birthday long weekend here, so I'm going wild)

Mailman, tomo,
There might be quite a lot in parallel between Starmer cosying up to the Muslims in the electoral base and General Motors cosying up to SAIC. Seemed so clever to begin with...

On the CO2 business: it's always seemed strange how often we're told CO2 is a well mixed gas. In what sense? On average it is, because that's what averaging *is*, but obviousy there's going to be more CO2 near a smoke stack or a volcano, and less under the canopy of a rainforest. The OCO2 plots bear it out very nicely, but I don't think the climatologists want to see those, lest they be asked to explain the climatic effects.

The alternative to the big bang video didn't really grab me. Yes, QED involves a lot of magical mumbo jumbo, but so is the notion of "aether". I felt the video was just offering alternative nomenclature for the existing theory — that instead of Feynman QED diagrams, you'd have very similar looking Feynman Aether diagrams, etc.

Perhaps if they offered a suitable test that QED should fail and Aether theory pass...

Economics is (reasonably enough) known as the dismal science. Cosmology strikes me as being in the same class. Sciency, but not science. More interesting than economics, but still not in touch with reality. Perhaps the psychedelic science.