Tlaloc_Temporal

I wonder if babies and adolescents hopped around? There's already the theory that T.rexs lived in family groups with adolescents catching lots of small prey and adults catching the occassional large prey and providing protection.

Ah, so it's the IRS that was the wrong target. I see.

Only diagonal entries in a matrix is basically just n simple functions with no crossover, right?

Could be both honestly. Perhaps the relative abundance of otherwise innocuous material is more than just virtue signaling.

You need some papurus dust to sprinkle on those, like a lick-a-stick.

Are we?

GE made nearly 7 billion dollars in 2023. Do you know how much tax they paid? They didn't, they got a refund of over 400 million dollars.

Tell me again that tax evasion isn't a real problem.

Yes, atoms are made of smaller parts; electron orbitals change chemistry based on their distance from the nucleus, nucleons change the chances of emitting radiation based on their distance from each other, and quarks greating increase their mutual attraction based on distance.

The relative distance between fundamental particles is governed primarily by forces which don't seem to have changed much since nucleosynthesis. If expansion doesn't affect any of this, then saying things governed by forces are expanding is nonsensical.

I can see a perspective where time is slowing down, reducing the effective range of the forces and letting all matter shrink to fit the changing effective distance, and leaving unbound matter to appear to expand. However, I can't see how this would be meaningfully different from an expansion of all space, not how such a difference might be detected.

Regardless, the distances within atoms continue to behave consistently, while the distances within galactic superclusters do not.

We went over this, we observe the distance between galaxies increasing, but the distance between atoms has not.

The expansion happens everywhere, but subatomic forces massively overpower the expansion, so atoms don't expand.

Likewise, raisins are strong enough to not get pulled apart by the expanding bread. There may be slight force on them, but the bread expanding by a factor of 2 leaves the raisins the same size.

I don't understand how you think a change in distance can be detectable by light between galaxies, but not detectable by like between ends of a metre bar, or between electrons.

Well yes, that makes sense and all, but it's not nearly as fun as saying mojo is directly controlled by heart health. Or that cancer causes cell phones, or that people named Killian cause air bag recalls. They're obviously wrong and ridiculous, and that's funny.

Not thinking of cosmic expansion as a volume expanding is an interesting thought.

It does imply that the changing distance only happens at large distances though. "Faster-than-light" expansion is already non-local (I think), but all expansion being non-local is consistent with it being driven by vacuum energy. That kinda makes the rasin bread analogy stronger, as the rasins don't expand at all.

I wonder if we could detect frame-dragging at large distances. If expansion causes frame-dragging, then it's actually a change in space, not just distance.

I wonder if linear motion can even cause frame-dragging, or if it's just rotation that causes it. I do not know enough about the math to say.

This is actually a thought that some climate deniers have. "Climate change is a hoax to control you, covid was the trial run".

Unsurprisingly, the people who say that publicly tend to be funded by oil.

This does insinuate that a high-risk of heart attack causes sexlessness.

Better stock up on advil.