An "ad-hominem" attack would be an attack on Mr. Howard "as a person" in order to invalidate his argument. For example: "Terrence Howard is a bad movie actor therefore his scientific ideas are wrong." (I think he's a good actor actually!)
He certainly is an interesting character. As a rough barometer, anyone who goes on Joe Rogan to present their hidden scientific truth of the universe while making an unsubstantiated claim to have "95 patents" is probably worthy of a few giggles. For a full debunking, read on...
Taking his claim "1 times 1 equals more than 1" for example, Mr. Howard may very well be perceiving non-Euclidean space that the rest of us are missing entirely. Certainly if we change the axioms of mathematics then we can jury-rig this claim to be true, but at that point the claim becomes non-falsifiable, and not particularly useful.
Similarly, the claim that "every element in the periodic table has a musical key, and that H, C, Si, Co, Rh are all in the key of E at different octaves", the "octave" seems to be an analog of the periodic table "row" (how many electron shells the atom has), and the "key" seems to be roughly-speaking the relative "column" (relative electronegativity of the valence shell) with E apparently being a "half-full" valence shell. So if we take the "weak claim" that "musical tones are a nice labelling scheme for the elements", it doesn't contribute any new secret knowledge that isn't already well-understood by mainstream chemistry and represented in the standard Periodic Table. On the other hand, if we go with the "strong claim" that elements actually have musical tones, certainly there is no evidence of this in terms of atomic vibrations, photon emission/absorption spectra, etc. More likely Mr. Howard has some form of synesthesia--but again, just because one insists that "the number 4 is green", or that "the month of August tastes like tomatoes" does not make it so.
TBH I think he just confused the freq emited by the Hydrogen Line with the idea that every element has it's own frequency. Which you could actually calculate but is not something analog to the material but also to the conditions it is in.
Now when he speaks of tones in terms of frequencies he isn't crazy at all. You could find out the tone of say the Hydrogen Line by diving it until you are capable of finding out which tone it could match (if you could) - it's funny cause I was kind of thinking of this discovering electromagnetic astronomy when this video came out
Now I had some fun laughing of the b* he could throw, but I'm not entirely sure everybody is as smart at they think they are when they make fun of him.
Russell may have indeed derived the concept of "tone" from absorption spectral lines which were known since the 1800's, however, there are many obvious logical gaps/flaws, e.g.:
- There are multiple absorption lines per element--sometimes more than 100--not a single line one could call the "tone".
- The lines don't follow any periodicity/doubling/harmonic rule, nor do they regularly ascend/descend in frequency as atomic number increases.
- The lines are light-range THz (nm) rather than acoustic-range Hz. (Howard said explicitly "Hydrogen is 41.5 Hz" but Russell seems to use relative Do-Re-Mi scale rather than a numeric Hz value.)
Howard's/Russell's "tone" seems to be a more New Age-y "intrinsic vibration of matter" which is not actually measurable with any existing instrument. It may have been inspired by the concept of "wave-particle duality" considering that Russell's book was published the same year Schrödinger was working out his wave equations. But more likely, it is a continuation of a much older human tendency to use music and "perfect harmonics" to describe the observed physical world, dating back to Pythagoras' cosmology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis.
If you actually read Russell's work, there are some major "shoe-horning" problems--he invents lots of imaginary elements around Hydrogen and Helium in order to create 8-tone octaves for each, such as "Alphanon", "Hydron", "Luminon", and "Carbogen". For rows 2 and 3, he then runs into the problem that the row has 8 elements (valence shell has 8-electrons), but there are only 7 unique solfeggio notes per octave (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti)--his solution is to not assign solfeggio notes to the noble gases at all, so for example Sodium is "do" and Chlorine is "ti", while Neon and Argon are... nothing. In rows 4+ he subdivides his "mi"s and "so"s. It is pretty clear that had Mendeleev not first invented the Periodic Table, Russell wouldn't have had his musical epiphany.
Just curious, but was it an US prison ?
I have trouble seeing them allowing the prisoners to play game.
Also, how are the prisoners supposed to make money to pay for the game ?
There are paid jobs in the prison for the inmates. They are not very good, but it's a thing. You can also send funds to an inmate's commissary account, if somebody you care about is in there.
While I understand the sentiment, I think we might not necessarily need more people in the world, but enable more people who already came to life to live up to their potential.
Too much human potential is wasted in under developed regions.
> Too much human potential is wasted in under developed regions.
Too much human potential is wasted in highly developed regions as well, but it's not a question of access to resources, it's a question of living in a dysfunctional society driven by a lot of things that aren't "hey, how do we make the world better?"
Ark Survival Evolved ?
Base game should be around 135GB, and you don't have to install all the different maps at the same time since you won't be switching between them frequently.
If you want to run a dedicated server on top of that, those are around 25GB per map, so it is not that crazy I think.
No idea. I am just reporting what I saw when I clicked "install" for her. I'm not into survival games so I don't play it, I just know I was stunned at the requirement and that she had to remove other games to fit it on her PC's SSD.
This reminded me of a Dr House episode where the patient somehow ingested tape worm eggs, which managed to make their way into the brain, thigh muscle etc... through blood, then hatch there.
Looks like it is referred to as Neurocysticercosis [0].
The parasite does not necessarily chose where it might end up, so it is up to luck.
The victim probably ingest a bunch of eggs, which will find their way into different parts of the body, with different level of survivability.
The brain does look like a cosy place to survive.
"Louise basically dismissing the entire thing with "You dont get to bully people' Without even reading the comments."
> This is either a troll, or a very dishonest take ? Rossmann literally reads his messages in the video, as well as his own answers, and explain his rationale for distancing himself from the project.
Yes, he is "scared", because Micay comes out of the blue to accuse him of supporting "murder attempts" against his person, and to "publicly expose Louis" for all the wrong he has allegedly done to him (Micay).
At the cost of using a very simplistic analogy, if the cook at the restaurant I eat daily keeps threatening retribution for unfounded reason, I will make sure to not only stop eating there, but make others know the situation in case something happens to me.
Please tell us what Rossmann would want from Micay ?
Rossmann made some of the most enthusiastic videos spreading awareness about the GrapheneOS project, and even provided funding through his work at FUTO.
What does Micay have to offer to him, beside keep working on his project ?n
To quote your "Louis has openly and proudly stated he has "no patience" for anyone with mental issues ...", I would say he has not only demonstrated a great amount of support for the GOS project, but also a fair amount of patience with Micay.
Building upon this, I will further quote your " I believe Rossmann grew fustrated with Micay at some point and then decided to bait him into a reaction so he could take him out of context to.. i dont know get back at him? Its not very clear to me exactly why he would do this."
How is it a bait when Rossmann privately tried to clear up the misunderstanding about GOS and Micay's situation with Micay in private, which did not pan out 8 months ago. He asked Micay to stop contacting him about his "Informative, but unfortunate comment" on Techlore's video, even offering a fresh start for Micay to give his perspective. Instead, the latter doubled down on accusations that Rossmann was supporting harassing campaign against him.
Please keep in mind that this was around 8 months ago.
Then Micay contacts him out of the blue in a few days ago, threatening to "ban him and expose him publicly", but this is somehow Rossmann baiting him ?
Maybe you could share with us some missing information that shows how Micay was baited ?
Tom Spark video is hardly fair, as it omits a lot of important information that better shows Rossmann's perspective, just like your comment seems to be doing.
His comment section in my opinion is a handcrafted echo chamber that supports Micay, as I left a few comments that addresses the weak point in Tom's analysis, but they have yet to appear in public. Meanwhile, comments that echo his perspetive, which were also left after my comment were left through, and one was even pinned.
