Kent Sharkey wrote:

Cause? Or effect?

It could both :) . See my new theory on causality and retro-causality, meta-spacetime and a unification of relativistic quantum mechanics and gravity here[^] which is partly triggered by a thread on retro-causality discussed here last year.

It's likely that the firewalls in most routers are not that sophisticate that they can detect and exclude a subset of ip addresses from within a given set of the same in building default forwarding rules.

Right, they are the same, namely 256*256-2 (2 excluded are special ip addresses ends with 0 or 255).

I have missed the security problems in the above reply, it is modified. Please read it again.

Sure, just don't clash with the WAN part of the your networks. But I don't know if excluding a sub-network from a larger one will be ok from security point of view, your LAN 192.168.0.0/16 seems to be too large. The firewall rules are IP network based, it would very likely that your WAN network will be able to visit you LAN in your settings for not a sophisticated enough router. If you'd like to use a larger network for the LAN, use one of the 172.[16-31].x.x/16 network (class B) instead, that way, there will be no conflict.

The WAN port of your router should be connected to one of the LAN ports on your ISP's router. Use DHCP to acquire an IP address for the WAN port from your IPS's router when it starts up. Then, choose and setup your internal LAN IP network (block) to be different from the one the router from ISP uses. For example if the ISP assigned 192.168.0.0/24 network to their own router for the LAN, then your LAN network could be 172.16.x.0/24 where x=(0-255) or it could be 192.168.x.0/24 where x=(1-255) with x=0 excluded. As to how to bootstrap the LAN network setup of your router, it should be in the manual. Here is a simple one. If the router has a factory setup LAN network that is different from the one assigned by your ISP, then you don't have to mess with it, just setup the WAN port (see below); in case it is the same, then do not wire connect the WAN port when performing the LAN network setup. Configuration can be done by connecting a computer with a browser to one of the LAN ports of your router using a network wire and then use the admin web interface, which should be described in the manual, to do job. Note restarting the router is required when the LAN network is changed. The WAN port should be wire connected when the LAN is properly setup. You are right. A router is also a simple firewall by default in the sense that the internal LAN is invisible to the WAN part unless the one who can control it add specific rules to open part or all of it.

You could try to call your ISP and let them to set the router to bridge mode (it most likely can be done remotely) by telling them you know how to setup an internal private router when you are ready. The default settings of the ISP (not in Canada) I am using is also use the router they provide, which is not that good, but I asked them to allow using my own one.

You could be better off if your ISP allows you to set its router in bridge mode so that you could use one of your own (replaceable and customizable) router. It could provide you with more flexibility and even privacy. Having ISP in control of your router is not a good idea, IMO.

I agree with the statement that "Singularities don’t exist" but perhaps for different physical reasons. Therefore I can't comment on whether or not Roy Kerr's approach is "on the right track" at present because there is a Penrose-Hawking theorem that he needs to get around which is quite technical in nature. But it is not necessary in my approach :) . There are two kinds of approach to the attempts of realizing a consistent marriage between gravity and quantum mechanics: 1) treating spacetime as a fundamental physical entity as it is done in classical general relativity and main stream approach to its "quantization" including Roy Kerr's work; and 2) treating spacetime as an emergent entity from more fundamental concepts, which is what my theory had eventually accomplished in which Einstein's equation for curved spacetime was derived or emerged, together with Newton's gravitation constant G and cosmological constant Lambda, as an approximate one in which the very concept of emergent spacetime, which is a statistical entity here, inside or near a black hole becomes less clear due to larger quantum fluctuations there. There is no infinitesimally accurate spacetime entities like a classical singularity in my emergent spacetime since relativistic quantum mechanics takes over there.

My theory on emergent spacetime and gravity had the same conclusion, see here[^]. It unifies gravity with the standard model of physics at quantum level!

so they are referring to kind of physical unit rather than logical unit ...

I used C/C++ many years ago, as I recall that the long in C/C++ is actually 32 bits, the 64 bits type is called long long (or something like it), whereas long in .NET (and many other later languages) is 64 bits (see [here](<code>long</code>)[[^](<code>long</code>)]).

hope that they can find a way to beat the 2nd law of thermodynamics ...

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Most of these ideas are already formally implemented in modern relativistic quantum field theories. But these are not enough to eliminate the inconsistencies found in finite density/temperature situations, especially for fermions, new infinities occur that is either not noticed or was simply dropped, which is a habit of the modern days, ... It depends on an understanding of time reversal and its symmetry in quantum mechanics. My contribution is a realization, in my Ph.D study and thesis, of the necessity of a distinction between the so called motion reversal and causal reversal for quantum particles ... These understanding was formally implemented in my theory that consistently eliminates the said infinities ... I know it's too technical to be discussed here, but ...

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I belief most of these studies are about behaviors of single or few particles, namely they are at underlying microscopic level. Thermodynamics (specifically, the 2nd Law) will still emerge at macroscopic level. This is true at least in the theory I developed, which IS about Statistical Physics for relativistic quantum fields ...

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Kent Sharkey wrote:

Thank you for this - I'm assuming that this is all happening at the quantum level, and not at any sort of atomic level or above?

Yes, it's at quantum level and formally at low energy as well, albeit relativistic effects manifest at high energy in classical world ...

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It's good to know more researchers are starting to be interested in this (kind of) idea, which was explored in my Ph.D study 30 yrs ago and eventually formulated a quantum field theory[^] for it. I have shown that is logically inevitable if one want to unify quantum mechanics and relativity without hiding inconsistencies under the carpet ... But it can't be published :( The basic idea is quite simple: in quantum mechanics not all observables (operators) are commutable which implies the existence of "before" and "after" ordering of an operation, or a measure of delta time. Delta time is absolute in Newtonian mechanics, but is relative in relativity. Not only its value, but also its sign can be changed when it is space-like (meaning the spatial separation of two events is large enough), which means that the above mentioned ordering can change for different observers in different motion frames. That's where the said inconsistencies originated since quantum particles correlated with each other even if they are separated by space-like distances. This is the accepted interpretation of QM (collapsing of wave function when measured etc.) and seems to be verified by recent experiments (admitted that most of them are not designed to focus on the space-likeness of the correlations) ... Therefor one need some kind of retrocausality, at lease at microscopic level, and it lead me to the falsifiable theory mentioned above ...

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:) Perhaps they are using the OAuth[^] protocol ... Other sites even do not ask users for permission

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as I said in a previous post, I belief that each kind of currency in forex market is backed by at least one physical entity, most likely a government (or company in case of stock share, a limited currency in scope), that the parties involved trust to be capable of deliver the non-currency value when requested, it's essentially a promise (and therefor a non-currency liability). There is no real circularity here, the "buck" stop at trust :) however, digital money is created by computers that neither have any capability to deliver any value nor be based on value creation mechanism/statistics of the real world, that when used to points to real values, it dilutes other currency and cases transfer of wealth to, err, computers ? probably you know what I mean, the desire is there

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there should be differences between demand and desire: one can demand things that has a useful value outside of money, but money can only be earned or desired for :) . imho, use demand and supply to determine price of money (what ??) is circular or self referential in logic

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