I’ve read that some think love is a placebo. (Now, we have the thread back on track) ^_^There's plenty of love for everyone.
I’ve read that some think love is a placebo. (Now, we have the thread back on track) ^_^There's plenty of love for everyone.
and nowI’ve read that some think love is a placebo. (Now, we have the thread back on track) ^_^
I’ve read that some think love is a placebo. (Now, we have the thread back on track) ^_^
Yes. Premature slackening of control measures is just the thing to give this thing legs, once more.
I don't know if that is true, about transmission rates dropping when the temps get warmer outside. I live in the southeast part of the US, and it's hot more often than not - although, temps have been a nice change of cool lately, and the death rate stats were high, here. But, comparing being indoors and outdoors in terms of virus transmission, yes being outdoors in warmer temps would seem to lessen the spread rate. We'll have to wait and see. Hopefully, a fourth wave, should it come, won't affect as many people since more are becoming vaccinated. (Although, I read yesterday that the vaccine doesn't prevent recipients of getting the virus and spreading it,they likely just won't show symptoms.)Yes. Premature slackening of control measures is just the thing to give this thing legs, once more.
Here in the UK we have just let the schools go back this week. We are going to wait and see what effect that has on R before loosening any more controls and then go in stages, measuring the effects of each relaxation before moving on to the next. It looks to me as if at long last Bozo has realised he can't win this war by feel-good speeches and pandering to the political Right. We have about 25m vaccinated now (single dose). That's the 40% most vulnerable of the population. But that is nowhere near enough to get R below 1, especially with these new variants about. And the progress of vaccination through the population will soon slow, when it becomes time to give the 2nd dose to all those that have had their first.
The good news is summer is on its way, when the transmission rate drops anyway, due to people being outside, leaving windows open etc. We need to keep up the vaccination rate and have a supplementary vaccine, targeted against the new variants, ready to roll in Autumn.
From what I have read it is not temperature per se, but the amount of interaction people have in enclosed spaces that reduces when the weather warms up after the winter. If it gets so hot or humid that people once more retreat indoors, then you can expect transmission to go up again. There seems to be evidence accumulating that open air, or even open windows so as to permit air circulation, greatly reduces the spread.I don't know if that is true, about transmission rates dropping when the temps get warmer outside. I live in the southeast part of the US, and it's hot more often than not - although, temps have been a nice change of cool lately, and the death rate stats were high, here. But, comparing being indoors and outdoors in terms of virus transmission, yes being outdoors in warmer temps would seem to lessen the spread rate. We'll have to wait and see. Hopefully, a fourth wave, should it come, won't affect as many people since more are becoming vaccinated. (Although, I read yesterday that the vaccine doesn't prevent recipients of getting the virus and spreading it,they likely just won't show symptoms.)
From what I have read it is not temperature per se, but the amount of interaction people have in enclosed spaces that reduces when the weather warms up after the winter. If it gets so hot or humid that people once more retreat indoors, then you can expect transmission to go up again. There seems to be evidence accumulating that open air, or even open windows so as to permit air circulation, greatly reduces the spread.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...in-florida-shows-threat-to-u-s-covid-recovery
This fluctuating stat could be due to the fact that this is a popular time of year for tourism, and many from northern states are visiting. (and possibly bringing Covid with them)
lol I read something that there are 1 million back logged cases of Covid currently in Florida. What?More likely it is the lack of countermeasures, due to the nutcase in charge in Florida.
It's effect is weak compared to the other forces which is why we don't have a Unified Theory to unite GR and Quantum Physics. It's so weak at those scales that it's not even a factor in most scenarios.https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ladybug-warps-space-time.html
"Gravity is the weakest of all known forces in nature.'' But if gravity dominates such a large scale structure of the universe, how can we simultaneously consider that ...weak?
I think it is not actually considered a force at all is it?It's effect is weak compared to the other forces .
It's one of the 4 fundamental forces.I think it is not actually considered a force at all is it?
Are comparisons to the "other" forces in order in that case?
Do gravitational waves have more of the nature of a force than the existing gravitational field?
I have seen it written so many times that it is not a force.It's one of the 4 fundamental forces.
I'm no expert but I think it depends on whether you are talking in terms of General Relativity or the Standard Model of particle physics. In the latter it's a force.I have seen it written so many times that it is not a force.
Are you saying that this characterization is wrong ? (or that I have misunderstood what was being said?)
I think these things are more properly called the four fundamental interactions rather than forces, but "forces" gets used as shorthand. As I understand it (though I don't pretend to be competent at GR), there is a still a gravitational interaction in GR, in that mass causes spacetime to curve, creating the effects we see as gravitational attractions, which can be modelled in terms of forces.I have seen it written so many times that it is not a force.
Are you saying that this characterization is wrong ? (or that I have misunderstood what was being said?)
It is because there is no way to neutralise this interaction, so far as we know.https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ladybug-warps-space-time.html
"Gravity is the weakest of all known forces in nature.'' But if gravity dominates such a large scale structure of the universe, how can we simultaneously consider that ...weak?
You may have heard this before...https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ladybug-warps-space-time.html
"Gravity is the weakest of all known forces in nature.'' But if gravity dominates such a large scale structure of the universe, how can we simultaneously consider that ...weak?