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Some fair points about the NPT. So if signatory nations to the NPT have some histories of violating its provisions, what argument is that to shrugging or looking the other way while Iran gets the bomb? The argument is that Iran doesn't feel compelled to take it's obligations under the NPT all that ...

The US is in violation of the following: "Recalling that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, States must refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State," - threatened both Iraq and I...

I suggest you read the NPT, which I've linked in full here http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/Others/infcirc140.pdf it's hardly contentious that the nuclear nations violate the treaty, it just isn't very widely discussed. The major oil companies control Canadian resources, so Canada...

The nuclear nations aren't living up to their part of the NPT so why should anyone else? If Iraq had any lessons for the international community it is that if your nation sits atop a vast pool of oil wealth, it's probably a good idea to have a few nukes to hand if you want to keep a hold of your sov...

To the original question about the value of voting, the votes only have power to select between competing options. The grassroots of democracy is about what those options are and how they are decided. Who decides them. Class struggle has always been an active process. Rights to sick leave, holiday p...

Kevin Rudd makes a good point about where the responsibility for the leaks really rests: Link to original article "Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd says the United States, not WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is to blame for the release of secret diplomatic cables. Mr Rudd says the 39-year-old Australia...

Yet nobody has posted the Assange Rap!!??

Isn't sending hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy foreign nations and indiscriminately killing huge numbers of civillians "putting lives at risk"? Hasn't it been acknowledged in the UK, that by joining in the colonial adventurism, more British lives have been put at risk and lost than would ot...

The course looks like good prep for entrance to further study in maths, as the preamble states... but I'm curious to know where you feel lack of maths is holding you back in everyday life, because much of what is contained in that course has little application to the daily lives most people lead. I ...

Given that there is a critical point in terms of mass at which a star, neutron star perhaps (?) collapses and becomes a black hole - i.e. nothing can escape its gravity, are we saying that when that happens they are a standard size and that as more and more matter falls in it grows? I assume what g...

Also Rum.... aside from the energy released from black holes via Hawking Radiation (which is a result of quantum effects, pairs of particles popping into existence just inside and outside the event horizon - one gets sucked in, one gets emitted) there is also a massive, swirling, hot flow of matter...

The example of sound-in-water time dilation is so simple, you don't need maths to confirm it. It's self evident, once you consider it. The question is , is it the same thing that is happening to particles that move in spactime? If a particle was totally divorced in nature from wave motion in spacti...

The God particle. Hidden worlds. Dark people... Groan. You really are promoting mysticism and moonshine, Twiglet. I'm posting a contemporary article explaining science to non scientists farsight. Hence, you should find it very useful, as you don't seem to like maths very much. If you disagree with ...

Mathematics is a part of the evidence. Farsight, your approach to physics is even worse than some throwback to Aristotelianism. It's like you agree with Hanns Hoerbiger that calculation can only lead you astray. At least Aristotle didn't dismiss mathematics as irrelevant. What are you on about? Evi...

Some extracts from an article in todays news, which in places sounds suspiciously like it's describing a Star Wars universe. You can read the whole thing (which is 2 or 3 times as long as the extracts posted here) by following the link below. The hunt for the God particle Our knowledge of the cosmos...