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Here are a couple of comments on "semantics", as applied to some challenges to recent ATM ideas:

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A non answer can be demonstrated with math and science much more easily than with bickering and semantics.

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most of Nereid's questions about semantics involved every-day usage rather than differences in ATM/MS jargon

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I'm curious to know what readers think of this topic; specifically, to what extent do you think it appropriate - or even wise - to spend time and effort trying to establish what key terms in an ATM idea* mean?

I've made a selection from threads in the first three pages of the ATM section**. In all cases I think the ATM ideas, as presented, can be challenged only if readers understand the meanings of the key terms ... and that such understanding is difficult without engaging in what might - to some - seem like "semantics".

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In other words, electic currents are responsible for the topology of magnetic fields. And in plasma, both electrons and ions in ordered motion is considered electric current.

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space is simply that , space
or room for the physical to manifest

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By introducing a physical aether (a type of dark matter) to quantum mechanics, I believe, the theory would be able to explain reality verbally to a much greater extent without using illogical concepts.

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we know that equation A does not fit with equation B but as our universe does exist there must be an equation C that forms the triangle

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11 2 5 8 are the 4 constellations that were the two solstice markers and the two equinox markers when?

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We live a sea of Nuetrinos. Particularly on Earth between two negative charges. The Higgs Field is actually made up of nuetrinos and anti-nuetrinos [...]. When the High Energy Collisions of Cosmic Rays ( Leftover from the Heavier Element Producing Stars and carrying mostly Protons) collide with particles within Earths magnetic field they split off to either the nuetrino or the anti-nuetrino, providing charge to both sides. And leading to a buildup at both of Earths poles. Pos and Neg.

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CAVEAT: The above are mere extracts, from posts that are longer than this (in all but one case); further, the posts are all from threads which contain earlier posts by the ATM proponent (in all but one, other, case). It is possible, and maybe likely (in at least one case), that reading the whole post, and history of posts to that point, will give you - dear reader - a better grasp of what the key terms mean. If so, please say so (and explain how, and why).

To close, an example of an ATM idea that does not seem to require a deeper understanding of key terms (again, an extract only):

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The simple fact is...the sun should not have risen north of the tropic of cancer in central mexico this year and at least the last two, on the 21st of june...nor ever in modern history....a simple fact.

Yet, I watched the sun rise and set out of the window on the north side of my house for much of the summer this year...and the last two. [...]

The pacific northwest broke all sorts of summer heat records, and it should have, I watched the sun set in their direction as they did so. And the north side of my house, which sits at 41deg N. Latitude, faces true north.

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* as presented in a thread in the ATM section; assume that there are no external sources cited, so what you read in the thread is the universal total of all material on said ATM idea.
** I make no claims as to the validity of these examples, in terms of being a random selection, or chosen using any objective criteria ]]>