Like Schrodinger's cat the Ecat is both dead and alive.
Harry
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM MSF wrote:
> Is anyone surprised?
>
> On Thursday, May 16th, 2024 at 2:44 PM, Joe Hughes
> wrote:
>
> > I found this interesting and thought I would share:
> >
How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
Researchers discovered that light can cause evaporation of water from a
surface without the need for heat. This 'photomolecular effect' could be
important for
gt;> conventional mathematical form.
>> On Monday, April 15th, 2024 at 8:04 PM, MSF
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This gives you an idea what a deep thinker Faraday was. Do you know if he
>> posited this idea before Maxwell published his equations? I thought I had
>
xwell published his equations? I thought I had
> read everything Faraday wrote. Somehow I missed this one.
>
> MIchael
> On Monday, April 15th, 2024 at 12:08 PM, H L V
> wrote:
>
> This is a quote from a letter written by Michael Faraday to Richard
> Philips on April 15,
This is a quote from a letter written by Michael Faraday to Richard
Philips on April 15, 1846 (bold letters were added by me)
*"The view which I am so bold to put forth considers, therefore, radiation
as a kind of species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to
connect particles
the good old Jackson that explains tat the vector
> potential only can be used in the far field.
>
>
> J.W.
> On 19.03.2024 19:40, H L V wrote:
>
> The question of whether the magnetic field rotates in the faraday disc
> generator is a question that is related to aether
e
> thing most did miss is: Total potentials almost never are 1/r. Total
> because we no longer deal with a single point
>
>
> J.W.
>
>
> On 14.03.2024 16:02, H L V wrote:
>
> Another visualization of the behaviour of magnetic fields without the
> conc
Sorry, the last word should be 'magnet' rather than 'magnetic'.
harry
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 11:02 AM H L V wrote:
> Another visualization of the behaviour of magnetic fields without the
> concept of lines of force.
> When the magnet is moved around it simply changes the orientati
attached to the magnet so that the centre point of each needle must change
position in order to match
the motion of the magnetic.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HTylDaG5_RY
Harry
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:16 AM H L V wrote:
>
>
> Here is a physical demonstration of the situat
but the narrator explains that this
movement arises from the field not being perfectly symmetrically.and
homogeneous).
Harry
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:40 AM H L V wrote:
> It depends what you mean by a field. If you imagine the field is made of
> wire-like filaments which are fastened to a
It depends what you mean by a field. If you imagine the field is made of
wire-like filaments which are fastened to an atom then you would expect the
field to translate and rotate whenever the atom translates and rotates. On
the other hand if you imagine the field is a vector field then the field
of
the disc and magnets within the assembly should create a force that would
cause the assembly to deviate from a linear path.
Harry
On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 9:29 AM H L V wrote:
> Resolving the paradox of unipolar induction: new experimental evidence on
> the influence of the test circuit
Resolving the paradox of unipolar induction: new experimental evidence on
the influence of the test circuit (Free to download. Published 2022)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21155-x
This is an interesting paper from experimental point view. The authors
designed the test circuit so
AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpdyAWLDas
Harry
Nuclear Power Comeback Update: Poland Authorizes Small Modular Reactors
from video description:
Nuclear power is back in fashion in many countries because of its potential
to decarbonize even energy-intense industry quickly.
In its latest success, Poland has authorized the construction of 24
A berryllium-10 nucleus was predicted to have a dumbbell shape and now the
shape seems to have been confirmed by experiment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVri9slkCQU
Speculation: Could unusually shaped nuclei play a role in LENR?
Harry
t something added later.
>
>
> But now relativistic mass gets discarded so all that extra stuff might
> also be discarded anon.
>
>
>
> -- Original Message --
> From: "H L V"
> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
> Sent: Sunday, 12 Nov, 23 At 16:39
> Subj
gt;
> When contrasting a Newtonian calculation with an Einsteinian calculation -
> its usually not given.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- Original Message --
> From: "H L V"
> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
> Sent: Sunday, 12 Nov, 23 At 15:18
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Polished: R
:
> Well, yes in theory it could be infinite as I explained but I didn't say
> that.
>
> And I don't think it is likely to be that we are moving in effect
> infinitely fast through the Aether.
>
> What astronomers teach is an assumption.
>
> On Sun, 12 Nov
he other way would be half C to make the round trip C.
> But moving infinitely fast seems problematic.
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 07:20, H L V wrote:
>
>>
>> If the one way speed of light can be infinite then there would be no
>> rational basis for claiming
>> th
Also if the speed of light depended on direction would it even be possible
to establish a reliable communication link between a transmitter and a
receiver which are moving at different inclinations and at different
speeds?
Harry
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 1:19 PM H L V wrote:
>
> If the o
If the one way speed of light can be infinite then there would be no
rational basis for claiming
that when we look deeper and deeper into the universe we are looking
further and further back in time.
Harry
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:28 AM Jonathan Berry
wrote:
> If you ask most people, most
Michael Faraday noticed something peculiar about the behaviour of a needle
near a wire that others did not because he was not constrained by the
dominant conception of forces in his time.
This presentation recreates some of the key experiments of Faraday and his
based on entries from Faraday's
Yes I remember, but I was not familiar enough with magnetic levitation to
appreciate that his configuration defied conventional expectations.
Sometimes it can be a struggle to find an audience that is knowledgeable
enough to see the significance of a novel observation performed with
rudimentary
The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel
Sept 2, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/cosmology-crisis-webb-telescope.html
quote
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Harry
that the light, while
> circularly polarized in the sugar solution, emerges linearly polarized.
> Maybe that's obvious, but it should have been stated.
>
> Having said all that, it's a hell of a beautiful demonstration. It should
> be repeated with a narrow beam of light just to s
-low.pdf
Harry
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM H L V wrote:
> What is yellow? by PehrSall
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1WiWGndZw
>
> PehrSall is a physicist who is interested in the history and science of
> color theory. He has many video's in which he investigates Newton's
things
> for a very long time.
>
> If you really want to see some strangeness as regards color perception,
> look up Land color theory. I played around with this when I was a child,
> and my family thought I was nuts.
>
> I just think it's a gift to us that we can perceive color the way
After they switched to polypropylene, much to my disappointment at
> the time, the effect was no longer possible. As you rotate the polarizer
> slowly you could see a washed out red, fading into magenta and then blue.
>
> Again, probably more than you wanted to know.
>
>
>
&
and wrong. Even with the domain
of the hard sciences, colour should be treated as
a multidimensional phenomena.
Harry
On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:16 PM H L V wrote:
> Cool. Your story got me to watch videos of stress visualization in plastic
> using polarized light.
> Noticing ho
Cool. Your story got me to watch videos of stress visualization in plastic
using polarized light.
Noticing how readily the colour magenta (a.k.a. pink ) is produced in this
video as the plastic is rotated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6U4uembaNQ
Watching how the magenta patches come and go
eripheral vision to perceive it.
>
> More than you wanted to know, probably.
>
> --- Original Message ---
> On Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 at 7:36 PM, H L V
> wrote:
>
> This summer I have been walking to work in the morning during twilight
> just before the sun r
This summer I have been walking to work in the morning during twilight just
before the sun rises.
As I walk across asphalt paved streets which are old and cracking,
sometimes I see very faint bands of colour
in my peripheral vision when I am looking at the pavement. When it happens
I am walking
Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world
without once mentioning the author of the universe.
Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.
Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented:
Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as
old as previously believed
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html
The paper is accessible on the author's homepage
https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-science/professors/rajendra-gupta
Harry
>From LPPFusion and Eric Lerner...
The Big Bang Quandary Song: “A Few of The Craziest Things”
https://youtu.be/-i_nGVBpq7Y
Harry
The Science Asylum explains the Tolman test for an expanding universe
although in the comment section he wonders why if this is an established
fact why is it not discussed more?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJtzn2H3Do
I guess he is not aware that the evidence for this "fact" has always been
Reminds me of this short vid from Southpark. ;-)
ChatGPT, dude!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QGKq8NHbPAY
Harry
On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 12:01 PM Terry Blanton wrote:
> https://futurism.com/neoscope/microsoft-doctors-chatgpt-patients
>
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus
By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best
understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.
Musk's long term goal is the colonisation of Mars. In my opinion whatever
"green" tech he sells on Earth is likely an early version of what will
eventually be used on Mars.
harry
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 5:44 PM MSF wrote:
> A little diversion for the day.
> Who will win this international shoot
A cognitive scientist has suggested that the performance of these chatbots
may have operational limits or trade-offs that we do not yet understand.
For example, although chatgpt 4 is more accurate than 3, it has lost some
speed.
Harry
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:36 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> The
Ok...I thought it was an attempt to make the chatbot more appealing as a
user interface.
harry
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 4:40 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> H L V wrote:
>
> Why do you refer to the ChatGPT as a "she"?
>>
>
> My reasons are politically inco
Blanton wrote:
> Consider these are nascent programs.
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 4:13 PM H L V wrote:
>
>> Amazing ...but also read this exchange between the commenter Sprawl and
>> the artists KromAI which was posted below the video.
>> Harry
>>
>> The Sprawl
&
Amazing ...but also read this exchange between the commenter Sprawl and the
artists KromAI which was posted below the video.
Harry
The Sprawl
10 days
Honestly, watching this video felt like a truly seismic moment for me. It
made me realise something profound that I hadn't really realised before.
Why do you refer to the ChatGPT as a "she"?
Does this chatbot come with a gender setting so that it responds textually
like a female?
harry
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:08 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Robin wrote:
>
>
>> The name as you yourself just quoted it has a comma at the end before the
>>
Naomi Wolfe on the dangerous sideeffects of the Pfizer vaccine and
questionable research
practices of Pfizer.
This speech was given on March 6, 2023, during a Hillsdale College CCA
seminar on “Big Pharma.”
Can it dream?
Harry
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:49 AM Alain Sepeda
wrote:
> There are works to allow LLM to discuss in order to have reflection...
> I've seen reference to an architecture where two GPT instances talk to
> each other, with different roles, one as a searcher, the other as a
>
That is probably true.
Harry
On Sat., Apr. 8, 2023, 6:36 p.m. Robin,
wrote:
> In reply to H L V's message of Sat, 8 Apr 2023 18:33:53 -0400:
> Hi,
>
> It might be (almost) Earthquake proof.
>
> [snip]
> >From a traditional perspective this structure does not look like a free
> >standing
"You can't push on a string" is a kind of engineer's cliche about the
mechanical properties of string.
Typically a loose length of string comes to mind when we think of string.
Normally we don't expect a loose string to offer (much) resistance when we
push on it we say "you can't push on a
A different example using string and wire.
https://youtu.be/EUlG0OGQmEA
Harry
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 2:22 PM H L V wrote:
>
> "You can't push on a string"
>
> I think this single string tensegrity structure is even more awe inspiring
> when he briefly holds it as a c
"You can't push on a string"
I think this single string tensegrity structure is even more awe inspiring
when he briefly holds it as a cantilever before standing it up right.
If you skip to the second half of the video he shows how to use a block of
wood to assemble the structure more quickly.
Two articles and one video on the real dangers of AI.
*The stupidity of AI*
Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale
appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually
intelligent could be actively dangerous"
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 9:26 AM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> ChatGPT found and corrected the mistake made by Bard.
>
>
> ME: Is the following statement correct, and if not, what is the correct
> version? "Deuterium is a heavier isotope of hydrogen with one more neutron
> in its nucleus, while oxygen-18
I think people enjoy holding and reading the album cover as well as caring
for the record.
Vinyl may stick around like printed books.
harry
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 1:21 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> H L V wrote:
>
> If this video is accurate then no music cassettes are sold today whereas
yes you are. :-)
I didn't mention 8 tracks because they disappeared about 1980 when vinyl
was still the most popular format.
harry
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:44 PM Terry Blanton wrote:
> You forgot 8 tracks! Or am I dating myself?
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023, 11:07 AM H L V wrote:
Most Popular Music Formats 1972 - 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XBL9KlVoYE
Today the vast majority of music sales comes from the streaming format.
However even though vinyl sales almost disappeared in the early 2000s
they grew again and now exceed CD sales. If this video is accurate then
The article quotes Michael McKubre:
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
I think it is similar to this:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.
-- Hebrews 11:1 (Kings James version)
I am not making the comparison in order to show that the
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:46 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Terry Blanton wrote:
>
> Never saw a nuke that came in on schedule and under budget. But 80 years
>> of close to 2 GW will charge lots of EVs.
>>
>
> True. But for the same amount of money we could have bought ~11 GW of
> solar panels, which
The article says Japan's fertility rate is 1.3. In Canada it is 1.4. Both
are well below the replacement rate of 2.1, but Canada relies on
immigration to reduce the gap.
Could Japan reimagine itself as a country of immigrants?
Harry
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 4:47 PM Jed Rothwell wrote:
> I am not
Once the CO2 problem is solved we will continue to warm the planet with
excess heat from our technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4
This is the article she references
https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/papers/limits-econ-final.pdf
Harry
The philosophy of bullshit. How do we define bullshit? Does intention
matter? Calling bullshit as a speech act.
~ 11 minutes
https://youtu.be/S_ommr0Te4A
Harry
In this clip John Vervaeke explains the 4E (and 6E) approach to cognition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Ea0dNhFBU
1. Embodiment (cognition involves the biology of the body)
2. Embedded (cognition is between the organism and the environment)
3. Enactive (thinking doesn’t just take place in
*The Return of Meaning*
*A scientific, existential, and cultural phenomenon*
by cognitive scientist John Vervaeke
https://iai.tv/articles/the-return-of-meaning-auid-2043
Some quotations
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Harry
ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View
That this AI is adaptive and can produce complex outputs is a technical
triumph. But at its heart, it's still just pattern recognition.
Blayne Haggart
January 23, 2023
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/bear-on-mars-nasa-satellite-snaps-a-strange-formation-1.6249201
Something like ice fishing.
harry
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:09 AM Terry Blanton wrote:
> Aliens might eat it?
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:52 AM H L V wrote:
>
>>
>> hmmm ...this hypothetical scenario was included in the same press report
>> with no furt
hmmm ...this hypothetical scenario was included in the same press report
with no further comment:
"Upon reaching the ocean, the probe may encounter extraterrestrial life
forms that attempt to metabolize the probe."
Harry
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM H L V wrote:
> Accessing Icy
Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Accessing_Icy_World_Oceans/
quote
Icy World researchers have proposed using a nuclear powered, heated probe.
However, rather than require either the plutonium-238
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