Re: Dark energy-powered devices

2019-04-03 Thread Lawrence Crowell
For two galaxies accelerating away from each other one might in an "in principle" manner think of a tether connecting these two galaxies. Some sufficiently capable ET then manages to build this tether continually out of a magnetic material that passes through coils and the Faraday effect kicks

Re: Dark energy-powered devices

2019-04-03 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Mason Green wrote: * > It looks like the best hope now might be for a breakthrough or paradigm > shift in cosmology and/or physics. * This is certainly no breakthrough but suppose you had a rod and some beads with holes in them, you thread the beads on the rod and

Re: Dark energy-powered devices

2019-04-03 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 2:15 AM Mason Green wrote: > *> Actually now that I’m thinking about the spring idea some more, it > seems like you might be right about it not working. Dark energy will change > the shape of the potential energy/displacement curve for sure, making the > spring strongly an

Re: Dark energy-powered devices

2019-04-03 Thread Mason Green
Uh oh, looks like the “giant atom” idea might not work either. I had been under the assumption that dark energy would cause two orbiting bodies to spiral apart. But on second thought, it seems like what would actually happen is that an orbit affected by dark energy would still be stable, it woul

Re: Energy efficiency of different programming languages

2019-04-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 2 Apr 2019, at 19:36, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 12:03:06 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > On 4/2/2019 2:35 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> "Analogical rendering" is a perfectly good programming paradigm. >> >> Engineers Develop Analog Computing Compiler >> http