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- utopian5
- Wait till the ivory poachers find outgrafician
- Finally! @krassy loll.Wordsworth
- renderedred3
AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived
Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics
- Beeswax8
- both parts of this are well worth a watch, was a bit sceptical after the first one myself...kingsteven
- A professor of physics, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson all proven wrong...bunch of arrogant, know-it-all, attention whores.utopian
- The great thing is though that the scientist who made the bet admitted he was wrong and coughed up the $10K! Science is a process, not an authority.sarahfailin
- yeah so cool, loved the mike drop moment at the end with the wheeled cart and piece of wood._niko
- @sarah, exactly. And acting like three individuals are “science” is ridiculous. They aren’t even the ones actively sciencing!monospaced
- "disagreements are not problems"sted
- science denier veritasium spreading harmful missinformationmonNom
- Well put @sarahfailin :clap:dorfsman
- uan2
- harvests 5G to energy.uan
- i don't have a tinfoil hat but 5G as an accidental wireless power grid for wearable iot options kinda speaks to its power and invasiveness; tanning alternative?prophetone
- Can’t wait to play with this. Self-powered devices would be cool afscarabin
- Weird, that’s the same pattern that showed up on my arm after my 2nd doseGnash
- actually me too and i can only walk in circles nowprophetone
- enif leef IGnash
- shapesalad5
https://www.independent.co.uk/li…
‘Holy grail’ battery breakthrough sees scientists solve 40-year problem
Lithium-metal batteries hold far more energy and charge in a fraction of the time compared to those used in smartphones and electric carsResearchers have demonstrated a solution to a 40-year problem regarding the creation of a “holy grail” battery that could radically transform the electric car industry.
The breakthrough involves harnessing the power of lithium-metal batteries, which are capable of holding substantially more energy and charge in a fraction of the time compared to lithium-ion batteries that are currently used in everything from smartphones to Tesla vehicles.
Until now, scientists have been unable to create a lithium-metal battery stable enough to be used in commercial applications.
The development, made by a team at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), allows this next-generation batter to be charged and discharge at least 10,000 times, which would increase the lifetime of electric vehicles to that of of their gasoline counterparts – while simultaneously increasing their range and reducing their charge time.
“A lithium-metal battery is considered the holy grail for battery chemistry because of its high capacity and energy density,” said Xin Li, an associate professor at SEAS.
“But the stability of these batteries has always been poor... By studying their fundamental thermodynamics, we can unlock superior performance and harness their abundant opportunities.”
The research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, involves an innovative multi-layer approach to assemble the battery, which allows it to be self-healing and solve the issue of degradation.
- utopian5
Scientists Might Have Just Stumbled Upon a New Kind of Physics
You never know what you'll find at the Large Hadron Collider.
https://www.popularmechanics.com…- Yeah it's what uan posted ^
But nothing amazing yet.grafician
- Yeah it's what uan posted ^
- sted0
- https://www.scienced…sted
- sted you rhyme with sciencegrafician
- Won't work if the Earth is flat though...nbq
- helloeatbreathedrive0
- Principal Belding got fat as fuckMondoMorphic
- I had to look up the red flannel thing. Apparently they thought dying flannel red gave it sterile/antiseptic propertiesscarabin
- BaskerviIle2
blob:https://imgur.com/da474a2c...
This is big:
https://deepmind.com/blog/articl…- d'ohBaskerviIle
- It happens, no worries.helloeatbreathedrive
- yuekit0
- And science will help us learn. Because it’s not a belief system.monospaced
- rzu-rzu1
Most slime molds are smaller than a few centimeters, but some species may reach sizes up to several square meters and masses up to 20 kilograms.
Many slime molds, mainly the "cellular" slime molds, do not spend most of their time in this state. When food is abundant, these slime molds exist as single-celled organisms. When food is in short supply, many of these single-celled organisms will congregate and start moving as a single body. In this state they are sensitive to airborne chemicals and can detect food sources. They can readily change the shape and function of parts, and may form stalks that produce fruiting bodies, releasing countless spores, light enough to be carried on the wind or hitch a ride on passing animals.
- utopian3
- Best rapper in Science man, miss this guy!grafician
- And science remains not a belief systemmonospaced
- I hold a belief in scienceIanbolton
- Sure. But it isn’t a belief system.monospaced
- Deathboy is his very own belief systemIanbolton
- kingsteven12
- lolsrhadden
- All articles are free if you ask the author directly, or:
http://people.soc.co…drgs - ^ aye, i have access to most journals through work, but it's still a pain in the ass esp. as you say the papers are never intended to be paid for...kingsteven
- for stuff like nature or most news paywalls http://archive.is will do the job.kingsteven
- No, thanks. Netflix is cheaper.palimpsest
- Science is the new religionBeeswax
- Except it isn’t like religion at all and is not a belief system.monospaced
- https://scienceandth…jtb26
- its a verbjaylarson
- Btw, the article is from 1992. Id bet science was even less accessable before internetdrgs
- no @mono it's exactly like that and its not new It has its own zealots, it's used for money and power, it even caused wars. It helped some but also killed manyBeeswax
- and you are a believer. You believe that science will save the world. No?Beeswax
- No, it's not. Science is a system of figuring things out, and is founded on the premise of questioning itself continuously. Nothing like religion.monospaced
- We KNOW that science produces results. Religion neither produces results, or claims to. It cannot, as it is a belief system. Science is a figuring out system.monospaced
- Science is a practice, a method, nothing more. It isn't dogma, it only verifies and refines truths about the natural world.monospaced
- IF anything is going to make progress, it will be science. There is nothing else at our disposal, and you know it. Why? Because it's nothing like religion.monospaced
- After all this time Mono you’re still wrong. Science is a method. Religion is a category. The absence if the scientific method is NOT religion. Religion can...Morning_star
- ..and does use the scientific method. Science and religion are NOT comparable because they are not the same thing.Morning_star
- * The absence of..Morning_star
- I think we're saying the same thing. I said repeatedly science is a method. I agree with you 100% that religion isn't filling in gaps in science.monospaced
- The only disagreement I have is that religion uses the scientific method for any of its doctrine.monospaced
- kingsteven7
- must be wrong...needs a little bump at 1ADuan
- lol uanmonospaced
- 33 ADdrgs
- There are more people alive today than everyone who has died up to this point in timeTurboslacker
- Lol, that’s not true. Think about it.nb
- nb, i hope this doesn't turn you malthusian https://imgur.com/SA…kingsteven
- yuekit2
- Great discussion with Chomsky about linguistics, aliens, AI, other science topics...yuekit
- Oh man, I really hope we'll enjoy his wisdom for more years, he looked very frail in other videosgrafician
- His voice has gone a bit but he gets into some incredibly complicated stuff in this video...all I can say is I hope I'm that lucid at 91.yuekit
- @yuekit compounded knowledge...grafician
- utopian3
- tldr: it may have active volcanoes. overblown headline. it's exactly as much of a hellscape as we thought.sarahfailin
- uan4
I think 2 new models of reality emerged online in the last weeks. I don't know if they are compatible nor claim to understand any of this yet, but both claim to provide an understanding of some kind of source code of the universe and conscience.
Eric Weinstein
Geometric Unityand
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Physics Project:
Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics- +1 Both Eric and Brett Weinstein rock.
Brett and his wife are doing a really insightful Covid19 live podcast that is utterly fascinating https://www.youtube.…Morning_star - Thanks for this, Gonna catch this episode later. just finishing The Portal no.27 which is mind blowing.Morning_star
- NiceGnash
- Wolfram might really be on to something this time! He explains basically everything, but the new stuff doesn't make predictions and otherscientists are spookedgrafician
- Interesting although I'd be curious how other physicists view this...Wolfram is known for coming up with idiosyncratic ideas that get talked about in the pressyuekit
- but not necessarily accepted by other scientists.yuekit
- +1 Both Eric and Brett Weinstein rock.
- Morning_star0
@mono
The results of those experiments are valid, peer reviewed and replicable - the things that you have said are the only things that count in science.
The interpretation of those results is worthy of further consideration but the results still show that consciousness has had an influence on a material systems.
Now you say that because it comes from the edges of science it's not worth consideration even though it ticks all of the boxes you require for validity.- but it's not a belief systemmonospaced
- Science is full of belief, probability and theory. All of which are supported with experimental results. For several weeks last year, the majority of the world BELIEVED that we'd found stuff that travelled faster than the speed of light.Morning_star
- several weeks last year, the majority of the world BELIEVED that we'd found stuff that travelled faster than the speed of light. Those people who reported this were reputable mainstream scientists. It just not as black and white as you're making it.Morning_star
- of light. Those people who reported this were reputable mainstream scientists. It just not as black and white as you're making it.Morning_star
- making it.Morning_star
- "Belief" is just a word that you can define in a lot of ways. What people are trying to say most of the time when they bring this up is that science relies on evidence and tests.ukit2
- bring this up is that science relies on evidence and tests rather than some a priori knowledge about the existence of god.ukit2
- of God. Which is important since the mind can be easily fooled as anyone who has taken drugs knows :)ukit2
- ^ My first post today links to the experimental results or evidence that shows consciousness has influenced a physical system.Morning_star
- Who mentioned God?Morning_star
- This thread is about comparing the scientific process to the blind belief in myths, such as religionmonospaced
- That's what the religion thread is about, no?Morning_star
- Besides you claimed that there is no evidence for paranormal phenomena. There is.
Morning_star - no, no there isn'tmonospaced
- also, to get an idea of what this thread is about, look at the first post and the following hundreds of postsmonospaced
- So your issue is that my posts aren't on topic?Morning_star
- Not if you're attempting to position science as a belief system.monospaced
- Science is a belief system. Check peer reviews and hypothesisdeathboy
- grafician1
Was planning to create a solar system at scale poster.
I gave up after this:
http://www.scalesolarsystem.66gh…
(scroll, a lot)
also more info on sizes: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/fo…
- We're actually just a speck of dust on a beach - the solar system is HUGE! Should put things in perspective...grafician
- "at scale" LOLpango
- don't be such a savage pango! You got what I was trying to do :)))grafician
- then again, those ufos are fuckin fast, the distances involved are monumental!grafician
- lol Were you raised in an Amish community?garbage
- ^hey nowpango