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perhaps not a very scientifically nuanced take - but it sure does feel like they were just making this shit up as they went along!

they definitely had some gaps to fill with uh portentous speculation

hawking started this.

― caek, Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:03 AM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

hawking started this. bitcoin fixes this.

if you have time for a 1000 pager then this is canon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb

string theory is when you just want more dimensions and i do

wasn't it something like the existence of 26 dimensions they theorised? lol is that enough for you!

wait till you hear about hilbert spaces

I'd have theorised about 36 dimensions because it's a beautiful number

the right idea on >= 4 dimensions

I'm laughing so hard at this slide a friend sent me from one of Geoff Hinton's courses;

"To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it." pic.twitter.com/nTakZArbsD

— Robbie Barrat (@videodrome) June 10, 2018

that's why we need more of them

I have a buddy that talks about the 'multiverse' being a probability rather than a possibility

it's great if you're a screenwriter but c'mon man

the observable physical universe, or at least the current understanding of it, just isn't overawing and huge enough for some people - they want more!

Here is a thing that I have read and that I am not sure I believe: If you accept that more than one universe exists, you are almost inexorably drawn to the conclusion that an infinite number of them exist. With all the extant possibilities.

The reasoning goes that there is no logical boundary short of infinity. Like, if the total number is 52, one might ask, "why not 51 or 53?" Arbitraryness creeps in.

Hence, the suspicion that the number is either one, or infinite.

Personally I see no reason why the answer can't be 3 or 47 or 576.

The universe has no obligation to make sense to us.

sure (but no way it's 3 ffs)

also tbh the multiverse is a different thing than dimensions

Mark s what is your beef with the tripleverse

sucky number, get rid

I'd like to think we're in one of the posher universes, instead of the dumpy, cold, sandy ones

Here is a thing that I have read and that I am not sure I believe: If you accept that more than one universe exists, you are almost inexorably drawn to the conclusion that an infinite number of them exist. With all the extant possibilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule

as many universes as gecs

so there's no set limit to the number of universes but rather it's limited to the capacity of the servers these universes are running on

Hey trinities are ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8lRKCw2_Pk

The past and the present and the future

Big daddy, son, and spook

Peter, Paul, and Mary

RGB

Etc.

Etc

betelgeuse has now gone from the night sky (i.e. it's in the direction of the sun) for the next six months, so if it's still getting brighter we have no way of knowing.

this did happen tho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_2023ixf

when come back bring superpie

Good thread https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2023-December/033318.html

good galaxies https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_reveals_structure_in_19_spiral_galaxies

What does this mean? this doesn't make sense

Skyscraper-sized asteroid to pass within 1.7m miles of Earth on Friday

An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7m miles (2.7mkm) of Earth on Friday.

Don’t worry: there’s no chance of it hitting us since it will miss our planet by seven times the distance from the Earth to the moon.

what doesn't make sense about it?

presumably the m in 1.7m is for million

(I skimmed at first and thought it said "1.7 miles" so maybe Andy did too)

it's 1.7 millimiles, i.e. about 8 feet.

well that seems a little too close

Yeah, I thought it was less than two miles... I was hoping to go out and watch it pass over the neighborhood

In terms of interplanetary space 1.7 million miles is just a skip and a jump away.

the James Webb telescope spotted a drunk riding on it, so it might swerve closer

https://www.blog.lepetitprince.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/buveur.jpg

Dessin-moi un mouton

gbx!

hey whats up

good to see you! hope you are well!

thanks man! likewise!

any new space facts i should know

nah it's pretty much over

whew!

my new dentist looks and sounds like andrew wk.

And the cover of _I Get Wet_ is how you look when you leave his office?

one of the few times I've ever asked for an autograph was Andrew WK, backstage at the Reading or Leeds festival, twenty years ago... I still have it

Never really listened to his songs but always admired his PMA

my favorite fact about him is that when he moved to New York City in the mid 2000s, instead of moving to Williamsburg or the LES, he chose to live in midtown east.

good stuff https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apples-have-never-tasted-so-delicious-heres-why/

Still reading the article, but Honeycrisp apples are overrated. Their texture is their only attribute - I sometimes find them bland, overly juicy, almost watery. Many of the subsequent innovations are far superior. I just had a Lucy Rose apple, which has a mottled red flesh, is more crisp than a Honeycrisp, and the flavor is perhaps better than any other apple I've ever had.

Those dwarf rootstocks are really wild.

Friends of mine make cider using heirloom apples they harvest all over Long Island, including from abandoned orchards that once covered the area. These ciders are like elegant white wines. They do their own grafting, etc.

Fun article!