mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org
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#mathfolk #programmer #reader #traveller #researcher
header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
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What if the #Universe is #Math?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F__elfR3w8c&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime
#Philosophy #Science #Maths #Mathematics #MathematicalStructure #MathematicalStructures #Cosmology #Metaphysics #Reality #Realism #Platonism #Multiverse #Level4Multiverse #LevelFourMultiverse #Multiverses #Goedel #Incompleteness #TheHaltingProblem #HaltingProblem #Incomputability #PBS #SpaceTime #PBSSpaceTime
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#physics #weather **Polar vortex in the news again** If we put this in terms of a SciMeth hypothesis then: The Polar Vortex, as defined only in the stratosphere, can drive weather on the surface. Again, this is ridiculous and breaks all the laws of physics. However, it makes good press. The stratosphere is effectively vacuum, and the air particles have very high velocity, but almost no energy. Like the sparks coming off a fireworks sparkler. 1000 degrees, but it won't burn you.
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra in D minor / Mahan Esfahani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6VVn5sXDQ
> On October 4th Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the #Nobel #Prize in physics for proving that the #Universe isn't #locally #real .
What I love about this story is that it's a story of quite literally some of the smartest people who have ever lived being confused and how ultimately #Einstein was #proven #wrong , which doesn't really happen all that often.
That idea of #locallyreal is made up of two concepts:
#Locality is the idea that things are only affected by their local environment - you can't flick a switch in another galaxy hundreds of light years away and instantly see the results here because nothing not even information can travel faster than light.
#Realness though is much harder to explain and that is the focus of the #NobelPrize . ...
How #Physicists Proved The Universe Isn't Locally Real - Nobel Prize in #Physics 2022 EXPLAINED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlCvCSefYQ
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Amazing 😊
The high schooler who solved a number theory problem - Quanta.
> GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: Minor G1-class #geomagnetic #storms are possible on Jan. 14-15 in response to glancing blows from one or more CMEs. The storm clouds were hurled into space by the collective activity of many #flares earlier #thisweek . None of the CMEs is squarely Earth directed and, in fact, all might miss. This is a low probability forecast.
> EMERGING SUNSPOT ALERT: A phalanx of #large #sunspots is #emerging over the sun's eastern limb. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded more than half a dozen #dark cores during the early hours of Jan. 13th
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There are currently 2,852,395 refugees from Ukraine living in Russia according to the UN Refugee Agency, this is more Ukrainian refugees than any other country have accepted.
Let that sink in for a while...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ukrainian_refugee_crisis#Number_of_refugees
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wire worms 1 final version.
#art #loop #creativecoding #generativeart
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Hey friends - I am in Antarctica with extremely slow and limited internet and I have a book coming out this year that I'd normally be posting more about because pre-orders are *critical* to a book's success.
Help me get the word out?
OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM AND TV
From black holes to space elevators and extraterrestrial civilizations, this is a rich and beautifully illustrated book for your coffee table. And astronaut Mae Jemison wrote the Foreword!
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I've been very careful in how I approach pixelfed development in regards to Instagram and their ToS/trademarks.
This is why you can't crosspost, or otherwise access IG apis via Pixelfed.
They are grasping at straws at this point, along with banning Pixelfed urls, this behavior is desperate.
We must be doing something right 😉
Describe myself in 5 tag words:
#mathfolk #programmer #reader #traveller #researcher
header: Cobalt Mirror (Lake Louise), photo by Paul Zizka
Joined Apr 2021
