Your thinking about low voltage DC. Over long distances ultra high voltage DC is better (more efficient) than ultra high voltage AC, but it is a lot more complicated to do.
There's a very simple test of the general relativity law about the speed of gravity - and it has already failed it spectacularly.. Put simply if gravity moved at the speed of light then the gravitational fields of black holes should collapse in on themselves leaving them externally massless. If you take the simplest classical model of black hole with a central singularity then the inner event horizons require higher and higher escape velocities towards the centre and gravity must jump over the whole lot to escape from the edge. This requires A - an absolute frame for space ruling out a curved space time, and B sets a minimum speed for gravity which is close to FTL Simultaneous - ie nearly 'infinitely' fast. This model is not accepted in modern physics - but it is powerful and simple (orders of magnitude simpler than most others), and has no obvious point where it fails. (KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid - Occam's Razor) The real problem of course is that physicists are very stubborn and don't like their favoured solutions being contradicted - even in the face of direct evidence...
A more effective use of the second core when not doing optimization would be to switch to running application load. Today with highly multithreaded designs there are other far more effective solutions than Out of Order anyway... like Intel's Hyper-threading (Simultaneous-Multithreading - SMT).
Since work in Strong AI and have a pretty workable and complete theory I would say I do know a little about human intellect. The stuff about genetics vs nurture is very easy to answer. On the race question (comparable) intelligence is about 98% culture and 2 or less % genetics. One of the biggest factors in intelligence is the (cultural) expectation of being intelligent - when a small child, mostly its negative feedback telling children not to be intelligent. An even bigger factor is the random chaotic element which is inherent in all brain evolution and intellect.. Of course ultimately intellect is 100% genetics but then it is also basically 100% learning, both are needed, and one without the other is simply capacity that cannot be used.
Genetically speaking though black people should be expected to have a very slightly lower 'average' intelligence than white because they have a wider spectrum of genetic variation. The same graph says that the most intelligent people in the world probably should be black not white - but most of these people are still culturally in places that hold them back as children or corrupt them in other ways. Black culture is what makes most black people stupid not the other way around, exactly the same with white people and every other race. Asian children are statistically better at mathematics because they have cultures that are more attuned to it.
There is stuff in Strong AI that is too controversial for publication, but it is not about race - it is more that there are things that most people would be very unwilling to accept. - eg Most humans are not really intrinsically smarter than other animals, we just have much better memories and most of our superior intelligence really comes directly from remembered learning. We know this because all humans spent at least ~ 50,000 years with no writing, and no real cultural learning or sophisticated language - and basically did nothing intellectually that other apes and other higher animals were not capable of.. Ironically humans totally conquered most of the world when we were no smarter than other monkeys - we hunted in larger groups which made us stronger than other predators, and were more determined and vicious than other predators. Our superior memories and better tool use also made us more ruthless and better killers.. Now that's the real human.
Form the NSA's perspective, they are interested in security - while the NSA itself has numerous means of getting into a system (including some legal ones!), they don't want China or random hackers to be taking control of systems. They're overall goal is security of the US,....
That is why their previous approach to security once exposed became such an enormous own goal. The whole problem with backdoors is that once someone knows about them anyone can use them. And the problem with hacking munitions is that once used, they can be taken up by the victim or others and used as a (dangerous) learning tool to create more new weapons.., - eg stuxnet..
...We have seen flaws in kernels and encryption libraries that might have well been a typo, yet were in for years.
A new language that either doesn't allow such bugs or has a method for universally finding them would be the Holy Grail of programming. Unfortunately like the Holy Grail it is likely not to exist and instead lead us all on endless never-ending quests that eat up our whole lives...
I have long been on my own quest for another holy grail - Strong AI - but I am sure it exists. It has the same but opposite problems to the idea of a universal language - the core is an in...- well I mustn't tell anyone, they might be after the same grail too after all.:D
Its all about scale - we would be talking about arrays of 100's of square km.. and I am only talking about ethanol for use in vehicles.. Once made Ethanol can store a lot of energy in a relatively compact space in a fairly stable form- that can be stored and shipped in the way that standard gas/petrol is. Anyway I said its my solution but only one of several - I actually favour the development of more advanced nuclear technology, and nuclear fusion. Fusion is currently slated as taking up to 50 years to come on stream, but if it was given proper funding and higher priority that could be reduced to ~ 20 years. (the biggest delays are caused by lack of scale in the specialist steel fabrication required.)
Grid level storage is still a big problem that is still not completely solved... Batteries on a large enough scale could do it but there are still huge technical and logistical problems in simply making and maintaining so many batteries. - Plus on this scale high energy batteries create substantial fire/explosion risks. - Plus with the kind of heavy usage needed for grid storage lifespan would probably be limited to 1 or 2 years at most so recycling and reuse would be very important. Hydro storage on the scales needed also has enormous problems - very high build costs, the need for mountains to sacrifice, large areas of land, the need for vast amounts of water- which should be fresh water not salt. Plus with this kind of system the stored energy in the water creates a major potential flooding danger to surrounding areas. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (it was only pure luck that Taum soak didn't kill anyone) All forms of energy production or usage have problems - nuclear kills 50 to maybe a 1000 people per year and releases radiation into the environment, coal kills something like 0.5 to 1.5 million a year, fracking is toxic and environmentally damaging, even wind turbines can kill.
Using EV car batteries to act as storage for the grid -is a silly idea with one fatal little flaw - the daily time cycle at least for the average commuter car just doesn't fit. - You generate solar electricity during the day - when your car isn't at home. You discharge the car battery during the night to provide power, but you also need to charge the same battery during the night so that the car will be ready in the morning.
The solution is obviously a separate battery to provide house level grid storage. If you also have an electric car - then a third battery to allow overnight charging, or more efficiently to swap the two car batteries over. My solution - solar generation near the equator used to create synthetic ethanol on a large scale. - Then ship it out the countries that need it. So why does the equator get more sunlight? mainly because the light has a smaller incidence angel and so less atmosphere to get through..
Maybe he meant to say $30 trillion dollars... Actually I would put it at about 1 to 2 trillion. But before I did that I would ask what the real expected lifespan of solar is likely to be - and what the environmental costs of making all those panels and then recycling them at end of life will be. Limited lifespans and environmental costs are big problems for industrial wind turbines.
K.I.S.S. or Keep It Simple Stupid' - Occam's Razor. The solution isn't more dimensions its less. By using an FTL model you can reduce the four dimensions used by General Relativity to Three. The thing is that three works better and it fits better with actual observation. It can even be made to fit with the general relativity mechanic by allowing a physical dimensional time but only on quantum scales.. . They deduced dimensional time from the observation of dimension like time - and time like space in the dilation caused by travel at relativistic speeds. Unfortunately they didn't notice that the vector of movement defines a direction - giving a free dimension - so at the speed of light dimension like time is just an ordinary dimension of space. It can be generalised to say that the 'speed' of light is actually a 'velocity'. KISS wins.
The 'Anthropic Question' answers this problem.. A simulation still needs a creator or 'God' so it doesn't achieve anything at all. And since the simulation itself would need to exist it would still need 'energy' and lots of it . . . . starting to build a nice tower of turtles under that disk world. I prefer my reality real.
A lot of those 'silly' projects are aimed at the long term goal of conquering the market for Strong AI. The long term global market value of Strong AI could eventually be worth $100 billion to several $ trillion - per year. That totally outclasses even Google's current value, plus Strong AI is not like current computing it gives its owner real power.. Still think those projects are silly?
AFAIK the problem of speech recognition is that a human can use the context to guesstimate what a garbled message might have meant, but a computer can't since it doesn't have a model about the subject. It would take a fully sapient computer to reach human-level speech recognition.
Even then its one of the most difficult tasks. Fluid conversation-speech in particular requires a remarkable degree of co-ordination, and incredible processing power - requiring a system that can solve problems in incredibly tight real time windows. Effectively the brain can only do it by making a constant stream of predictions several seconds ahead. Speech is one of the areas where organic brains probably have to use quantum 'computing' to actually work.
In a word its all about 'marketing'. The sales shivs cant sell you a new copy if they haven't got some new gizmo to flog. In my experience new code / versions often get as much worse as they get better, and so often a complete rewrite leaves you with a vastly inferior product. (That's how they created Windows Vista and Windows 8...) I wish the old saying nothing ever changes were true - it does change, it gets worse..:D
Talking about excessive complexity. My loathing for modern dev tools and OS hit a head when the cutting edge app that I was creating - (that needed a custom memory manager) turned out to be impossible to create because I just could not get enough power over the OS. The next iteration switched to looking at Linux, better but still no joy. Then I looked at crafting a custom OS, this naturally was a nightmare, but then I hit the basic wall that there's no public documentation for a lot of the hardware and that everything needs to be done through custom device drivers - which require a standard OS. The next level was to look at embedded systems - these are much better and offer real control, but nowhere near enough processing power. The final solution was Verilog and FPGA, not so bad as there were always sub-units in this app that really needed custom hardware anyway. The punch line though is that it sets a timeline for completion that could be creeping up to ten years, a lot more costs, and...
The allegation is true. It doesn't take a genius to work it out. - The problem with electric cars is that they are too expensive, and most or all of that extra cost is in the batteries. Cheaper and bigger batteries with a smaller & lighter physical footprint = cheaper electric cars. Simple!
'Propaganda' - one of the most misused and frequently misunderstood words out there... Actually half a dozen closely tied but different meanings - Words, statements or other 'media' twisted with lies to convey an emotionally charged meaning.. - The psychological manipulation of people using intrinsic or subliminal methods.. - All emotionally charged speech, as used by politicians to sway voters... - Black propaganda, the manipulation of people using hate driven by negative stories and communications - either lies or true. - Black propaganda, as above but used for the destruction of a particular person, or group,... the rumour that xx has Nazi sympathies. . . - Subliminal propaganda, the use of distraction and repetition to plant internal subliminal messages.. (using your subconscious as a weapon against you) - Subliminal propaganda, the use of deliberately invisible (flashing images) or inaudible messages to transmit the actual message subliminally. Probably doesn't work. - Engine or radio propaganda, method used by the Nazi's and the BBC and others (using audio filters and compressors) to force program their people using audio sibilance. (also called 'psychic' propaganda) - 'Psychic' propaganda, obscure military term for a method based on manipulating Jung's 'archetypes' to manipulate entire populations at a subliminal level. - 'Sonic' propaganda, - obscure military term for a form of 'sonic' or 'sub-sonic' subliminal propaganda driven by a device that uses very low frequencies -modulated by a high frequency carrier- at very high power. Designed to create resonance in the target, can also be used as a direct weapon.. (also called the 'Horn of Jericho', also called 'Psychic' propaganda.) And I'm sure there's a few I haven't mentioned..
This has to be a joke surely. Over the last ~40 years almost no one in the world has done more to promote the burning of coal than Greenpeace. The campaign against nuclear power has been the best thing the coal and oil industries have ever had, saving a global industry on the brink of failure. A figure calculated from WHO and other statistics is that Coal is some 1,000 to 10,000 times more dangerous than nuclear per unit of energy produced and that adds up to some 5 to 10 million extra people killed (indirectly) by the anti-nuclear campaign globally since the mid 1970's. Greenpeace were and are a big part of that campaign, Amazon should be pointing the figure at them...
So you have no idea if it's true, and you haven't bothered to check - or you just made it up and figured you'd throw it out there anonymously because hey, this is Slashdot and there are always at least a few guys of most any political bent willing to run with absurd stories.
. . . That's Greenpeace's mandate, make up everything and lie as you go.
It doesn't matter whether there is a 'force' or a 'curved 4D world line' the result is the same - an exchange of energy. For black holes that exchange is across an FTL barrier. If the black hole has a central singularity and the event horizon is has an inner structure then the barrier is much higher than an FTL barrier.
There is a quite simple test - if gravity transmitted energy at the speed of light then black holes should have no gravity field beyond the event horizon. In terms of the 4D tensor field the well (at the event horizon) is vertical and effectively infinitely long so the gravity field really shouldn't escape.
In fact that FTL violation is a bit more serious for general relativity because it basically proves that gravity cant just be a curved 4D space time. If you do more research into the FTL region it is quite clear that general relativity fails completely at the speed of light - in exactly the same way that Newtonian theory fails at relativistic speeds. General relativity doesn't have a stable FTL geometry so it allows the universe as a whole to fold in and collapse in on itself -predicting a universe that either does not exist or is very young. To have a stable FTL geometry the universe needs an FTL Simultaneity - and once your there you have an FTL based physics, and then you need to rewrite general relativity to make it fit. All we need for that is to crush the time dimension to powder and restrict GR to quantum scales and then the two theories fit perfectly.
The really strange thing is that physics has allowed general relativity to stand for 100 years - but then look at how anyone who dares to question it or criticise it is treated, they are jumped on and attacked as heretics.
Do black holes exist? Try looking at the Sagittarius constellation, in the centre of our galaxy there is a giant black hole and recent observations have pretty much proved it exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The real problem with black holes is not the infinite density, it is that they cannot exist without a physics that directly contradicts general relativity. Gravity is a mutual attraction and for black holes that requires an exchange of energy and information - across an FTL boundary. - The fact that gravity can cross the inner event horizons of large black holes sets a minimum speed for gravity that is something approaching FTL simultaneity - eg 10^25 m/s or faster..
P.S. Do "circles" exist? I have only encountered engineering approximations. Believing in "circles" is akin to a kind of theism, I think.
Sadly this only shows a complete misunderstanding of mathematics. By demanding absolute perfection you simply create a rule that is a self lie and a self delusion. The joke that mathematics itself isn't perfect or anything like it. In a way pi is the ultimate joke because it is the point where physics invades and corrupts mathematics irreversibly - nothing much more advanced than pi can ever be totally absolutely pure.... Real mathematics is a hodgepodge of evolution and ill fitting pieces hammered together to make them work. Just try testing general relativity with KISS - Occam's razor. It fails miserably, because its maths can't be reduced to basic axioms. There are a dozen other ways of breaking general relativity, perhaps the simplest is that it defines a universe that cannot exist because it doesn't define a stable FTL universe. Do you know why tens of thousands of physicists over 100 years have failed to break general relativity? an aura of inscrutable mathematical perfection and completeness - that is an illusion. That kind of absolutism belongs in religion not science. Yes there are real circles.
With a battery like that. not just electric cars but planes. A battery like that would be the breakthrough rocket technology so desperately needs, and would make getting into orbit as easy as air travel, and would make manned travel to Mars and the outer planets a real possibility.
Working on fringe physics I can say that batteries with this kind of density or far higher are (theoretically) possible. All you need to do is store energy directly as a curved space time - as a gravity field. Its theoretical density is a ridiculous 9,000,000 TJ / Kg.
If you could really achieve the stated efficiency then the value might be billions not millions. As for the patenting I would expect a budget of several or ten million just as a starting point. With the biggest players like Google or I am thinking Apple even ten million probably wouldn't be enough. That's how the patent trolls work - bottomless pockets..
I know, lets give the new Thor round black ears.. No Lets make Thor into Micky Mouse - Mickey Thor!! Marvel has this nasty habit of messing with and messing up their best characters. A politically correct female Thor is ridiculous - changing Thor's identity is ridiculous. (nothing against women BTW but this is just ugly) Didn't they once try to do this with Superman? changing his identity almost killed off the character completely. I like a lot of Marvels characters but that always comes with the knowledge that sooner or later they will shit on them - and you..
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Your thinking about low voltage DC. Over long distances ultra high voltage DC is better (more efficient) than ultra high voltage AC, but it is a lot more complicated to do.
There's a very simple test of the general relativity law about the speed of gravity - and it has already failed it spectacularly.. Put simply if gravity moved at the speed of light then the gravitational fields of black holes should collapse in on themselves leaving them externally massless. If you take the simplest classical model of black hole with a central singularity then the inner event horizons require higher and higher escape velocities towards the centre and gravity must jump over the whole lot to escape from the edge. This requires A - an absolute frame for space ruling out a curved space time, and B sets a minimum speed for gravity which is close to FTL Simultaneous - ie nearly 'infinitely' fast.
This model is not accepted in modern physics - but it is powerful and simple (orders of magnitude simpler than most others), and has no obvious point where it fails. (KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid - Occam's Razor) The real problem of course is that physicists are very stubborn and don't like their favoured solutions being contradicted - even in the face of direct evidence...
A more effective use of the second core when not doing optimization would be to switch to running application load. Today with highly multithreaded designs there are other far more effective solutions than Out of Order anyway... like Intel's Hyper-threading (Simultaneous-Multithreading - SMT).
Since work in Strong AI and have a pretty workable and complete theory I would say I do know a little about human intellect. The stuff about genetics vs nurture is very easy to answer. On the race question (comparable) intelligence is about 98% culture and 2 or less % genetics. One of the biggest factors in intelligence is the (cultural) expectation of being intelligent - when a small child, mostly its negative feedback telling children not to be intelligent. An even bigger factor is the random chaotic element which is inherent in all brain evolution and intellect.. Of course ultimately intellect is 100% genetics but then it is also basically 100% learning, both are needed, and one without the other is simply capacity that cannot be used.
Genetically speaking though black people should be expected to have a very slightly lower 'average' intelligence than white because they have a wider spectrum of genetic variation. The same graph says that the most intelligent people in the world probably should be black not white - but most of these people are still culturally in places that hold them back as children or corrupt them in other ways. Black culture is what makes most black people stupid not the other way around, exactly the same with white people and every other race. Asian children are statistically better at mathematics because they have cultures that are more attuned to it.
There is stuff in Strong AI that is too controversial for publication, but it is not about race - it is more that there are things that most people would be very unwilling to accept. - eg
Most humans are not really intrinsically smarter than other animals, we just have much better memories and most of our superior intelligence really comes directly from remembered learning. We know this because all humans spent at least ~ 50,000 years with no writing, and no real cultural learning or sophisticated language - and basically did nothing intellectually that other apes and other higher animals were not capable of..
Ironically humans totally conquered most of the world when we were no smarter than other monkeys - we hunted in larger groups which made us stronger than other predators, and were more determined and vicious than other predators. Our superior memories and better tool use also made us more ruthless and better killers.. Now that's the real human.
Form the NSA's perspective, they are interested in security - while the NSA itself has numerous means of getting into a system (including some legal ones!), they don't want China or random hackers to be taking control of systems. They're overall goal is security of the US, ....
That is why their previous approach to security once exposed became such an enormous own goal. The whole problem with backdoors is that once someone knows about them anyone can use them. And the problem with hacking munitions is that once used, they can be taken up by the victim or others and used as a (dangerous) learning tool to create more new weapons.., - eg stuxnet..
...We have seen flaws in kernels and encryption libraries that might have well been a typo, yet were in for years.
A new language that either doesn't allow such bugs or has a method for universally finding them would be the Holy Grail of programming.
Unfortunately like the Holy Grail it is likely not to exist and instead lead us all on endless never-ending quests that eat up our whole lives...
I have long been on my own quest for another holy grail - Strong AI - but I am sure it exists. It has the same but opposite problems to the idea of a universal language - the core is an in...- well I mustn't tell anyone, they might be after the same grail too after all. :D
Its all about scale - we would be talking about arrays of 100's of square km.. and I am only talking about ethanol for use in vehicles.. Once made Ethanol can store a lot of energy in a relatively compact space in a fairly stable form- that can be stored and shipped in the way that standard gas /petrol is.
Anyway I said its my solution but only one of several - I actually favour the development of more advanced nuclear technology, and nuclear fusion. Fusion is currently slated as taking up to 50 years to come on stream, but if it was given proper funding and higher priority that could be reduced to ~ 20 years. (the biggest delays are caused by lack of scale in the specialist steel fabrication required.)
Grid level storage is still a big problem that is still not completely solved...
Batteries on a large enough scale could do it but there are still huge technical and logistical problems in simply making and maintaining so many batteries. - Plus on this scale high energy batteries create substantial fire/explosion risks. - Plus with the kind of heavy usage needed for grid storage lifespan would probably be limited to 1 or 2 years at most so recycling and reuse would be very important.
Hydro storage on the scales needed also has enormous problems - very high build costs, the need for mountains to sacrifice, large areas of land, the need for vast amounts of water- which should be fresh water not salt. Plus with this kind of system the stored energy in the water creates a major potential flooding danger to surrounding areas. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (it was only pure luck that Taum soak didn't kill anyone)
All forms of energy production or usage have problems - nuclear kills 50 to maybe a 1000 people per year and releases radiation into the environment, coal kills something like 0.5 to 1.5 million a year, fracking is toxic and environmentally damaging, even wind turbines can kill.
Using EV car batteries to act as storage for the grid -is a silly idea with one fatal little flaw - the daily time cycle at least for the average commuter car just doesn't fit. -
You generate solar electricity during the day - when your car isn't at home. You discharge the car battery during the night to provide power, but you also need to charge the same battery during the night so that the car will be ready in the morning.
The solution is obviously a separate battery to provide house level grid storage. If you also have an electric car - then a third battery to allow overnight charging, or more efficiently to swap the two car batteries over.
My solution - solar generation near the equator used to create synthetic ethanol on a large scale. - Then ship it out the countries that need it. So why does the equator get more sunlight? mainly because the light has a smaller incidence angel and so less atmosphere to get through..
Maybe he meant to say $30 trillion dollars... Actually I would put it at about 1 to 2 trillion. But before I did that I would ask what the real expected lifespan of solar is likely to be - and what the environmental costs of making all those panels and then recycling them at end of life will be. Limited lifespans and environmental costs are big problems for industrial wind turbines.
K.I.S.S. or Keep It Simple Stupid' - Occam's Razor. The solution isn't more dimensions its less. By using an FTL model you can reduce the four dimensions used by General Relativity to Three. The thing is that three works better and it fits better with actual observation. It can even be made to fit with the general relativity mechanic by allowing a physical dimensional time but only on quantum scales.. .
They deduced dimensional time from the observation of dimension like time - and time like space in the dilation caused by travel at relativistic speeds. Unfortunately they didn't notice that the vector of movement defines a direction - giving a free dimension - so at the speed of light dimension like time is just an ordinary dimension of space. It can be generalised to say that the 'speed' of light is actually a 'velocity'. KISS wins.
The 'Anthropic Question' answers this problem.. A simulation still needs a creator or 'God' so it doesn't achieve anything at all. And since the simulation itself would need to exist it would still need 'energy' and lots of it . . . . starting to build a nice tower of turtles under that disk world. I prefer my reality real.
A lot of those 'silly' projects are aimed at the long term goal of conquering the market for Strong AI. The long term global market value of Strong AI could eventually be worth $100 billion to several $ trillion - per year. That totally outclasses even Google's current value, plus Strong AI is not like current computing it gives its owner real power.. Still think those projects are silly?
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AFAIK the problem of speech recognition is that a human can use the context to guesstimate what a garbled message might have meant, but a computer can't since it doesn't have a model about the subject. It would take a fully sapient computer to reach human-level speech recognition.
Even then its one of the most difficult tasks. Fluid conversation-speech in particular requires a remarkable degree of co-ordination, and incredible processing power - requiring a system that can solve problems in incredibly tight real time windows. Effectively the brain can only do it by making a constant stream of predictions several seconds ahead. Speech is one of the areas where organic brains probably have to use quantum 'computing' to actually work.
In a word its all about 'marketing'. The sales shivs cant sell you a new copy if they haven't got some new gizmo to flog. In my experience new code / versions often get as much worse as they get better, and so often a complete rewrite leaves you with a vastly inferior product. (That's how they created Windows Vista and Windows 8...) I wish the old saying nothing ever changes were true - it does change, it gets worse.. :D
Talking about excessive complexity. My loathing for modern dev tools and OS hit a head when the cutting edge app that I was creating - (that needed a custom memory manager) turned out to be impossible to create because I just could not get enough power over the OS. The next iteration switched to looking at Linux, better but still no joy. Then I looked at crafting a custom OS, this naturally was a nightmare, but then I hit the basic wall that there's no public documentation for a lot of the hardware and that everything needs to be done through custom device drivers - which require a standard OS. The next level was to look at embedded systems - these are much better and offer real control, but nowhere near enough processing power. The final solution was Verilog and FPGA, not so bad as there were always sub-units in this app that really needed custom hardware anyway. The punch line though is that it sets a timeline for completion that could be creeping up to ten years, a lot more costs, and...
The allegation is true. It doesn't take a genius to work it out. - The problem with electric cars is that they are too expensive, and most or all of that extra cost is in the batteries. Cheaper and bigger batteries with a smaller & lighter physical footprint = cheaper electric cars. Simple!
'Propaganda' - one of the most misused and frequently misunderstood words out there... Actually half a dozen closely tied but different meanings ... the rumour that xx has Nazi sympathies. . .
- Words, statements or other 'media' twisted with lies to convey an emotionally charged meaning..
- The psychological manipulation of people using intrinsic or subliminal methods..
- All emotionally charged speech, as used by politicians to sway voters...
- Black propaganda, the manipulation of people using hate driven by negative stories and communications - either lies or true.
- Black propaganda, as above but used for the destruction of a particular person, or group,
- Subliminal propaganda, the use of distraction and repetition to plant internal subliminal messages.. (using your subconscious as a weapon against you)
- Subliminal propaganda, the use of deliberately invisible (flashing images) or inaudible messages to transmit the actual message subliminally. Probably doesn't work.
- Engine or radio propaganda, method used by the Nazi's and the BBC and others (using audio filters and compressors) to force program their people using audio sibilance. (also called 'psychic' propaganda)
- 'Psychic' propaganda, obscure military term for a method based on manipulating Jung's 'archetypes' to manipulate entire populations at a subliminal level.
- 'Sonic' propaganda, - obscure military term for a form of 'sonic' or 'sub-sonic' subliminal propaganda driven by a device that uses very low frequencies -modulated by a high frequency carrier- at very high power. Designed to create resonance in the target, can also be used as a direct weapon.. (also called the 'Horn of Jericho', also called 'Psychic' propaganda.)
And I'm sure there's a few I haven't mentioned..
This has to be a joke surely. Over the last ~40 years almost no one in the world has done more to promote the burning of coal than Greenpeace. The campaign against nuclear power has been the best thing the coal and oil industries have ever had, saving a global industry on the brink of failure. A figure calculated from WHO and other statistics is that Coal is some 1,000 to 10,000 times more dangerous than nuclear per unit of energy produced and that adds up to some 5 to 10 million extra people killed (indirectly) by the anti-nuclear campaign globally since the mid 1970's. Greenpeace were and are a big part of that campaign, Amazon should be pointing the figure at them...
So you have no idea if it's true, and you haven't bothered to check - or you just made it up and figured you'd throw it out there anonymously because hey, this is Slashdot and there are always at least a few guys of most any political bent willing to run with absurd stories.
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That's Greenpeace's mandate, make up everything and lie as you go.
It doesn't matter whether there is a 'force' or a 'curved 4D world line' the result is the same - an exchange of energy. For black holes that exchange is across an FTL barrier. If the black hole has a central singularity and the event horizon is has an inner structure then the barrier is much higher than an FTL barrier.
There is a quite simple test - if gravity transmitted energy at the speed of light then black holes should have no gravity field beyond the event horizon. In terms of the 4D tensor field the well (at the event horizon) is vertical and effectively infinitely long so the gravity field really shouldn't escape.
In fact that FTL violation is a bit more serious for general relativity because it basically proves that gravity cant just be a curved 4D space time. If you do more research into the FTL region it is quite clear that general relativity fails completely at the speed of light - in exactly the same way that Newtonian theory fails at relativistic speeds. General relativity doesn't have a stable FTL geometry so it allows the universe as a whole to fold in and collapse in on itself -predicting a universe that either does not exist or is very young. To have a stable FTL geometry the universe needs an FTL Simultaneity - and once your there you have an FTL based physics, and then you need to rewrite general relativity to make it fit. All we need for that is to crush the time dimension to powder and restrict GR to quantum scales and then the two theories fit perfectly.
The really strange thing is that physics has allowed general relativity to stand for 100 years - but then look at how anyone who dares to question it or criticise it is treated, they are jumped on and attacked as heretics.
Do black holes exist? Try looking at the Sagittarius constellation, in the centre of our galaxy there is a giant black hole and recent observations have pretty much proved it exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The real problem with black holes is not the infinite density, it is that they cannot exist without a physics that directly contradicts general relativity. Gravity is a mutual attraction and for black holes that requires an exchange of energy and information - across an FTL boundary. - The fact that gravity can cross the inner event horizons of large black holes sets a minimum speed for gravity that is something approaching FTL simultaneity - eg 10^25 m/s or faster..
P.S. Do "circles" exist? I have only encountered engineering approximations. Believing in "circles" is akin to a kind of theism, I think.
Sadly this only shows a complete misunderstanding of mathematics. By demanding absolute perfection you simply create a rule that is a self lie and a self delusion. The joke that mathematics itself isn't perfect or anything like it. In a way pi is the ultimate joke because it is the point where physics invades and corrupts mathematics irreversibly - nothing much more advanced than pi can ever be totally absolutely pure.... Real mathematics is a hodgepodge of evolution and ill fitting pieces hammered together to make them work. Just try testing general relativity with KISS - Occam's razor. It fails miserably, because its maths can't be reduced to basic axioms.
There are a dozen other ways of breaking general relativity, perhaps the simplest is that it defines a universe that cannot exist because it doesn't define a stable FTL universe. Do you know why tens of thousands of physicists over 100 years have failed to break general relativity? an aura of inscrutable mathematical perfection and completeness - that is an illusion. That kind of absolutism belongs in religion not science. Yes there are real circles.
Oops lost a zero somewhere - that's 90,000,000 TJ / Kg. Before someone else corrects me.
With a battery like that. not just electric cars but planes. A battery like that would be the breakthrough rocket technology so desperately needs, and would make getting into orbit as easy as air travel, and would make manned travel to Mars and the outer planets a real possibility.
Working on fringe physics I can say that batteries with this kind of density or far higher are (theoretically) possible. All you need to do is store energy directly as a curved space time - as a gravity field. Its theoretical density is a ridiculous 9,000,000 TJ / Kg.
If you could really achieve the stated efficiency then the value might be billions not millions. As for the patenting I would expect a budget of several or ten million just as a starting point. With the biggest players like Google or I am thinking Apple even ten million probably wouldn't be enough. That's how the patent trolls work - bottomless pockets..
I know, lets give the new Thor round black ears.. No Lets make Thor into Micky Mouse - Mickey Thor!! Marvel has this nasty habit of messing with and messing up their best characters. A politically correct female Thor is ridiculous - changing Thor's identity is ridiculous. (nothing against women BTW but this is just ugly) Didn't they once try to do this with Superman? changing his identity almost killed off the character completely. I like a lot of Marvels characters but that always comes with the knowledge that sooner or later they will shit on them - and you..