There is an obvious candidate for dark matter. Not interacting, hard or impossible to detect, interacts with gravity (maybe). I'm talking about tachyons, possibly with net negative mass. Such a tachyon will have an internal FTL geometry but its external geometry may make it travel faster or slower than light. (A tachyons internal speed of light is a special local only value.) Objects with negative mass don't really work with general relativity, but then general relativity doesn't really work at FTL speeds anyway.
Ironically this is why conventional physics wont even consider the idea of dark energy as tachyons. FTL physics requires a different theory (based on a flat absolute FTL frame) which breaks general relativity above the speed of light. So one theory with absolutely no proof is rejected because of another theory with absolutely no proof. (Above the speed of light there is less proof for general relativity then there is for astrology..)
The secret of why the space sequences in 2001 look 'slow' and why so much modern CGI looks like shit is simple. CGI effects are pure graphics - no laws of physics, no momentum, if objects meet they can actually fly right through each other and hence no solidity. 2001 in contrast tried to make the effects look and feel as realistic as possible, hence big things generally move slowly. Modern films can do it realistically - and they end up looking like 'Interstellar', or to some extent 'Gravity'. The first Independence Day, care and attention to detail - mostly looks at least semi-real. Independence Day 2, Star Wars Prequels, Hell Rider, etc, etc ??? A simple basic rule is that good CGI tends not to be much cheaper than using models.
The reason they need to send humans to Mars is to allow and do a lot more science and have a level of flexibility that todays robots just cant do.. Of course there are many many places in space where a robot is the best and cheapest solution - Voyager, Juno, New Horizons, Surveyor, Opportunity and Spirit, etc. At a minimum you send robots to a place before you send humans there..
Besides the tech to send humans to Mars can also be used to send far bigger more capable robots out to places like the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. What kind of machine do you need to bore through 100 miles of ice? a big nuclear powered one.
Depends on whether you have tiny primitive space programs like what we have today or something far more. The joke is that our stuff is so primitive that we can only fly it once then its thrown away. In comparison to what is or may be possible we're just space cavemen.
First law of computers - only a fool doesn't keep at least one backup - and ideally as many as possible.. No matter how difficult it is, no matter how awkward. It is a simple absolute given that sooner or later any single point of failure will eventually fail, always. Usually at the worst time. This is especially true when you rely on online services like Google - failure modes not only include technical failure, but also hacking, design changes, legal restrictions, or account control failure like in this case. his only real hope is to contact Google and beg and complain until they do something.. I'm sorry for him.
Why this insanity in demanding a 100% safety record? no automated system can ever truly achieve that. The Tesla system is already achieving a safety record comparable to humans (or better), that is the basic requirement needed for these systems.. By their own stupid logic they should really be demanding that human drivers be banned - after all human drivers are already statistically more dangerous than the tesla. As should be obvious to everyone these machine systems will only continue to get better as time goes on - but that can only really happen with the machines on the road. For systems like autonomous driving once a basic minimum is passed learning by error soon becomes by far the best and in some cases the only real learning method we have.. Its a big part of how most humans learn to drive after all - do we ban all young people from driving just because most of them are not yet very good at it? no..
These people need to stop reacting reflexively like idiot protestors and start using some basic native intelligence..
Stores like that don't only assume the customers are thieves. They also assume the cashiers are too - and probably the managers. Since the employees are usually mostly casual and on short term contracts, if they don't watch them they can get very high rates of theft - eg 5% or more.
Red Dwarf tells a basic truth - that humans are cheaper than robots. Working on real Strong AI its main features are/will include; very complex, delicate, brutally expensive. The human body is essentially cheap (easy to make), strong, fast, has strong homeostasis and self repairs. Your humanoid robot, able to do the work a human can do will cost about a million dollars, but that is only the start of the cost. Everything it does incurs mechanical wear and potentially damage, and its 'software' core will also require maintenance and servicing.. Maintenance might cost $100,000 per year. Some costs will fall with time others may not.
Maybe one day we will see robots that are cheap enough and reliable enough to replace numbers of human workers - but the joke is that they are far more likely to be based on some adoption of biological technology. Either electronic AI interfaced to genetically engineered human like bodies, or the same bodies with engineered AI based living brains.. With enough knowledge it even becomes possible to make nearly genetically identical human 'clone' bodies with just a few small genetic changes making the brain non-sapient but still semi-sentient.. No higher level consciousness, but able to learn and obey simple commands. Cheaper than robots and far more resilient, and also self repairing. With advanced genetic engineering we wouldn't even have to touch human DNA to create them. Start with any animal you desire then modify its DNA until it fits the model you want.. print it out to create the desired genetic core and then put it in a germ cell (probably itself totally artificial).
Of course the morals of this are totally another question but morals adapt to suit the time. Simply understanding how the mind and brain works (the heart of Strong AI) completely changes everything about how we view ourselves and our society. Reaching the bedrock of what humanity actually is completely changes the game. Maybe a new modified form of eugenics will come back. Maybe more likely we will re-engineer human culture to completely change what it is to be 'human'. (ie just like true 'utopia') Like with so many things people cant rely on the future predictions from places like sci-fi because it simply gets it wrong. Even when it gets it mostly right it still gets it wrong..
Identify the real error in physics -> there is a great big one in general relativity. Below the speed of light the theory is one of the most accurate in physics.. Above the speed of light it becomes a complete nonsense. The problem is that the geometry of dimensional time is fundamentally incompatible with a stable FTL spatial geometry.. But without a stable FTL spatial geometry the universe itself essentially does not exist. An any physics where you have a stable FTL geometry you also get an FTL Simultaneity - which rules out both the relativity of simultaneity and dimensional time, at least on large scales..
Restrict dimensional time to quantum scales and you get a new quantum interpretation of general relativity and a new physics where classical physics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and FTL physics all fit perfectly together. Completing the puzzle is a new model of quantum FTL physics which only really requires one mind bending thing- the speed of light is zero at quantum scales. Quantum strangeness is simply a result of FTL interaction. (Wave like = FTL, Particle like = STL, Superposition of 2 = FTL, Superposition of 1 = STL) Photons are time differentiated tachyons, all massed objects are gravitational singularities, and quantum scale space time is the single unifying principle in physics. (ie. a G-U-T) Of course this model is still in development and still a work in progress..
The law of the jungle in other words. So if someone robs you then you're ok with that. Law of the jungle and capitalism after all. There's no more efficient form of capitalism than theft.
There are too many to count.. As just one example of Chinese knock offs here(UK) - cheap iPhone charger replacements. Only trouble is they do everything on the cheap, those power supplies catch fire, explode, electrocute people. There are tens of thousands of cheap dangerous Chinese products out there. PSUs, LED bulbs, hoverboards, kettles, sports equipment, virtually anything you can think of. They use cheap inferior second hand components, they use nasty electronics tricks that reduce costs but at the price of safety, they even use cheap plastics that don't have the thermal or material strength needed for safe operation..
There's plenty of good Chinese stuff out there (newsflash virtually everything is made in China) but there's tons of bad stuff too.
Its a complicated mix-up. Murdock manipulates the voters to tell them who to elect. The politicians who win are then beholden to Murdock and basically do everything he says. They pass laws creating a regime of censorship in the name of 'protecting the children' that he then willingly 'obeys'.
Murdock is probably the greatest enemy of democracy and freedom of speech on the planet. He is behind the whole 'new' right movement in the US. He fostered the global distrust of government, while at the same time pushing the other way by helping to seed political corruption and incompetence in government throughout the world. He pushed globally for privatisation and tax cuts for the top 1% while demonizing ordinary people and the poor. He pushed the creation of the new intolerant religious front in the US and elsewhere. He was the kingpin behind the whole anti climate change movement. He pushed and pushes 'dumbing down', anti-intellectualism, and anti-intelligence throughout the world because stupid people are easier to manipulate - especially when they don't know they are stupid. He achieved/s this through the dozens of TV networks and newspapers he owns throughout the world.. When people talk about the New World Order or the 1%ers they are really talking about him.
Then explain why all the real elites wanted us to stay in the EU? The answer is that its a gravy train for them, a system that pumps money from poor to rich.. A system that is gradually crushing democracy and replacing it with bureaucracy, a labyrinth designed to stifle growth and innovation and fair competition. Ask yourself why there is no Google or Facebook or Apple or Twitter or Microsoft or Uber or Tesla that started in Europe - the answer is the bureaucracy of the EU.
Hate is anything that disagrees with what the politicians want you to think. A one sided lie that you and your children will serve and eventually die for. That is their real dream. Question : why were the young the most pro-EU in the country? Answer because they are freshly emerged from the indoctrination of school and have no real life experience to question their programming. Just like in 1984, children are the most fanatically loyal to big brother and the party and most dangerous to anyone who questions the system. 'The future is a boot stamping on a human face forever.' The trick is to get you to enjoy being stepped on.
The real aim will be at people who are not such good drivers, or at those who cannot drive and so cannot have a car now, or at people who commuters to relieve the tension and stress of the daily drive.. There is a statistic which says that about the worst 1% of all drivers cause about 90% of all accidents. Being a bad driver can be because of lack of skill, medical problems, or age, or to temporary conditions like tiredness, falling asleep, being drunk, children fighting in car, mobile phone use, etc..
The actual cost for a Strong AI based self drive system will be at least £10,000 to £20,000 so for a long time it will be a luxury product.. Ok that means my figures are a bit exaggerated.. However current 'Weak AI' systems are totally different and will be fully available much sooner and will be pretty safe and quite a lot cheaper..
Oops!:D Transposed the wrong input number and so got garbage output - should have been 500,000 over ten years. I sometimes get number dyslexia. Its not scary that I am developing Strong AI and some of my machines may eventually be driving autonomous cars.. (in 20 years)
Sorry but you are as dumb as crap. Your argument is that it isn't worth developing a technology that saves lives if it costs a much smaller number of lives to develop. If automated driving turns out to be just 10% safer than human driving, then it could eventually globally save some 50,000 lives per year.. In 10 years that's 5 million people. Even if 100 or 1000 people die in developing the tech it still net saves lives. Your argument is to 'protect' the 1000 or the 1 and let the millions die.
Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. All vision systems make mistakes, human, animal, and now machine.. visual data is incredibly complicated and often of poor quality - same goes for things like lidar or radar data. Even in humans visual analysis is often half guesswork and half memory, and our vision systems have been evolving for over a billion years.. From the statistics I'd say the machines are doing pretty well.
Oops yes very vital, but some potassium salts are extremely toxic. In the wrong place or the wrong compound potentially lethal - potassium hydroxide, potassium chloride, potassium cyanide.
"That's an... interesting assertion. I mean, you're implying that there are real-world measurements (extrapolations) that you can make about fictional entities."
Its the opposite, the extrapolation is from known science to future science, and then using these extrapolations to construct fictional worlds.. or to actually using them to try to solve some of the problems of actually building those future technologies.
"Even if you did have a device that can "project" a force field, you're going to need to have it work through tens of kilometres of variably conductive rock.."
I was actually talking about a machine which penetrates the planets core surrounded by a force field. (Earths core : 2,900+ Km deep, temp 4000 to 6000 C, pressure ~ 2 to 3 million Atm) Only something like a force field would (might) be able to survive something like that. The type of barrier I am talking about would probably need to be a kind of inverted event horizon - an FTL barrier - which would stop heat and pressure dead.. Now how to create one or project it around yourself - that is the difficult bit.
Potassium, nicotine, petrol (gasoline), fluorine, mercury fulminate, ammonia bleach, excess H2O, uranium hexafluoride, 10%+ CO2 in the atmosphere,.. and about a million others..
You forgot some basic physics. Take an example : An electric motor produces a rotary force, but the motor only spins if it is supplied with a source of electric power. Useful Input Energy > Useful Output Energy. Some of the energy is always wasted, usually converted to noise or waste heat. In the same regard the EM drive (if it works) consumes power to do work, and more useful power goes in than comes out. No free energy anywhere.
Where the EM drive does appear to fail (in theory) is on the conservation of momentum. So if the machine does work then no doubt there will be something somewhere that does balance the conservation of momentum. Being interested in FTL physics I might suggest that one mechanism that might explain such is some kind of FTL interaction.
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There is an obvious candidate for dark matter. Not interacting, hard or impossible to detect, interacts with gravity (maybe). I'm talking about tachyons, possibly with net negative mass. Such a tachyon will have an internal FTL geometry but its external geometry may make it travel faster or slower than light. (A tachyons internal speed of light is a special local only value.) Objects with negative mass don't really work with general relativity, but then general relativity doesn't really work at FTL speeds anyway.
Ironically this is why conventional physics wont even consider the idea of dark energy as tachyons. FTL physics requires a different theory (based on a flat absolute FTL frame) which breaks general relativity above the speed of light. So one theory with absolutely no proof is rejected because of another theory with absolutely no proof. (Above the speed of light there is less proof for general relativity then there is for astrology..)
But ironically with even less realism than most cartoons.
What about Braindead? for sheer over the top zombie madness. Mover - strap - carnage....
The secret of why the space sequences in 2001 look 'slow' and why so much modern CGI looks like shit is simple. CGI effects are pure graphics - no laws of physics, no momentum, if objects meet they can actually fly right through each other and hence no solidity. 2001 in contrast tried to make the effects look and feel as realistic as possible, hence big things generally move slowly. Modern films can do it realistically - and they end up looking like 'Interstellar', or to some extent 'Gravity'.
The first Independence Day, care and attention to detail - mostly looks at least semi-real. Independence Day 2, Star Wars Prequels, Hell Rider, etc, etc ???
A simple basic rule is that good CGI tends not to be much cheaper than using models.
The reason they need to send humans to Mars is to allow and do a lot more science and have a level of flexibility that todays robots just cant do.. Of course there are many many places in space where a robot is the best and cheapest solution - Voyager, Juno, New Horizons, Surveyor, Opportunity and Spirit, etc. At a minimum you send robots to a place before you send humans there..
Besides the tech to send humans to Mars can also be used to send far bigger more capable robots out to places like the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. What kind of machine do you need to bore through 100 miles of ice? a big nuclear powered one.
Depends on whether you have tiny primitive space programs like what we have today or something far more. The joke is that our stuff is so primitive that we can only fly it once then its thrown away. In comparison to what is or may be possible we're just space cavemen.
First law of computers - only a fool doesn't keep at least one backup - and ideally as many as possible.. No matter how difficult it is, no matter how awkward. It is a simple absolute given that sooner or later any single point of failure will eventually fail, always. Usually at the worst time. This is especially true when you rely on online services like Google - failure modes not only include technical failure, but also hacking, design changes, legal restrictions, or account control failure like in this case. his only real hope is to contact Google and beg and complain until they do something.. I'm sorry for him.
Why this insanity in demanding a 100% safety record? no automated system can ever truly achieve that. The Tesla system is already achieving a safety record comparable to humans (or better), that is the basic requirement needed for these systems..
By their own stupid logic they should really be demanding that human drivers be banned - after all human drivers are already statistically more dangerous than the tesla.
As should be obvious to everyone these machine systems will only continue to get better as time goes on - but that can only really happen with the machines on the road. For systems like autonomous driving once a basic minimum is passed learning by error soon becomes by far the best and in some cases the only real learning method we have.. Its a big part of how most humans learn to drive after all - do we ban all young people from driving just because most of them are not yet very good at it? no..
These people need to stop reacting reflexively like idiot protestors and start using some basic native intelligence..
Stores like that don't only assume the customers are thieves. They also assume the cashiers are too - and probably the managers. Since the employees are usually mostly casual and on short term contracts, if they don't watch them they can get very high rates of theft - eg 5% or more.
Red Dwarf tells a basic truth - that humans are cheaper than robots. Working on real Strong AI its main features are/will include; very complex, delicate, brutally expensive. The human body is essentially cheap (easy to make), strong, fast, has strong homeostasis and self repairs. Your humanoid robot, able to do the work a human can do will cost about a million dollars, but that is only the start of the cost. Everything it does incurs mechanical wear and potentially damage, and its 'software' core will also require maintenance and servicing.. Maintenance might cost $100,000 per year. Some costs will fall with time others may not.
Maybe one day we will see robots that are cheap enough and reliable enough to replace numbers of human workers - but the joke is that they are far more likely to be based on some adoption of biological technology. Either electronic AI interfaced to genetically engineered human like bodies, or the same bodies with engineered AI based living brains..
With enough knowledge it even becomes possible to make nearly genetically identical human 'clone' bodies with just a few small genetic changes making the brain non-sapient but still semi-sentient.. No higher level consciousness, but able to learn and obey simple commands. Cheaper than robots and far more resilient, and also self repairing. With advanced genetic engineering we wouldn't even have to touch human DNA to create them. Start with any animal you desire then modify its DNA until it fits the model you want.. print it out to create the desired genetic core and then put it in a germ cell (probably itself totally artificial).
Of course the morals of this are totally another question but morals adapt to suit the time. Simply understanding how the mind and brain works (the heart of Strong AI) completely changes everything about how we view ourselves and our society. Reaching the bedrock of what humanity actually is completely changes the game. Maybe a new modified form of eugenics will come back. Maybe more likely we will re-engineer human culture to completely change what it is to be 'human'. (ie just like true 'utopia') Like with so many things people cant rely on the future predictions from places like sci-fi because it simply gets it wrong. Even when it gets it mostly right it still gets it wrong..
Better to be a free man (or woman) in hell than a slave in heaven.. :) baaa... baaa....
Identify the real error in physics -> there is a great big one in general relativity. Below the speed of light the theory is one of the most accurate in physics.. Above the speed of light it becomes a complete nonsense. The problem is that the geometry of dimensional time is fundamentally incompatible with a stable FTL spatial geometry.. But without a stable FTL spatial geometry the universe itself essentially does not exist.
An any physics where you have a stable FTL geometry you also get an FTL Simultaneity - which rules out both the relativity of simultaneity and dimensional time, at least on large scales..
Restrict dimensional time to quantum scales and you get a new quantum interpretation of general relativity and a new physics where classical physics, quantum mechanics, general relativity, and FTL physics all fit perfectly together. Completing the puzzle is a new model of quantum FTL physics which only really requires one mind bending thing- the speed of light is zero at quantum scales. Quantum strangeness is simply a result of FTL interaction. (Wave like = FTL, Particle like = STL, Superposition of 2 = FTL, Superposition of 1 = STL) Photons are time differentiated tachyons, all massed objects are gravitational singularities, and quantum scale space time is the single unifying principle in physics. (ie. a G-U-T) Of course this model is still in development and still a work in progress..
The law of the jungle in other words. So if someone robs you then you're ok with that. Law of the jungle and capitalism after all. There's no more efficient form of capitalism than theft.
There are too many to count.. As just one example of Chinese knock offs here(UK) - cheap iPhone charger replacements. Only trouble is they do everything on the cheap, those power supplies catch fire, explode, electrocute people. There are tens of thousands of cheap dangerous Chinese products out there. PSUs, LED bulbs, hoverboards, kettles, sports equipment, virtually anything you can think of. They use cheap inferior second hand components, they use nasty electronics tricks that reduce costs but at the price of safety, they even use cheap plastics that don't have the thermal or material strength needed for safe operation..
There's plenty of good Chinese stuff out there (newsflash virtually everything is made in China) but there's tons of bad stuff too.
Its a complicated mix-up. Murdock manipulates the voters to tell them who to elect. The politicians who win are then beholden to Murdock and basically do everything he says. They pass laws creating a regime of censorship in the name of 'protecting the children' that he then willingly 'obeys'.
Murdock is probably the greatest enemy of democracy and freedom of speech on the planet. He is behind the whole 'new' right movement in the US. He fostered the global distrust of government, while at the same time pushing the other way by helping to seed political corruption and incompetence in government throughout the world. He pushed globally for privatisation and tax cuts for the top 1% while demonizing ordinary people and the poor. He pushed the creation of the new intolerant religious front in the US and elsewhere. He was the kingpin behind the whole anti climate change movement. He pushed and pushes 'dumbing down', anti-intellectualism, and anti-intelligence throughout the world because stupid people are easier to manipulate - especially when they don't know they are stupid. He achieved/s this through the dozens of TV networks and newspapers he owns throughout the world.. When people talk about the New World Order or the 1%ers they are really talking about him.
Then explain why all the real elites wanted us to stay in the EU? The answer is that its a gravy train for them, a system that pumps money from poor to rich.. A system that is gradually crushing democracy and replacing it with bureaucracy, a labyrinth designed to stifle growth and innovation and fair competition.
Ask yourself why there is no Google or Facebook or Apple or Twitter or Microsoft or Uber or Tesla that started in Europe - the answer is the bureaucracy of the EU.
Hate is anything that disagrees with what the politicians want you to think. A one sided lie that you and your children will serve and eventually die for. That is their real dream. Question : why were the young the most pro-EU in the country? Answer because they are freshly emerged from the indoctrination of school and have no real life experience to question their programming. Just like in 1984, children are the most fanatically loyal to big brother and the party and most dangerous to anyone who questions the system. 'The future is a boot stamping on a human face forever.' The trick is to get you to enjoy being stepped on.
The real aim will be at people who are not such good drivers, or at those who cannot drive and so cannot have a car now, or at people who commuters to relieve the tension and stress of the daily drive..
There is a statistic which says that about the worst 1% of all drivers cause about 90% of all accidents. Being a bad driver can be because of lack of skill, medical problems, or age, or to temporary conditions like tiredness, falling asleep, being drunk, children fighting in car, mobile phone use, etc..
The actual cost for a Strong AI based self drive system will be at least £10,000 to £20,000 so for a long time it will be a luxury product.. Ok that means my figures are a bit exaggerated.. However current 'Weak AI' systems are totally different and will be fully available much sooner and will be pretty safe and quite a lot cheaper..
Oops! :D Transposed the wrong input number and so got garbage output - should have been 500,000 over ten years. I sometimes get number dyslexia. Its not scary that I am developing Strong AI and some of my machines may eventually be driving autonomous cars.. (in 20 years)
Sorry but you are as dumb as crap. Your argument is that it isn't worth developing a technology that saves lives if it costs a much smaller number of lives to develop. If automated driving turns out to be just 10% safer than human driving, then it could eventually globally save some 50,000 lives per year.. In 10 years that's 5 million people. Even if 100 or 1000 people die in developing the tech it still net saves lives.
Your argument is to 'protect' the 1000 or the 1 and let the millions die.
Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. All vision systems make mistakes, human, animal, and now machine.. visual data is incredibly complicated and often of poor quality - same goes for things like lidar or radar data. Even in humans visual analysis is often half guesswork and half memory, and our vision systems have been evolving for over a billion years.. From the statistics I'd say the machines are doing pretty well.
Oops yes very vital, but some potassium salts are extremely toxic. In the wrong place or the wrong compound potentially lethal - potassium hydroxide, potassium chloride, potassium cyanide.
"That's an ... interesting assertion. I mean, you're implying that there are real-world measurements (extrapolations) that you can make about fictional entities."
Its the opposite, the extrapolation is from known science to future science, and then using these extrapolations to construct fictional worlds.. or to actually using them to try to solve some of the problems of actually building those future technologies.
"Even if you did have a device that can "project" a force field, you're going to need to have it work through tens of kilometres of variably conductive rock .."
I was actually talking about a machine which penetrates the planets core surrounded by a force field. (Earths core : 2,900+ Km deep, temp 4000 to 6000 C, pressure ~ 2 to 3 million Atm) Only something like a force field would (might) be able to survive something like that. The type of barrier I am talking about would probably need to be a kind of inverted event horizon - an FTL barrier - which would stop heat and pressure dead.. Now how to create one or project it around yourself - that is the difficult bit.
Potassium, nicotine, petrol (gasoline), fluorine, mercury fulminate, ammonia bleach, excess H2O, uranium hexafluoride, 10%+ CO2 in the atmosphere, .. and about a million others..
You forgot some basic physics. Take an example : An electric motor produces a rotary force, but the motor only spins if it is supplied with a source of electric power. Useful Input Energy > Useful Output Energy. Some of the energy is always wasted, usually converted to noise or waste heat.
In the same regard the EM drive (if it works) consumes power to do work, and more useful power goes in than comes out. No free energy anywhere.
Where the EM drive does appear to fail (in theory) is on the conservation of momentum. So if the machine does work then no doubt there will be something somewhere that does balance the conservation of momentum. Being interested in FTL physics I might suggest that one mechanism that might explain such is some kind of FTL interaction.