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Two papers recently looked for signs of Dyson spheres by searching for infrared excess, which occurs when surrounding material absorbs light from a star and re-emits it as heat, causing astronomers to see more infrared light coming from a star than they would expect from the star itself.
February 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Two papers recently looked for signs of Dyson spheres by searching for infrared excess, which occurs when surrounding material absorbs light from a star and re-emits it as heat, causing astronomers to see more infrared light coming from a star than they would expect from the star itself.
Will AI Singularity no longer be science fiction?
January 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Will AI Singularity no longer be science fiction?
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What about prices? The cost of a gallon of gasoline relative to wages is near a 20-year low 2/
January 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What about prices? The cost of a gallon of gasoline relative to wages is near a 20-year low 2/
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There are things we fundamentally don't understand about quantum mechanics in terms of the back-end workings: how a wavefunction "collapses" and what exactly makes entanglement work, etc. But we know it DOES work and we can calculate how. We're not out at sea with this stuff. Not at all.
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January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
There are things we fundamentally don't understand about quantum mechanics in terms of the back-end workings: how a wavefunction "collapses" and what exactly makes entanglement work, etc. But we know it DOES work and we can calculate how. We're not out at sea with this stuff. Not at all.
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