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Let me tell you a little bit about my second book, and how it relates to my first book. 1/
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Will Kinney
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Will Kinney
@WKCosmo
Cosmologist, physicist, dirtbag mountain biker, expat Montanan, Copernican extremist. Part of the problem.
- A mathematician Pope going up against a machine god superintelligence is the most cyberpunk thing ever.Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.
00:00 - You have to admit, a tax on unrealized capital gains was a really stupid idea.
- Spoiler: it's the moment they start taking math classes.When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment go.nature.com/43GZ9vn
I could write a 50 page paper answering this :) A few points in outline form only: 1) The rocket exhaust is expanding into vacuum, so viscosity breaks down, so the gas does not obey the Navier-Stokes equation, which is the basis of CFD (computational fluid dynamics) models. /1- We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude." - Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant? Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.
- Who's going to tell him.Vance is so good: "The American Space Program, the first program to put a human being on the moon, was built by American citizens. This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of servants, I just reject that."
00:00Readers added contextWernher von Braun, the Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket which carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, was a German immigrant and a Nazi. He was granted American citizenship in return for transferring Nazi rocket science to the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_v… - You desk rejected their seminal paper.The #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their "discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" More to follow
- Fun fact, the radius of the observable universe is exactly the same as the radius of a black hole of the same mass.Why didn’t the Big Bang become a black hole? #AskEthan During the Big Bang and the inflationary phase preceding it, space experienced the greatest energy density of all-time. So why didn't we become a black hole? bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…
Replying to @WKCosmoSo can you provide a counter example of when student protests were on the wrong side of history?- You are looking at 1.2 Gigawatts of zero carbon power generation being flushed down the toilet for zero reason.The first of four 80-metre-high cooling towers has been demolished at the Biblis #nuclear power plant in Germany tinyurl.com/2p89azff
- Physicists: Let us marvel at the beauty and symmetry of Nature! Nature:
