Oh Dear. Sabine is in the doghouse!
Believes in determinacy in Quantum Mechanics. Just like dear old Albert Einstein...
It is a well observed fact that people don't like being told they are wrong about their fixed ideas.
I have learned to just let it go when people prefer to believe nonsense. Either they come round to my explanations, or they don't. It is tiring to argue.
And I always know I am right... 😀
Now John Baez is a capital man. Very good Mathematician and useful at Physics too. Extremely good lecturer if you have a moderate attention span.
This is about the future of Physics, and it is most enlightening. Nothing much happens for 2 minutes but then it gets going with an introduction to the 45minute lecture.
We all know about Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Quantum Gravity, but I didn't know just how off the scale Climate Change and consumption of resources and creation of waste has got, compered to the last few million years.
He is not optimistic about any great discoveries in Fundamental Physics soon, because the energies and scales involved are way beyond our present ability, but suggests that there is a huge amount to discover in engineering matter into useful inventions.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/the-future-of-physics/
If you watch the video from his website and switch to youtube, you get a feast of his linked lectures.
I always enjoy whatever he talks or writes about.
Believes in determinacy in Quantum Mechanics. Just like dear old Albert Einstein...
It is a well observed fact that people don't like being told they are wrong about their fixed ideas.
I have learned to just let it go when people prefer to believe nonsense. Either they come round to my explanations, or they don't. It is tiring to argue.
And I always know I am right... 😀
Now John Baez is a capital man. Very good Mathematician and useful at Physics too. Extremely good lecturer if you have a moderate attention span.
This is about the future of Physics, and it is most enlightening. Nothing much happens for 2 minutes but then it gets going with an introduction to the 45minute lecture.
We all know about Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Quantum Gravity, but I didn't know just how off the scale Climate Change and consumption of resources and creation of waste has got, compered to the last few million years.
He is not optimistic about any great discoveries in Fundamental Physics soon, because the energies and scales involved are way beyond our present ability, but suggests that there is a huge amount to discover in engineering matter into useful inventions.
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/the-future-of-physics/
If you watch the video from his website and switch to youtube, you get a feast of his linked lectures.
I always enjoy whatever he talks or writes about.
You may want to get on Mastodon, I follow Mr. Name-Sounds-Like-A-Folk-Singer there.
And yes, now that I mention that, I've seen that talk before.
And yes, now that I mention that, I've seen that talk before.
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After a little searching I have found John Baez's musings on Mastodon:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez
I am not a great one for social media, but am delighted he has recently discussed the Riemann Zeta Function, and the odd and alternating terms of integer Euler and Dirichlet versions, which has always fascinated me.
I think Baez is aware of the confusion arising from his cousin's very similar name:
Galu usually refers to him as Joan Baez anyway...
I didn't remark on your previous Carver Mead video, but did watch it at the time. Again it fell into the trap of reformulating Electrodynamics as a deterministic or local theory.
Is it such a shock that the Quantum Universe is essentially random? Why do people resist this idea so strongly? I find no paradox in Quantum entanglement.
Junk Science is Junk Science, and there is a lot of it these days.
Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Deniers, Creationists, Climate Change Deniers, Plasma Universe Advocates.... it is endless. It does matter because we could be in very big trouble soon.
It does surprise me that people who make very basic mistakes in Science can nevertheless be quite good at Engineering. I had quite the ding-dong with a certain person not a million miles from this thread:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/zero-feedback-impedance-amplifiers.42259/
The matter of how many high tides a day there are was finally conceded to me, and I know this because I swim in the Sea as Experimental Evidence, but the initiial opposition to my answer was 11-1 round the dinner table over three nights.
I was shouted down when I tried to use an Orange and a Walnut to explain the surprising Centrifugal Force approach that gives the right answer. I knew how Galileo felt.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez
I am not a great one for social media, but am delighted he has recently discussed the Riemann Zeta Function, and the odd and alternating terms of integer Euler and Dirichlet versions, which has always fascinated me.
I think Baez is aware of the confusion arising from his cousin's very similar name:
Galu usually refers to him as Joan Baez anyway...
I didn't remark on your previous Carver Mead video, but did watch it at the time. Again it fell into the trap of reformulating Electrodynamics as a deterministic or local theory.
Is it such a shock that the Quantum Universe is essentially random? Why do people resist this idea so strongly? I find no paradox in Quantum entanglement.
Junk Science is Junk Science, and there is a lot of it these days.
Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Deniers, Creationists, Climate Change Deniers, Plasma Universe Advocates.... it is endless. It does matter because we could be in very big trouble soon.
It does surprise me that people who make very basic mistakes in Science can nevertheless be quite good at Engineering. I had quite the ding-dong with a certain person not a million miles from this thread:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/zero-feedback-impedance-amplifiers.42259/
The matter of how many high tides a day there are was finally conceded to me, and I know this because I swim in the Sea as Experimental Evidence, but the initiial opposition to my answer was 11-1 round the dinner table over three nights.
I was shouted down when I tried to use an Orange and a Walnut to explain the surprising Centrifugal Force approach that gives the right answer. I knew how Galileo felt.
SH is a good example of getting totally sucked into a You Tube spiral of having to produce content regardless of quality to keep the cash coming in and pay the staff etc. It happens to most folk who try and make a living on You Tube. There's so much poor content on science it's easier to just ignore it all! But a good start is Avoiding Videos That Capitalise Every Word, or use LOTS OF CAPS or !!!!!
The best science on YT is recorded lectures from good universities.
She is of course right to some extent about academia - but that is driven by the way it's funded. There used to be lots of blue sky research funded on the off chance it would turn out useful - think Bell Labs, IBM in the 50s and 60s, and others... That's all gone now, sadly.
The best science on YT is recorded lectures from good universities.
She is of course right to some extent about academia - but that is driven by the way it's funded. There used to be lots of blue sky research funded on the off chance it would turn out useful - think Bell Labs, IBM in the 50s and 60s, and others... That's all gone now, sadly.
Her thing about the universe having a synapses or whoever the last week was a big disappointment...
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I do hope that my favourite astrophysicist and YouTuber Dr. Becky Smethurst has got it right!
Because something walks like a duck and kwacks like a duck it isn't necessarily a duck... ;-D
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Ah, beware the Sirens of Physics:
They may lure us onto the rocks.
Now here's a good Physics or Chemistry puzzle. Tests your ability to follow a graph:
What will the level be in 2050?
Here are historical levels:
I make that 490 ppmv. Which is twice the historical average derived from ice cores.
How long does it stay up there?
Think thousands of years. Draw your own conclusions.
They may lure us onto the rocks.
Now here's a good Physics or Chemistry puzzle. Tests your ability to follow a graph:
What will the level be in 2050?
Here are historical levels:
I make that 490 ppmv. Which is twice the historical average derived from ice cores.
How long does it stay up there?
Think thousands of years. Draw your own conclusions.
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That reminds me of the Wild Duck open cluster, or Messier 11.
Located in the constellation Scutum, it consists of around 2,900 stars.
Located in the constellation Scutum, it consists of around 2,900 stars.
It seems that our industrial revolution have possibly had the bad taste of starting at the same time as possible a beginning of an ice age peak - if this is true I suppose it could be hard to distinguish between the ice age and the industrial revolution. But I don't care really - I think that the human genome has not behaved in a proper way wrt. how resources and nature has been treated. So we deserve a slap in the face as I see it. Be it from our own doing, a meteorite or an ice age sequence. The slap seem to be the effort to handle the changing climate for a thousand years or so. Perhaps we see already what is just a mild slap start in LA etc...
A bit scary...
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This graph shows more clearly that we are in an interglacial warming period:
The warmer interglacials last 10,000 to 15,000 years.
We are now about 11,000 years into our current interglacial period, and the good news is it may last another few thousand years.
The bad news is it may end within the next century - that will be a true climate apocalypse!
https://co2coalition.org/facts/interglacials-usually-last-10000-15000-years-ours-is-11000-years-old/
The warmer interglacials last 10,000 to 15,000 years.
We are now about 11,000 years into our current interglacial period, and the good news is it may last another few thousand years.
The bad news is it may end within the next century - that will be a true climate apocalypse!
https://co2coalition.org/facts/interglacials-usually-last-10000-15000-years-ours-is-11000-years-old/
I woke up early from a terrible dream that we were all going to die from Climate Change and rising CO2 levels.
Galu's website reassured me that everything is going to be alright after all. Phew.
The Three Lovely Sisters (OK, they look like half-sisters at most, but whatever) can easily understand Mr. Gordon's (A Scientist, no less) reassuring explanations.
CO2 is very good stuff indeed. It is the friendly molecule.
Mr. Gordon and Zeus the Dog frequently discuss water too (I know...talking dogs?). It is the magic molecule.
But what about the Polar Bears, say the Lovely sisters. Aren't they suffering from the melting Polar Cap, Mr. Gordon?
No, says Mr. Gordon, who is very well-informed. They are thriving:
The website even has a Scientific Experiment that we can all do at home to answer the question "If the Arctic melts, will sea levels rise?"
Well, it's hard to argue with that. Now I can go back to bed.
Galu's website reassured me that everything is going to be alright after all. Phew.
The Three Lovely Sisters (OK, they look like half-sisters at most, but whatever) can easily understand Mr. Gordon's (A Scientist, no less) reassuring explanations.
CO2 is very good stuff indeed. It is the friendly molecule.
Mr. Gordon and Zeus the Dog frequently discuss water too (I know...talking dogs?). It is the magic molecule.
But what about the Polar Bears, say the Lovely sisters. Aren't they suffering from the melting Polar Cap, Mr. Gordon?
No, says Mr. Gordon, who is very well-informed. They are thriving:
The website even has a Scientific Experiment that we can all do at home to answer the question "If the Arctic melts, will sea levels rise?"
Well, it's hard to argue with that. Now I can go back to bed.
What I ment with ice age peak was actually a reference to the chart and thus aw warming period. But scales above are not to revealing...
Anyways - I dont doubt our negative contribution... Just that it had been fun for humanity to "grow up" in a forgiving period (and better itself) and learn without a big slap.. the slap being the wrong doing accelerated by a climate phase "in phase"...
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