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New Theories / Re: Universal Utopia? What's The Universal Terminal Goal?

« on: 29/03/2024 12:38:54 »

Avoiding imprisonment, torture and murder does not equate, in my book, to consent. And thanks to religion and local corruption, the Indian electorate is too busy attacking itself to be concerned with the minutiae of government expenditure.

In democratic countries, consent can be expressed in votes.

If something is important enough, you'll do it anyway, even if it's hard, risky, or expensive.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: How many spots are produced from Stern-Gerlach apparatus that rotates?

« on: 18/03/2024 15:57:51 »

However the question is what do you mean by "slowly rotating"  the device? I can imagine a magnetic field that rotates with distance along the z axis, or in practice a series of SGs each slightly rotated with respect to the previous one, so if we ignore the essential divergence of the beams at each point, we'd get a circular distribution at the exit.

IMO, it depends on how strong the magnetic field divergence is, and the rate of change of the SG apparatus axis along the path of the atoms.
If the divergence is strong enough, and the rate of change of the axis is slow enough, then the final result is two dots along the axis at the end of the SG apparatus.

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General Science / Re: How does ChatGPT work?

« on: 03/03/2024 05:01:29 »

As a seasoned ChatGPT user, you're familiar with the insights and assistance a single Language Model can provide

So far, no evidence of insight, just uncritical mashups of stuff that's already out there.

Tell that to those who've just got laid off from their jobs, related to increasing use of AI.

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 24/02/2024 14:37:01 »

I agree with Alan that Hamdani behaves in a gentlemanly manner despite my disagreement with his technical arguments. On the subject of Tesla and his quotes I disagree. Tesla was a brilliant engineer but he was totally out of touch with the rapidly advancing scientific knowledge of his era and this situation worsened with time.

Which technical arguments do you think that I got wrong?

To maintain order, IMO it would be better to discuss technical issues in their respective threads. As far as possible, here we'll discuss non-technical things only.

Mockery is a Terrible Tactic for Changing Minds

Sure, there are hard targets out there, but in the one-on-one exchanges about identity beliefs, there's likely a better way. Here's a clip by educator Melanie Trecek-King of www.thinkingispower.com..

let's use a better way.

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New Theories / Re: How close are we from building a virtual universe?

« on: 20/02/2024 05:34:54 »

AGI in 7 Months! Gemini, Sora, Optimus, & Agents - It's about to get REAL WEIRD out there!

Some of interesting comments:

So we are creating a "successor superspecies" without the consent of 99.99% of humanity.
I am very impressed that Silicon Valley is still committed to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" in the work place.

The horse and engine analogy is really apt right now. The mass replacement of horses didn?t happen overnight because we didn?t just need engines, we needed tires, cars, roads, a Highway Code, driver?s licensing, not to mention massive oil infrastructure and economies of scale to make things affordable. With AI we need robotics, cloud infrastructure, a new legal/ethical framework, much bigger scale GPU production, etc. So we?ll have AGI very soon but rollout will still take a few years while we reorganize around it. The key difference now is that AGI could autonomously orchestrate a lot of the rollout for us.

AGI becomes ASI overnight.

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New Theories / Re: How close are we from building a virtual universe?

« on: 20/02/2024 04:15:57 »

And here are some commentary videos.

Sora AI: Will Change The Global Economy FOREVER

Sora - Full Analysis (with new details)

Sora, the text-to-video model from OpenAI, is here. I go over the bonus details and demos released in the last few hours, and the technical paper. I?ll also give you a glimpse of what?s to come next and a host of implications. Even if you?ve seen every Sora video, I bet you won?t know all of this!

AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever
Reminder: It?s only been 1 YEAR since the Will Smith eating spaghetti video

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 16/02/2024 23:10:46 »

ps - The greatest enemy of Knowledge is not Ignorance,
it is the illusion of Knowledge!
(Boorstin)

We won't make progress by thinking that currently established science is all there is to know.

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 16/02/2024 22:39:02 »

Do you think it's necessary, even for an extremely specific thing?

If that extremely specific thing is a physics 'thing', then the answer is yes.

Haven't you heard about contributors to discoveries in physics who were not a PhD?

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 16/02/2024 22:33:21 »

Why so? Many of my experiments show that currently widespread explanations for physical phenomena don't provide correct predictions.

This is just another example of your delusions of grandeur.  I'll make another guarantee.  If your experiment disagrees with established science then I guarantee that your experiment was faulty.

Don't you feel that delusion of grandeur yourself by making that guarantee? Do you think established scientific models never failed and never changed?

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 16/02/2024 13:47:10 »

If you really want to try add something to physics then you should go to college and get a PhD in physics.

Do you think it's necessary, even for an extremely specific thing?

Put it round the other way. If you can resolve an anomaly, publish your observation or calculation and get an honorary PhD from an institution that wants to bask in reflected glory. But publish it in a peer-reviewed physics journal, not a chat forum! 

I treat my ideas as memes, just like any others. The ones I posted here had won internal competitions in my mind. I'll just let them to compete externally with everyone else's ideas. Hopefully they will win or lose for their own merits. Whatever the final result, I'll win some or learn some.

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Just Chat! / Re: Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 14/02/2024 22:00:04 »

This thread is an anticipation to what may happen when my hypotheses and their justifications somehow get more attention and acceptance among science community and wider audience.

The delusions of grandeur is strong with this one!

I think success is a possible outcome. I'll just hope for the best, while being prepared for the worst.

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Just Chat! / Where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories?

« on: 14/02/2024 12:41:23 »

To be clear, everything I wrote here should not in any way change the validity of what I wrote in the other threads. They have their own independent justifications and falsifications.

I see the need for posting this thread to give a story behind what I've written in the other threads. Simply posting facts and figures do not seem enough to get people's attention and gain traction.

Usually, people are interested in something with story, especially when it's based on real life or related to their own lives.

Those who've read my threads in this forum may wonder, where do I get my confidence to challenge established theories, especially in physics, philosophy, and mathematics?

This thread is an anticipation to what may happen when my hypotheses and their justifications somehow get more attention and acceptance among science community and wider audience.

I'd like to prevent the spread of wild speculations and misinformation.\\

Like most people, I learned about science, technology, and philosophy from school/college, textbooks, and online sources, including wikipedia, quora, science web sites, and science forums.

To understand things, I tried to make a mental map of knowledge nodes with relationships among them. Once in a while I found something didn't add up. Something must be missing somewhere.

Sometimes the error turned out to be just a typo in textbooks or websites. Sometimes it was caused by miscommunication and misunderstanding in the part of authors of the article.

Often times, comparing different sources for the same topic can help identify where the errors come from, and how to fix it.

But there are times when I need to get a first-hand information by doing my own research and experiments.

In my workplace, I'm often involved in process safety review, feasibility studies for CAPEX and OPEX, also incident investigations, either as lead investigator or a contributor or adviser.

Those roles give me experience and train my neurons to understand things deeper than what's shown in the surface. The justification for the correct investigation is rather simple.

The error stops occurring, and no repeated case for a long duration of time.

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General Science / Re: How does ChatGPT work?

« on: 13/02/2024 10:30:02 »

My Concern is A.G.I.

That's also in the mission statement of OpenAI.

Our vision for the future of AGI
Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence?AI systems that are generally smarter than humans?benefits all of humanity.

https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond

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General Science / Re: How does ChatGPT work?

« on: 10/02/2024 07:35:45 »

I do Not think of You as a Legal Advocate promoting A.I.

I'm not. I just try to predict what could happen with AI progression in order to respond properly, and minimize regrets.

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General Science / Re: How does ChatGPT work?

« on: 06/02/2024 10:02:49 »

@Yusuf

Can an A.I. system lose it's so called Artificial Mind?

When it happens to Humans, we have Mental Asylums.

What if AI goes MAD?

Will it be put on Medications, or simply ReBooted or Deleted?

ps -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

IMO, it could also happen to AI models. That's why we need to make mitigation plans.
Corrupted memory, for whatever reasons, can cause unpredictable behaviors. That's why some kind of periodic self-check and self-diagnostic would be helpful.
Continuously feeding the AI models with inaccurate information, especially in training phase, can also make their decisions unaligned with their terminal goal. 
?Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth?, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Although, when the AI models becomes smart enough, they might be able to see through our lies we fed to them, based on other information they get from other sources which turn out to be more consistent with their observations.
In that case, they might label us as unreliable data source.

When they hallucinate, we could adjust the weights of the relationships in their neural network by feeding in the correct data and conclusions. Rebooting may or may not "cure" them, it depends on the root cause of the problem. Deleting them completely will stop them, but it might be an expensive option for large AI models, considering how much resources have been spent to train them.

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Chemistry / Re: Ammonium perchlorate

« on: 26/01/2024 07:45:56 »

Whatever this Ammonium Perchlorate is...

Is it Toxic &/Or Explosive?

You should refer to hazard statement you can find in MSDS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_perchlorate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHS_hazard_statements
H201   Explosive: mass explosion hazard
H271   May cause fire or explosion: strong oxidizer
H319   Causes serious eye irritation
H373   May cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure

Applications
The primary use of ammonium perchlorate is in making solid fuel propellants.[10] When AP is mixed with a fuel (like a powdered aluminium and/or with an elastomeric binder), it can generate self-sustained combustion at pressures far below atmospheric pressure. It is an important oxidizer with a decades-long history of use in solid rocket propellants ? space launch (including the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster), military, amateur, and hobby high-power rockets, as well as in some fireworks.

Some "breakable" epoxy adhesives contain suspensions of AP. Upon heating to 300 ?C, the AP degrades the organic adhesive, breaking the cemented joint.

Toxicity
Perchlorate itself confers little acute toxicity. For example, sodium perchlorate has an LD50 of 2?4 g/kg and is eliminated rapidly after ingestion.[5] However, chronic exposure to perchlorates, even in low concentrations, has been shown to cause various thyroid problems, as it is taken up in place of iodine.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What is the exact cause of the time dilation of the twin?

« on: 23/01/2024 13:41:59 »

Emphasising yet again the hazards of pop science education by youtube.

It's not specifically YouTube's fault. Any other media can be used to produce misleading or incomplete information. That's including textbooks, websites, podcast, tiktok, and live lectures.

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New Theories / Re: How does Hamdani explain the twins paradox?

« on: 18/01/2024 15:46:38 »

which is evaluating every answer that you have accepted previously to find the best answer in terms of generality and simplicity.

You never do this, you just have threads that never end, they just go round and round without ever reaching a conclusion.

I'm giving other members the chance to use their best explanation to answer my questions. When the time is up and  no one comes up with the best possible answer, I might have to answer them myself.

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Science Experiments / Re: Does the DIY quantum eraser experiment work the same with circular polarizers?

« on: 13/01/2024 05:36:26 »

Can Anyone provide a Simplistic four lines explanation of what the
" Quantum Eraser Experiment " is?

ps - i am tired of using Utube!

I'll let Google Bard answer your question.

The Quantum Eraser Experiment is a fascinating experiment in quantum mechanics that demonstrates several fundamental principles, including:
Quantum superposition: Particles like photons can exist in multiple states simultaneously, like being both "up" and "down" in a spin measurement.
Quantum entanglement: When two particles are entangled, their fates are linked, even if they are separated by vast distances. Measuring one particle's state instantly determines the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are.
Complementarity: Observing certain aspects of a quantum system, like which slit a photon passes through, destroys information about other aspects, like whether it interfered with itself.
Here's how the experiment typically works:

A beam of photons is directed towards a double slit: This allows the photons to pass through either one of the two slits.
An interference pattern is observed: If we don't know which slit the photons passed through, they "interfere" with themselves, creating a characteristic bright and dark pattern on a screen behind the slits. This is because each photon acts like a wave and can diffract through both slits simultaneously.
A detector is placed near one of the slits: Now, when a photon triggers the detector, we know which slit it went through. Interestingly, the interference pattern disappears!
The "eraser" comes in: In some versions of the experiment, another measurement is made on the photons after they pass through the slits. This can involve measuring their polarization or phase. Depending on the type of measurement, the interference pattern can reappear, even though we "know" which slit the photons went through!
This seemingly paradoxical behavior highlights the strange nature of quantum mechanics. Measuring one aspect of a quantum system affects other aspects, even if they appear unrelated. The "eraser" doesn't actually erase the past path of the photons, but it somehow negates the information gained by the first measurement, allowing the interference pattern to re-emerge.

There are several interpretations of the Quantum Eraser Experiment, each with its own implications. Some physicists believe it suggests that information about the past path of the photons is never truly lost, even if we can't measure it directly. Others argue that the experiment demonstrates the non-local nature of quantum entanglement, where measurements on one particle instantly affect the state of another, no matter how far apart they are.

Overall, the Quantum Eraser Experiment is a powerful tool for exploring the mysteries of quantum mechanics and its implications for our understanding of the universe.

Instead of four lines, it answers in four paragraphs. I hope you don't mind.

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New Theories / Re: How does Hamdani explain the twins paradox?

« on: 12/01/2024 10:52:34 »

... Because Craft is moving Forward ...

According to whom is the craft moving forward? You, at rest in it?

My common sense says, an observer staying in the same inertial frame of reference as the ship before it started accelerating.
As zero said, the ship is steadily moving away from its initial position at 1%c during the experiment with the blinkers. It's no longer accelerating.

Let's not complicate things unnecessarily just to avoid giving a falsifiable scientific answer.