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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by mxplxxx on Today at 21:37:40 »

More probably, because the world is not actually run by anybody. Absolute central control, as in communism, has failed because  nobody has the incorruptible intelligence to make consistently good decisions for the benefit of everybody else.

Individuals exercise choice based on personal advantage versus societal need, and where the latter is not immediately  obvious (like theft, murder...) or proven (anthropogenic climate change) , the former always dominates. Plus of course "marginal nonconformism" - driving at 35 mph in a 30 limit because "surely nobody will notice a little transgression".

See https://scienceblog.com/how-industries-quietly-shape-laws-and-science-to-delay-climate-action/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#google_vignette

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

« Last post by alancalverd on Today at 21:05:36 »

Binary is good because it is easy to make electronic systems with two stable states.

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by alancalverd on Today at 21:03:47 »

More probably, because the world is not actually run by anybody. Absolute central control, as in communism, has failed because  nobody has the incorruptible intelligence to make consistently good decisions for the benefit of everybody else.

Individuals exercise choice based on personal advantage versus societal need, and where the latter is not immediately  obvious (like theft, murder...) or proven (anthropogenic climate change) , the former always dominates. Plus of course "marginal nonconformism" - driving at 35 mph in a 30 limit because "surely nobody will notice a little transgression".

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New Theories / Re: How do we measure the energy of a photon?

« Last post by mxplxxx on Today at 20:21:25 »

The world is losing the game when it comes to Net Zero Climate Chage action/ Why? Because the world is run by the rich and privileged (not me!).

From ChatGPT

Core Idea 
Industries employ capture strategies to quietly bend laws, science, and culture in their favor?slowing down urgent action on climate, biodiversity, and pollution.

Tactics Used 
- Regulatory Capture: Weakening regulators (e.g., Deepwater Horizon case). 
- Academic Capture: Funding universities/museums to frame debates. 
- Cultural Capture: Supporting narratives that normalize harmful practices. 
- Digital Capture: Social media monetizing and amplifying anti-science content. 

Consequences 
- Delayed environmental protections 
- Public uncertainty and distrust of science 
- Reinforced political inaction 

Proposed Countermeasures 
- Stronger conflict-of-interest (COI) policies 
- Mandatory funding disclosure for institutions 
- Academic freedom protections 
- Public education on disinformation tactics 

Why It Matters 
These strategies undermine collective responses to the climate crisis. Recognizing and countering capture is vital to safeguard science, policy, and democracy.

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Geek Speak / Re: What is 'maths'?

« Last post by nicephotog on Today at 17:48:38 »

As a thug , "math" is best explained as "calibrated unitisation into validly cohesive units and sub unit scale to allow measurement for parity or comparison by manipulation in math formula rules of a unit or units with a unit or units gathered to be a final constant sum of an audit making a constant or a series of constants that will be used as the initial accounted sum or sums audited to make comparison to.
(Giv'r'take a thought here or there ... sumfn like va').

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Geek Speak / Re: Computer prompts: where did it all go wrong?

« Last post by nicephotog on Today at 17:18:50 »

Reasonably simple rule of thumb problem for "modern password fields" using either a 32 or 64 bit computer.
The "encryption program" associated with most password fields whether SSL or https if web or simply the software login.
With either process method a verifying coded certificate is required to be the base consistent (constant) template for the crypt calculation all of which must be immediately commited in RAM, not buffered to lower security risk.
This takes much more RAM than anyone would think, mostly to re-check the activity has not had attempts to be interfered with.

Oddly, anti-virus running in the background can contribute hugely to slowing password processing e.g. login, as the re verification of process validity occurs.

Browsers also suffer these problems adding a third security verification layer with their ssl or https program invoked.

A final problem, is multi core 64 bit machines and the assignment of cores and threads (in MS windows known as "affinity") to each program main executable to use.
8 to 12 core 64 bit machines with 8 GB RAM are the base business or PC size compared to either OS requirements and many software to data size requirements, but unfortunately need both the RAM and cores assignments (remember PIF in early windows) to programs pre set to get good performance or the machine in its lifespan as many will at this very moment burn out trying to run everything started on one core while there are e.g. 10 or so other cores or "virtual cores" freely available.

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Today at 15:33:56 »

" UN chief argues that investing in fighting poverty instead of wars would make a more secure world "

Does that really need to be argued?

https://apnews.com/article/un-global-military-spending-health-education-development-d737705954b38bb9fe12f7080ceeb357

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Today at 15:30:01 »

We all love drones, don't we?


https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-will-kill-hamas-leaders-next-time-if-they-survived-qatar-attack-israeli-2025-09-10/

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Today at 15:20:21 »

Mila 18

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-will-kill-hamas-leaders-next-time-if-they-survived-qatar-attack-israeli-2025-09-10/

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New Theories / Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)

« Last post by yor_on on Today at 15:14:26 »

Oh

"Moscow denied responsibility for the incident, with a senior diplomat in Poland saying the drones had come from the direction of Ukraine."

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-downs-drones-first-nato-member-open-fire-during-ukraine-war-2025-09-10/