Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Anton Petrov – solar sails, rather make solar system sized interferometers and telescopes

Anton Petrov: So, What Happened to Project Breakthrough Starshot? Here’s What We Know at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwPTF_TZvWY It is much cheaper to make Mars Earth Moon baseline interferometer telescopes at many different frequencies to look at the whole universe more precisely than to waste time sending a camera to one near star. Check the resolution of mm
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Gravitational “sparkles” for passive gravitational time of flight correlation imaging arrays

Someone wished that my holidays would “sparkle”. I think about gravitational noise every day and have for a long time. Now I will think about gravitational “sparkle” during the holidays and beyond.   Sferics, sparks, seismic events, explosions, cracks, radioactive decays, shock waves, collisions. Gravity is mostly collisions and things bumping around. They mostly crack
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Dunning-Kruger Effect, negative resistance, phase transitions, breaking sound and light barriers

Vallis | Video Esssays: The Irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfRe15I47I This is a common curve in electrodynamics where the descending region after the peak, is said to have “negative resistance” There are quite a few places where it shows up where variable resistance is possible. There the axes are voltage (Volts) or pressure
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Gravitational fields and living cells, the brain?

CLaE @leafs_s  nature Mysterious ultraslow and ordered activity observed in the cortex https://nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03795-9 Replying to @leafs_s You might look at what Ilya Prigogine and Dilip Kondepudi wrote in 1983 after Prigogine got his Nobel prize. “Sensitivity of Nonequilibrium Chemical Systems to Gravitational Field” DK Kondepudi, I Prigogine. It is listed in Google Scholar and there
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Gravity is often ignored or considered constant or negligible. Gravity has a wide measurable spectrum, from at least nanoHertz to gamma ray frequencies.

John Preskill @preskill “The goal of airing some skepticism, [Matthias] Troyer says, is not to diminish interest in the field, but to ensure that researchers are focused on the most promising applications of quantum computing with the greatest chance of impact.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics Replying to @preskill John, besides, offering skepticism, or simply pointing out directions with
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Space and solar system colonization

Acceleron Aerospace I checked your site and company a bit. You are just getting started and need to put more effort into your websites. At https://www.acceleron.space/about-us/ check your console error messages. Your supporter image is missing and many others. I have been working mostly on Twitter for building communities and testing groups. I posted a
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Stars and particles bind by magnetic dipole and higher magnetic multipoles when very close

  Atoms and particles bind by magnetic dipole and higher magnetic multipoles when they are very close. Classical electrodynamics is a convenient way to get rough estimates when doing chemistry inside and near the nucleus and particles. But since stars and planets have magnetic dipoles, the 1/r^3 magnetic energy comes into play. So there should
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Stephen Wolfram has no captions

Stephen Wolfram @stephen_wolfram Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 22, 2023) https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzjgVXlaKv Replying to @stephen_wolfram No captions on twitter videos? Memorizing still more arbitrary rules for every device and situation looks rather a bleak future. You looked tired. YouTube video also – no captions. What you said, created, and see must not be important
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Black holes are gluon stars

The Infographics Show: Scientists Reveal What’s Actually Inside a Black Hole – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYuZkYH76wA A black hole is just one of a large class of quark gluon stars that contain high density gluon matter. And dense enough to trap visible light, but not gravity. But it does not condense under pressure until very large amounts of
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