Category: Long range planning

Networks of atoms and particles and molecules. milli micro nano pico femto atto devices and processes

Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo In Thursday morning, I ended my lecture with this slide. Knits and weaves are yarns of dense entanglements. Knits are stretchable, but weaves are not. Sitting beside me on the plane today is a lady knitting a sock. She entangles a single yarn into a network. A single yarn! https://pic.x.com/rgz6lullcz x.com/zhigangsuo/sta… Pretty
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about permanent synchronous stations over the sun, creating new challenges

I want observing stations near the sun to monitor it closely and continuously. Sunlight so close, might as well gather some into “atomic fuel”. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard: The earth has a specific distance and velocity for “geosynchronous” satellites. What is the radius and velocity of a solar synchronous orbit for a satellite
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