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Aug 28, 2022

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

Then a mere scientist pulled it off. Otto von Guericke invented a pump to suck the air from within a hollow copper sphere, establishing perhaps the first high-quality vacuum on Earth. In a theatrical demonstration in 1,654, he showed that not even two teams of horses straining to rip apart the watermelon-size ball could overcome the suction of nothing.

Since then, the vacuum has become a bedrock concept in physics, the foundation of any theory of something. Von Guericke’s vacuum was an absence of air. The electromagnetic vacuum is the absence of a medium that can slow down light. And a gravitational vacuum lacks any matter or energy capable of bending space. In each case the specific variety of nothing depends on what sort of something physicists intend to describe. “Sometimes, it’s the way we define a theory,” said Patrick Draper, a theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois.

As modern physicists have grappled with more sophisticated candidates for the ultimate theory of nature, they have encountered a growing multitude of types of nothing. Each has its own behavior, as if it’s a different phase of a substance. Increasingly, it seems that the key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a careful accounting of these proliferating varieties of absence.

Aug 28, 2022

KRAFTWERK “The Robots” D. N’Elpin & I. Shaurouskaya (Cover tribute. Version 2)

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PDLXaSV4qCQ

KRAFTWERK “The Robots” Dmitriy N’Elpin & Inesa Shaurouskaya (Cover tribute. Version 2)

✅ Dmitriy N’Elpin – idea, arrangement, synthesizers, drums, guitar, vocals, vocals-vocoder, mastering.
✅ Inesa Shaurouskaya – synthesizers, special effects, vocals — vocoder.

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Aug 28, 2022

Scientists create engineered materials that can think

Posted by in categories: materials, neuroscience

Someone taps your shoulder. The organized touch receptors in your skin send a message to your brain, which processes the information and directs you to look left, in the direction of the tap. Now, Penn State and U.S. Air Force researchers have harnessed this processing of mechanical information and integrated it into engineered materials that ‘think.’

Aug 28, 2022

‘Nuclear winter’ from a US-Russia conflict would wipe out 63% of the world’s population

Posted by in category: food

Even a small-scale nuclear conflict would have a giant impact.

Aug 28, 2022

Voyages of the Ship of Theseus

Posted by in category: futurism

A good argument for mind uploading.


An exploration of the philosophical concept of metaphysical identity, using numerous variations on the infamous Ship of Theseus thought experiment.

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Aug 28, 2022

FDA APPROVED Drug Reverses Vascular Aging in Mice!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

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Aug 28, 2022

Oldest case of a rare genetic condition discovered

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A group of international researchers has uncovered evidence of a super rare genetic condition that gives men an extra X chromosome, reporting the oldest clinical case of Klinefelter syndrome to date.

The evidence comes from a 1,000-year-old skeleton from Portugal.

Klinefelter syndrome is a where individuals are born with an extra copy of the X chromosome, occurring in approximately one in 1,000 genetic-male births.

Aug 28, 2022

New encryption tool is designed to thwart quantum computers

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption, finance, mathematics, quantum physics

An encryption tool co-created by a University of Cincinnati math professor will soon safeguard the telecommunications, online retail and banking and other digital systems we use every day.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology chose four new encryption tools designed to thwart the next generation of hackers or thieves. One of them, called CRYSTALS-Kyber, is co-created by UC College of Arts and Sciences math professor Jintai Ding.

“It’s not just for today but for tomorrow,” Ding said. “This is information that you don’t want people to know even 30 or 50 years from now.”

Aug 28, 2022

Discovering materials for gas turbine engines through efficient predictive frameworks

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Gas turbines are widely used for power generation and aircraft propulsion. According to the laws of thermodynamics, the higher the temperature of an engine, the higher the efficiency. Because of these laws, there is an emerging interest in increasing turbines’ operating temperature.

A team of researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, in conjunction with researchers from Ames National Laboratory, have developed an artificial intelligence framework capable of predicting (HEAs) that can withstand extremely high temperature, oxidizing environments. This method could significantly reduce the time and costs of finding alloys by decreasing the number of experimental analyses required.

This research was recently published in Material Horizons.

Aug 28, 2022

Tesla shares new photos of the Tesla Semi. Delivery soon?👀

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

Tesla shared some new photos of the Tesla Semi on its website recently. Deliveries of Tesla’s all-electric Class 8 truck are expected to start sometime this year. It is also expected to be made with Tesla’s 4,680 cells. Earlier this month, Elon Musk said that Tesla’s 500-mile range Semi Truck will start shipping this year. He added that the Cybertruck would start shipping next year.

Today on Twitter, members of the Tesla community found new photos of the Semi that Tesla quietly uploaded to its website. @Tesla_Adri pointed out that Tesla added some new Tesla Semi press photos and that almost every image is new.

Tesla reworked the Tesla Semi Press Photos. Pretty much every image is new pic.twitter.com/ab67GH65j1