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Sep 4, 2024
SpaceX to relocate Starhopper from Boca Chica site
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: engineering, space travel
BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A tourist staple at the Boca Chica SpaceX launch site is being relocated.
Many space enthusiasts who have been following SpaceX’s progression in the Rio Grande Valley know that the Starhopper started it all for the space flight company in South Texas.
In 2019, the Starhopper prototype performed its first successful 150 meter flight at the SpaceX Starbase (Boca Chica) site. Since then, the company has continued to test its flight engineering with different SN rockets.
Sep 4, 2024
Frontier supercomputer solves decade-long Calcium-48 magnetic puzzle
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: supercomputing
Scientists at ORNL used the Frontier supercomputer to resolve a decade-long debate about the magnetic properties of calcium-48.
Sep 4, 2024
Scientists Found the Missing Glue That Binds Our Memories Together—and May Help Us Edit Them
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: neuroscience
Here’s the secret of how your brain retains information, and how it could unlock the potential for cognitive enhancement.
Sep 4, 2024
Specialist ‘carbon nanotube’ AI chip built by Chinese scientists is 1st of its kind and ‘1,700 times more efficient’ than Google’s
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they say it’s extremely energy efficient.
Sep 4, 2024
The Future of Organoid Intelligence
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
About the Episode
What if it were possible to generate tissues and cells that replicate the functions of human organs, and then use them to study and treat human conditions?
Sep 4, 2024
An Impossible Particle May Somehow Fit Into General Relativity After All, Scientists Say
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: mathematics, particle physics
Sep 4, 2024
Panprotopsychism: Panpsychism
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: neuroscience, particle physics, quantum physics
, while an interesting thought experiment, does not seem to account for the fact that many phenomena are materialistic or physical enough to have no resemblance with the qualities we typically attribute to consciousness, such as experience and motive.
Panprotopsychism, by contrast, does not require matter to be intrinsically conscious, only that it be comprised of features equaling consciousness when combined.
Sep 4, 2024
MadryLab/context-cite: Attribute (or cite) statements generated by LLMs back to in-context information
Posted by Cecile G. Tamura in category: futurism
Imagine you’re talking to a very smart assistant who gives you answers based on what you’ve said.
Attribute (or cite) statements generated by LLMs back to in-context information. — MadryLab/context-cite.
Sep 4, 2024
Physicists Are Pretty Sure We Can Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light, Research Shows
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: mathematics, quantum physics
New research shows that the “superluminal observer” needs three separate time dimensions for a warp-speed math trick that would please even Galileo.
TL;DR
The concept of superluminal observers, proposed by Andrzej Dragan’s team, explores how faster-than-light travel might unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. By introducing three dimensions of time alongside one dimension of space, this research challenges our current understanding of the universe. Quantum phenomena, such as superposition and indeterminism, could be reinterpreted through the lens of a superluminal observer, where space and time swap roles at warp speeds. This theoretical framework suggests that the laws of physics remain consistent even at superluminal speeds, potentially paving the way for a unified field theory that reconciles these two fundamental branches of physics.
