Time Travel Update Two
Earth is constantly on the move in multiple ways. Here are the four primary motions: Rotation – Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours, giving us day and night. Revolution – Earth orbits the Sun once a year, responsible for our seasons. Galactic Motion – Our...
Time Travel Update
We Time-Travel all the time. No joke. Allow me to explain. The theoretical plausibility of Time Travel was developed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Since 1905, the compaction or expansion of Time has been factually verified in three or four ways. Perhaps the most...
3000 Dot 09
Mostly we live in the past or in the all-consuming now. We are wasting our time if we are trying to recreate a past that never really existed. We have bigger things to think about! It’s time to pay more attention to our future. Quoting Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google,...
Galileo
In the early 1600’s Galileo Galilei, with help from his improved telescope and his predecessor, Copernicus, proved that our Earth revolved on its axis and also revolved around the Sun. He was not adequately rewarded for his meticulously accurate scientific...
Could Time be an Illusion
We find ourselves on the edge of a vortex! We are space travelers without space suits hovering on the fringes of a black hole, most of us hoping that we won’t be pulled in. For the most part, we are not scientists after all. Even the scientists among us are holding...
Jetson Orin NANO
In the world of high-tech computing, breakthroughs do not come from scaling up. They come from scaling down. Everybody is always talking about game changers. The $249 Jetson Orin "supercomputer" by NVIDIA will be one. It is powerful, cheap, and small enough to be...
Teleportation and Quantum Computers
Nobody would mistake me for a scientist, but I do read enough to have a working knowledge of Emerging Technologies. For instance, I recently read an article that sensationalized some findings published in the journal Nature. The title was “Brit scientists make huge...
Deep Search
The person featured in the video below talks about Deep Research which is said to be capable of PHD level research, He claims that AGI (Artificial General Research) is imminent or already here by giving AI a learning environment mixed with internet research tools and...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
Let’s have the bad news first! The cost of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx and OSIRIS-APEX missions is slightly north of a billion dollars. You may ask why we have spent that money, and I will attempt to answer that question farther down the page. But first, allow me to applaud...
News from the Eighth Grade Classroom
A lot of the information below comes from EarthSky.org. What follows is from my extremely limited and non-scientific perspective. Today’s eighth grader is learning things about which I am only vaguely aware. Here’s what I know: The ancient Greeks had various ideas on...