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From: Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:42:58 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 03:20:59 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
> 
>> Astronomers have only found a dozen Einstein Rings ...
> 
> It only took a minute to prove that false. From
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring>: “Hundreds of
> gravitational lenses are currently known”. Also: “The degree of
> completeness needed for an image seen through a gravitational lens to
> qualify as an Einstein ring is yet to be defined.”

I was talking full rings as predicted by Einstein.

Partial rings are a dime a dozen.

Now go find the other missing billion rings Einstein predicted.

Never mind that the Einstein ring’s found can be explained by stacks of
clustered galaxies doing normal light dispersion.

> And there are other, subtler kinds of gravitational lensing. A link
> from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens> mentions a
> survey of older data that discovered 1210 new lenses, doubling the
> number known.
> 
> Not that this really has anything to do with quantum theory ...

“You can’t handle the truth.”