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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, 29 Sep 2024 04:04:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:43:20 +0300, Michael S wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:55:50 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:21:53 -0000 (UTC), Brett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You hear physicists talk of microscopic black holes, but the force
>>>>> that keeps atoms apart is so much more powerful than gravity that
>>>>> such talk is just fools playing with math they don’t understand.
>>>> 
>>>> That would mean that neutron stars (all the atoms crushed so tightly
>>>> together that individual subatomic particles lose their identity)
>>>> couldn’t exist either. But they do.
>>> 
>>> Radio pulsars exist.
>>> The theory is that they are neutron stars. But theory can be wrong.
>> 
>> Occam’s Razor applies: stick to the simplest explanation that fits the 
>> known facts.
>> 
>> Radio pulsars pulse at a very regular frequency (which is why they were 
>> originally thought to be created by some intelligence), but that frequency 
>> also gradually slows down with time. This is consistent with loss of 
>> angular momentum (and loss of energy) from radiation emission from a 
>> spinning neutron star.
>> 
>> Remember, this isn’t all just hand-waving: they have formulas, derived 
>> from theory, into which they can plug in numbers, and the numbers agree 
>> with actual measurements.
> 
> Theories are a dime a dozen, it is easy to back fit data to fit any number
> of models.
> 
>> Can you come up with some other mechanism for a radio source that pulses 
>> extremely regularly, yet also slows down gradually over time?
> 
> Here is a nice alternative to the standard model, which follows Occam’s
> Razor:
> 
> https://youtu.be/bGygGius61I?si=6k0H1Bi70b4O9zgr
> 
> ThunderboltsProject posts a lot of interesting videos, but the quality
> varies a lot with some crack pot ideas thrown in on occasion, to make one
> think I would suppose.


Here is a nice 10 second link for the quantum fans from Neil deGrasse Tyson

https://youtu.be/1f6nVUv6VRs?si=eiGcnN5eC1XRw1d6

Of course it’s pushing string theory which is far greater bull.