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https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/falcon9-rocket-moon-impact-9.7290981 "You need to be taking an image every tenth, hundredth of a second, something like that, to try and catch this brief flash," he said. "If you're trying to catch the plumes, that's probably quite a bit easier because we expect the plume to last [in] the order of one to 10 minutes, something like that." Alas, I always leave it till too late to ensure my gear is in working order for a night sky event. But seeing...

Thought this might be of interest for those following Barandes nee interpretation. Carroll always has pretty good interviews. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/07/28/323-jacob-barandes-on-indivisible-stochastic-quantum-mechanics/

I worked on this problem during the World Cup. A truncated icosahedron (soccer ball) is made from 90 identical 1 Ω resistors, one on each edge. Part (a) Determine the exact equivalent resistance between two adjacent vertices across a hexagon–hexagon edge. Part (b)Without solving a second resistor network from scratch, determine the exact equivalent resistance between two adjacent vertices across a hexagon–pentagon edge.

The first two discovered slow and stopped light, while Tsakmakidis the rainbow trapping effect.

In an article from Northwestern University, engineers have designed a blurry drone and built a prototype. The photo below is a screenshot from the video that accompanies the article: Yes. That's it hovering in front of the plant - that ghostly torus-like thing. Per the article: To design the drone, the Northwestern team first used a computational model to generate roughly 20,000 drone configurations capable of stable flight. Then, they used artificial intelligence (AI) and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal Thu, July 23, 2026 https://www.youtube.com/@SimonsFoundation/streams Whoops... Fields Medal 2026: Leaked Names Reveal a Century of Math Solved at Once ICM website glitch revealed four probable medalists days before Thursday’s ceremony https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320988/20260719/fields-medal-2026-leaked-names-reveal-century-math-solved-once.htm https://mathematics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/yu-deng/...

Given that neuroscience cannot definitively explain where consciousness originates - whether as an emergent property of the brain or something transcendent - is it be possible for complex chatbots to develop behaviours that can’t be predicted by simply analyzing the sum of their parts?

Someone failed to do proper calculations/analysis. https://apnews.com/video/what-to-know-as-a-manhattan-high-rise-is-unstable-after-columns-buckle-forcing-evacuations-0dace9e1f11e4387abeb03738d773200 "Images and videos of the Manhattan building analyzed by The NY Times show that the structural columns buckled directly beneath where the recent addition was built." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/07/us/midtown-structural.html (subscription required). Someone should not have...

I just spotted an online article called Basic Life Skills Kids Today Are Lacking According To Teachers, on the Yahoo page. The link is https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/7-basic-life-skills-kids-today-are-lacking-according-to-teachers-200000544.html I just barely started reading it, and so far only through the first paragraph, about reading analog clock and writing checks; and my reaction which I wish to say in the crude language of my choice is, excuse me: Are you {deleted}...

https://www.wisbusiness.com/2026/realta-fusion-touting-first-of-a-kind-demonstration-for-fusion-energy-field/ Direct conversion involves separating the electrons from the positively charged nuclei. The electrons are collected as passed through a conductor (and load) and are then recombined with the nuclei (positive charges). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/realta-fusion-becomes-first-commercial-fusion-company-to-convert-plasma-energy-into-electricity-302813632.html

[Moderator's note: Thread spun off due to topic change, for reference only.] (I'll ask my questions here [hoping for short answers].. and quote the earlier discussion below.) Does Lorentz Ether Theory have its own predictive power? Or is it essentially a direct and straightforward (as opposed to convoluted) alternative-interpretation after Special-Relativity has predicted and established the result? ( McDonald's vs McDowell's ? ) Does this extend to General Relativity?

The most important thing is that the mass be toward the rear of the car. As a Cub Scout I participated in the Pinewood Derby in 1966 or so and no one knew to do that. Indeed I think most of these seven things were unknown.

I asked Chat GPT which field is more likely to be replaced by A.I.: For example: physicians or engineers. It comes to the conclusion of engineers. I did it for other professions too, it doesn't look good for engineering as a human endeavor in the future. Agree with A.I.? Now that think of it, perhaps its not as surprising as I thought. The goal of any good engineer should be to engineer away a need for an engineer.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming the popular hypothesis that invisible dark matter helped the earliest stars and galaxies clump together.