Recent content by Chicken Squirr-El

As soon as I realized that Star Wars is fantasy and not science fiction, all of these issues went away and it became even more enjoyable.

Take a look at these spacetime diagrams of the twin paradox from wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Rstd4.gif The top half of the right image is the ship traveling towards you in your frame of reference. The bunched up blue lines at the top are what you see through...

Has anyone ever considered ignoring the spacetime diagram convention and teaching everything in terms of time being on the x-axis since it's already familiar? Yes, textbooks will have them the usual way, but I wonder if swapping the axes ends up slowing down the learning process way more than...

I'm about a third of the way through HZT now. Thanks for the recommendation!

Hey, just want to say that I only posted this for "fun read" purposes, as noted by sbrothy and I definitely don't agree with everything in it. This is the "Science Fiction and Fantasy Media" section after all and I did not intend to ruffle so many feathers over it. I get irritated when fiction...

My bad! It's basically a long essay about how real AI wouldn't think like a human being as is usually portrayed in all the movies, etc.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html