Recent content by phyzguy

Oh yes. Helion energy is banking on it. They started construction on a power plant in July, 2025. Whether they will succeed is anyone's guess.

I think what you are talking about is similar to the field reversed configuration, which is being studied as a possible path to controlled nuclear fusion.

I'm surprised to hear this. Silicone rubber sealant in a shower bonds very well to galss, ceramic tile, and many other things, and stands up to hot water in a shower for years.

I would try silicone rubber sealant.

Why do you care if it passes slightly inside or slightly outside of the Hill radius? It won't make any significant difference in its orbital path. Either way it will continue on its way and exit the solar system.

I'm missing your point here. You think that there is some unknown component in the brain?

I'm always confused by the argument that says, "they are just machines, they can't be intelligent/conscious." Your brain is a collection of biological neurons, and it is clearly intelligent and conscious. So why can't a collection of artificial neurons, which in many ways mimic the neurons in...

So the JPL websire you linked says that Atlas-3I will pass within 0.358 AU of Jupiter. You want to independently verify this? The orbital elements of Atlas-3I are given, and the orbital elements of Jupiter are listed elsewhere at JPL. How familiar are you with orbital mechanics and how to...

I think it's not true that current LLM's are deterministic. They all incorporate some level of stochasticity.

Have fun buying a capacitor in statFarads.

So from that standpoint, when did this invention of the human mind come into existence? (1) When Galois first wrote about group theory? (2) When people started studying simple groups? (3) When someone first realized that this huge group existed? (4) Since obviously nobody has conceptualized the...

But that's exactly my point. "Some human decides what is significant" by studying the objects around us. As you say, we are guided by "what is a natural gouping". We don't just make that up (i.e. invent it), we are guided by inventorying the things around us (i.e we are discovering them)...

I agree it is not a physical object, but it is a well defined structure. Where does that structure reside if it is not in our universe?

I'm not sure I agree that group theory was invented. The axioms of group theory were chosen the way they are because it leads to relationships between transformations that describe objects in our universe. In this sense I would argue that Galois saw that those axioms led to particularly useful...

I agree. It's clear that those constants were discovered, not invented, but I'm not sure everyone would agree. I chose the monster group because to me it is simply absurd to say it was invented.