Recent content by Vosh

What was going on ten years ago except trying to make chips that had more memory and were faster? I don't know what else you can do with a computer except increase capacity and speed. So, maybe that means coming up with another kind of material to use for processors besides silicon based stuff...

Finding this was a life saver! Do you have any idea how many books and websites can't manage to be this clear and straight forward? One website referred to sister chromatids as a "chromosome"... it did point out the chromatids, but then, in a large bracket, called the whole thing one chromosome...

I was wondering this, too... but I think at one point there are 92... currently trying to google it.

Well, this tips my Universe upside down. Firstly, I don't have formal training under my belt. I'm, shall we say, PBS Nova educated. That said, I'm not sure what you mean; do you mean that most of the EM radiation we encounter - as in radio waves impacting us, etc.? And the visible light is...

I read that the source of all light/EM radiation is an electron being energized to a higher orbit, then falling back and shedding a photon. But, I also read that an antenna transmits radio by dint of the e's in the antenna being vibrated back and forth so that the electric field lines emanating...

I can get the same education for next to nothing at the public library; so my opinion is that universities are over charging. Finding scholars to ask questions is work, but they're out there. Anyway, I learn best from those who have only just found out themselves... Most, though, prefer to put...

If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they'll kill you. -G.B. Shaw

Signifying intelligence not at all. He's an economist, what my Sicilian grandfather would call, "gooda for nothin'".

I looked it up in the dictionary and "life" has about 20 different meanings.

I wish I knew! The ability to do work. Energy is the ability to do work. Information is the communication of knowledge. I can hear someone saying that the universe and everything in it communicates knowledge to us... but it wasn't knowledge until it ended up in our mind. This reminds me...

My favorite part of any fiction is the end of, "Restaurant at the end of the Universe", with the Golgafrinchans. You laugh at their antics, but then you watch people in real life and... it's scary. The petty egotism. The short sighted, self serving solutions to problems. The mindboggling...

Addressing the internet in general: I should have said that it would be evident from the thing itself.

Interesting. However, are you sure it's exactly true that "no intelligent, educated people" think of Langan as anything other than a fool? I mean, would a physicist from NASA be intelligent and educated? Anyway, the other stuff is interesting. Re: IQ - my take on it is that no one has ever said...

I could say the same thing about everything I find impenetrable (which would be a lot of stuff). It would be true about Newton's Principia, since he actually stated that he made it harder than necessary to discourage mathematical "smatterers". I don't know if this is generally the habit of...

Where were you when Newton wrote his Principia? Einstein might seem less abstruse to you because you're trained (I presume) in physics. You took a class and someone told you how it sums up. The vocabulary Langan uses is common philosophical jargon (like, teleology). Words like that will...