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Comment Re: Next month's news (Score 1) 90

Ha, shows you know very little about analogue. RF guys NEVER make poor connections or omit grounds.

So back to digital - either network gear or sw bug. Those are the only 2 possibilities. There's also a 3rd - some ai shit doing research for them, but this being south korea, I very much doubt it.

At work my coworker would wear the “don’t blame me it’s a hardware problem” shirt while I wore the “don’t blame me it’s a software problem shirt” at meetings.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 1) 90

Dark Energy is the name for the phenomenon an accelerated expansion of the Universe. This was measured by observing distance and velocity of distant supernova, and later also with other techniques (galaxy clusters for exampl). Dark Energy is the additional energy available for driving this, which is not accounted for in light-emitting baryons.

What causes the Dark Energy is another question, and that, indeed, has not been solved ("proven") to date.

With the recent proposed theories that time doesn't move the same everywhere in the universe, and in fact slows down or speeds up based on the amount of matter in a given area, it's starting to look like what we thought was expansion may actually just be a large void space surrounding the closest galaxies to us. Lots of recent observations, observations not possible until the larger space-based telescopes started probing objects billions of lightyears away, are making it seem like astrophysics is about to have a truly generational ground-shift in some of the long-assumed resolved theories.

Close, this is proposed to close the discrepancy in measurement of expansion from big bang conditions like the microwave background and astronomical measurements with things like type 1a supernova. So it might mean 68 km/s/Mparsec or 73 km/s/Mparsec but everything we have points to about 7 and not 0.

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 4, Informative) 90

Uhm, is there any evidence that "space itself" is a thing that can be have anything "applied" to it? As if "space itself" is a physical entity?

In a sense, yes as it’s a direct result of general relativity and something we exploit as weak and strong lensing in astronomy measurements. Look at any deep James Webb photo, those stringy smeared galaxies are really normal looking but like an image seen over a very hot sidewalk and are wavy. Yet unobstructed photons only travel in a narrow straight line, they define straightnesses. Mass tells space how to bend and space tells mass how to move. We are boxed in by one large horizon on the outside by the propagation of causality at the Big Bang and by numerous horizons around mass singularities that bend spacetime past the speed of causality. These not only squeeze space as viewed as light rays from outside, but fundamentally change the nature of space and time across the boundary as we extrapolate from our understanding on this side

How does anything apply "pressure" to "space"? Is space made of particles? Waves? Energy? But as energy it should be particles or waves or something.

spacetime in modern physics is a series of infinite independent fields that have an excitement energy possible at every point. Particles are a collection of stable excitations. Pressure is an analogy, but if you correctly write in the formula for positive energy you can easily add a negative energy term, which would cause space to expand rather than contract like we see lensing examples do. This term looks like what the missing piece of our understanding is, because we are measuring an accelerating expansion at the moment. Spacetime is written that way because in the explanation you want they are both integral but it

Comment Re:Dark energy discovered 27 years ago?? (Score 2) 90

Inflatons in a mostly stable configuration would hide behind an event horizon, due to the fact they stretch space out faster than causality propagation as we know it and make it omnidirectionally consistent alot like making taffy or string cheese does. The horizon of a black hole may have an inflaton field associated with it or even have bits that drop out and become spacetime as we know it but so far that remains fundamentally unobservable beyond a horizon as we understand it. The sick thing is this could be actually true and yet we would have no feasible measurement we could do to find out where we are now, the universe didn’t guarantee us an explanation.

Comment Re:Impressive! (Score 4, Funny) 35

When they did this on Monday I was annoyed. However, the fact that that they managed to remotely brick it again when it wasn't even online is just impressive!

I'm not one for DRM bullshit but I have to give them credit where credit's due. ;)

Meh, I won’t be impressed until I read about the third bricking this weekend.

Comment Re:"Too big to fail" doesn't mean "bubble too big" (Score 1) 149

Currently, think that is true. However, there are analyses that the stock market and the economy is only being propped up by AI. Were OpenAI to fail, it could cause a cascade. That could get serious quickly. I don't think we're at that point yet, but the more the C-Suite banks on AI, the more of a problem the U.S. will have when the bubble pops.

Are you saying the entire American economy is lifting itself up by its own bootstraps?

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