/sci/ - Science & Math

chaos = fractals

'nuff said

Greenness disintegrates.

If you examine anything to its logical limits, it ceases to be explainable in terms of anything that came before. Neutrons do not have a colour. A single atom has no temperature. The solidity of matter cannot be explained by atoms having little solid hooks.

In the case of the universe, there is no time before the big bang. It's like standing at the north pole - every direction is south. As well, there is no space. The universe doesn't have anything to expand into, it is making the 'thing' as it expands.

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A simulation of a hurricane is not a hurricane. But a simulation of an adding machine is an adding machine. The question then becomes: what are 'you' most like?

You are the behaviour of your brain. Anything that can reproduce that is you. A 'simulation' of you that would with increasing irritation tell you that it is really you, describe how it is feeling, curse at you, plead with you - and it's not 'real'? What a thought.

There is no theory or understanding of how matter can embody consciousness, nor do we understand how matter can feel. If you have developed a theory of how this works, share it! Otherwise Occam's in the haus.

Pick asteroids that drift near Lagrange points. Small impulses can steer them into orbit around Earth. Mine the asteroid while it's in orbit.

They're already planning this technology, btw. It's the Chinese, no fooling.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27112/

The creation of and long-term fate of the universe.

/Sci/, a friend of my dads is coming over in the next week on vacation with his family. He's coming over to Toronto from New York and he's a biology prof at NYU. He's offered to bring some textbooks out to give me. What textbooks should i ask for?

Here's a twist to blow your minds, /sci/.

If the universe is expanding - adding empty space everywhere at the same time - then entropy in the universe must be decreasing.

If you have clumps of matter and empty space, like this:
010000100001110001

and you add extra space between the clumps:
0001000000000000100000000001110000001

you have a structure with lower entropy in the newly-expanded space of all possibilities.

If this is not correct, where does it go wrong?