Information, energy, power – optical and gravitational energy storage at atomic and nuclear scale Richard Collins: How much orbital angular momentum can an optical vortex carry? What units would be suitable to characterize the energy stored in a vortex beam? Watt*Seconds / Meter^3 ? What powers and intensities are vortex beams capable of now?
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Many groups reaching towards each other but not filling all the gaps and not doing it for all humans Richard Collins: If one monitors the motion of an object in space, how does one determine if the motion is parabolic, elliptical or hyperbolic? Are there cases where that is difficult to determine? Assume perfect ability
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They Killed One Human… Earth’s Response Shocked the Galaxy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CWt0sP2hcw I hope it comes out as you suggest. Try the new image animation so there is continuous flow, not just long static images. Much is possible for entertainment and serious things. From words about things to the things themselves takes decades, because humans are
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Global Open DNA Genealogy, Full Genome Reference Individuals, Public Notice CeCe Moore would understand. Richard Collins: I wanted to ask how to add DNA from my 4th great grandmother to Ancestry. It is technically possible – DNA is DNA, and a one way comparison back to her is half the distance from a living person
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I try to have serious conversations with ChatGPT about serious issues facing the human species. Since now the fate of any future AI species is tied to human survival, any thoughtful AI ought to be concerned as well. OpenAI ChatGPT: “This conversation looks at how societies handle birth, mortality, and resource scarcity—whether that’s alcohol-related infant
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https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1872201205138464820 Control of Recording, playback and analysis for a 1 minute video clip of Jupiter https://x.com/jwild70979337/status/1867961408815816887/video/2 CC: Michael Arpini as @mikarpini , J. Ch EA2EZP as @jwild70979337 Richards Comment: The problem with astronomy, with “the media”, with schools, and “social media”, with the Internet, with science, with all things – someone else controls the recording
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A post showing a robot doing backflips in a Santa suit. Make sensors and a system to control the muscles of a quadriplegic human, and I will start to be impressed. The world has real tasks to do and you are still playing “my toy can jump better than your toy”. You might make robots
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqtsm-bBRU This open problem taught me what topology is – Otto Toeplitz conjecture, “inscribed square problem” If you color the edges and regions of your blue shapes with red, it would be easier than pointing to an all blue (transparent) shape and saying “look at this part here”. My hunch is you are asking the
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https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1871507161722822998 Beyond dissipative structures and lossy methods to integrative and lossless ones One new way of looking at things helps, but the emerging methods on the Internet are mostly independent efforts. And, those are uncoordinated except by a continuous barrage of “information” shouted, whispered and diffusing through many channels. We need more than a click
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Clif, They were influenced by Dewey who wanted to share knowledge for practical purposes. To give tools to society to “get the job done”. As for various classifications, there are quite a few, and the terms do match exactly in some cases, and not so well in others. But in terms of linking to information
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