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Re: Gravity does work, it has "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ).

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  Re: Gravity does work, it has "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ). Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 22:18 -0700
    Re: Selling yet another borked _model_ of nature. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-06 23:04 -0700

#375393 — Re: Gravity does work, it has "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ).

On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 4:43:42 AM UTC+9, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> "Quantum Mechanics" should be called "Quantum Statistics"
> because it's just correlations, sans cause and effect.
> Sadly, correlations can be wrong and/or misleading.
> 
> Just because something is too complex to _fully_ understand,
> like tomorrow's weather, it doesn't mean that it's _truly_ random;
> in fact, we _know_ that it isn't.
> 
> "Virtual Particles" and "Probability Waves" are intrinsically random;
> nature, however, is not -- Randomness is just ignorance, nothing more.
> 
> _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past;
> the (4d) TimeScape is static.  The more ignorant you are,
> the more you (erroneously) believe in "free will".
> 
> We were programmed by nature to breathe, drink, etc.
> 
> Cosmological Mass dissipates, diminishing its gravitational field;
> so clocks tick faster, yardsticks shrink, and spacetime bloats.
> 
> Locking backwards, spacetime tightens into a notional singularity.
> The start of the Big Bang is a (subjective) horizon, nothing more.
> 
> Gravity does work, it has "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ).
> Energy is neither gained nor lost ( 1st law of thermodynamics );
> but, slowly, it loses its ability to do work (2nd law).
> 
> "Dark Matter" (unseen mass) is what we don't know about the galaxy.
> "Dark Energy" (Entropy) is what we don't know about the cosmos.
> Hence: they don't exist locally.
> 
> -- http://Jeff-Relf.Me

Well Jeff, if this is true we must be living in a simulation!   Taka

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Tech billionaires are asking scientists for help breaking humans out of the computer simulation they think they might be trapped in

 The theory that we might all be living in a computer simulation has gotten so popular among Silicon Valley's tech elites that two billionaires are now apparently asking scientists to help break us out of the simulation.

That's according to a new profile in The New Yorker about Y Combinator's Sam Altman. The story delves into Altman's life and successes at the helm of the famous boot-camp and investment fund for tech startups, and doesn't shy away from the quirkier aspects of Altman's character.

In the piece, Altman discusses his theories about being controlled by technology and delves into the simulation theory, which is the idea that  human beings are unwittingly just the characters in someone else's computer simulation.

The simulation idea has gained popularity among Silicon Valley's elite — it's so popular that even Elon Musk is tired of talking about it. But now, a few of the tech industry's billionaires might be doing something about it.

Here's how the New Yorker tells it: 

Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.

The piece doesn't give any clue as to who those two billionaires are — although it's easy to hazard a few guesses at who they might be, like Musk himself or Altman's friend Peter Thiel — but it's fascinating to see how seriously people are taking this theory. According to Musk, it's the most popular topic of conversation right now. 

MORE: http://uk.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-break-humans-out-of-a-computer-simulation-2016-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3EohBOZeJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZKmyMaG40o

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#375395 — Re: Selling yet another borked _model_ of nature.

Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> 
> Elon Musk is an NeoChristian evangelist,
> selling yet another borked _model_ of nature.
> 
>   _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past;
>   the (4d) TimeScape is static.  The more ignorant you are,
>   the more you ( erroneously ) believe in "free will".
> 
>   We were programmed by nature to breathe, drink, etc.
> 
>   Gravity is "eXergy" ( energy that can do work ).
>   Energy is neither gained nor lost ( 1st law of thermodynamics );
>   but, over time, less of it is eXergy ( 2nd law ).


aren't you also selling yet another borked _model_ of nature with your  
"The more ignorant you are, the more you ( erroneously ) believe in
"free will"., etc., etc."??


Who should others follow, you or him?

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