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Comment Re:what is reasoning? (Score 1) 24

If we think what we do when "reasoning", it is very similar to applying what we have learned over a very long chain of information gathering and sorting out moments, what is called learning. Learning is nothing else as structuring our neurone network. The whole looks quite similar to what these AI systems do actually.

Comment We are made of evaporated black holes! (Score 1) 104

If I understand correctly in this model all the photons and particles result from the too small black holes which have evaporated into photons and particles, the rest of matter would still be trapped in larger black hole. This is a refreshing perspective of our origins.
Remains just to explain 2/3 of the rest of the universe, dark energy.

Comment Starlink should finance telescopes (Score 1) 70

Reducing by a factor a few the brightness of satellites is not solvng the astronomer problem. To not spoil the sensitive astronomical observations requires actually a much larger reduction of brightness, which is not possible in practice.
So the solution is actually economical. Starlink is a profit making company that impact third parties. In such cases it is usual to compensate the damages made to astronomical research by financing existing observatories. Each observatory would quantify the time and resource lost caused by the Starlink satellites. I guess the compensation to astronomy would be a negligible amount in regard of the blllions of $ made by Starlink.

Comment Ignorant (Score 1) 170

The authors still believe Clausius (19th century) stating that âoeThe entropy
of the universe tends to a maximum.â At the time the universe was believed as static and filled with stars, people except Kant didn't even thought about galaxies.
Today we know 2 things that the ignorant authors don't:
1) The universe is expanding since its birth, so there is no mechanical, thus thermal equilibrium, which is obvious when looking at the sky.
2) Gravitating systems, which make the bulk of the universe, have no entropy maximum.

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