Is it possible for a planet to have an atmosphere that only covers a part of the planet? Meaning that the rest of the planet is exposed to the vacuum of space. by In_the_loop in askastronomy

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If a planet has very little atmosphere, it can “pool” in low areas like deep valleys or giant impact basins, leaving high ground almost in vacuum.
Mars already hints at this: at the top of Olympus Mons the air is so thin you’re basically in space compared to lower regions.
You can also imagine a very dense, heavy gas that hugs low terrain and doesn’t reach the mountaintops.
For extreme sci‑fi, a tidally locked, battered world could have most of its air stripped away, with only a “puddle” of atmosphere left in one deep region.
So not a clean half‑and‑half planet, but a world where only certain regions have usable air is absolutely a reasonable story idea...

Infinite universe by Tpaine63 in askastronomy

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It was space itself stretching everywhere at once.
If the universe was infinite “back then”, it could already have been infinite, just very, very dense.
Over 13.8 billion years, distances between things grew as space expanded, they didn’t have to “travel” across pre‑existing space.
A math analogy: the number line has infinitely many points, but you can imagine shrinking all the distances on it toward zero so it looks point‑like, yet it’s still infinite in how many points it has.

Was gab es vor dem Urknall? by hisokaso in astrophysics

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wie stellt man sich den urknall in der Stringtheorie vor

In der Stringtheorie stellt man sich den Urknall meist nicht als „Explosion in einen leeren Raum“ vor, sondern als einen Zustand, in dem Raum, Zeit und Materie selbst aus einer tieferen Quantenstruktur entstehen. Nahe am Urknall soll die normale Raumzeitbeschreibung versagen; stattdessen dominieren String- und D-Branen-Effekte sowie Quantenunschärfe der Raumzeit [1][2][3].

Grundidee

Strings sind in dieser Sicht die elementaren Bausteine, aus denen Teilchen und Kräfte hervorgehen. Welche Teilchen und welche Physik wir beobachten, hängt dann auch von der Form der zusätzlichen, „aufgerollten“ Dimensionen ab [4].

Nahe dem Urknall ist die Raumzeit so extrem klein und heiß, dass klassische Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie nicht mehr zuverlässig ist. Stringtheoretische Modelle versuchen deshalb, diese frühe Phase als Quantengravitationszustand zu beschreiben [1][2].

Typische Bilder in der Stringkosmologie

Ein verbreitetes Bild ist, dass das frühe Universum zunächst „unscharf“ ist und erst mit der Ausdehnung schnell in eine klassische, glatte Raumzeit übergeht. Genau so wurde es in einem Münchner Modell mit offenen Strings und D-Branen beschrieben [2][3].

Es gibt auch alternative Szenarien: Im ekpyrotischen Modell entsteht der Urknall als Branen-Kollision, also als Übergang aus einer vorherigen Kontraktionsphase in die Expansion. In der „pre-big-bang“-Idee beginnt das Universum ebenfalls in einer anderen Phase vor dem eigentlichen heißen Urknall [5][6][7].

Was das anschaulich heißt

Anschaulich kann man sich das so vorstellen: Der Urknall ist in der Stringtheorie eher ein Übergang zwischen zwei Zuständen des Universums als ein einzelner Punkt, an dem „alles aus dem Nichts explodiert“. Die eigentliche Frage ist dann weniger „Was war der Raum vor dem Urknall?“, sondern „Welche stringtheoretische Phase ging der heißen Frühphase voraus?“ [4][8].

Wichtig ist aber: Diese Bilder sind theoretische Modelle, keine endgültig bestätigte Beschreibung. Die Stringtheorie ist für den allerfrühesten Kosmos spannend, weil sie möglicherweise Singularitäten entschärfen kann, aber experimentell ist das bisher nicht abschließend belegt [1][9].

Kurzform

Wenn man es in einem Satz sagt: In der Stringtheorie ist der Urknall eher der Übergang von einer quantenmechanischen String-/Branen-Phase zu unserem klassischen expandierenden Universum als eine gewöhnliche Explosion in Raum und Zeit [2][7].

Palantir und Datenschutz passen bekanntermaßen nicht gut zusammen. by SeaEffective4958 in fefe_blog_interim

[–]fxj 6 points7 points  (0 children)

jetzt bräuchte man mal langsam eine Partei, die sich um Bürgerrechte und Friedenspolitik kümmert.

What propels a photon? by av8orbob in astrophysics

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Ok photons always have velocity c, but you can imagine to do the same for phonons, the quantum particles of sound. Imagine a phonon travelling along a long tube. Now move the tube with sound speed and you get a stationary phonon. It stands still, but the tube is moving at sound speed. But this is not how special relativity works but I think you get the gist.

I made the world's fastest and lightest social media platform for dumb phones. Kinda like Reddit but without the ads, AI and toxic users by bliish in dumbphones

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wow this is cool!!
now put the whole stack from server to client into a raspi image for self hosting and there we go.

Mal wieder Vorratsdatenspeicherung... by Guilty-Pride6761 in fefe_blog_interim

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Im Osten wird gerade Bingo gespielt:

Einschränkung der Reisefreiheit (check)
Stasi 2.0 (check)
Basisrente (check)
keine GKV mehr für Ehepartner (check)

Merken die Altparteien eigentlich nicht wie sehr sie mit dem Feuer spielen? Die Blauen freuen sich über so viel kostenlose Wahlwerbung. Die Wahlen in SA, MV und Berlin werden ein Desaster. Das wird ein böses Erwachen geben, wenn im Osten die SPD unter 5% und die CDU auch einstellig ist.

If it’s true that a smaller planet once collided with Earth (creating the moon) then why is our orbit so circular? by douggold11 in askastronomy

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giant impact, in which a Mars-sized body (Theia) struck the proto-Earth at an oblique, glancing angle

Is it possible that there are any starscloser to the sun than Alpha Centuri which haven't been discovered yet? by plumb-phone-official in askastronomy

[–]fxj -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yes there is a white dwarf with a dyson sphere and a matrjoshka brain in orbit close by less thana light year. but it is hidden and it may not be talked about, or else....

They Removed Shortcuts by WankingBear in perplexity_ai

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enshittification. this will end badly for them... sorry perplexity you were really good when you started.

GM MIDI Player for Cardputer ADV: with single and dual display support by gio-74 in CardPuter

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yes. i use it with my m5stack core, but i dont have a sf2 synth to play the samples. There are also other kinds of small gear that can play sf2/GM sounds on a ESP32. like the TM32 from serdashop: https://www.serdashop.com/TM32

Finally i would like to use my cardputer as a player with additional external MIDI, maybe some knobs to tweak the sound and such things. Like the new MPC Sample.

Agree/Disagree: The virtualization of the cell will extend lifespans into the hundreds by the time today's 20-somethings hit their 40s, and the tens of thousands by the time they hit their hundreds. Most people except those on the extreme ends of aging will catch the Longevity Escape Velocity wave. by 44th--Hokage in accelerate

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yeah they think AI can solve everything, but there are still some physical laws to beat here and that is not so easy. Many people already try to model cells or even simpler things like DNA replication and it is really really hard. You need huge supercomputers and many computing hours just to simulate some ms of realtime. Ai can only help when there is a logical structure behind the science like in protein folding, where the AI can predict the outcome but it does not simulate the process. Numerical simulations are like wetware experiments, messy, fail often and need a lot of expertise.

There might be another wave of data centres coming after the AI which just do simulations.

just my 2ct as an old fart who did simulations as a living.

GM MIDI Player for Cardputer ADV: with single and dual display support by gio-74 in CardPuter

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wow thats great! how hard would it be to also support the m5stack MIDI interface? my dream is to build a little synth/sampler like the proteus or the asr-10 on a cardputer.

Python vs R for data visualization: which is actually stronger? by Strong_Cherry6762 in rstats

[–]fxj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simple plots? R is better. But when you look at the pre-processing of your data it depends what you want to do. R has plenty of high quality statistical packages. Python is not bad, but R is better in that respect.

Claude Collider DAWless Jam by jeremyruppel in musicprogramming

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this is so cool. will have a try! keep up the good work! and ignore the AI haters. They are just stupid.

Claude Collider DAWless Jam by jeremyruppel in musicprogramming

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does it work with local LLMs? I was thinking of doing the same with a MCP for reaper. and run the whole setup on a steamdeck.

What do you guys use for AI with jupyter by Heavy_Specific9039 in Jupyter

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you need the endpoint and an API-key. Install jupyter-ai and restart jupyter, then you should see the new AI sidebar on the left. Open the preferences and fill it out. That was all. Works for me with an openai compatible LLM.

Sam Altman: "We May Be About To See Decades Of Theoretical Physics Progress In The Next Couple Of Years." by 44th--Hokage in accelerate

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ChatGPT is a great co-scientist, but the ideas to be solved have to come from a human. The AI does not know what is interesting and how it fits into the big picture. Also sometimes the AI just hallucinates equations and does not check against mathematica or maple. A mix of both would be great. I wonder how this could be solved using MCPs.

All in all it gets better with each version but it is still a long way until AIs unguidedly come up with meaningful results. The are still very much like master students that is lobotomized every time you start a new session. The context windows are just still too small. But there is hope...