Cool science stuff

SkyNet!

 

Holy cow it's a turing test!

 

I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

 

The best and most descriptive map of Pangaea that I've seen:

https://natureworldtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-3.jpg

The next hypothesis forthcoming will be how these continents got suddenly jarred loose 600 million years ago after 4 billion years of perfect harmony.

 

Great. Now Skynet's a comedian.
This whole thing was written and performed by an AI program.

 

President Biden reveals the James Webb Space Telescope's stunning first image

Far out.

 

Hey, back with a few new science-y things!

To start, we've got the results of a new study that says there's evidence humans were in North America 20,000 or more years before we thought. The study examined 37,000-year-old (approximately) mammoth bones that had been discovered in 2013 and found signs the animals were butchered by humans.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-did-humans-settle-north-america/10223278002/

 

Next, researchers have found a mix of chemicals believed to be common on the early earth that combine create the raw materials of life. The reaction, they say, could help explain how life first began.

A new discovery may explain the origin of life on Earth

 

That image has again shown the most distant galaxy yet discovered, as determined by its red shift. Given how long it takes for light to get from there to here, they've determined we're seeing it as it was a mere 250 million years after the Big Bang.

Webb Telescope discovers an “amazing” galaxy from the edge of time

 

I won't vouch for the veracity of this one, as I can find nothing about it anywhere else, but... someone is apparently claiming they've found the tomb of Genghis Khan.

https://kashmirmirror.com/2022/05/16/archaeologists-unearth-tomb-of-genghis-khan/

If this is true, it's a very big deal, because according to everything else I could find about Genghis Khan's tomb, its location is one of the great unsolved mysteries of archaeology. But from what I've read, many believe it's located on or near the Onon River, which is where the site in the linked story supposedly is. So we'll see if anything comes of this.

 

This last one kind of blows my mind. It caught my attention because I went to college as a physics major, and remain fascinated by it. And while the math eventually proved too much for me, I retain a rudimentary understanding of the subject and how a lot of it works.

And how it works is that everything is based on certain variables -- mass, velocity, acceleration, momentum, etc. -- that can be observed and measured. Those variables make up the equations and formulas used to describe the physical world. While physics can become insanely complicated, that part seems relatively simple.

But what if it's not that simple. What if there are other variables we're not aware of, that we don't perceive or understand, that can also describe the world (and maybe do it better)?

A group of engineers, physicists and computer scientists from Columbia University have created an artificial intelligence tool aimed at finding that out. The AI observes various systems in motion and figures out for itself what variables are needed to measure them. And, apparently, it has come up with some that the researchers can't identify.

So does that mean, this AI has discovered an "alternate physics"? And if so, can we decipher how it works?

Artificial intelligence discovers new physics variables!

Artificial Intelligence Uncovers Alternative Physics by Observation, Study Claims

https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-discovers-alternative-physics/

 

I'm not sure if this is science, exactly, but I think it is -- kinda, sorta, and I wasn't sure where else to place this link.

I found it interesting, and hopeful and exciting, because I flipped out when I heard about the fire that nearly destroyed my favorite site in Paris a couple years ago. I'm so glad this is going on:

‘They said it was impossible’: how medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame