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This shouldn't prevent anyone from finding and reporting a similar pre-existing result in the literature.

>It's highly likely that the problem was solved before and the model picked that up. If you can demonstrate that, I would put it to Strominger and his colleagues, and I imagine the…

Do you understand the purported result, and the verification? I don't, but I'm confident that Andrew Strominger wouldn't have agreed to put his name on this if he didn't think it w…

The two main sources for this piece seem to be interviews with Simon Thomas, the Chief Executive of a British semiconductor manufacturer (Paragraf) based in Cambridgeshire; and Rao…

This doesn't seem to have been firmly established, but as far as I can tell it's currently thought to be related to how carbon in the solar system's protoplanetary disk behaved whe…

Might the low abundance of carbon on Earth compared to its ubiquity in biology be suggestive of some kind of panspermia? Although carbon is relatively scarce on Earth, it is the fo…

>If generative AI can repeatedly test physics theories faster than humans, then we may witness progress in physics. AI could generate thousands of theories and conduct experiments …

> I asked it to stop adding disclaimers as you can see. This is the first example of an extended dialogue with GPT-4 that I have read, and the fact that it failed to obey the reque…

I think my source was a book, but the XKCD is a better link! I think the book reference I had mind may have stated the effect in terms of force.

This is a great analogy, I'd never seen it translated into tangible terms like that before. I remember reading that, at close enough range, the neutrino emissions from a supernova …

Thanks for a great couple of replies. I'd just add that there are almost certainly more superheavy elements not thought to exist in nature which have yet to be produced artificiall…

Excellent. I give this 10^14 / 10^14. The pedant in me wants to point out that they are now known to have some mass and do interact a bit , but this was written in 1960.

> You are grasping as straws trying to prove that Blair, who went to fee-paying schools was actually a working-class man of the people...why? I did not claim that Blair was a 'man …

Thanks for the link. I've read through the quotes, and I can't find any instance of Johnson making a promise during the referendum campaign to keep the UK in the single market. I d…

There is a semblance of truth to some of this, but I'm afraid anyone not especially familiar with the UK could come away from reading what you've written with a very distorted impr…

> Interestingly, many very recent Sci-Fi movies involving realistic-ish human space travel feature spacecrafts with spinning toroidal living quarters. Some less recent ones too [1]…

> The current Prime Minister even promised to stay in the single market while campaigning for Brexit, professing himself a 'Fan'. Could you provide a source for the promise to stay…

' I think if you look at politics in the UK, it is self-evident that the culture of the UK is not exactly entrepreneurial...unless you believe that a group of probably 30-50 people…

> Finally, electric cars charge at ~96% efficiency, while hydrogen is something like 40%. >> This claim has little substance and credibility. The efficiency of hydrogen fuel cell v…

Continuing my review of the predictions from the 2010 thread, here are my last set of judgments — the Hits (the predictions I think the commenters largely got right): Hits: 2010 Pr…

Continuing my review of the predictions from the 2010 thread with those I consider to be Hit and Miss (a bit right, a bit wrong): Hit and Miss: 2010 Prediction: Ebooks defeat paper…

I enjoyed going back through the 2010 thread too. Just for fun, below are my judgments on some of the predictions, as an all-knowing resident of the 2010 commenters' misty future. …

I wondered from the announcement whether the other figures would be present somewhere in the paper.

Thanks for the replies. To clarify — is this not a measurement of the two particles' masses to ~38 significant figures?