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Freeman Dyson Has Died

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Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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He was interesting character partially because he believed in God. This is actually quite rare at the very upper echelons of the scientific community.

Born from the light and came back to the light

I think that everything is the light with different levels form of concentration. High concentration of the light transforms to physics matter. Low level of the light is vacuum, high is atomic energy, Large Hadron Collider for example. The light is universal transmitter & transformer. The light is concentrated knowledge that is transmitted from the sun to every particle of the planet and peoples, and thanks to the light, matter and a variety of life forms are created, which creates a variety of forms of matter. The idea of Christianity about the resurrection of people is magnificent, then such great people as Dyson could be resurrected, why not? But technologies are needed in new physics and medicine, which would gain access to reality at the nanoparticle level. A 3D printer that prints the light and lays knowledge into the light to recreate a person. There is a pattern that the more we get access at the micro level, the more powerful chips we can build, and more powerful chips can calculate more hashes and allow us to bring in new gigantic machines, like telescopes and spaceships, which will give access to new macro-knowledge such as dark matter and black holes of matter-time consensus, which will allow us to create new petabyte flash drives based on light, and new the light based computers will be able to burn information directly to the points of space, and what it means to materialize any object, which will provide access to new knowledge and made new grand chips & telescopes. We already partially use the light in our rooms, networks and cameras and monitors to exchange information. New theories and machines based on the light will allow creating new machines for controlling the space-time continent and copying knowledge from any space-time, and then the task of resurrecting people becomes feasible and we can transfer the consciousness of this particular person from the past without distortion. If this happens in the next 5,000 years, then Dyson saw it right. To create such machines, we need new geniuses with Dyson's light. I'm sure we are know less about physics & light, because we live on single planet in single point of universe and our theories can be expanded when we arrive to new points of universe.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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> seas taking over the cities are all demonstrable effects of climate change The sea level raise has been approximately 3 inches from the 1993 level. That is much less than the change due to the tides.

Well, all that matters is the level at high tide, right? Everything near the seashore is constructed on that basis.

I agree. There are also spring and neap tides, so the important level is the high tide of a spring tide.

But if the wind is blowing from the sea/river to the land, it can increase the level, specially during a storm, in some places a few meters. And the waves during a storm can be also a few meters high. [Hi from Buenos Aires! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudestada ] So a few inches was never enough to ensure that your city will not be flooded.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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>Well there is a whole damn Wikipedia article about the subject Wikipedia is not science. >And yeah, the summers are ridiculously hot and are actually hotter than many other years, decades ago, and keep getting hotter Repeating it won't make it so. >Bull Look at the data for yourself. >Please go argue with the thousands of people whose work the distilled news articles and Wikipedia articles are based on. Why? What po…

> Wikipedia is not science. That Wikipedia article has 158 sources cited. You? Zero . > Repeating it won't make it so. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/acorn-sat/#tabs=ACORN%E2%... I mean, you can go trawl through the data yourself. The graph is in the last expandable fold. The page describes the data collection practices, peer review, the entire god damn thing right there. But you know what? You don't care. Becaus…

>That Wikipedia article has 158 sources cited.

So? Every single wikipedia article on anything controversial is trash. Even things you don't realize are controversial, but a few random people have an emotional investment in. Wikipedia does not require valid citations, most citations on wikipedia don't support the claims made in the articles.

>You? Zero.

I am not writing an encyclopedia article.

>I mean, you can go trawl through the data yourself

I have, which is why I suggested that you try it. Do yourself a favor, watch this 13 minute video, then go look at the data he is referencing and see for yourself that he's correct. Climate hysteria is political, and supposedly trustworthy scientific organizations are engaged in deliberate deception to push lies. https://hooktube.com/watch?v=8455KEDitpU

>Because it's gonna be another bullshit thing, one after another

Like all the climate hysteria predictions made based on these infallible computer models, which have a 0% accuracy rate thus far. The warming has thus far has been insignificant. The effect has been beneficial. CO2 itself is highly beneficial. All claims of disaster are based entirely on speculation. Remember, many Pacific islands were predicted to be GONE by now. They are not. Several are larger. Forgive me if I base my actions on the actual data rather than predictions made by people who have a zero percent success rate.

>Well TBH trolls like you have a net negative effect on the entire discourse and the culture here

Dismissing things you don't want to know about as "trolling" has a net negative effect. If you care about discourse, stop trying to make currently popular fads into religious requirements for talking on a website.

>stop embarrassing yourself and don't bother commenting

How many more decades of failed predictions will it take before you feel embarrassed about your blind repetition of lies about data you never bothered to look at?

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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post #25

I think last week someone mentioned the dyson sphere with a link to wiki. It said he regretted they named it after him.

Huh, I'd be curious to see that source. I know he somewhat recanted the idea of a Dyson sphere , as it is completely impractical even with unimagined technology (re: tensile strength of the materials, and preventing such a megastructure from falling into the sun whenever a rock hits it). But he later proposed the idea of a Dyson swarm , an extremely large array of solar-sucking satellites orbiting the sun as an idea…

I'm sure we're need better technology than Dyson sphere. Just another way. Human race with Dyson sphere looks like parasite virus who build giant construction to destroy the sun and get another climate change. Just look on top manager from Avatar film people like him will controls Dyson spheres. It can be another Boeing 777 Max where sphere can be broken and peoples get blackout for years or any problem with the sun. We're need another technologies for travel around universe and give energy to our ships directly from any sun and any point of the space for recharge ship power banks. I wrote below about the possible technology of the future 3D printing of the light directly on atomic level and peoples will make amazing teleports

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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"When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories" "We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for…

the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia resulting in bushfires, famine and drought... seas taking over the cities are all demonstrable effects of climate change. Did he live in UK? Yea the winter was milder I guess.

He lived in Princeton NJ. In the last several years, it has stopped snowing in the winter in central NJ. Direct consequence of global warming messing up the arctic air currents.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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post #34

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the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia resulting in bushfires, famine and drought... seas taking over the cities are all demonstrable effects of climate change. Did he live in UK? Yea the winter was milder I guess.

>the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia Are no hotter than many other years, decades ago. >resulting in bushfires, famine and drought There is no evidence linking the fires to "climate change". And I can find no evidence of any such famine even existing. Droughts are caused by depleting the water supply, not by warm weather. Warm weather increases rain. >seas taking over the cities Has not happened. The rate of…

> Droughts are caused by depleting the water supply, not by warm weather. Warm weather increases rain.

It also increases evaporation an even the size and geography at play they don't even come close to cancelling out.

>>seas taking over the cities >Has not happened.

I'm sure Jakarta would like a word.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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That quote is mindblowing. I don't think I've ever heard an argument for free will on a sub-atomic level. It never crossed my mind that that was a position someone could conceivably hold. But it's weirdly comforting- it almost feels religious- and I'm now thinking about how that would affect emergence.

It feels especially religious to me as a Hindu. A lot of Hinduism talks about a so called "sense of existence" - a vitalising, fundamental "thing" that permeates inanimate and animate beings. The quote reminded me a bit of that.

It also reminds me of Arthur Schopenhauer’s concept of ‘world as representation of (universal) will’

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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>the ridiculously hot summers in Australasia Are no hotter than many other years, decades ago. >resulting in bushfires, famine and drought There is no evidence linking the fires to "climate change". And I can find no evidence of any such famine even existing. Droughts are caused by depleting the water supply, not by warm weather. Warm weather increases rain. >seas taking over the cities Has not happened. The rate of…

> Droughts are caused by depleting the water supply, not by warm weather. Warm weather increases rain. It also increases evaporation an even the size and geography at play they don't even come close to cancelling out. >>seas taking over the cities >Has not happened. I'm sure Jakarta would like a word.

>It also increases evaporation

Which increases rain, as I said. The most highly productive ecosystems on the planet are hot. Rainforests are not scary bad things to be afraid of. California is running out of water because they draw too much water, not because of CO2. Huge portions of the planet are currently drawing water from aquifers and natural reservoirs faster than they refill, and rely on that inherently unsustainable practice to irrigate crops. In a few decades, we could see massive starvation in India as water runs out. And instead of even TALKING about this problem much less promoting sustainable agriculture, climate hysteria distracts from it so it goes unaddressed, allows these problems to continue, then blames them on CO2.

>I'm sure Jakarta would like a word.

Blaming every flood on "climate change" is precisely the problem. Has the number of floods increased? No. Has the severity? No. Has sea level rise accelerated? No. Have hurricanes increased in size or severity? No. Yet every time any of these events occurs now, we're blasted with "look its climate change how dare you deny it!" in the media.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That quote is mindblowing. I don't think I've ever heard an argument for free will on a sub-atomic level. It never crossed my mind that that was a position someone could conceivably hold. But it's weirdly comforting- it almost feels religious- and I'm now thinking about how that would affect emergence.

It feels especially religious to me as a Hindu. A lot of Hinduism talks about a so called "sense of existence" - a vitalising, fundamental "thing" that permeates inanimate and animate beings. The quote reminded me a bit of that.

The sad thing is that it takes someone quite smart (or let’s say someone with an abstract mind more or less) to understand how mediocre this idea essentially is.

Re: Freeman Dyson Has Died

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post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels especially religious to me as a Hindu. A lot of Hinduism talks about a so called "sense of existence" - a vitalising, fundamental "thing" that permeates inanimate and animate beings. The quote reminded me a bit of that.

The sad thing is that it takes someone quite smart (or let’s say someone with an abstract mind more or less) to understand how mediocre this idea essentially is.

Mediocre in what sense?
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