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George and the big bang
George tries to escape a host of problems by going to Switzerland to help his friend Annie's father, Eric, run an experiment exploring the origins of the universe, but faces saboteurs and a mysterious message from George's old nemesis, Reeper, there. Includes scientific essays exploring the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
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THE SINGULARITY: WILL WE SURVIVE OUR TECHNOLOGY
While the potential realization of superior forms of intelligences lies in a speculative future, the idea of a technology singularity already influences popular culture and public policy through a collection of insights, theories, and debates. Kurzweil equates computing power with brainpower, and therefore, given the exponential growth of computing power, the later will exceed brainpower within the next two decades.\\n Nevertheless, computer scientists continue to feel strongly that the myriad benefits of AI far outweigh the risks, presuming that we dedicate research dollars to ensuring that AI will be controllable and that its benefits can be guaranteed.
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The stuff of stars
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations by Ekua Holmes capture the void before the Big Bang and the ensuing life that burst across galaxies. A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond -- and how we are all the stuff of stars.
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7 Days of DEALS
Who's inking on the dotted line this week TYLER PERRY, BYRON ALLEN EYE MAJORITY STAKE IN BET As Paramount explores a sale of a majority stake in its BET business - which includes BET, VH1 and the BET+ streaming service - multiple potential suitors are emerging. For Allen, a deal would mean an expansion of his cable business - The Weather Channel, like BET and VH1, is widely distributed - and add another streaming service to his portfolio of offerings that include Local Now and Sports.TV. A number of high-profile advertisers, including General Motors and Coca-Cola, committed to significantly increase their ad spend on minority-owned media companies in 2021.
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Life under a black sun
Life is dependent on the income of energy with low entropy and the disposal of energy with high entropy. On Earth, the low-entropy energy is provided by solar radiation and the high-entropy energy is disposed as infrared radiation emitted into the cold space. Here we turn the situation around and assume cosmic background radiation as the low-entropy source of energy for a planet orbiting a black hole into which the high-entropy energy is disposed. We estimate the power that can be produced by thermodynamic processes on such a planet, with a particular interest in planets orbiting a fast rotating Kerr black hole as in the science fiction movie {\\em Interstellar}. We also briefly discuss a reverse Dyson sphere absorbing cosmic background radiation from the outside and dumping waste energy to a black hole inside.
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Science fiction pioneer another famous resident
If the science fiction writer were alive today, he'd likely have a recurring role on the \"Big Bang Theory.\"
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The emergence of the physical world from information processing
This paper links the conjecture that the physical world is a virtual reality to the findings of modern physics. What is usually the subject of science fiction is here proposed as a scientific theory open to empirical evaluation. We know from physics how the world behaves, and from computing how information behaves, so whether the physical world arises from ongoing information processing is a question science can evaluate. A prima facie case for the virtual reality conjecture is presented. If a photon is a pixel on a multi-dimensional grid that gives rise to space, the speed of light could reflect its refresh rate. If mass, charge and energy all arise from processing, the many conservation laws of physics could reduce to a single law of dynamic information conservation. If the universe is a virtual reality, then its big bang creation could be simply when the system was booted up. Deriving core physics from information processing could reconcile relativity and quantum theory, with the former how processing creates the space-time operating system and the latter how it creates energy and matter applications.
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