Suppose the cosmologists have it wrong and dark matter really is composed of baryons. It’s not like cosmologists have a great track record. Most of their theories have been proven wrong over the past few centuries. Comparing the track record of mathematicians with cosmologists is pretty much night and day. When a mathematician says they [...]
Fermi Paradox – All the aliens went dark !
December 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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Science Fiction for Smart People
November 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Charlie Stross writes in Accelerando about a variety of topics which challenge even the most technically savvy readers. First he mentions a Matrioshka brain, a massive extension of the Dyson Sphere. Imagine a Dyson Sphere is built which consists almost entirely of computational nodes. Each node will radiate a little waste heat so the entire [...]
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