Space Time Stories

I have started listening to a free audiobook, Singularity by Bill DeSmedt. So far it’s great, it’s about the real cause of the Tunguska explosion.
I’ll review the book when I’m done listening to it.
I listen to it as a podcast feed.  I had some trouble setting up the feed in iTunes, the response of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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