@doublej5723 @archeohistories I eat raw potatoes… with salt! Love it!
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Joe Gratzke
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The United States Army once paid Hershey's to make the worst chocolate bar in history....
It was 1937 and Captain Paul Logan of US Army Quartermaster General's office sat down with Hershey's chief chemist Sam Hinkle and gave him one of the strangest product briefs in the history of food manufacturing. He needed a chocolate bar that weighed four ounces, could withstand extreme heat without melting, delivered enough calories to keep a soldier alive in an emergency, and tasted, in Logan's exact words, only a little better than a boiled potato.
He did not want it to taste good. If it tasted good soldiers would eat it whenever they felt like it and have nothing left when they actually needed it. The solution was to engineer the palatability out of it deliberately. Make it just edible enough that a starving man would eat it. Make it just unpleasant enough that no one would eat it for fun.
Hinkle got to work. He cut the sugar dramatically. He increased the bitter chocolate liquor. He added oat flour, which created a dry, chalky, unpleasant texture. The resulting mixture was so thick and stiff that it could not be poured into molds at all. Every single bar had to be pressed in by hand. Before the war ended Hershey's had made more than three billion of them.
When American GIs discovered that European civilians, who had never encountered the D ration bar and had no established low expectations of it, would accept a piece of Hershey's military chocolate with genuine enthusiasm, some soldiers began trading their bars to unsuspecting locals in exchange for cigarettes, food and goodwill, then watching the civilian take their first bite with a mixture of guilt and private amusement.
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For a long time, we’ve treated gravity as one of the fundamental forces of nature. Something built into the fabric of reality itself, alongside electromagnetism and the nuclear forces.
It curves spacetime, governs the motion of planets, shapes galaxies, and dictates the large scale structure of the universe.
But what if that picture is incomplete?
What if gravity isn’t fundamental at all?
In physics, we’ve seen this kind of shift before. Temperature feels like a basic property of matter, but it isn’t. It emerges from the collective motion of microscopic particles. Pressure, too, is not fundamental. It arises from countless interactions at smaller scales.
In that sense, what we perceive as a smooth, continuous phenomenon is often the result of something deeper and more discrete.
Some physicists have wondered whether gravity might be similar.
This idea is known as emergent gravity. Instead of being a fundamental interaction, gravity could arise from underlying microscopic degrees of freedom. In some approaches, those degrees of freedom are tied to quantum information and entanglement, suggesting that spacetime itself may be built from how information is organized at the most fundamental level.
One of the key clues comes from black holes.
Black holes are not just gravitational objects. They also have temperature and entropy. Their entropy is proportional to the area of their event horizon, not their volume.
That’s a surprising result.
It suggests that the fundamental description of reality might live on lower dimensional boundaries, an idea closely related to the holographic principle.
There are even deeper proposals. In some frameworks, connections between regions of spacetime may be related to quantum entanglement itself, an idea often summarized as ER = EPR.
In that picture, spacetime is not just a stage where physics happens. It could be something that emerges from entanglement.
Even more intriguingly, when you combine quantum theory, thermodynamics, and relativity, equations resembling Einstein’s field equations can be derived as emergent relations, not as fundamental laws. In this view, spacetime geometry, and therefore gravity, would be more like an equation of state than a basic ingredient.
So gravity wouldn’t be “causing” motion in the traditional sense. It would be the macroscopic manifestation of deeper microscopic processes.
There are also attempts to connect this idea to cosmology. Some versions of emergent gravity try to explain phenomena usually attributed to dark matter by modifying how gravity behaves on large scales, without introducing new particles. These models are still debated, and they don’t yet match all observations as well as the standard picture, but they highlight how much we still don’t know.
The challenge is that we don’t yet have a complete underlying theory.
If gravity is emergent, what is it emerging from? What are the fundamental degrees of freedom? How do they give rise to spacetime itself?
Right now, those questions are open.
And that’s what makes the idea so compelling.
Because it shifts the question. Instead of asking how gravity works, we start asking why it exists at all, and whether what we call gravity is just the large scale shadow of something deeper.
If that’s true, then spacetime itself may not be fundamental.
And what we experience as the curvature of the universe might be closer to a thermodynamic illusion than a basic feature of reality.
But like wind, which emerges from the motion of air molecules yet is undeniably real, an emergent phenomenon is not less real, only less fundamental.
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@esa @AirbusSpace @esaspaceflight @NASAArtemis @csa_asc Km/h? Is this real ?
@grok tell me it's a mistake
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✅#Artemis II update: Day 5, Orion is moving at 1536 km/h, 356 379 km from Earth and 89 967 km from the Moon. One last look at Earth before arriving at the Moon (pic: NASA). See nasa.gov/missions/artem…
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@esa @AirbusSpace @esaspaceflight @NASAArtemis @csa_asc Still looks like CGI, guv. Where's the live feed...?
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Around 25,000 years ago, mammoth hunters roamed the landscape of what is now the Czech Republic, leaving behind artifacts that still astonish researchers today.
One of the most remarkable of these objects is a mammoth tusk discovered in 1962 at the archaeological site of Pavlov I, located in the Pavlov Hills of southern Moravia.
The tusk's smoothed tip is covered with an intricate engraved geometric ornament that has fascinated archaeologists for decades.
Researcher Bohuslav Klíma interpreted the engraving as a schematic map of the surrounding Pavlov Hills landscape.
The design appears to reduce the winding valleys of the Dyje River and the slopes of the Pálava highlands into abstract patterns and symbols.
These symbols are believed to have carried specific meaning for the hunter-gatherer groups who created and used them.
If this interpretation is correct, the engraving on the Pavlov tusk represents the oldest known graphic depiction of a geographic space in human history.
In other words, it may be the earliest map ever made by human hands.
The tusk is now on rare public display at Archeopark Pavlov for a limited number of dates in October, open daily from 9:00 to 16:00.
The exhibition was produced in partnership with the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno and the Regional Museum in Mikulov.
The discovery and ongoing study of the Pavlov tusk has reshaped our understanding of prehistoric cognitive ability, demonstrating that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were not only capable of abstract thought but were actively encoding geographic knowledge into symbolic form tens of thousands of years before writing or formal cartography ever existed, suggesting that the human capacity to conceptualize, record, and communicate spatial information is far older and more sophisticated than previously imagined.
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@CNN This is not surprising! What surprises me? The fact that we Americans fail to do anything about it! So, the dialogue has started, what should we do as taxpayers to stop fraud in OUR GOVERNMENT at all levels?
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Federal officials on Thursday arrested eight people they say were involved in various health care fraud schemes totaling $50 million in and around Los Angeles. cnn.it/4vsbYFN
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@ENERGY @GtheOriginal Thanks to Iran kicking Trump's ass. We The People win when Trump loses. We are at war with the Epstein cult, just like Iran is.
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Thanks to President Trump, more than 50,000 barrels of American oil per day will flow again in California.
Previously, California imported more than 60 percent of their oil from the Middle East due to their Anti-American energy policies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@CCknockout @ENERGY Button up cupcake! Deal with it like an adult! Shut up and go to work! Fukn baby!
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@harshcritic1985 @ENERGY I’ll pay $20 a gallon to keep crazy lunatic leaders using religion to kill a race of people with nuclear bombs from actually doing it! How far do you need to be threatened to physically stop someone from killing you?
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@ENERGY Thanks to Trump, nearby gas stations have $5+ gas, the highest prices we've ever had. All because Israel forced him to start a war.
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@ENERGY How stupid can California get? It is amazing the stupidity of the states politics! Global warming is gonna happen no matter what! It’s happened many times over the years of Earth, with and/or without us! Sure, we need to be concerned and work on conservation! I’m all in!
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@Sachinettiyil Young men need mentors, fathers etc… Christianity has a great guide for all, The Bible!
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“I’ve spoken at various Catholic events which were full to the brim with recent converts in the 18-30 age range, mostly young men. Priest after priest has told me that it’s gone from [one or two] adult converts a year to numbers of 20-30 each Easter, and they’re in double figures for new inquirers already since then.”
Theologian Jacob Philips
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced a bill to block the construction of new data centers until lawmakers enact regulations on AI.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is planning to introduce a similar House bill in the coming weeks. wapo.st/4tbhxGE
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Treasury Department is planning to add his signature to all denominations of the United States Dollar moving forward, which will mark the first time in history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American Currency, with Trump’s signature expected to replace that of the U.S. Treasurer, Brandon Beach, sitting alongside his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, several sources including Beach himself have confirmed to Vanity Fair.
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.@realDonaldTrump “He's got Trump Derangement syndrome”
President Trump blasts Jimmy Kimmel: “He's a loser. He gets no ratings, none. He's got no talent…He shouldn't be on the air.”
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@stephen_deakins @Sachinettiyil Evil is among us… even in The Most Highest Places!
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@Sachinettiyil Think about how absurd that is.
The current King has abdicated his role as protector of the Church of England in favor of the Islamic Caliphate of Great Britain. When he’s not pimping for Islam, he’s whoring for the church of a one world government.
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Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Prince Ernst August of Hanover and Princess Caroline of Monaco, was removed from the British line of succession in 2018 after converting to Catholicism.
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@spectatorindex Wher I come from you want to be on a list, you know, a high end restaurant or a club…
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BREAKING: US and Israel have temporarily removed Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi from the target list to allow for high-level talks, according to Wall Street Journal.
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Democrat Emily Gregory will win a special state House election in a Palm Beach district that includes President Donald Trump's Florida home of Mar-a-Lago, CNN's Decision Desk projects, adding another special election win to a recent string of victories around the country for Democrats. cnn.it/4bNibD4
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@richimedhurst Iran Firing a few little drones and missiles while their leaders, commanders, generals, army, navy, airforce, ships, fighter jets, military infrastructure, military headquarters, anti-aircrafts systems and radars are being completely obliterated by Israel and USA.
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Iran just used, for the first time, the Arash 2 drone. Target was Ben Gurion/David Grün Airport
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