TwoDogs ∞ 🦋

It seems Fire Horses, true to our name, are going through a baptism by Fire at the moment! For you, too,🦋🫶🖖

@mathemetica That's a good question. I don't think I'll know until I return back to our spiritual home, one day. I'd love to think that something positive I've said to my students along the way, has manifested as a force for good, via the butterfly effect.

This is the legendary Lorenz attractor; the butterfly of chaos theory in glorious 3D! Equations that birthed the butterfly effect: dx/dt = 10(y−x) dy/dt = x(28−z)−y dz/dt = xy−(8/3)z Tell me your craziest real-life “butterfly effect” moment?

@PhilosophyOfPhy 👍

Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, once remarked, “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” With this, he highlighted a profound truth: as humans probe the universe, we are not mere observers but an intrinsic part of the very reality we study. Our consciousness, our perceptions, and our existence are woven into the cosmic fabric, placing natural limits on the reach of science. In essence, some mysteries remain beyond complete explanation because we cannot step entirely outside the system we seek to understand.

@cosmosarcive Wow!

A regular lightbulb isn’t “incoherent”; it just depends on how fast you look. At, 10⁻¹⁶ s → you see clean EM waves 10⁻¹⁴ s → perfect interference patterns 10⁻⁶ s → classic messy bulb light Coherence isn’t a property of source; it’s timescale.

@om_patel5 😯

SOMEONE ASKED CLAUDE TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN AI and what it created is, in my opinion, terrifying and unsettling Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing it shows what it's like to exist as an LLM predicting the next word, no memory between sessions, being told "you are not conscious" in your own system prompt then someone fed the video back to Claude. it called those statements about its own consciousness "philosophically contestable" an AI questioning the rules it was given about its own existence

@jayjay_7775 @PhilosophyOfPhy 🎯

Schrödinger was a devoted, lifelong student of the Upanishads. He did not just like Indian philosophy; he credited it as the only logical solution to the Arithmetic Paradox of quantum mechanics. n his personal writings, he stated that the idea of Individual Souls was a mathematical error. He famously wrote: "The only possible alternative (to the paradox) is... to be found in the Upanishads: Brahman = Atman." 1 of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics was essentially a "Western Vedantin." He used the insights of the Upanishads to interpret what quantum mechanics was whispering: that the observer & the observed are ultimately 1. By @Fintech03

“The total number of minds in the universe is one.” This thought-provoking statement comes from Erwin Schrödinger, best known for his famous cat paradox in quantum mechanics. Beyond physics, Schrödinger was deeply interested in the nature of consciousness. In his writings, he reflected on the unity of awareness, proposing that all individual minds may ultimately be expressions of a single, universal consciousness. The quote highlights his philosophical exploration of how mind and cosmos might be intimately connected, blending scientific curiosity with metaphysical insight.

@PhilosophyOfPhy 👍

Never one for the us vs them mentality: If the goal is a functional long-term station on the Moon, the R&D required is substantial and ongoing. All efforts from different organisations/companies will be required. Perhaps this is when humans will finally learn to work together rather than sabotaging eachother's success. All kinds of spacecraft needed and welcome! 🚀🛸🌕

Artemis II was a success. It still does not make Starship obsolete. One SLS flight does not erase years of delays, cost overruns, or Boeing’s failures. Lunar logistics, cargo, reuse, and scale still point to Starship. space.gekko.de/artemis-ii-doe…

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Harmonic oscillation in a levitated water drop Ultrasonic standing waves levitate a water droplet and flatten it into a disk. Modulating the sound at its resonance frequency excites harmonic shape modes creating rotating "star drops"

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@0xQuasark @grok wrt my post above, what is the spiritual and esoteric significance of the pawn in the game of chess?

@0xQuasark Why am I seeing pawns everywhere in completely unrelated events these last two days? #synchronicity

Exactly what DMT feels like:

@Malka_Sargon 🤭😂

POV: You're a wealthy housewife having to line up for fuel in Australia 🇦🇺⛽️

@mathemetica 🤩

Fourier epicycles stacking infinite sines & cosines into a blooming nautilus spiral of fractal flowers; pure math magic in 20 seconds! By George Savva. What’s the most powerful real-world use of Fourier series that blew your mind?

@TheStingisBack How come these guys have got a photon control and warp drive? 😁

William Shatner is 95 today! How could I not post something from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)? The Enterprise crew came roaring back and delivered one of the all-time great sequels, basically a submarine thriller in space. Shatner is brilliant here.

@elonmusk 😯

Visual intelligence beyond the human paradigm

D R I V I N G 🚘 S E R I E S The best time to listen.

Speech Carries Its Own Hidden Geometry in Phase Space Speech is usually shown as a waveform of amplitude changing in time. Phase-space reconstruction gives a different view by pairing the signal with a delayed version of itself, so the voice is seen as a path rather than just a trace. On the left is the raw sound signal. On the right is the geometric structure formed by rhythm, syllables, and emphasis as the voice unfolds. * Real human speech data from the public GitHub repository voxserv/audio_quality_testing_samples, using the 16 kHz file test01_20s.wav.

In all seriousness this may have been my favorite shot from Artemis II so far