Getting back to (theoretical) reality. Dirac, Feynman and what to put in the Path Integral.
Very interesting and not too hard to follow.
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I figured the same, then all he needs is get some judge to be believe that he is Satoshi and he can claim the Satoshi hoard too.
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James Webb images bolster infinite universe models and pop the “big bang”.
As someone who has always believed the universe is infinite in space and time (and all that implies) and having always rolled my eyes as conformist “educators” and everyone else tried to shove the “big bang” and universal expansion nonsense down my throat, it’s nice to finally see some vindication.
(actually there’s tons of evidence/vindication out there spanning decades for anyone that cares to look, plus basic logic, but this is much harder for the conformists to ignore and repress)
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To me, we all have to prepare to look at first principles in all cases and expect they can be wrong, primarily because that means we improve. So everything from this to electricity is gravity, time has no speed limit and more. We all need to be open minded enough to look and understand from a position of non bias.
I love investigating these things but don’t feel emotional at all about them, as a curious mind needs to approach everything from some form of equilibrium and balance.
Needless to say life is fascinating, and it’s likely all we know is wrong, and that is wonderful to me. It’s also wonderful if some of what we know is also correct, but I don’t think experiments showing theory works is a good enough measure to declare a law 
As Feynman said, we are only seeing the corner of the chess board. We have no idea knights can jump over pieces or a pawn reaching the other side is promoted. We have no visibility of the biggest part of the board.
This is why many maths and physics still worked when we thought the world was flat or we were the centre of the universe etc.
All fascinating stuff
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Here a recently refound video interview on Youtube of 1964 with George Lemaitre, "the father of the big bang theory’’ (English subtitles available), where he also mentions Fred Hoyle. Hoyle was more for the steady state model and came up with the name ‘big bang’ to kind of mock the idea behind it.
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Well, well, well - after India, Turkiye and China ditch the dollar for oil and other commodity trades, along comes Binance telling us it no longer has faith in the mighty greenback
its all starting to fall apart for the US, isn’t it?
Humbled in Afghanistan and backing a loser in Ukraine, losing their shit entirely over a balloon and ignoring a very serious problem on the Texas border, it’s not going well at all.
You may have taken a bunch of immigrants, genocided the natives and made it a nation, don’t think the rest of the world is going to allow itself to be homogenised and neutered by your tribe of bankers.
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This much is true. We have much to thank Hoyle for.
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And don’t forget Lemaitre. Right or wrong, with the info available then, he made/helped make good theories (Einstein agreed with that). Certainly if you take into account he was also a priest.
And Belgian. Remarkable the number of obstacles he had to overcome.
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I don’t know the details, but apparantly he was against the expulsion of French speakers of the Catholic University of Louvain (which is situated in Flanders), where he was a professor. Although I read he was no Francophone extremist. So yeah, seemed to be a real ‘Belgian’.
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Living on frites, mayo and chocolate, washed down with Stella, its astounding that he could have made such a contribution.
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Suspend doesn’t mean terminate. Maybe RT isn’t the best source for unbiased news or do they simply need better headline writers?
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The court judgement which allowed CW’s case to proceed is below. It includes a pretty good description of bitcoin, all its forks, Blockchain, how development takes place etc. Worth a read for that - the judge even explains what a ‘nonce’ is 
It’s long, but here’s the concluding paragraph. I think MaidSafe will want to follow the outcome because it might be applied to similar systems.
I’ve highlighted the issue to be decided to show how this might be applied to widely than bitcoin.
Conclusion
I would allow this appeal. The conclusion is not that there is a fiduciary duty in law in the circumstances alleged by Tulip, only that the case advanced raises a serious issue to be tried. The time to decide on the duty in this case is once the facts are established. As the judgment itself showed, to rule out Tulip’s case as unarguable would require one to assume facts in the defendant developers’ favour which are disputed and which cannot be resolved this way. If the decentralised governance of bitcoin really is a myth, then in my judgment there is much to be said for the submission that bitcoin developers, while acting as developers, owe fiduciary duties to the true owners of that property.
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Congratulations to the Pentagon on its first military victory since 1991. $850 billion/year well-spent!
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Ranks right up there with Russia’s 5-day conquest of Ukraine.
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Just watch what happens in the next 5 days as this full moon wanes…
I knew I could count on you.
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Yeah, I’ve always felt it funny that a) big bang theory was created by a catholic priest and preserves the notion of a “creation” and b) the astrophysics community has adopted the nickname of those who mocked the theory.
anyway, thx for the link I’ll check it out… I like historical physics/science stuff. For one thing, after a while, one realizes science has usually been more about ego, personality, and politics than reason, logic, falsification, and the scientific process.
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