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• Post #4239364

  I know for a fact, now, that there is no such thing as a photon: https://michelson-morley.crudfactory.com/#_there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_photon Take it or leave it as you wish. I do not try to force belief on anyone, and I am not a professor who controls your grade or whether you get granted a PhD. #physics #science

• Post #3942338

  I have corrected the Grover’s algorithm code at http://crudfactory.com/PHYSICS.html It now takes a predicate closure to tell it what to search for. Before you actually had to give it the answer to get the answer! This was what the inference engine interpreted an ‘Oracle’ to be. Oracles are practically impossible to understand, to me. They come from Turing theory, don’t they? Well, I’m a functional programmer (though I do often write Ada). #computing #quantumComputing #physics #science #mathem...

• Post #3728731

  Okay, there was no Big Bang. The universe is expanding due to electrostatic repulsion, and the cosmic microwave background is due to all this electromagnetic activity. At some point I will have to organize all this. First, I have to order me up some books about the mathematics. Probably from computer graphics people rather than physicists, so I do not prejudice myself. #physics

• Post #3716857

  Back to the grindstone. I have figured out it will be 42 years next autumn since I did my ‘Electromagnetics’ 300-level class in electrical engineering, which would be the last time I used Maxwell’s equations. And here I am having to make them fit in the new theory, which should have been Einstein’s theory in the first place but he had no radio stations in his time so he completely missed this: That radio waves have inertia and move with the transmitter. This solves Michelson-Morley.

• Post #3632858

  @MaddieM4@raphus.social BTW I haven’t worked on hiha lately, because I have been too busy proving that Special Relativity is wrong (and that therefore General Relativity is wrong). The Michelson-Morley effect is due to electromagnetic transmissions moving inertially along with the transmission source (antenna, light bulb, etc.) It couldn’t be simpler. Albert Einstein would have said, “Ach du lieber, of course! I have boo-booed!” But most physicists are actually citation portfolio managers. And...

• Post #3539581

  My newly arrived copy of CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces (old 1993 edition) came in immediately useful. I was able to complete the longitudinal Doppler shift without having to do the full mathematical workup. Not that I shouldn’t do so. It is just that doing such things is not easy. Professors writing examinations act as if it were, which is part of why I loathe universities. Instead I have subtle logical proof the math is the same as SR: https://michelson-morley.crudfactory.com/ #physics #ma...

• Post #2999774

  It seems to me that the if a ‘photon’ is ‘massless’ then most likely a ‘photon’ is actually a mathematical entity and not a physical one. It is an ‘infinitesimal’. And such things are not actual things, unless you are using Abraham Robinson’s nonstandard analysis. We do not use nonstandard analysis, but the standard kind that is a mathematical analog of action by direct contact. (They do not TELL you this in Calc 101, or ever. It is LOST KNOWLEDGE. Our modern times are a Dark Age)... #physics

• Post #2226735

  I just wrote a generic C macros implementation of integer-keyed radix trees. It actually had not occurred to me before to read the bits one at a time and so avoid the need for Phil Bagwell’s trick with population counts. But this time I did that, and maybe if you are using fixnums this is a better approach in general. Maybe my Scheme implementation of hashmaps should be redone this way. OTOH maybe it isn’t worth the effort.

• Post #2226734

  RE: https://masto.ai/@chemoelectric/116538010742849679 This is one of my goals in life, to de-obfuscate the jargon of scientists and engineers. Even scientists and engineers themselves do not understand what they are saying. It isn't just laypersons. I wish to explain it to everyone. First I must understand it myself, of course. I get arguments, but usually the person arguing with me is wrong.

• Post #2226733

  The attempts to reconcile quantum "theory" with Einstein's gravitational theory are of course stupid, for any number of reasons. One is that there is actually no such thing as "quantum physics", it is a scam. All of its problems are ordinary physics problems, and Hilbert space is obfuscated probability theory. Another is that Einstein's theory assumes action by direct contact and so cannot be reconciled with anything involving "entan...

• Post #2070923

  This just has to be incorporated into hiha for use to make symbol tables. https://pastebin.com/AzyUwY70

• Post #2070922

  @rmi The registers they claim operate in unit time, thanks to "entanglement", cannot possibly do so. If anyone but a physicist tried to sell you such a device, you would know right away it was a scam. They actually are pseudoscientists since Niels Bohr, and it is catching up with them. They now have more and more theories that are easily shown to be fallacious. A quantum register probably requires polynomial time to settle, and probably loses coherence because it is oscillator...

• Post #2070921

  It is astounding how stupid people get when the subject of physics comes up. They become incapable of reasonable inference. Ordinary people become sheeple who obey the dictates of obvious snake oil salesmen. For what physicists tell us is obvious snake oil: instantaneous action over any distance whatsoever! This is plain and certain nonsense that you would accept from NO ONE ELSE, not even an electrical engineer like me. Only from a PhD in Physics, for no reason other than the sheepskin...

• Post #1864457

  Apparently you have to rewrite your stdarg.h code for C23, though a macro is provided for easing the task. It doesn’t matter for me, because I am writing directly for C23. The new version of the headers is convenient for me, although I could have written a version used exactly the same way for <=C17 (and so could write compatible conditional code, if I cared to). The prototype is ‘string_t concat_string_t (...)’ for C23 but ‘string_t concat_string_t (string_t, ...)’ for C17. #programmi...

• Post #1864456

  hiha sources now contain a comment explaining why my notation for floating point numbers with exponents is picky. It has to be an uppercase E and you have to have the sign before the exponent. It is because something like 30.0e10 in hiha ought to be 30.0 times the vector e10. The comment explains that physicists are totally effed up about vectors and that ‘entanglement’ is logically impossible. That this is one reason to give vectors special attention: 74ff: https://github.com/hiha-lang/hiha/...

• Post #1864455

  I just changed hiha floating point numbers to like 123.45↑+30 or 123_456.0^-30 I do not care if some silly person puts this on a bad language design list because it is different from what they are used to. It is so there can be a lexical representation for vector components. #programmingLanguages

• Post #1500285

  I was just thinking about how Arizona Icon converted co-expressions to a pthreads implementation and suddenly realized it might be to make co-expressions ‘the’ way to get a separate thread in Icon. But this is NOT what a co-expression is meant for! I mean, this just plain is NOT what a co-expression should be thought of as. A co-expression is a way of making an Icon generator portable and able to read messages. And thus also is best to be FAST... #Iconlang #Icon #Unicon #ObjectIcon

• Post #1500284

  I’m running pmmcabe on my current hiha code and here are the modified/unmodified numbers: 2 2 4 4 6 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 6 2 2 4 4 1 1 3 3 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 5 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 3 3 5 8 2 2 5 5 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 Now you see why I mock Rust as an ‘improvement’. People are still writing spaghetti. #programming

• Post #1500283

  All these things I am doing with void* in C can be done much more safely in Fortran, but don’t bother asking even Fortran fans about that. They’ll tell you Fortran isn’t good for that, it’s for numerical work. They haven’t kept up. :) It’s also that gfortran isn’t especially friendly for general programming. But that’s just one compiler. I haven’t tried the others. I haven’t used any other compiler worth mentioning since Fortran 77.

• Post #1060627

  My wife just acknowledged that I am more creative with my breakfast than she would be. My breakfast this morning (I actually had one, which itself is unusual) was lightly smoked Pacific sardines in olive oil, with hard steamed chicken eggs and salted capers.

• Post #1060626

  You know, the semaphore version of ‘Wuthering Heights’ truly, truly sucks. I mean, let’s just make fun of Yorkshire English, by golly.

• Post #1060625

  Jag har ont i ryggen!

• Post #1060624

  @jschwart It is possible one might find a lot of ‘Schwartz’ names in the U.S. amongst the Amish, the ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’. That is, the speakers of an old American dialect of German from colonial days, who are very religious and wear traditional clothing. I noticed a lot of ‘Schwartz’ once when leafing through a book of records from colonial days, before deciding to stop because the pages were crumbling in my fingers.

• Post #1060623

  I have been thinking, after attempting to work PCRE2 into hiha. It is too complicated. So OUT it goes. (I did use it in an Ada program some months ago, but that was different.) Instead I am going to use the Pratt parser itself! There will be no such thing as a scanner error. Only parser errors. But parsing will take place in phases...

• Post #985675

  I can’t help but notice from his CV that one G.B. is an obvious tool.