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Our Sense Of Spacetime Spinning

Homo Sapiens Squeezed Out Of Its Evolutionary Role — If you’d plot 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history as one hour on a clock face, you’d see bacteria emerge after the first eight minutes and humans in the last two seconds — you read it right, “two seconds”. At some point, triggered by favorable environmental conditions, molecules coalesced (self-organized)…

Evolution

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Our Sense Of Spacetime Spinning
Our Sense Of Spacetime Spinning

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Money Talks: Physics Forks

The Ultimate NFT (Non-Fungible Token) — Some people believe in god, others believe in other gods. Yet others are putting their faith in science, some betting on the Standard Model, others on string theory, and yet others on economic theory — all hoping to explain and predict the whereabouts of matter and man. Curiously, as the…

Money

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Money Talks: Physics Forks
Money Talks: Physics Forks

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A Total Rethink Of Physics

Machine Learning’s Copernican Consequences — The society of physicists sometimes reminds of a wild bunch of kids singing and dancing on the same tune, each kid trying to get in the limelight. Societies, even of physicists, rise to decline eventually, typically collapsing from the inside out when the foundations are folding. Not many inside see…

Physics

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A Total Rethink Of Physics
A Total Rethink Of Physics

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AI Humiliates Spacetime Empire

Cracks In The Opaque Glasshouse of Physics — Something’s cooking in the world of physics. In 2006, the American theoretical physicist, Peter Woit, publishes a best-seller, Not Even Wrong. In his book, Woit argues, rather convincingly, that string theorists have gotten carried away. Without experimental evidence for their predictions, string theorists appear to live on a hunch: their…

AI

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AI Humiliates Spacetime Empire
AI Humiliates Spacetime Empire

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Rise Of The Net God

Spontaneous Emergence Of Global Net Intelligence — GNI — Religion is going through a silent crisis. Derived from the latin verb “re-ligare”, it means to re-connect or re-bind. The term once implied reconnecting or rebinding with God. Colored by the Christian clay, from which this interpretation arose, it is, to paraphrase Robert Proctor — an American historian of science…

Internet

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Rise Of The Net God
Rise Of The Net God

Published in Societal Cycles

·Dec 22, 2021

The Dawn Of Everything: The Dusk Of All Else?

How AI Will Trace Society To Shape It In The End — We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever — Carl Sagan Many years ago, my wife and I visited Rhodes, a Greek island situated in the Mediterranean, close the coast of Turkey. As tourists sometimes do, we explored it on donkey back. I was…

Sociology

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The Dawn Of Everything: The Dusk Of All Else?
The Dawn Of Everything: The Dusk Of All Else?

Published in Societal Cycles

·Nov 29, 2021

2022 Threats: A Contrarian View

Developments That Might Disrupt Our Lives — This time of year, one can expect to receive analyses that elaborate on the prospects in the year(s) to come. Balanced as they often are, they are typically written by established chums in the world of finance and business. So, apart from climate change, what are the serious threats to…

World

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2022 Threats: A Contrarian View
2022 Threats: A Contrarian View

Published in Societal Cycles

·Aug 1, 2021

EpiPhysics

The Physics Of The Future — In the morning of July 24th, 2021, I was taken aback by the heartfelt expression of loss by some of the physicists that I follow on Twitter. The theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg — pillar of modern physics, had died overnight. Weinberg had reached fame by helping to…

Physics

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EpiPhysics
EpiPhysics

Published in Predict

·Feb 9, 2021

Dear Google: Please, Help Us Make Sense Of Our Nations

Natural Language Processing To Visualize The State of Nations — This proposal invites Google to use their natural language processing power to generate a rolling synthesis of press articles about nation states to produce simple statistics that confirm their predominant season of development and the related seasonal success factors. A platform for opinion makers, policy developers, and voters, ‘Google Nations’…

Google

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Dear Google: Please, Help Us Make Sense Of Our Nations
Dear Google: Please, Help Us Make Sense Of Our Nations

Published in Predict

·Jan 18, 2021

Russia’s Future: Divided

In The Wake of Alexei Navalny’s Arrest — Not something that the Russian leadership will easily accept but, as the diagram below shows, the Russian cycle of societal emergence suggests that Russia is bound to fragment internally near the end of Putin’s rein. The question is: To what extent and when, exactly?

Russia

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Russia’s Future: Divided
Russia’s Future: Divided
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Marcus van der Erve

Sociologist (PhD), Physicist (B.Eng), Futurist

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