#newton — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #newton, aggregated by home.social.
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Russia’s shadow war is putting Europe on edge as Germany confronts a growing threat
Germany is pushing European partners to create a rapid-response task force in the Baltic Sea region as Berlin…
#Europe #EU #AlexanderDobrindt #Baltic #BalticSea #BalticSentry #BERLIN #Breedlove #European #German #Germany #Leipzig #leipzighalleairport #NATO #NATOChiefsofDefense #Newton #Russia #Russia’s #Russian
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NJ private gardens open up to visitors for one day only https://www.allforgardening.com/?p=1939067 #access:metered #GardeningNewJersey #NewJersey #Newton #Source:NorthJerseyCom #Ssts:news:newJersey #Sstsn:NewJersey #tag:Gardening #Tag:HomeImprovementHub #Tag:LocalAffiliateTravel #Tag:NJContentSharingMorristown #Tag:NJContentSharingNorthJersey #Tag:OverallPositive #Tag:RegionalParks&Gardens #type:story
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NJ private gardens open up to visitors for one day only https://www.allforgardening.com/?p=1939067 #access:metered #GardeningNewJersey #NewJersey #Newton #Source:NorthJerseyCom #Ssts:news:newJersey #Sstsn:NewJersey #tag:Gardening #Tag:HomeImprovementHub #Tag:LocalAffiliateTravel #Tag:NJContentSharingMorristown #Tag:NJContentSharingNorthJersey #Tag:OverallPositive #Tag:RegionalParks&Gardens #type:story
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Apparently, when #Einstein was trying to reconcile #Newton’s and #Maxwell’s models of the universe, he happened to choose the speed of light as the universal constant, and built his universe from there. Seems kind of arbitrary. Dunno why he picked that. Don’t remember hearing about why he picked light speed over some other property. But then, what else was there, and how would our understanding of reality be different if something other than speed of light were the constant. #showerThoughts
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Tal día como hoy de 1812 #Babbage, #Herschel y #Peacock fundaron una sociedad para modernizar las #matemáticas abandonando la notación de #Newton para él cálculo y adoptando la de #Leibniz. Dos siglos más tarde los matemáticos se siguen tirando de los pelos cuando ven a #físicos manejar #diferenciales.
https://bsky.app/profile/evocid.bsky.social/post/3mlddphzons2r
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Chap 2
of New Year #Resolutions implementing changeI enrolled in an on line meditation course. I joined a few forums specialising in dharma or #Buddhist lore. There was no stopping me. I even announced my intention, probably not a good idea. Nothing riles Buddhists more than someone trying to practice Buddhism in a way they don’t approve of. I also joined a sort of Buddhist therapy by the enlightened. The non-dualists fired questions about what you were until you finally realised it was all a fantasy and nothing known as self exists. My ego was to be vapourised?
My new found on-line sangha or Buddhist community, were very kind. They have to be, it is part of the rules. Not really rules, more like skillful recommendations?#Buddhism was started by a sort of male Grace Kelly #Princess of an ancient kingdom. Not happy with a sheltered magical life, the Shakya Clan Princess went through a series of New Age treatments until finally sitting under a tree and having a fig drop on their sacred bonce - or was that #Newton? Anyway he worked out the gravity of the situation and went about shouting the equivalent of #Eureka but with a little more decorum. Could this work? Where was the nearest fig tree?
I built a couple of shrines and slept on the floor between them. Buddhist monks are not allowed raised beds in case they hide women underneath. I am not sure of many women who would hide under beds for a bit of slap and tickle with a penniless baldy but one can take no chances. If a period of institutional misogyny has to be endured, sorry ladies, just be grateful I am not a strict #Jain. Their women have to incarnate as men to become enlightened! Ah well, a bit of nonsense helps with the training in patience. Or Not?
So the environment was in place, I chanted for help from Manjushri, Chenresig, Cundi (female Buddha), Tara (Lady Buddha too) and anyone else listening in the pantheon of other realm helpers. How could I fail? I installed Buddha’s in the garden, kitchen, bathroom and on an iPad, falling asleep with Buddha enlightenment on the mind and iPod touch tinny chants of encouragement.
There was a diversity of Buddhists. #Meditation seemed recommended by the majority as the fast way to #Nirvana, satori, awakening. The good stuff?I soon learned that the mind is an unruly fellow to follow. Constantly changing. Never satisfied. Meditation would tame this beast and what would be left is Buddha Nature or #Enlightened #Mind All I had to do was sit and watch the antics of the meandering experience in stillness. Until finally, exhausted and exposed for time wasting, it would just sort of dissolve away into an empty puddle of nothingness. I had a plan. I could almost smell the land of #buddhas beckoning me... or was it moth balls?
:agummyhug: :0dd_verified: :ab_heart_gay_pride:
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Ol’ Lonely • Newton, Iowa, USA
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Newton #Iowa #Outdoors #Maytag #Repairman #Park #Statue #NickKlepinger #July_12_2025
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If you’re in #bostonma let’s grab dinner. We are holding a meetup Thursday at 7PM at Gustazo in #Waltham. All are welcome!
#boston #walthamma #CambridgeMA #newton #somervillema #unionsquare #InmanSquare #centralsquare #newengland #mit #BelmontMA #FediMeetup #harvard #MoodySt
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If you’re in #bostonma let’s grab brunch. We are holding a meetup Saturday May 3 at 11 AM at Bistro781 in #Waltham. All are welcome!
#boston #walthamma #CambridgeMA #newton #somervillema #unionsquare #InmanSquare #centralsquare #newengland #mit #BelmontMA #FediMeetup #harvard
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If you’re in #bostonma let’s grab a beer. We are holding a meetup in two weeks.
#boston #walthamma #CambridgeMA #newton #somervillema #unionsquare #InmanSquare #centralsquare #newengland #mit #BelmontMA #FediMeetup #harvard
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A conversation.
“When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”
“For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”
“That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”
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Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.
But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.
At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.
In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.
But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.
Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.
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#DeanRickles - Is #Time #Fundamental?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TkPn-QNYtk
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfTime #Logic #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Emergence #Physics #Entropy #StatisticalMechanics #GR #GeneralRelativity #SpecialRelativity #Newton #Einstein #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumTheory #FieldTheory #Space #SpaceTime #QuantumFieldTheory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#laptop upgraded with decals for 2023.
#newton #butter #houseIndustries #tapbots #ivory #thrasher #blackmouth #creamco #innout #apple #macbook #macbookair #m2 #lukedorny #observer
