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miika··on Protons are probably smaller than long thought
It’s easy to drop that link. Much harder to deny the math that works perfectly. But probably it’s even harder to convince you to take serious look at it :)
miika··on Protons are probably smaller than long thought
https://hiup.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Addendum_QGHM_2....
miika··on What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?
Who thinks it’s hard? When you have answer to that then you understand consciousness.
miika··on How the Finnish survive without small talk (2018)
As a Finn I think that when people are not sure what to say.. but they feel like they should say something, then small talk is great.

Maybe we Finns think too much and say something only when we’re sure what to say, so it might be very compact, well thought package of information. Something like: “Sure. Good Bye.”

We also seem to share some bad drunken behavior and dark humor with English lads.

miika··on Wave Function Collapse library in pure C
How about something like:

World.import(World.export(props))

Run that in an infinite loop.

Anyways this post ignited some deep contemplation

miika··on FIA boss: Electric F1 racing is 'simply not possible'
Why not just replace battery at pit stop?
miika··on The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’
“Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda.”

It’s like you have a bookshelf filled with books. Some books you haven’t read, some were gifts, some were acquired, some you didn’t finish and some book you will read over and over again. All of them were kept for some reason.

I don’t believe nature would create something that’s completely useless. I just know that often I fail to see what the use might be.

miika··on 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
Thanks for tip, I might upgrade.

I was just disappointed that I would have to buy the app again in order to upgrade.. because I just couldn’t see why it wasn’t free update.

miika··on 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults
Still using v6 and not planning to upgrade
miika··on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
People at Apple really think that someone who has such images would add them to iCloud Library?
miika··on We Still Don’t Get Things Done
When I get even little bit excited about something and act on it, then it's easy to get things done. No tools required!

Then again, when I'm asked to do something that isn't really my thing or something is off, then I just can fix it with some task manager (!).

Sure, even the most exciting project may feel little bit boring at times but.. as long as it's not all the time I let it be.

It's not healty to be productive all the time.

miika··on How Math Might Reveal Quantum Gravity
https://hiup.org/publications/

They claim to have found a simple solution. Looks like Planck’s length was turned into a sphere, then they calculated how many of those spheres would fit inside a single proton. That was compared against how many Planck circles would fit on surface of single proton. From the ratio of the two they could solve size and critical mass of the universe, by looking at single proton. Quite amazing if that’s true. They think proton is a mini black hole and when it’s scaled up to size of the universe things match. And key to nailing it in the end was to consider volumes made from intersecting spheres (like flower of life pattern) instead of tiled cubes. The guy behind this certainly faced lot of criticism before but apparently now the math works. Anyways I don’t have skills to evaluate this by myself but maybe it’s worth checking out by someone who can do the math. Don’t shoot the messenger ok :)

miika··on Maybe the Aliens Are Here?
About SETI. Please correct me but I'm under assumption that the signals they're looking for are basically analog radio waves similar to our old TV and radio broadcasts?

But digital communication, especially when encrypted, would completely blend with the background noise.. right? Could we even detect our own modern signals with SETI?

And communication based on quantum entanglement etc way more advanced stuff SETI would completely miss + we don't even know all the different ways they could be communicating. Our ideas are reflecting our on state of technology, right?

miika··on How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating
There are many things that apparently "I should be doing" but actually those turn out be someone else's ideas that may sound great but.. they're just not for me.

So when I find myself procrastinating I quickly decide: I'm not going to do it at all. If deciding that gives me sense of relief then I take it was a sign I was right to drop it.

But if decding that feels wrong then I will contemplate on it, because maybe it was pointing towards something that I should be looking into more closely.

For example, our culture is really trying to sell the idea of "I should be going to gym" but no, I shouldn't. Instead it's probably a good idea to put my muscles into work somehow but then that doesn't have to be gym.

But I can tell that everytime I'm doing the thing that's good for me: I'm in flow and things are rolling forward very nicely. I don't need anyone telling me what I should or should not.

miika··on Mysterious fast radio bursts come in two distinct flavours
If there were space crafts jumping into warp speed or shit like that, then how that would look like?

Imagine if FRB’s were signs of cosmic traffic it would certainly change “life out there” conversation :)

miika··on US investigates second suspected case of mystery 'syndrome' near White House
Check this CNN clip from 1985

https://youtu.be/fq17HUxkTZ8

miika··on Memory transferred between snails, challenging standard theory (2018)
There are some theories explaining that memory is stored in Space, and that DNA acts as an “antenna” which can retrieve information via quantum entanglement.

Ok, well IF that’s the case (I’m not saying it is) then this finding wouldn’t be that surprising but rather expected behavior.

So when they modified “antenna” of that snail so that it can access information previously accessed only by the other snail.

Anyways that’s just about entertaining an idea, so don’t take it seriously, please.

miika··on Why does time seem to speed up with age? (2016)
Maybe it’s related to this phenomenon that when I travel to some new place for the first time then the trip feels much longer than the way back. Also when visiting more and more the trip feels shorter and shorter.

I can imagine that “carving new path into mind” takes more effort than traveling on a path which is already there.

From that, perhaps we can make time seem slower by constantly doing something new instead of falling into old routines. At least falling into routines seems to increase with age.

miika··on Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum world (2018)
https://hiup.org/publications/
miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
I’m not into ancient aliens stuff actually. I believe in engineering and science.

Clearly we follow quite different kind of researchers and see things from different perspectives. Which is great, I hope your way works for you as well as my way works for me :)

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
One more thing.

It’s one thing to pile the rocks and create perfectly symmetrical pyramid.

Where it becomes more difficult is when you start considering all the details. Such as those two shafts going through the structure. How they made them SO straight? Did they made them after piling up the rocks? What tool could do that? Did they create the shafts while piling up the rocks? That’s equally impressive!

What about the acoustic properties of grand gallery? How you would achieve such perfect resonance having musical octave with twelve semitones in the design?

That’s just scratching surface. More we look into the structure more it looks like a device than anything else.

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DoJOwTqCxU

Ask them how would they transport 1200 ton block on soft sand over a mountain :)

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
No, we don’t need satellite data to align with true north.

Yes, we need satellite data to get that level of precision.

When we’re talking about 1200 ton single block of granite on soft sand, we just don’t move it. Ok. We don’t take it over mountain and over river.

There was huge project in California when they transported 340 ton rock. They needed satellite data to find a route that was flat enough as their specially built transporter wasn’t able to take it up hill at all.

The reality is: you cannot fit enough slaves under such rock to lift it. How ancients were able to transport these rocks in your opinion?

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
Relax :)

My only point was that human being in 2021 may not capable of replicating the great pyramid of Giza.

We even don’t have technology to move some of the rocks that has been put in place thousands of years ago.

This is not even my opinion but people who build skyscrapers say they couldn’t do it. They have no idea how they did it. I believe them rather than you, sorry.

But you’re right that they were very very clever people back in the past. More clever than we are today.

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
Also it’s one thing to test some techniques than put it all together.

According to official timeline and amount of stones they should place one in every few hours. You realize that you have to be absolutely perfect with the stones, as if you make little mistake near the base then the tip is not going to be in the center. But it’s so precisely in the center it would be a amazing achievement even today.

Dimensions and proportions contain speed of light, size of Earth etc. It’s aligned with true north being just fraction of a degree off, something we need satellite data to do. And so on..

And there are those rocks in the desert we could not transport today. But everyone can believe only what they want to believe. I want to believe we are not very advanced yet comparing to our ancestors. It gives me hope.

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
There is really good film called “Revelations of the Pyramids” in which engineers are looking at many ancient sites and tell what they found. They interview construction engineers etc.

Historians and archeologists have no idea what they’re looking at. Their stories are the incredible fantasies that defy laws of physics and basic engineering.

It’s just too much for many people to entertain the idea that our civilization probably isn’t the first advanced one.

miika··on Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids? Not Slaves
Why it’s “conspiracy theory” to think it could have been done by some previous advanced civilization?

The fact is modern people is still not able to build the great pyramid of Giza with such precision and within proposed timeline.

And it’s not just the pyramid but there are simple things such as a block of granite, like the unfinished obelisk, weighting 1200 tons. The strongest mobile crane in the world that could operate on sand would still struggle immensely when trying to lift that, moving it few hundred meters would be demanding project. But they say these blocks came from hundreds of miles away, across Nile and over some mountain. We do not have capability to do that today. Not even close. But don’t believe me but do some research on your own.

miika··on Can we think without language?
Thought is internal sound, right? Is there difference with music playing in your head or words playing in your head?

Anyways how could I think with other words than with the ones I already know?

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