Hans G. Schantz

Scientist, Engineer, Inventor, Author
Making Physics Great Again, One Post at a Time

[Hans G. Schantz @AetherCzar]

Fields & Energy: Book 1 is the #1 new release in Electromagnetism & Quantum Theory on Amazon.
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[Alyssa Hazel, Page Turner @AlysssaHazel]

If I can say the weird thing?

I read three of Michael Crichton's books this year for the first time: State of Fear, Jurassic Park, and Eaters of the Dead.

I've concluded that if someone told him that they weren't smart enough to read his books, he would say: "Yes you are."

Very rare triple threat of understanding people, understanding science, and loving both.

[Backwoods Engineer - RURAL REBEL @BackwoodsEnginr]

Me, too, Oliver Heaviside, although we seldom get all three of those in a student.

[Tommy 🇺🇸 @RealitySalesman]

For educational purposes only! 🤣

[Hans G. Schantz @AetherCzar]

You said, "mask mandatory." Is there a problem?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The San Francisco Emporium just introduced “Mask-mandatory hours”

“Today was the first ever ‘mask hours’ at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It felt like a wonderful fever dream and glimpse into what our world could look like if everyone was working to reduce the spread of viruses. It was especially lovely to see kids doing such a good job about masking and parents working to protect them”

I can’t believe it, but yes this is real

It was an early-access session for people who prefer a designated mask-required experience. N95, KN95 or KF94 masks were required for all visitors and staff during those 2 hours. Complimentary masks were available at the entrance. There was even a Covid demo

As of now the museum hasn’t announced new mask hour dates

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

When I was a production assistant, I had to walk William Shatner from a parking lot to the studio where the set was located, and we had to ride an elevator between the two locations. It was just Mr. Shatner and I by ourselves, not saying anything to each other, and the elevator was quiet. He was focused on the work at hand, and I thought it was just cool being in his presence. During the ride, I finally got the courage to say something to him, so I thought what the heck, and said, "You were great in Kingdom of Spiders." Shatner didn't respond at all. I thought oh boy, I've really annoyed him.

The elevator doors finally opened where the producer was waiting for him. I politely waited for Shatner to step out first, but he didn't. Instead he turned to me, and without even smiling said, "I showed those little bastards who was boss didn't I." and walked out.

[John P. McCann @JohnPMcCann2]

Paul Rugg @pkrugg and I went to the funeral service. Adios, Jonathan, no one screamed like you.

[Michael Finney @mdf365]

So, Ya Wanna Be An Indie Author... | Out Now

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[Spycraft101 @spycraft101]

The Dome of Light is a still-unsolved Cold War mystery which may have been a developmental Soviet superweapon.

The phenomenon has been known to the US government since at least 1986, based on declassified reports. In November 1988, a USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball aircraft was flying off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula to observe a scheduled Soviet SS-20 ballistic missile launch from the Kura Test Range.

Pilot Robert Hopkins III witnessed an almost incomprehensible event. He looked west and saw a “translucent, milky white wall moving from the left, over the USSR, to the right, toward the Northern Pacific Ocean.” The wall extended from ground level up as high as they could see, and moved at a speed later estimated to be 6,200 mph. The wall of light passed over his aircraft and disappeared, leaving the pilot and Air Force analysts completely baffled.

Other Dome of Light events were recorded as well, sometimes coinciding with the launch of Soviet SS-20 missiles. A now-declassified 1986 report indicated the domes could reach an unbelievable 1,900 kilometers in diameter, and a height of 1,000 kilometers, reaching well into Earth’s exosphere. One of the most plausible theories is that the Domes were a countermeasure intended to blind American satellites in the critical first moments of a devastating preemptive nuclear strike by the Soviets.

It may also have been the result of creating chemiluminescent ethylene clouds for studying the atmosphere. There has even been speculation that the Soviets developed a device based on Nikola Tesla’s theory of scalar energy, which he described as one of the fundamental energy sources in the universe alongside electromagnetic energy.

Whatever the origin of the Dome of Light, it is now clear that the intelligence community took it very seriously in the 1980s. But it is less clear what they ever learned about how the Soviets created and harnessed them.

For episode 22 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I interviewed Robert Hopkins about his career as a Cobra Ball pilot and witnessing the Dome of Light. The episode is available now.

#coldwar #nikolatesla #energy #airforce #pilot

https://t.co/eIo6Zo1iM4

[Hans G. Schantz @AetherCzar]

@illiamSchwandt Happy birthday! Looking forward to seeing you at the Symposium.

[Aurondarklord yearns for Malfoid @Aurondarklord]

I remember a campaign a decade ago called the “sad puppies”. Male authors, upset the Hugo Awards for sci fi writing were biased against any author who wrote “guy stuff” or was seen as conservative, advanced their own slate of nominees, as anyone can do. They swept to the point it was procedurally impossible to deny them the awards.

The Hugos had a tantrum, refused to give awards that year at all, then changed the rules. For years after (dunno if to this day), no man ever won anything again.

That’s the kind of institutional purges of men and male interests from literature that caused “men don’t read”.

[Paul Hsieh @PaulHsieh]

Important news to my friends who use GLP-1 medications. The unwanted side effect is rare, but the consequences are severe (permanent blindness in the eye):

https://t.co/uUw9GAE22W

[Rachel Fulton Brown @RFultonBrown]

I just finished reading @DataRepublican's excellent book. It is a must-read both for the long history of the way our institutions of democracy have become institutions of autocracy and for its analysis of the basis of sovereignty.

If you ever wondered why the Guardians of “Our Democracy” have been trying so hard to shut you down, you want to read this book. https://t.co/fJWC9mhZQg

[ΛЯIΣᄂ @Prolotario1]

I Do Not Think You All Know How Pissed Off You Should Be:

NVIDIA structured certain GPU models for the US domestic market with artificial performance caps deliberately nerfing compute capability on units sold to American buyers. The rationale given was compliance with export control thresholds: keeping performance below the gating metrics that would trigger BIS licensing requirements for international sale.

This Was A Treasonous Act Of Betrayal

The actual effect? American researchers, American defense contractors, American AI startups, and American government agencies received deliberately hobbled hardware while the full-performance equivalents were being smuggled to China through Megaspeed's pipeline.

This Is A National Security Issue

American defense applications the AI systems processing satellite imagery for the NRO, the machine learning models powering drone targeting for SOCOM, the computational linguistics tools the NSA uses for signals intercepts these run on capped chips that Jensen Huang deliberately underpowered.

Jensen Huang Is Trying To Play Coy

On the other hand. Chinese military AI programs the People's Liberation Army's autonomous weapons research, the MSS's surveillance state facial recognition grid, the PLA Strategic Support Force's cyber warfare operations these were receiving full-performance chips through the smuggling pipeline that Huang's company failed to track and his MSS-linked lover helped facilitate.

He Will Not Remain Nvidia CEO

He handicapped America's compute edge while enabling China's.

This is not a regulatory technicality. This is a strategic betrayal at the silicon level. Every American researcher who couldn't get their model to train fast enough, every defense project that required more compute cycles and had to wait for next-gen hardware, every startup that lost competitive ground to Chinese firms flush with smuggled H100s they were all casualties of Jensen Huang's two-tier system.

[Visit Sault Ste. Marie @VisitTheSault]

Starting tonight at 1 AM, we’ll be sharing the real radio transmissions from the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior, 50 years ago.

These posts will follow the timeline as it happened, from the first reports of rough seas to the ship’s final transmission.

We share them in remembrance of the 29 men who were lost, and in respect for all who work the Great Lakes.

Transmissions from: https://t.co/cE4Ednwct7

[William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! @FamedCelebrity]

"[D]emocracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must thus be to penalize the free play of ideas." --HLM

[Charles Rosenbauer @bzogrammer]

Much of government funding into Quantum Computing is probably just cargo culting the Manhattan Project.

"The physicists gave us the superweapon before, maybe if we give them enough time and money they'll do it again."

[PR0F3SS0R 🌺 FL0W3R @marcf999]

can't wait

[Anastasia @demystifysci]

Atoms change shape to make light

[Tim Hamilton @TSHamiltonAstro]

I'm giving my talk on the discovery of quasars to Astronomy class today, and I'll be using my standard joke that "Redshift Killed the Radio Star." But I'm not as certain that any of the kids in the class would get the reference.

[Chris Land ⏸️⏹️ @chris_land]

This except the hoop is everything.