by Robin Bloor | Sep 28, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Vagaries of Time The Current Doctrine Modern physics treats time as a mathematical dimension — equivalent in most ways to length, breadth and height; it is viewed as something that can be measured in respect of an event or series of events. Albert Einstein’s...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 21, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
I Robot, I Formatory Recently the news broke that a senior software engineer at Google had concluded that Google AI chatbot, LaMDA, was “sentient.” LaMDA is an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications—it is software designed to...
by Robin Bloor | May 22, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
A Butterfly Kissing The Ground I do not often encounter documentaries that are both enlightening and informative. Kiss The Ground, which you can find on Netflix, is an exception. Should you watch it, there is even a website, KissTheGround.com, that you may want to...
by Robin Bloor | Apr 18, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
All Life Participates in Reciprocal Feeding — Even An Alpha Predator When we read The Tales we sometimes encounter Beelzebub using the term “common system harmony.” Gurdjieff chooses not to define this term clearly. We take this term to refer to the...
by Robin Bloor | Mar 22, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
The Moon and the Magnetotail Most planets have a self-created magnetosphere. As already mentioned; the Moon does not. It has a magnetosphere created for it by the Sun’s solar wind, as occurs with all solar system bodies which do not have a self-generated...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 18, 2022 | Objective Science, The Lost Herald
Called the Iris Nebula because of its vague resemblance to a blue Iris flower. The picture, courtesy of the Hubble telescope, is of the Iris nebula—known as NGC 7023 to its intimate friends. It is roughly 1,300 light-years distant, and lives in the constellation...