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I’ve got several replies in my inbox that I assume were deleted because when I click them I get an error message (or maybe it’s another bug, not sure), and I’d love to know whether they’re happening based on a certain reply, but I can’t tell.

It would be awesome if the community/threat were displayed in the header of messages in the inbox.

Thanks for all you do!

The first way we'll implement time travel will be sending data. First will be the equivalent of messages in a bottle – with no ability to choose the recipient – then we'll be able to send ordered data (the equivalent of texts, followed by voice/waves, then pictures/video, and eventually physical matter). We should currently be looking for rudimentary messages sent to us from the future, not trying to physically travel in time.

Adding dimensions to our understanding is a step towards navigating them. Time is the next logical dimension to understand (see, map, and navigate), and we can be fairly sure of this because we already travel in that dimension, though we don't yet have conscious control of our interactions within it. That means the time dimension interacts strongly with our native 3rd dimension (I mean strongly as opposed to weak interactions we can see with other particles in quantum physics).

Visualising that dimension will lead to navigation, though it won't become physically usable straight away. We should be looking for messages sent via data from the future, not trying to build a physical time machine.

A physical time machine as we've historically envisioned may not be possible, because the mechanism for moving through time in ways other than our standard vector may not have anything to do with the 3rd dimension that we're embedded within. Since time is likely a separate dimension from what we consider the third (and in which we're used to operating), a mechanism that allows us to travel in time will likely not be a 3rd dimensional 'machine'.

Visualising dimensions beyond our usual perception is the first step. If we can understand the structure of other dimensions and map out their rules, we increase the chance of being able to gain conscious control over them collectively. That would absolutely look like magic at first (in a similar way to lightning looking like magic to primitive people, but it's rooted in science that can be understood and manipulated), but it's nonetheless a real thing with properties and rules that we can understand and interact with. We already interact with it, albeit passively.

We move in one direction and see in the opposite. The first is our perception of the future; that's our normal vector. The second is our memory. We experience the highest fidelity at the point we call now, in which our local time point intersects strongly with at least 3 other dimensions. What we experience as the past is a perceptual gradient cone with less fidelity the farther it recedes from our 'current' perceptional point.

We should develop a receiver/detector first. We typically do this with properties of the universe which we observe, using physics and mathematics. Observation comes first, followed by documenting and testing rules, constants, variables, and formulas – that's how science works. Any observations and conclusions must make sense within the framework of existing physics.

Some preliminary questions include:

We each have a local reference frame as dictated by einsteinian physics in which time feels constant, and we know local perception isn't constant across the universe like, say, causality. We can define our local time using mathematical formulas, and we've explored some of its rules. We need to increase the fidelity of our understanding, defining more time rules, constants, variables, and formulas so we can properly design experiments.

Are there particles that link strongly to the time dimension? How are they structured? What are their underlying wave structures? What are their constants and properties? How can we express them using formulas? How do they interact with the other closest dimensional intersections or interfaces? How can we see or visualise them? How can we manipulate them?

What are the constants associated with our current vector? What formulas define our location and movement, and how can they be manipulated?

We need a receiver, like an analogue to the radio. We usually develop rudimentary receivers before we can fully map our understanding of a phenomenon. We likely already have enough knowledge to build one, like any other sensor we've developed. We just need to know what signal we're looking for. Assuming we've worked this out in the future, what's the simplest signal we should be looking for and how would we detect it? That should be our first step.

So the most intriguing question we can answer right now is: What would a message from the future look like, and how would we receive it?

E: I'm terrible at spelling apparently

Researchers at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Danilo Zia and Fabio Sciarrino from the Sapienza University of Rome, recently demonstrated a novel technique that allows the visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons, the elementary particles that constitute light, in real-time.

I’m sorry if these are known issues, but I cant tell because of these issues. I can’t sort this sub in a way that helps.

I like to sort by new, but as of today I only see Top, Hot, Active, Most Comments, Most Comments (yes twice), New Comments, and Old. I want to sort the community by ‘new posts’, not new comments, but that’s no longer an option at all. Also, if I try to reload a few times, it crashes the app.

Not being able to sort by New Posts is pretty bad, and I’m hoping this wasn’t a design change (I assume it wasn’t, but since I can’t sort without the app crashing, I can’t tell what’s happening).

Thanks guys. I know you’re working hard and I appreciate everything you’re doing!

They love it.

In a study published in June in Environmental Science & Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics.

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Once they’ve snuck past the body’s defense systems, “the chemicals used in plastics hack hormones,” says Leonardo Trasand, a professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the director of the Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards. Hormones are signaling molecules underlying basically everything the body does, so these chemicals, called endocrine disruptors, have the potential to mess with everything from metabolismto sexual development and fertility.

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Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and the president of Beyond Plastics, a policy and advocacy group against plastic pollution, stopped microwaving plastic 30 years ago. She thinks that you should, too: “My goodness, especially if you have kids or if you’re pregnant, do not put plastic in the microwave.”

“It’s a pain in the neck,” she acknowledges, but “even this one study should be a wake-up call—not just to new parents but to the FDA. They need to be far more proactive.” Transand agrees: “The FDA is glacially behind.”

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“I don’t believe that there are microwave-safe plastics.” Trasand and Enck agree that while independent studies should continue testing how much plastic is being released from food packaging, there is already enough evidence to show that “microwave-safe plastic” isn’t really safe. “I think the FDA needs to tell companies that they can no longer say any plastic is microwavable,” says Enck.

For a good while, there was a bit of hype built around the Xbox Series S, in particular for the retro gaming scene. It was a cheaper device that offered a small form factor. Likewise, it allowed consumers to download emulators and enjoy various retro video games. But while this process was available, some consumers were skeptical. Of course, it didn’t take Microsoft too long before they outright banned emulators from being available in the marketplace, making it impossible to download and enjoy. That’s just the emulators being used in the Xbox Series X/S retail mode.

RETAIL MODE ON XBOX IS DEAD!

• 15-day suspensions handed out to users of retail emulators as a warning shot from Microsoft.
• Devs warning users to delete emulators
• Retail Mode team disbanding and shutting down the Patreon. Sorry to bear the bad news. RT to warn others

[Article continues…]

For a good while, there was a bit of hype built around the Xbox Series S, in particular for the retro gaming scene. It was a cheaper device that offered a small form factor. Likewise, it allowed consumers to download emulators and enjoy various retro video games. But while this process was available, some consumers were skeptical. Of course, it didn’t take Microsoft too long before they outright banned emulators from being available in the marketplace, making it impossible to download and enjoy. That’s just the emulators being used in the Xbox Series X/S retail mode.

[…]

RETAIL MODE ON XBOX IS DEAD!

• 15-day suspensions handed out to users of retail emulators as a warning shot from Microsoft.
• Devs warning users to delete emulators
• Retail Mode team disbanding and shutting down the Patreon. Sorry to bear the bad news. RT to warn others

[Article continues…]

Astronomers are perplexed by a strange young planet so close to its parent star that its atmosphere is evaporating and its orbit is changing in unpredictable ways.

The planet AU Microscopii b (AU Mic b), according to scientists from Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is showing clear signs of atmospheric loss with the its hydrogen-rich atmosphere puffing out in front of the planet, like a headlight on a fast-bound train.

“We’ve never seen atmospheric escape go from completely not detectable to very detectable over such a short period when a planet passes in front of its star,” study co-author Keighley Rockcliffe said.

“We were really expecting something very predictable, repeatable. But it turned out to be weird. When I first saw this, I thought ‘That can’t be right,’” Dr Rockcliffe said.

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