Publications by RSM
Uncivilization
Uncivilization 2024-01-17 When will industrial civilization begin to decline? How long before it is considered an historical relic? Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine wrote Uncivilization, The Dark Mountain Manifesto in 2009 as an expression of the view that our industrial civilization faces a progressive and inevitable decline. Civilizations through...
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Quantum Realities
Quantum Realities RSM 2024-01-17 Although quantum mechanics is the most robust, widely-supported scientific theory in the history of science, the theory only deals with the math and measurable effects; it says nothing about the underlying reality. It’s one thing to say that an observation affects the outcome of a given subatomic event, but it’s...
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Quantum Mechanics: A Highly Simplistic Summary
Quantum Mechanics 1 RSM 2024-01-16 “Some physicists would prefer to come back to the idea of an objective real world whose smallest parts exist objectively in the same sense as stones or trees exist independently of whether we observe them. This however is impossible.” — Werner Heisenberg Quantum mechanics grew out of classical physics’ f...
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Uncivilization
Uncivilization RSM 2024-01-13 When will industrial civilization begin to decline? How long before it is considered an historical relic? Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine’s 2009 essay “Uncivilization, The Dark Mountain Manifesto,” argues that our industrial civilization is in progressive and inevitable decline. Civilizations throughout history ...
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Fusion Illusion Fusion power is not coming anytime soon RSM 2023-09-25 “For more than a century, scientists and engineers have dreamed of bringing to earth the same kind of clean energy produced in our sun: Fusion!.”11 Opening narrative in “Fusion is Now” video produced by the the U.S. ITER group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nuclear p...
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Fusion Illusion_1
A Tufte Handout Example An implementation in R Markdown JJ Allaire and Yihui Xie 2023-08-28 “For more than a century, scientists and engineers have dreamed of bringing to earth the same kind of clean energy produced in our sun: Fusion!.”11 Opening narrative in “Fusion is Now” video produced by the the U.S. ITER group at Oak Ridge National ...
24253 sym
Fusion Illustion_1
Fusion illusion Why fusion energy is a long ways off RSM 2023-08-18 “For more than a century, scientists and engineers have dreamed of bringing to earth the same kind of clean energy produced in our sun: Fusion!.”11 Opening narrative in “Fusion is Now” video produced by the the U.S. ITER group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nuclear powe...
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