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Tom Hartsfield
Big Think Contributor
Tom Hartsfield is a PhD physicist. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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George Orwell got it right: "Never use a long word where a short one will do."
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Laser-guided lightning isn't the only manmade way to create lightning.
The biggest lingering question about GPT-4 isn't if it's going to destroy jobs or take over the world. Instead, it is this: Do we trust AI programmers to tell society what is true?
Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.