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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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The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
You can't throw a DART at everything in space.
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.
Size matters, but it's not the only thing.
Each year, several trillion pounds of microscopic silicon-based skeletons fall down the water column to pile up into siliceous ooze.