1-17-18 Mr J Video Gaming
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01/17/18
Mr. J Presents -Video Gaming | David McClintock Presents - We Need a New Kind of Physics
SciTechNature - This Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 @ 11:00am to 1:00pm Community Room, Puente Viejo on Calzada de la Aurora #52
Puente Viejo is a gated community; security might ask you to sign in at the entrance.
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David McClintock introduces Mr, J - Video Gaming
Mr. J is a delightful friend who is a racing-keyboard-carrying expert on video gaming.
He has lived the life, worked untold hours, and competed internationally across nine linguistic groups with and against over ten thousand players (yes, literally more than 10,000).
He earned quite a reputation by achieving remarkable score averages.
He can quickly cover the impact of video games before, during his career, and where they are evolving.
Underneath that vast experience, he has deep introspection on what the evolution of video gaming means.
Video gaming has been compared to automobile racing. Racing lead to innovations that accelerated the evolution of the motor car.
Similarly, video gaming has lead innovations that advanced and advance computing machinery.
Many aspects of CPUs and graphic chips were initially designed to deliver ever greater processing power - specifically for video games.
And video games have evolved very rapidly to absorb that processing power. Then ask for more.
“Chip boys, you get us the power, we've got the applications that can use it.”
He will illustrate with his videos how video gaming has evolved and more importantly: what video gaming is evolving towards. He has given thought to the sociological and psychological impacts of video gaming from old Pong to coming virtualization.
With the processing power available today, what game designers have done is to have literally evolved human experience.
That’s not an exaggeration. This presentation can give you a sense of that.
What may surprise some folks is the sheer enormous numbers of gamers who are involved.
In 2014 it was carefully calculated that there were some 1.8 billion gamers in the world.
That is about 25 percent of the entire global population.
Mr. J’s videos are not to be missed.
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Presenter: David McClintock Presents: We Need a New Kind of Physics.
Near us at the ordinary "standard" forces we are familiar with and experience, Newtonian mechanics work alright.
At galactic distances, Einsteinian mechanics work.
At very small sub-atomic distances, quantum mechanics work.
We still haven’t managed to put all those different mechanics together, but something new has arrived:
Under enormous forces, things appear to work in ways we have no understanding of.
We can see, observe, and show that stuff can do things we cannot even imagine good theories for - yet.
1. We cannot (yet) spin any magnet at any speed and get out a stream of anti-matter.
But neutron stars do that.
From observations at many neutron stars, we are quite sure that spinning magnetic forces of huge intensity do emit matter and anti-matter.
We sure don’t know how.
We need new thinking about the physics involved with such enormous forces.
2. Since the Big Bang, we have evolved various ideas about the expansion of our universe.
We have reasoned it might be slowing down. We have measured its changing rate of expansion.
We now have data more precisely accurate than ever before.
To a three sigma level of confidence we have to take seriously that our universe is not expanding more slowly but is instead expanding ever faster.
Why? What force(s) cause things to accelerate faster and faster away from each other?
We profoundly do not know.
We need a new thinking about the physics involved there.
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The SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature
This week:
Tom Schneider:
I saw this Geo-engineering article in the Atlantic on a theory of a strategy to slow sea level rise by building gravel 'shelves' around major glaciers that are particularly vulnerable. Some real scientists at the end that are skeptical but they don't appear to be on Exxons payroll. Anyway, interesting.
Maybe enough in the article (lots of embedded links) for someone to do a program:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/a-new-geo-engineering-pro
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