Sorry, I wanted to say something else about 'disbelief in physics'.

Of course I do hold in high esteem physics in particular, and science in general.

I might not know all the physics of doppler effects and EM propagation; I might be wrong about expecting 1ms latencies from satcom.  But I am sure that where one is wrong today another one might be right tomorrow.  Imagine for example the entire Internet stored in just one drone above the person's head, at 100m.  A big cache so to speak.  The latency that person will see might be even below 1ms.  Such examples, counter-examples and exceptions like this can be easily imagined.

About skepticism related to physics in particular, I can not abstain telling that, as with all observation-experiment-equation crafts (physics is just one, but there are others), the next big E=mc2 equation might very well be generated by AI, rather than by a human.  What makes me think so?  There is a paper published in Nature recently, whose first author is a relative of Mr. Bohr (Niels) (if I am not wrong about names; the point about a name being famous is not important here).   The first introductory paragraph is generated by AI, as reported by the gptzero tool.  I think that from there, there are only a few small steps to have the 'meat' of an article also generated by AI, i.e. some equation that our children, not grand children, will learn as being fundamental.  E=mc2 is just one example; it is very remote and very theoretical, but there are many other equation examples that are touching us in a more direct and immediate way.  Observing the nature and making equations out of it so that to forecast the future is very easy for AI.

That might be a point about disbelief in physics.  But I am not distrusting the existing physics corpus, that I might just simply not know it :-)

Alex

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 03:28:45PM +0200, Alexandre Petrescu via Starlink wrote:

well, ok.  One day the satcom latency will be so low that we will not have
enough requirements for its use :-)

Your disbelief in physics keeps amazing me :-)

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster