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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 11h

The secret weapon against AI was hiding in ancient manuscripts all along: scriptio continua. The AI audio player choked a few syllables into the first line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCiw0wD44U

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Star Trek - Everything Harry tells you is a Lie

YouTube video by Duane Kimball

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine reading without spaces between words. Now imagine an entire culture built that way. The invention of the modern page changed not merely how knowledge was recorded, but who could read it, how they read it, how they did science, and how they thought. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/1733-the-w...

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did Francis Bacon invent science, or something considerably more consequential… and sinister? 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/francis-bacon-science-and-scientism Also: youtu.be/tWMmbt3fCQA

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Francis Bacon, Science & Scientism

Featuring Robert Frederick, The Hidden Life is Best

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Lisa Grossman @astrolisa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In reporting this, I learned that Russia launched a big space mirror in the 90s. Retrospective pieces c. 2015 were like "what a crazy, supervillain-y idea!" Now the idea is back, being taken seriously, and shining light (sorry) on the shortcomings of space law. 🔭🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/refl...

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Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky

A space satellite that would offer light on demand has astronomers asking: Who controls the night sky?

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Lost Land Bridge Project Ancient cave art discovery suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales🏺🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article... Dr George Nash has located 8 cave sites featuring rock art dating back from at least 15 Kya, ~ 5Ky before previous oldest example of humans in Ireland

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Photo credit: George Nash - Lost Land Bridge Project

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interested in discussing and understanding the fundamentals of electromagnetism? Join the all-star lineup for the Heaviside Symposium hosted by the Signals Museum in Huntsville, AL MLK Day Weekend.🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/with-two-w...

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With Two Weeks to Go, Abstracts Are Arriving!

And the Heaviside Symposium Program is Filling Up

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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

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Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New Scientist

The enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five

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Todd West @rockfest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Those old codex and esp the papyrus have such a unique smell. I still have a few sheets of unused papyrus I bought in the 80’s immediately when you open the box the smell hits ya…wild how long the smell lasts when not exposed to open air.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stunning how much was lost. Amazing how much was preserved. The impact of the codex on science. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-1732-the-parchment-codex-revolution

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II 1.7.3.2 The Parchment Codex Revolution

The Birth of the Book and the Loss of the Ancient World

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Scientists neglect history at their peril. That’s how the poets appropriated Chaucer’s legacy. 🧪https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_on_the_Astrolabe

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A Treatise on the Astrolabe - Wikipedia

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead! That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time! Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11 🗃️🧪

Meme. Drawing of the eels' life cycle, surrounding a map of their migration range, centered on the mid-Atlantic. The drawing shows the evolution cycle:
1. Silver eels spawning
2. Eggs
3. Larval stage
4. Glass eel
5. Elvers
6. Yellow eel
7. Silver eel

The inconsistency in singular/plural drives me a little crazy, because it suggests that eels shift from being multiple animals to one animal and back several times over their lives. Which is silly. Nobody does that. Not even my neighbors, who might be werewolves.

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"There's history in here somewhere"

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Amazon is currently offering 15% off softcovers of Fields & Energy Book I: Fundamentals and Origins of Electromagnetism. Now only $17. 🧪 amzn.to/4ipGmwm

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The history of science is inseparable from the history of media. Each advance in communication transformed not only how scientific knowledge was preserved and transmitted, but also who could create it and how rapidly ideas could spread." 📜📚📽️ 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-173-med...

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II 1.7.3 Media & Communication Infrastructure

How Knowledge is Preserved and Transmitted

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Space @stellarvisions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Des antennes émettent des signaux vers les étoiles. 🌌✨ Une connexion fascinante avec l'univers ! #Space #Antenna #Technology #Night #Communication

Six antennes du Deep Space Network sont alignées dans un paysage nocturne, illuminées par des lumières.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"His colleagues were inclined to believe his disappearance was a suicide. Various alternate theories were put forward: that he became a beggar or that he joined a monastery. In the last few years, however, the mystery appears to have been resolved." 🧪⚛️ aetherczar.substack.com/p/why-did-ma...

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Why Did Majorana Vanish?

The Mysterious Physicist Who Shaped Quantum Computing

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My Huntsville Hamfest Forum... "Did Heaviside Delete Maxwell? Scalar Waves and Longitudinal Fields in Radio Science" 🧪 Substack: aetherczar.substack.com/p/video-did-... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGa...

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Did Oliver Heaviside remove part of Maxwell's theory? Do scalar waves exist? Are there electromagnetic waves that travel without transverse electric and magnetic fields? This talk examines the origins of these claims. 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGa...

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Video: Did Heaviside Delete Maxwell? Scalar Waves and Longitudinal Fields in Radio Science

YouTube video by Hans Schantz

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My recent IEEE Symposium Keynote: "How Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics Work, and Where Physics Went Wrong." 🧪https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/how-electromagnetism-and-quantum

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Physics Explained @physicsexplained.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you prefer listening to science and physics, you can now find the latest episode YouTube: youtu.be/04jFokX6GcY Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/52yu... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Al other places: linktr.ee/physicsexpla... Please subscribe, listen, and share.

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Podcast Episode 12: They Didn't Glitch, They Escaped: What the Recent AI Breakouts Really Mean

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Did early Christian Fathers like Tertullian (155–220) really believe that absurdity and impossibility were the logical basis of truth? Were they philosophically opposed not only to logic and reason, but also to philosophy and science itself?" 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-163-chr...

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II 1.6.3 Christianity & Pagan Philosophy

Do Christians Believe It Because It Is Absurd?

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Missing scientists? It's happened before. One of the most brilliant physicists in the 20th century just vanished. There are suspicions, but no one is exactly sure what became of him. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/why-did-ma...

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Why Did Majorana Vanish?

The Mysterious Physicist Who Shaped Quantum Computing

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What if hydrogen isn't a spooky quantum system, but rather a little receiver or transmitter following the same rules as your cell-phone antenna? What if “quantum observables” are just consequences of "hidden variables" like energy storage, size, and power? 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/is-hydroge...

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Is Hydrogen an Electrically Small Antenna?

Quantum atomic transitions obey classical antenna physics. Vastly superior performance (as attributed to Ghost Murmur) defies known behavior of quantum systems.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"Enlightenment historiography of science framed the rise of modern science as a liberation from medieval Catholic authority and monastic culture, portraying the past as an age of superstition overcome by reason, experiment, and individual inquiry." 🧪 substack.com/home/post/p-....

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II 1.6.2 Galileo & Enlightenment Historiography

Making of a Scientific Martyr

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Help the Society for Post-Quantum Research put the "classical" back into "classical physics," and pick up your own copy of the Amazon #1 New Release in Electromagnetism, Fields & Energy Book I: Fundamentals & Origins of Electromagnetism. amzn.to/4axBYXY 🧪

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"I argue that the solution to the stagnation we face in modern physics is not to achieve a more sophisticated level of mathematical abstraction, but instead to fix some rather cringeworthy misunderstandings in the foundations of fundamental science." 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/aethercz...

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The Cringeworthiness of Modern Physics

Want To Impinge? Transcend the Cringe

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 10/09/2025

The cells of your body follow simple rules and play off one another to form a complete organism. The researcher Alexander Mordvintsev has developed “neural cellular automata,” building blocks that can self-assemble into any form. @georgemusser.com reports: www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembl...

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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’ | Quanta Magazine

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

History is a set of lies agreed upon, and physics is a set of interpretations collectively accepted. Join me and find out "Where Physics Went Wrong." 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/where-phys...

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Michael Finney @mdf365.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Returning to the program, @aetherczar.bsky.social rczar discusses his new series "Fields & Energy", a historical look at physics & where it went wrong. We also talk writing, crowdfunding projects, and the Based Book Sale Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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SpeakerCone: Hans Schantz - Fields & Energy

Podcast Episode · The Episodic w/ Michael Finney · 08/25/2025 · 37m

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"...conventional thinking on electromagnetism, as currently taught and understood, is based on false premises..."🧪 open.substack.com/pub/treeofwo...

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Don't Shut Up And Calculate; Read Fields & Energy and Understand

An Interview with Author and Physicist Hans G. Schantz

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🍂 🧪 Assault on the CDC on Fri Aug 8 “When you make claims that have been proven false time and time again about safety and efficacy of vaccines, that can cause unintended consequences”

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"Dr. Schantz, a theoretical physicist turned engineer who studied under John Wheeler, unpacks the forgotten role of physical mediators in electromagnetism and what modern antenna design can reveal about light itself." m.youtube.com/watch?v=YXZf... 🧪

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Antennas Expose the Secrets of Light - Dr. Hans Schantz, DemystifySci #355

YouTube video by The DemystifySci Podcast

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

ReasonRX was an epistemological podcast on methods of learning and teaching and the philosophy and science of knowledge. It made an excellent forum to discuss how we figured out physics. This episode will be of particular interest to homeschoolers and educators.🧪 open.substack.com/pub/aethercz...

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History, Philosophy, and Teaching of Physics

Another Podcast Appearance

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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 13/06/2025

Side view of a Crookes tube. A high voltage (>5kV) is placed on the cathode(left)/anode(below) in a partial vacuum. The electrons strike the far end which is painted with phosphor making it glow green with cathodoluminescence. The Maltese Cross casts a shadow by blocking rays. #Science #Physics 🧪⚛️

A telescopic tube with two cables show a hazy blue stream of electrons illuminating the right side of the class with green light. A shadow is cast by the internal metal Maltese cross.
Image Credit: D-Kuru/Wikimedia Commons
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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Niels Bohr “brainwashed a generation of physicists.” The Rockefeller Foundation footed the bill. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/podcast-the-rockefeller-foundation

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Podcast: The Rockefeller Foundation, Einstein, and Modern Physics

Discussing Who Funded the Copenhagen Interpretation with Virginia is for Conspiracy Lovers

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

What is "Jewish Physics?" Are there other kinds of physics? Or is there just... physics? And how did these questions play out in the early years of relativity and quantum mechanics? aetherczar.substack.com/p/529-what-i... 🧪

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5.2.9 What Is Meant By "Jewish Physics?"

And What Other Kinds of Physics Influenced Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

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Physics Magazine @physicsmagazine.aps.org · 11/04/2025

Plasma turbulence in Earth’s ionosphere can disrupt radio communications, GPS, and even global internet connectivity. It's difficult to predict. Now researchers have shown that a burst of ionospheric turbulence had a specific cause in distant electric-field oscillations.

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Atmospheric Turbulence Triggered by Events 20,000 km Up

Observations link turbulence in the ionosphere—a region essential for communications—with far-away disturbances associated with Earth’s magnetic field.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I love the crazy story about how when Stark and the Aryan Physics cabal went after Heisenberg, Heisenberg's mom went to Himmler's mom who had her son tell the SS to leave Heisenberg alone. Beyerchen: Scientists Under Hitler, p. 159. 🧪

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ohm faced years of poverty and obscurity from a failure of German authorities to recognize the merit of his work: work like "Ohm's Law" which we now regard as fundamental to physics in general and electronics in particular. 🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/341-ohms-l...

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3.4.1 Ohm's Law

"A Physicist Who Professed Such Heresies Was Unworthy to Teach Science"

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A late #OTD post. Georg Simon Ohm was born March 16th, 1789. He is known for his law stating proportionality of current & potential difference between two points: V=IR. ⚛️ 🧪 Bluesky: Why'd you do another OTD tweet Me: Sorry, I couldn't... Bluesky: No. Don't do this Me: …resist

Black and white portrait of Georg Simon Ohm. He is heavyset, with wavy hair, wearing a charcoal suit with a white shirt underneath.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17/03/2025

From strange beginnings, the 100-year-old Pauli exclusion principle has become a gift that keeps on giving for scientists who aim to understand the workings of matter. Read the essay in Nature. 🧪

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The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they are

From strange beginnings, the 100-year-old Pauli exclusion principle has become a gift that keeps on giving for scientists who aim to understand the workings of matter.

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AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 11/03/2025

Confirmed at last! Following decades of disproven claims, four small exoplanets have been confirmed to orbit Barnard’s Star, the second-closest star system to Earth after Alpha Centauri. aasnova.org/2025/03/11/c... 🪐🧪

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Confirmed at Last: Barnard’s Star Hosts Four Tiny Planets

Following decades of disproven claims, four small exoplanets have been confirmed to orbit Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth after Alpha Centauri.

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

PSA: There is a MAGA blacklist circulating between hiring managers in the sciences that's meant to make it harder for Trump supporters to get jobs. 🧪 x.com/reddit_lies/...

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It has begun 🧪👩‍🔬

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Michael Finney @mdf365.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This month's ebook/audiobook is a standalone release of the Rocky Mountains from Volume 1 of my Exploring Our National Parks series Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXTKFNVW It goes live on March 10th, the Audible release is currently in review - will update when it clears

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Hans G. Schantz @aetherczar.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What's a high schooler doing using matter-antimatter annihilation to study quantum entanglement? Read on! (And a tip-o-the-hat to @gmusser.bsky.social)🧪 aetherczar.substack.com/p/the-societ...

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The Society for Post-Quantum Research

Congratulates Corbin Hawkes for his Quantum Entanglement Science Fair Victory

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Babak Seradjeh @bseradjeh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Are we witnessing the unveiling of MSFT topocon? I had an unhelpful exchange with the VP, who of course has no time to engage with substantial criticism of their previous work. Instead, he spends his time spreading misleading or false information on LinkedIn. 🧪⚛️

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