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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

 
A #Question for #Krononauts

A #shoebox is floating in #SpaceTime. We can #identify its 2 sides as X, its ends as Y, and top & bottom as Z. Now, rotating the box, the Xs might become Zs, or some other 2- or 3-way inversion.

4-D might have X, Y, Z & T (for Time). Could these 4 #axes or #dimensions also be "rotated"? Could someone live in "#spatial" dimensions of X, Y & T, with Z being their Time? If so, could our X-dimension be someone else's Time #dimension?

#Time#Timelessness#TimeTravel
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Eric Schares

I used the #Dimensions paid web interface on Jan 6, 2025 to try and replicate the numbers. Dimensions has a ready-made filter (which I helped create) to add ~250 US federal funding agencies to a search with one click, so limiting the results is easy.

Results vary depending on single year / lumping all years together and which document types are included.

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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

#Robot has Six Degrees of Freedom

❛❛ #dimensions & #degrees of freedom are not the same thing. While they may have a similar analogy as shapes and dimensions, they are distinct #concepts. In a #3D #mechanics context, #objects can have 6 degrees of freedom, which is not the same as the 3 dimensions of #space. ❜❜

🔗 youtube.com/shorts/_-nW4WvElZY 2024 Apr 23
🔗 PhysicsForums.com/threads/dime
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees … #6DofF

YouTubeCrazy Motion Robot Has Six Degrees of FreedomBy Interesting Engineering
#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

   
❛❛ Teen #Mathematicians Tie #Knots Through a #Mind-Blowing Fractal ❜❜

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old #theorem to prove that all #knots can be found in a #fractal called the #MengerSponge.
Gregory Barber for #QuantaMagazine

🔗 QuantaMagazine.org/teen-mathem 2024 Nov 26 ce
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_spon … #MengerSponge
🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology … #Topology

GIF
#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

 
#Dimensions of #Curiosity
Lucía Martín-Merchán disproves long-standing pure mathematics conjecture

…"While research into higher dimensions may seem obscure … 'If we only do research based on what we already know is useful, we will limit our discoveries,' she says. 'You never know what in the #future you will need.'

Still, she acknowledges, a large part of what motivates her inquiry is pure curiosity"…

🔗 uwaterloo.ca/math/news/lucia-m

uwaterloo.caLucía Martín-Merchán disproves long-standing pure mathematics conjecture | MathematicsMartín-Merchán makes an important intervention at the intersection of the pure mathematics fields of differential geometry and algebraic topology.
#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

One of the hopes of #TimeTravel is #communication — with (#extraterrestrial, #NHI) #beings beyond our immediate #spacetime. Think of #SETI, #CarlSagan, and the #Voyager program.

Constructs like #amplituhedra are functioning "beneath" spacetime. Could this suggest new modes or #dimensions of communication? Instead of reaching way "out" across distances, like the #spacecraft, could there be ways of reaching way "in"? Encoding dots & dashes into the collisions of quantum particles?

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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

 
#Scientists Discover a #Jewel at the Heart of #Quantum #Physics.

…"The #Amplituhedron looks like an intricate, multifaceted jewel in higher #dimensions. Encoded in its #volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated, “scattering amplitudes,” which represent the likelihood that a certain set of #particles will turn into certain other particles upon #colliding…

🔗 wired.com/2013/12/amplituhedro 11 Dec 2013

#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

 
A Beginner's Guide to the #FourthDimension

Combining simple images with multi-dimensional #animation, this 6-min video illustrates basic concepts of objects in a #4thdimension. If you find this interesting, you can search on other animated videos of 4 #dimensions and higher — some being many times more complex than this one.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=j-ixGKZlLV 01 Jul 2016

YouTubeA Beginner's Guide to the Fourth DimensionBy The Science Elf
#Community#TimeTravel#Research
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

 
#Time #Travel #Question

At the #Krononaut #Moon #Project we think of a #TimeTraveler as a kind of #being who navigates between or outside of known #dimensions.

Such an #entity could be #sentient, or could be a 'signal' sent from a #consciousness in a distant #spacetime, possibly via #particle beam. What would be a good #term for describing such a #signal, which may have already landed here? Should it be called a #message, or is there a better #word for it?

Breathtaking #photo of a mountainous #landscape with dark #clouds above and streaks of #light or #rain or both beaming down on the dim ground below. #Unsplash image by Iker Urteaga / iurte, Rioja Alavesa, Laguardia, Spain, 12 Jul 2016. www.Unsplash.com/photos/aerial-view-photography-of-mountain-under-cloudy-sky-vPXP2Kgo_rY
#Timelessness#TimeTravel
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

At KronoMoon.org we see #TimeTravel as the movement of #sentient #beings through #time/other #dimensions OR of #communications #signals from them, which would be much more feasible. It's possible that the #Earth has been receiving #messages from the beyond (the #future?) for billions of years. If these are ever to happen, then they are likely to involve either #WormHoles or #QuantumEntanglement, or both.

The Krononaut Moon ProjectThe Krononaut Moon ProjectCommunity Time Travel Research since 1982 Mar 09. 🏳️‍🌈 ☮️
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The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑

@JSharp1436
The #KrononautMoon Project is interested in #community #timetravel #research. It's understood that sending #sentient beings through distant #dimensions is unlikely, but there could be a chance of inviting #signals or #messages from way out there back to #Earth. We promote #experimentation and #celebration of #timetravelers on the #nights of the #TotalLunarEclipse (#TLE). In 2025-2026 there will be 3 #TLEs, with the next one coming up on 14 Mar 2025. #ThankYou for your #thoughts.

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petersuber

New study: "Non-selective databases (#Dimensions, #OpenAlex, #Scilit, and #TheLens) index a greater amount of retracted literature than do databases that rely their indexation on venue selection (#PubMed, #Scopus, and #WoS)…The high coverage of OpenAlex and Scilit could be explained by the inaccurate labeling of retracted documents in #Scopus, Dimensions, and The Lens."
link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkThe indexation of retracted literature in seven principal scholarly databases: a coverage comparison of dimensions, OpenAlex, PubMed, Scilit, Scopus, The Lens and Web of Science - ScientometricsIn this study, the coverage and overlap of retracted publications, retraction notices and withdrawals are compared across seven significant scholarly databases, with the aim to check for discrepancies, pinpoint the causes of those discrepancies, and choose the best product to produce the most accurate picture of retracted literature. Seven scholarly databases were searched to obtain all the retracted publications, retraction notices and withdrawal from 2000. Only web search interfaces were used, excepting in OpenAlex and Scilit. The findings demonstrate that non-selective databases (Dimensions, OpenAlex, Scilit, and The Lens) index a greater amount of retracted literature than do databases that rely their indexation on venue selection (PubMed, Scopus, and WoS). The key factors explaining these discrepancies are the indexation of withdrawals and proceeding articles. Additionally, the high coverage of OpenAlex and Scilit could be explained by the inaccurate labeling of retracted documents in Scopus, Dimensions, and The Lens. 99% of the sample is jointly covered by OpenAlex, Scilit and WoS. The study suggests that research on retracted literature would require querying more than one source and that it should be advisable to accurately identify and label this literature in academic databases.
#Retractions
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François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺

The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database

👉 "The emergence of digital #publishing, the reduction of expenses for printing and distribution and #opensource journal management tools may have contributed to the emergence of small #publishers, while the development of inclusive #bibliometric databases has allowed for the effective #indexing of #journals & #articles."

arxiv.org/abs/2406.17893

arXiv.orgThe oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive databaseGlobal scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. We aimed to revisit the debate on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative shares of major publishers and smaller, independent publishers. Using the Web of Science, Dimensions and OpenAlex, we managed to retrieve twice as many articles indexed in Dimensions and OpenAlex, compared to the rather selective Web of Science. As a result of excluding smaller publishers, the 'oligopoly' of scholarly publishers persists, at least in appearance, according to the Web of Science. However, both Dimensions' and OpenAlex' inclusive indexing revealed the share of smaller publishers has been growing rapidly, especially since the onset of large-scale online publishing around 2000, resulting in a current cumulative dominance of smaller publishers. While the expansion of small publishers was most pronounced in the social sciences and humanities, the natural and medical sciences showed a similar trend. A major geographical divergence is also revealed, with some countries, mostly Anglo-Saxon and/or located in northwestern Europe, relying heavily on major publishers for the dissemination of their research, while others being relatively independent of the oligopoly, such as those in Latin America, northern Africa, eastern Europe and parts of Asia. The emergence of digital publishing, the reduction of expenses for printing and distribution and open-source journal management tools may have contributed to the emergence of small publishers, while the development of inclusive bibliometric databases has allowed for the effective indexing of journals and articles. We conclude that enhanced visibility to recently created, independent journals may favour their growth and stimulate global scholarly bibliodiversity.
#ScholarlyPublishing#scholcomm#research
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petersuber

Update. More data on the #WOS bias toward the #oligopoly of large publishers, and the absence of that bias in more inclusive indices like #OpenAlex (@OpenAlex) and #Dimensions.
arxiv.org/abs/2406.17893

arXiv.orgThe oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive databaseGlobal scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. We aimed to revisit the debate on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative shares of major publishers and smaller, independent publishers. Using the Web of Science, Dimensions and OpenAlex, we managed to retrieve twice as many articles indexed in Dimensions and OpenAlex, compared to the rather selective Web of Science. As a result of excluding smaller publishers, the 'oligopoly' of scholarly publishers persists, at least in appearance, according to the Web of Science. However, both Dimensions' and OpenAlex' inclusive indexing revealed the share of smaller publishers has been growing rapidly, especially since the onset of large-scale online publishing around 2000, resulting in a current cumulative dominance of smaller publishers. While the expansion of small publishers was most pronounced in the social sciences and humanities, the natural and medical sciences showed a similar trend. A major geographical divergence is also revealed, with some countries, mostly Anglo-Saxon and/or located in northwestern Europe, relying heavily on major publishers for the dissemination of their research, while others being relatively independent of the oligopoly, such as those in Latin America, northern Africa, eastern Europe and parts of Asia. The emergence of digital publishing, the reduction of expenses for printing and distribution and open-source journal management tools may have contributed to the emergence of small publishers, while the development of inclusive bibliometric databases has allowed for the effective indexing of journals and articles. We conclude that enhanced visibility to recently created, independent journals may favour their growth and stimulate global scholarly bibliodiversity.
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