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Kevin Scharp

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Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Urbana, IL
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autocatalytic sets used to provide a formal theory of emergence arxiv.org/abs/1205.0584
US population distribution by age 1950-2050 beacheconomist.com/popdis3.g…
scientific collaboration 2005-2009 collabo.olihb.com/collabolin…
So, did 'meter' change its meaning throughout the redefinitions from the late 18th century through the late 20th century?
In 1983, a meter was redefined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
In 1960, a meter was redefined as the length of 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line of Krypton-86 in a vacuum.
In 1889, a meter was redefined as the length of the international prototype meter bar made of platinum and iridium.
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In 1791, a meter was redefined as one ten millionth of a quandrant of an Earth meridian.
In 1668, a meter was stipulated to be the length of pendulum with half cycle of 1 second.
First step toward a Dyson sphere. phys.org/news/2012-04-satell…
Satellite proposed to send solar power to Earth

Satellite proposed to send solar power to Earth

(Phys.org) -- Artemis Innovation Management Solutions has been given some seed money by NASA to look deeper into a project the company first proposed last summer; namely, building a satellite that...

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I doubt that I'll wish I'd read more top five lists--http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
TIL about the Alcubierre metric--the only legitimate proposal for a warp drive based on Einstein's field equations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubi…
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