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The man behind the sphere, Freeman Dyson, is dead at 96:
Freeman Dyson, a physicist whose interests often took him to the edge of science fiction, has died at the age of 96. Dyson is probably best known for his idea of eponymous spheres that would allow civilizations to capture all the energy radiating off a star. But his contributions ranged from fundamental physics to the practicalities of using nuclear weapons for war and peace. And he remained intellectually active into his 90s, although he wandered into the wrong side of science when it came to climate change.
Degrees? Who needs 'em?
It's difficult to find anything that summarizes a career so broad, but a sense of his intellectual energy comes from his educational history. Dyson was a graduate student in physics when he managed to unify two competing ideas about quantum electrodynamics, placing an entire field on a solid theoretical foundation. Rather than writing that up as his thesis, he simply moved on to other interests. He didn't get a doctorate until the honorary ones started arriving later in his career. His contributions were considered so important that he kept getting faculty jobs regardless.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 29 2020, @05:08PM
Freeman Dyson was head and shoulders above most scientists, let alone random soylent and arstechnica dipshits. He studied climate models 50 or 60 years ago, when global warming bullshit wasn't even a gleam in the religious climate imbeciles' eyes. He knew the subject much better than mostx knew it became a religion to most people, knew that CO2 is just a one small factor that the assholes can model so they hold on to that one, not to million others the lousy bullshitting modelers can't account for, like for example, fuckong water vapoer in the atmosphere. Knew that CO2 would green the planet with plants and that peippe live easier in warmer climate,and that the climate is a, to quote an old IPCC report that the dipshits buried, a "dynamic nonlinear complex system and prediction of climate is not possible." So the assholish Arstechnica dipshits can swallow his miserly intelligence quotient and pathetic scientific kbowledge because compared to Dyson the guy is a flea.
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