# beta decay (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover beta decay. Page: Feed: --- ## [Four Tricks at the Edge of Formal Language Theory](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/on-backspace-and-rom) _2026-08-14 · ad-absurdum.me_ There's a particular feeling you get learning formal language theory and spotting something that shouldn't be allowed. The rules say you can't do X. You find a way to do X. For a moment it feels like you've caught the theory napping. ## [Spring-Loaded Dinosaurs: What Penguins, Kiwis, and Armored Core Get Right (and Wrong) About Legs](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/spring-loaded-dinosaurs) _2026-02-27 · ad-absurdum.me_ Look at a penguin skeleton side-on and you'd be forgiven for thinking you're looking at a small theropod dinosaur. Upright posture, forward-leaning stance, stubby vestigial forelimbs, powerful hind legs. The kiwi is arguably even more convincing — its wings are so reduced they're invisible, leavi... ## [Passive Velocity Sorting: A Geometric Maxwell's Demon?](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/maxwells-demon-sorting) _2025-12-13 · ad-absurdum.me_ If sorting had deep thermodynamic costs, these industrial processes shouldn't work so cheaply. But they do. ## [AC Gravity and Gravitational Opacity](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/alternating-gravity) _2025-12-04 · ad-absurdum.me_ Imagine a planetoid with a dense ball floating above it, oscillating up and down sinusoidally. This creates an "AC gravity" field - a time-varying gravitational influence on objects below. ## [Theorem: Equivalence of -arccoth and tan Functions](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/infinitely-fat-tan-conjecture) _2025-11-20 · ad-absurdum.me_ Imagine you could take the most repetitive, oscillating function in mathematics—the tangent function—and transform it into something that never repeats. It sounds impossible, but that's exactly what we've discovered. By stretching tan's period to 2-infinity and shifting it by 1-infinity, we can m... ## [The Photonic Transformer Hypothesis: Rethinking Photosynthesis and Methane Consumption in Plants](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/photonic-transformer-hypothesis) _2025-11-18 · ad-absurdum.me_ This document proposes a radical reinterpretation of photosynthesis mechanisms, suggesting that plants may function as biological infrared (IR) lasers, using frequency downconversion to create transparent energy channels. This hypothesis could explain the presence of red-pigmented plants in metha... ## [The Scalable Quasi-Perpetual Photonic Machine](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/sort-of-perpetual-motion-machine) _2025-11-16 · ad-absurdum.me_ We present a theoretically sound, thermodynamically compliant system that achieves effectively perpetual motion through geometric scaling. By circulating photons between rail-constrained atoms in a hexagonal configuration, we demonstrate that operational lifetime scales quadratically with system ... ## [How to Make a Ball Orbit Itself](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/how-to-make-a-ball-orbit-itself) _2025-11-07 · ad-absurdum.me_ src="/blog/how-to-make-a-ball-orbit-itself/ball\_orbit\_animation.html" ## [The Boron-Nitrogen Catastrophe: A Critical Gap in Beta Decay Verification](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/boron-nitrogen-catastrophe) _2025-10-27 · ad-absurdum.me_ Standard nuclear physics claims that Carbon-14 undergoes beta decay to produce Nitrogen-14: ## [X-Ray Data Pipeline: Ultra-High-Speed Communication Through Limestone Tubes](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/x-ray-data-pipelines) _2025-10-25 · ad-absurdum.me_ A revolutionary approach to data transmission using X-ray beams through limestone/concrete tubes, potentially achieving \*\*10-100 Tbps\*\* per channel at a fraction of current infrastructure costs. ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/mdcG9RXbWttF) _2025-10-25 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [The Universal Approximation Theorem Is Right. You're Using It Wrong.](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/universal-approximation-theorem-is-right) _2025-10-18 · ad-absurdum.me_ Ask any ML student about the XOR problem and you'll hear: "XOR is impossible for a single-layer perceptron. You need a hidden layer to solve it." ## [The Power Law Illusion: A Measurement Artifact Hypothesis](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/the-power-law-illusion) _2025-10-10 · ad-absurdum.me_ Many phenomena we interpret as following power law distributions may actually be one tail of underlying bell-shaped (Gaussian, Poisson, or other unimodal) distributions. We observe apparent power laws because we systematically measure only one side of these distributions. ## [Fractional Gamma Function via Fractional Derivatives](https://ad-absurdum.me/blog/fractional-gamma-function) _2025-09-17 · ad-absurdum.me_ The classical gamma function is one of the most important special functions in mathematics, serving as a continuous extension of the factorial function. It satisfies the fundamental recurrence relation , which represents a "unit step" in the argument.