Ah, the old debate and approach. Centralize the control, Decentralize problem handling, centralize the knowledge needed for untangling parallelism, realize you just created a centralized authority, undoing the parallelism.
Then there is the physics engine view to all things. Data is just sand washing against the shoreline of parallel computation instances and interaction, is just sticking these dataparticles together, taking them out of the general flow to be interacted on in unison, carrying the resolution authority within them as long as they are "clumbed" together. Data is just particles, the programs interacting on it are just a limited number of program cells, traversing it and interaction clumps it together, making the processing of it slower, but also centralized to computation node. A centralized node, processing a huge clump of interacting data, even throws a sort of "relativity" shadow, as other, smaller, non interacting data, is processed faster and leaping ahead in the interactions.
With the radial velocity method they used, anytime - it's a telescope with a spectrometer that only relies on the planets wobbling the stars around a bit to produce a doppler shift.
> A visual inspection of TESS lightcurves shows no transit of TOI-1338/BEBOP-1c, however, thanks to orbital circulation, transits are expected to occur in due time. Circumbinary orbits exhibit nodal precession. This changes the orientation of a circumbinary planet’s orbital plane with respect to both the binary and the observer. This makes a planet change from a transiting to a non-transiting configuration (15, 30) as has been seen in a few systems (31, 32). Using an analytic criterion (33,34), we find that TOI-1338/BEBOP-1c is guaranteed to eventually transit mainly because the binary is so well-aligned with our line of sight (Ibin = 89.658◦) combined with the rather large size of the primary star (RA = 1.299R⊙). Whilst TOI-1338/BEBOP-1c will eventually transit, we are unable to predict when and how frequently. Its precession period is of order 119 years, during which time there will be two periods of transitability of a duration depending on TOI-1338/BEBOP-1c’s orbital inclination.
Yes, absolutely. It's a close binary, where you can get 90% or more the way to the truth by modelling the stars as a single object at their barycenter. TOI-1338 A is a star slightly larger than the sun, and TOI-1338 B, which is a star with ~a third of Sun's mass orbits it in 14 days. This is basically touching as far as stars go.
Its a shame that such accomplished heists have to remain hidden until the criminals death and even then the widdow gets punished by the vengefull machinery of power. Lessons learned: Honesty has no reward. When involved in crime, melt the evidence down.
The biggest problem i see in the dark forrest theory is the "interesting information" inwards growth. Basically, most of the external universe is boring, slow and drip fed to a ever faster progressing species. At some point its just to static "up" there, and most of the civilization turns inward towards the "infinite" fun space.
