Answer Sources: from Fluents to Interactors

[ NOTE: Meanwhile this has evolved into an open project here:
  https://github.com/jp-diegidio/Nan.System.Sources-Prolog ]

This is a follow-up to my earlier post "Answer Sources in Prolog (SWI) - Preview" [1]. Here I present the flow diagram for the worker loop with support for the yield operation (return in Tarau's). Implementation of yield upgrades our answer sources from fluents [2] to interactors [3].

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[1] My post, "Answer Sources in Prolog (SWI) - Preview":
http://seprogrammo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/answer-sources-in-prolog-swi-preview.html
[2] Paul Tarau, "Fluents: A Refactoring of Prolog for Uniform Reflection and
Interoperation with External Objects":
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/research/LeanProlog/RefactoringPrologWithFluents.pdf
[3] Paul Tarau and Arun Majumdar, "Interoperating Logic Engines":
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/research/LeanProlog/InteroperatingLogicEngines.pdf

Answer Sources in Prolog (SWI) - Preview

I have implemented an initial version of Answer Sources in SWI-Prolog [1], now submitted for preliminary discussion to comp.lang.prolog [2]. For the rationale and design, I have followed Paul Tarau on "fluent sources" [3], although with some important differences.

[1] Code preview with answer sources and the basic combinators:
https://gist.github.com/jp-diegidio/2914cac8b5cfb2b6a95e
[2] (Short) presentation and discussion on comp.lang.prolog:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.prolog/JToeE7Read8/sZ0xg1-cBgAJ
[3] Paul Tarau, "Fluents: A Refactoring of Prolog for Uniform Reflection
and Interoperation with External Objects":
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~tarau/research/LeanProlog/RefactoringPrologWithFluents.pdf

Symmetric Twins Paradox

« Indeed, try and do the calculations! »

A correct (AFAICT) first approach is here:
Special Relativity: Inertial Frames
Corollary 1: Retrocausation.
Corollary 2: Nobody understands Relativity.

[UPDATE 2024-12-19]
I have not yet found the time to approach the Twins Paradox proper, which is about finding coherence conditions for retrocausation...

The day we discovered negatrons

It happened on sci.physics...
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.physics/gIwxbAAS3Oo/SOSciNNwtU8J