Month: September 2022

(WHO IS CARVER MEAD?). This phenomenal human being has struck firsts in a ridiculous number of places, overturned assumptions, created companies, rethought physics, and challenged thinking itself. https://lnkd.in/esgUKXu View in LinkedIn

(WHO IS CARVER MEAD?). He also worked to link biology and electronics with synaptic computers, electric vision, analog cochlear, and electronic tactility. He avoids: perhaps, but, maybe, although, possibly -- and related mealy-mouthed CYAs). https://lnkd.in/esgUKXu View in LinkedIn

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN? Bunkum. Not a week goes by that the world is not presented glittering and awesome new treasures and findings, fascinating and sometimes terrifying gems from science and technology. The parade of the pessimists is trounced by these new gifts. View in LinkedIn

UNINTELLIGIBLE EXHORTATION. This review of the theoretical blue sky possibilities facing researchers in metamaterials is almost in intelligible to a non-insider and a great example of how poorly we scientists communicate really interesting subjects to the outside world. The jargon-buried concepts are actually fantastic. https://lnkd.in/eGZbXRV View in LinkedIn

FUTURE QUANTUM INTERNET. "The realization of a future quantum Internet requires the processing and storage of quantum information at local nodes and interconnecting distant nodes using free-space and fibre-optic links." https://lnkd.in/e9j9yDH View in LinkedIn

FUTURE QUANTUM INTERNET. "Quantum memories for light are key elements of such quantum networks. Despite its currently limited efficiency and storage time, our broadband light–matter interface brings fibre-based quantum networks one step closer to reality." https://lnkd.in/e9j9yDH View in LinkedIn

OTHER DIMENSIONS. "Why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundamental forces? A small fridge magnet is enough to create an electromagnetic force greater than the gravitational pull exerted by planet Earth. One possibility is that we don’t feel the full effect of gravity because part of it spreads to extra dimensions." A reminder of how little we really know. https://lnkd.in/ebhckwy View in LinkedIn

A UNIVERSE OF TEN DIMENSIONS. "The theoretical framework of Superstring Theory posits that the universe exists in ten different dimensions. These different aspects are what govern the universe, the fundamental forces of nature, and all the elementary particles contained within." https://lnkd.in/e8Fizcn View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM MECHANICS. "It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets. Somewhere between molecules and pears lies a boundary where the strangeness of quantum behavior ends and the familiarity of classical physics begins." Or, everything is waves. https://lnkd.in/eh_xkKg View in LinkedIn

THE HEART OF MATTER. "The quantum world is a world of waves not particles. If you take a pure quantum system -- the electrons in a superconducting magnet, or the atoms in a laser -- they are all in phase with one another, and they demonstrate the wave nature of matter on a large scale. Then you can see quite visibly what matter is down at its heart." (Carver Mead). https://lnkd.in/eCP4RPW View in LinkedIn