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Oct 29, 2018

Technology and Culture: Our Accelerating Epigenetic Factor Driven Evolution

Posted by in categories: computing, genetics, particle physics, space, virtual reality

Memes are not just learned, they run deeper than that, they are part of our shared experience as human beings. This is how we communicate to each other through spoken, written, and body language; this is how we participate in customs, rituals and cultural traditions. Indeed, human civilization has always been a “cultured” virtual reality. We don’t often think of cultures as virtual realities, but there is no more apt descriptor for our widely diverse sociology and interpretations than the metaphor of the “virtual reality.” In truth, the virtual reality metaphor encompasses the entire human enterprise. We should realize that all our ideologies and religions, our belief systems and models of reality are our own personal operating systems — real to us but wry to someone else — each of us lives in a seemingly shared but simultaneously private virtual world.


By Alex Vikoulov.

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Oct 28, 2018

If atoms are mostly empty space, why is matter not transparent?

Posted by in category: particle physics

Sure there’s lots of empty space within atoms, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing there to see.

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Oct 25, 2018

Scientists Worldwide Are Getting Serious About Quantum Internet

Posted by in categories: internet, particle physics, quantum physics

It takes little more than logging on to see the flaws in today’s internet—mainly, how easy it is to steal or intercept data. One future solution for these problems could be an upgrade that relies on the latest advances in the science of subatomic particles: a quantum internet.

Just last week, three scientists from the renowned QuTech center at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) revealed a roadmap for how this quantum internet should develop. They also plan to connect four cities with a quantum link by 2020, reports MIT Tech Review. And today, University of Chicago scientists announced that they plan to set up a quantum link across a 30-mile distance. Scientists are really getting serious about this quantum internet idea.

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Oct 24, 2018

Ask a Spaceman: The Quirks of Quark Star Physics

Posted by in category: particle physics

Astrophysicist digs deep into quark stars in the latest episode of ‘Ask a Spaceman.’

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Oct 24, 2018

Atoms may come apart as the Universe’s biggest stars explode

Posted by in categories: cosmology, particle physics

Something we found in a particle accelerator could explain massive stars’ supernovae.

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Oct 23, 2018

The building boom

Posted by in categories: futurism, particle physics

These international projects, selected during the process to plan the future of US particle physics, are all set to come online within the next 10 years.

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Oct 22, 2018

How Does The ‘Shape’ Of An Electron Limit Particle Physics?

Posted by in category: particle physics

The ACME experiment has released new result showing the “roundness” of the electron, which are touted as a test of fundamental physics theories. How does that work, anyway?

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Oct 21, 2018

Why are particle physicists so keen to find the Higgs boson?

Posted by in category: particle physics

This elementary particle was confirmed by Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN in 2012 — but what’s the big deal?

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Oct 20, 2018

Artificial intelligence better than physicists at designing quantum science experiments

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI, science

Perhaps physicists should leave human intuition at the laboratory door when designing quantum experiments too.

An Australian crew enlisted the help of a neural network — a type of artificial intelligence — to optimise the way they capture super-cold atoms.

Usually, physicists smoothly tune lasers and magnetic fields to gradually coax atoms into a cloud, according to study co-author Ben Buchler from the Australian National University.

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Oct 18, 2018

Rare state of matter is created in space for the first time

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

The German space agency DLR carried out the tests in January last year on the MAIUS 1 rocket, beating NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory who have also since produced a BEC in space.

The findings have been published this week in the journal Nature.

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