“But to a physicist, all physical systems are computers. Rocks, atom bombs and galaxies may not run Linux, but they, too, register and process information. Every electron, photon and other elementary particle stores bits of data, and every time two such particles interact, those bits are transformed. Physical existence and information content are inextricably linked.”
“Black holes might seem like the exception to the rule that everything computes. Inputting information into them presents no difficulty, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, getting information out is impossible.”
“A physical system can be described using a finite number of bits. Each particle in the system acts like the logic gate of a computer. Its spin axis can point in one of two directions, thereby encoding a bit, and can flip over, thereby performing a simple computational operation.”
“IF ANY CHUNK of matter is a computer, a black hole is nothing more or less than a computer compressed to its smallest possible size.”
“How would a black hole computer work in practice? Input is not problematic: just encode the data in the form of matter or energy and throw them down the hole. By properly preparing the material that falls in, a hacker should be able to program the hole to perform any desired computation. Once the material enters a hole, it is gone for good; the so-called event horizon demarcates the point of no return.”
“The teleportation procedure, which has been demonstrated in the laboratory, first requires that two particles be entangled….”
In keeping with the spirit of the age, researchers can think of the laws of physics as computer programs and the universe as a computer
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“Next week, at YC’s “demo days,” Nectome’s cofounder, Robert McIntyre, is going to describe his technology for exquisitely preserving brains in microscopic detail using a high-tech embalming process. Then the MIT graduate will make his business pitch. As it says on his website: “What if we told you we could back up your mind?””
“Brain uploading will be familiar to readers of Ray Kurzweil’s books or other futurist literature. You may already be convinced that immortality as a computer program is definitely going to be a thing. Or you may think transhumanism, the umbrella term for such ideas, is just high-tech religion preying on people’s fear of death…”
“McIntyre, a computer scientist, and his cofounder Michael McCanna have been following the tech entrepreneur’s handbook with ghoulish alacrity. “The user experience will be identical to physician-assisted *******,” he says. “Product-market fit is people believing that it works.””
“It proved effective at preserving an entire brain to the nanometer level, including the connectome—the web of synapses that connect neurons.
A connectome map could be the basis for re-creating a particular person’s consciousness, believes Ken Hayworth, a neuroscientist who is president of the Brain Preservation Foundation…”
“It has raised $1 million in funding so far, including the $120,000 that Y Combinator provides to all the companies it accepts. It has also won a $960,000 federal grant from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health for “whole-brain nanoscale preservation and imaging,” the text of which foresees a “commercial opportunity in offering brain preservation” for purposes including drug research….”
“In research thought to be a world first, biomedical engineers at Wits are connecting a human brain to the internet in real time. The 'Brainternet' project streams brainwaves onto the internet. Essentially, it turns the brain into an Internet of Things (IoT) node on the World Wide Web.”
A new project dubbed Brainternet can turn the brain into an Internet of Things node online.
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“Just like Internet of Things (IoT), IoB refers to access and control of human body via internet. Here, we detail how CRISPR can be used to electrically connect with the genome….”
Just like Internet of Things (IoT), IoB refers to access and control of human body via internet. Here, we detail how CRISPR can be used to electrically connect with the genome and as a proof of concept display control over transcriptional informational networks inside E. coli and Salmonella.
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“The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are the first vaccines to be activated by mRNA. These vaccines build on the breakthroughs of the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. This technology is also being used to treat people who have sickle cell anemia, certain cancers, Huntington's disease and congenital blindness, and will likely be used to treat many other diseases in the future. There are many other CRISPR-related breakthroughs on the horizon and a lot of moral and ethical questions to deal with about the editing of the basic element of human life.
One of the developers of CRISPR is Jennifer Doudna, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for her discoveries about gene editing. Doudna and the story of RNA-related scientific breakthroughs are the subjects of Walter Isaacson's new book, "The Code Breaker." While writing the book, he became part of a double-blind trial of the Pfizer vaccine….”
“Another way of revealing extra dimensions would be through the production of
“microscopic black holes”. What exactly we would detect would depend on the number of extra dimensions, the mass of the black hole, the size of the dimensions and the energy at which the black hole occurs….Finding more on any of these subjects would open the door to yet unknown possibilities.”
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“The particle was detected by both the LHC ATLAS detector and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. The announcement of the detection of the Higgs boson was made at CERN in Geneva on July 4, 2012. It took until March the following year to confirm this the detected particle was indeed the Higgs boson.”
“And the investigation of this elusive particle will deepen during run 3 of the LHC and particularly when the particle accelerator's high luminosity upgrade is
completed in 2029.”
The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics.
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“The djed-pillar can perhaps be understood as the backbone of Osiris, or that of the deceased associated with him. The Egyptians recognized the importance of the spine and saw it as a symbol that kept Osiris, the resurrected god, intact and able to function.”
Pale green-glazed faience amulet in the form of a Djed pillar. The back slab is not pierced for suspension. Condition: Right hand side of upper cross bar chipped.
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“Osiris is the Egyptian Lord of the Underworld and Judge of the Dead….”
The Westport Library's guide to Osiris delves into the mythology and significance of this ancient Egyptian god. Explore resources that uncover his influence on culture, religion, and art throughout history!
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“A Chinese-led team of scientists say they have simulated the physics of black holes using quantum computing.
The researchers said the experiments on
Hawking radiation opened up a new path for simulating the quantum effects of black holes with superconducting quantum chips and marked “a step in the direction of creating quantum systems with properties analogous to those of black holes”.”
Researchers say the experiment is a step towards creating systems with ‘properties analogous to black holes’.
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“Today's transhumanist movement, sometimes called H+, encompasses a broad range of issues and diversity of belief, but the notion of immortality—or, more correctly, amortality—is the central tenet.”
The latest enthusiasm for eternal life largely stems from the belief that technology will enhance humans and make them immortal.
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