Tag: existence
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Learning the foundations…
Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn't necessary for success later in college calculus - what's more important is mastering the prerequisites, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry - that lead to calculus. That's according to a study of more than 6,000 college freshmen at 133 colleges. (1) Great line of reasoning. Except that we…
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Instability… Randomness… Out of design…
A study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University has brought science one step closer to a molecular-level understanding of how patterns form in living tissue. The researchers engineered bacteria that, when incubated and grown, exhibited stochastic Turing patterns: a…
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Seeing through walls. Casting out the abyss.
X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has continually gotten us closer to seeing through walls. (1) Our modern miracles are so dull. We make things which can see through walls.…
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Controlling the uncontrollable. Giving birth to God…
Quantum bits are now easier to manipulate for devices in quantum computing, thanks to enhanced spin-orbit interaction in silicon. (1) The world was born in chaos. And chaos gave birth to us. At the end, we will manage to control everything. And everything will be destroyed. The cosmos will be lost inside the stillness of…
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Reading rocks. Being water. Drops of water.
Crystals from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption have demonstrated a new way to recognize pre-eruption signals at Eyjafjallajökull and potentially other, similar volcanoes around the world. (1) Reading the story of the planet on rocks. But don’t be fooled. The story of our cosmos is not carved on stone. Our story is written on water. Ever…
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