Tag: naming things
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Reading robots' mind? Not.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind. Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is,…
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Light. Right. Left.
How can a beam of light tell the difference between left and right? Tiny particles have now been coupled to a glass fiber. The particles emit light into the fiber in such a way that it does not travel in both directions, as one would expect. Instead, the light can be directed either to the…
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Hunting dark matter. Creating our ghosts...
The hunt for dark matter. (1) I will not stop saying again and again the obious: Calling something by a name does not necessarily make you a "scientist". Letting others call something by a specific name (e.g. "God") does make you a FREE thinker though... Science needs imagination. Not crude definitions.
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