Duality of A Willing Cyborg II

As a follow up. We will allow ourselves to be assimilated for the good or needs of the many. A classic quote from a Star Trek Movie: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.

Or maybe a better quote is "There's and app for that"

Safety or Privacy: New Technology Will Make Us Choose

Before decrying the excesses of Big Brother, civil libertarians should give this concept some consideration. However legitimate one’s opposition to the “surveillance state,” the thinking person ought to concede three unassailable truths: 1) there are tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of individuals throughout this world who consider it a solemn religious obligation to destroy American cities; 2) these individuals are sincere in their warped convictions and determined to pursue their heinous objective; they cannot be deterred or dissuaded; 3) these individuals will soon have the atomic means to achieve their apocalyptic ends — likely within the decade, certainly within most of our lifetimes.

Quantum dualities

A new topic on Quantum mechanics.

When is helium not a gas and what quantum abilitites does it take on?


Quantum wonders: Superfluids and supersolids

Superfluid helium climbs up walls and flows uphill in defiance of gravity. It squeezes itself through impossibly small holes. It flips the bird at friction: put superfluid helium in a bowl, set the bowl spinning, and the helium sits unmoved as the bowl revolves beneath it. Set the liquid itself moving, though, and it will continue gyrating forever.