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Google’s latest quantum computer chip, which the team dubbed Willow, has ignited a heated debate in the scientific community over the existence of parallel universes.

Following an eye-opening achievement in computational problem-solving, claims have surfaced that the chip’s success aligns with the theory of a multiverse, a concept that suggests our universe is one of many coexisting in parallel dimensions. In this piece, we’ll examine both sides of this argument that seems to have opened up a parallel universe of its own — with one universe of scientists suggesting the Willow experiments offer evidence of a multiverse and the other suggesting it has nothing to do with the theory at all.

According to Google, Willow solved a computational problem in under five minutes — a task that would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputers approximately 10 septillion years. This staggering feat, announced in a blog post and accompanied by a study in the journal Nature, demonstrates the extraordinary potential of quantum computing to tackle problems once thought unsolvable within a human timeframe.

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For years, researchers and clinicians have been trying to find a way to rapidly deliver oxygen to patients when traditional means of oxygenation are difficult or ineffective during critical moments of cardiac or respiratory arrest.

Sometimes, hypoxemia caused by or can be so severe that methods to boost low-oxygen levels (including the placement of a breathing tube) are ineffective. A patient can have , potentially leading to severe organ damage. Research has shown that as many as 40% of in-hospital cardiac arrests are triggered by low-oxygen levels.

After 15 years of , Boston Children’s cardiologist John Kheir, MD, and researcher Yifeng Peng, Ph.D., believe they have developed a safe and effective oxygen delivery method for those emergencies: injectable oxygen carried into the bloodstream by a rapidly dissolving gas microbubble.

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A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your laptop by typing or power your smartphone’s battery on your morning run.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a tiny, wearable generator in response to the urgent need for sustainable, clean energy. It is also scalable for larger machines. Their paper, “Breaking Dielectric Dilemma: Polymer Functionalized Perovskite Piezocomposite with Large Current Density Output,” is published in the November edition of Nature Communications.

“This is a real game changer,” said Dr. Asif Khan, the project’s lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo. “We have made the first device of its kind that can power electronics at low cost and with unprecedented efficiency.”

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00:01:27 What is Russian cosmism?
00:12:51 The religious side of cosmism.
00:17:13 Cosmism as a response to the challenges of the 20th century.
00:25:20 Nature as a temporary enemy and eternal friend.
00:40:21 Pavel Florensky, the Russian da Vinci.
00:46:08 Plant life as a spiritual ideal.
00:51:17 The father of the Soviet space program, and his weird spirituality.
01:03:59 Cosmism and transhumanism: Compare and contrast.
01:09:01 Cosmism as a Russian propaganda project.

Watch this conversation on MeaningofLife.tv http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/36257

Nikita Petrov (MeaningofLife.tv) and George Young (University of New England, The Russian Cosmists)

Recorded on 09/06/2016.

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3:45 Does Russian thought have anything to contribute to the world?
15:30 Nikolay Fedorov, an eccentric thinker who influenced Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
24:17 Fedorov’s plan: Immortality for everyone.
31:48 ‘Kinship’ as a fundamental property of all matter.
45:13 A mass movement for the spiritual unity of humankind.
01:13:09 Vladimir Solovyov’s The Meaning of Love: Sexuality as a path to a Christian utopia.
01:36:27 Christ as the ultimate role model.

Watch this conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/37671

Nikita Petrov (MeaningofLife.tv) and George Young (University of New England, The Russian Cosmists)

Recorded on December 7, 2016.

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“Everyone thinks that [after] spinal injury, all you want to do is be able to walk again. But if you’re a tetraplegic or a quadriplegic, what matters most is working hands,” she said.

Reid received the device, called ARCex, as part of a 60-person clinical trial. She and the other participants completed two months of physical therapy, followed by two months of physical therapy combined with stimulation. The results, published today in Nature Medicine, show that the vast majority of participants benefited. By the end of the four-month trial, 72% experienced some improvement in both strength and function of their hands or arms when the stimulator was turned off. Ninety percent had improvement in at least one of those measures. And 87% reported an improvement in their quality of life.

This isn’t the first study to test whether noninvasive stimulation of the spine can help people who are paralyzed regain function in their upper body, but it’s important because a trial has never been done before in this number of rehabilitation centers or in this number of subjects, says Igor Lavrov, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, who was not involved in the study. He points out, however, that the therapy seems to work best in people who have some ability to move below the site of their injury.

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