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Dec 25, 2020

Consciousness: Redefining the Mind-Body Problem

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, physics

Consciousness is fundamental, pre-exists our Universe and manifests in everything that we think of as real. A brain, as important as it seems, is nothing more than the way that non-local consciousness operates at an “avatar” level during a lifetime. The evidence that all of this is true is consistent and overwhelming. But mainstream science is still bound by the centuries-old “materialist dogma” and stuck with the “hard problem” of consciousness. ​If we assume that consciousness doesn’t arise from the brain activity, as some neuroscientists still presume to be true, where does it come from? #consciousness #mind #self #theology #physics


Discussion of the hard problem of consciousness with certain solutions in phenomenology, possibilities of mind-uploading and implications…

Dec 25, 2020

MIT’s quantum entangled atomic clock could still be ticking after billions of years

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Famous medieval poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer once wrote that “‘time and tide wait for no man,” and that certainly rings true whether you’ve still got a ’90s Swatch watch strapped to your wrist, your name is Doc Brown, or you’re a brilliant scientist working on the latest atomic clock design — which employs lasers to trap and measure oscillations of quantum entangled atoms to maintain precise timekeeping.

The official time for the United States is set at the atomic clock located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, where this Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock remains accurate to within one second every 300 million years. Its cesium-133 atom vibrates exactly 9, 192, 631, 770 times per second, a permanent statistic that has officially measured one second since the machine’s inception and operational rollout back in 1968.

Dec 25, 2020

600-Year-Old Starlight Bolsters Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’

Posted by in category: quantum physics

In an effort to strengthen experiments that examine quantum entanglement — also known as spooky action at a distance — a group of researchers used centuries-old starlight.

Dec 25, 2020

Xanadu launches first quantum computer that can operate at room temperature

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

The company hails world first as it takes on established ‘conventional’ quantum giants.

Dec 25, 2020

Russian hackers compromised Microsoft cloud customers through third party, putting emails and other data at risk

Posted by in category: futurism

The intrusions appear to have occurred via a Microsoft corporate partner that handles cloud-access services, those familiar with the matter said. They did not identify the partner or the company known to have had emails stolen. Like others, these people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss what remains a highly sensitive subject.

Dec 25, 2020

SolarWinds Hack Infected Critical Infrastructure, Including Power Industry

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, energy

The companies involved used compromised software, but it’s not clear if hackers entered their networks. Finding out could be difficult.

Dec 25, 2020

Quantum Researchers Create an Error-Correcting Cat – New Device Combines Schrödinger’s Cat With Quantum Error Correction

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Yale physicists have developed an error-correcting cat — a new device that combines the Schrödinger’s cat concept of superposition (a physical system existing in two states at once) with the ability to fix some of the trickiest errors in a quantum computation.

It is Yale’s latest breakthrough in the effort to master and manipulate the physics necessary for a useful quantum computer: correcting the stream of errors that crop up among fragile bits of quantum information, called qubits, while performing a task.

A new study reporting on the discovery appears in the journal Nature. The senior author is Michel Devoret, Yale’s F.W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. The study’s co-first authors are Alexander Grimm, a former postdoctoral associate in Devoret’s lab who is now a tenure-track scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and Nicholas Frattini, a graduate student in Devoret’s lab.

Dec 25, 2020

A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement

Posted by in categories: cosmology, quantum physics

Circa 2013


Is there a connection between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity?

Dec 25, 2020

Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record as it succeeded in maintaining the high temperature plasma for 20 seconds with an ion temperature over 100 million degrees.

Dec 25, 2020

Making jet fuel out of carbon dioxide

Posted by in categories: business, chemistry, particle physics, sustainability, transportation

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.K. and one in Saudi Arabia has developed a way to produce jet fuel using carbon dioxide as a main ingredient. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes their process and its efficiency.

As scientists continue to look for ways to reduce the amount of emitted into the atmosphere, they have increasingly focused on certain business sectors. One of those sectors is the , which accounts for approximately 12% of transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. Curbing in the aviation industry has proved to be challenging due to the difficulty of fitting heavy batteries inside of aircraft. In this new effort, the researchers have developed a that can be used to produce carbon-neutral jet fuel.

The researchers used a process called the organic combustion method to convert carbon dioxide in the air into jet fuel and other products. It involved using an iron catalyst (with added potassium and manganese) along with hydrogen, citric acid and carbon dioxide heated to 350 degrees C. The process forced the apart from the oxygen atoms in CO2 molecules, which then bonded with hydrogen atoms, producing the kind of hydrocarbon molecules that comprise liquid jet fuel. The process also resulted in the creation of water molecules and other products.