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September 20, 2016 12:50 PM
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Quantum Teleportation Enters the Real World

Quantum Teleportation Enters the Real World | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
It may not be the teleportation you saw in Star Trek, but researchers have sent information across a city via quantum entanglement.

 

Two separate teams of scientists have taken quantum teleportation from the lab into the real world.

Researchers working in Calgary, Canada and Hefei, China, used existing fiber optics networks to transmit small units of information across cities viaquantum entanglement — Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.”

 

According to quantum mechanics, some objects, like photons or electrons, can be entangled. This means that no matter how far apart they are, what happens to one will affect the other instantaneously. To Einstein, this seemed ridiculous, because it entailed information moving faster than the speed of light, something he deemed impossible. But, numerous experiments have shown that entanglement does indeed exist. The challenge was putting it to use.Their breakthrough, published in two separate papers today in Nature Photonics, promises to offer important advancements for communications and encryption technologies....


Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Something to talk about on your next coffee break. Star Trek may not be far off after all.

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September 6, 2014 12:50 PM
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Quantum physics just solved one great paradox of time travel | Geek.com

Quantum physics just solved one great paradox of time travel | Geek.com | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The fuzziness of quantum physics causes a lot of problems, from maliciously changing time-of-flight calculations between satellites to mucking up Newton’s beautiful, all-seeing physical models of the universe. Yet, when it comes to topics as airy as the New Physics, incorporating genuinely insane ideas like negative mass and, yes, time travel, that very fuzziness can become a boon to researchers. Within the open and unknowable possibility space provided by the behavior of quantum particles, we can shovel in all manner of  poorly understood concepts and phenomena, and that might not actually be such an irresponsible thing to do. By taking quantum mechanics into account, some physicists think they may have solved one of the oldest puzzles in the history of abstract physical thinking: the grandfather paradox.

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Who knew? A new experiment in causation could help end one of the oldest blemishes on the face of modern physics: the paradox of time travel.

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June 14, 2016 11:08 AM
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An Algorithm Wrote This Movie, and It's Somehow Amazing

An Algorithm Wrote This Movie, and It's Somehow Amazing | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

While Oscar Sharp was thinking up ideas for a film submission to Sci-Fi London's 48-Hour Film Challenge, he read a lot of sci-fi screenplays. In fact, he read all of the sci-fi screenplays he could find on the internet. That's when he had the idea: why not feed an algorithm these scripts—ranging from The X-Files to Ghostbusters toInterstellar to The Fifth Element—and let the movie write itself?


Sharp contacted his long-time collaborator Ross Goodwin, an AI researcher at NYU, who put a certain AI bot called Benjamin to the task. Benjamin is an LSTM recurrent neural network, which is often used for text recognition. It worked by ingesting the screenplays, dissecting them down to the letter, and learning to predict which letters, words, and phrases were likely to appear together. Eventually, Benjamin even learned to write in screenplay format with stage directions and dialogue. 


"As soon as we had a read-through, everyone around the table was laughing their heads off with delight," Sharp told Ars Technica. The resulting screenplay and film, Sunspring (which you can and definitely should read), is dramatic and absurdly funny. The characters speak in enigmas befitting of the film's futuristic world. (One of the stage directions Benjamin wrote: "He is standing in the stars and sitting on the floor.")...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

A director's sci-fi algorithm wrote a brilliant sci-fi short film. Fascinating! Recommended reading. 9/10

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September 1, 2014 1:28 AM
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The scientific A-Team saving the world from killer viruses, rogue AI and the paperclip apocalypse

The scientific A-Team saving the world from killer viruses, rogue AI and the paperclip apocalypse | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

They don't look like Guardians Of The Galaxy-style superheroes.


... The porter's lodge is like an airlock, apparently sealed from the tribulations of everyday life. But inside the college, pacing the flagstones of what is called – all modesty aside – Great Court, are four men who do not take it for granted that those undergraduates actually have a future. They are the four founders of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), and they are in the business of "horizon scanning". Together, they are on alert for what they sometimes call "low-probability-but-high-consequence events", and sometimes – when they forget to be reassuring – "catastrophe"....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Guardian profile of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and its founders is highly recommended reading for those who love Futurism, science fiction and plain old good reporting and storytelling.. Recommended reading 11/10 ;-)

rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, September 1, 2014 2:12 AM

The sourge of the Ebola virus in Africa cannot and should not be ignored! With the rise of Antibiotic resistant strains of viruses, comes greater challenges in the treatment of diseases. Rampant use of Antibiotics everywhere(this includes sanitizers, detergents that containg anti-microbial contents, and use of disinfectant) along with changes taking place in the environment have all exposed us to the risk of getting infected by an intelligent and resilient killer bug!