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...discussion ranging from the role of humanity in determining the nature of the cosmos to the fluctuations of quantum fields, Linde decried what he said was the usual tendency of physicists "to consider metaphysics or philosophy problems irrelevant...
...Soviets' launch capability took a quantum leap earlier this year when they successfully fired off Energia, a booster as powerful as the mighty Saturn 5, which the U.S. developed for the Apollo program and then scrapped in favor of the shuttle. With Energia, the Soviets can loft 100-ton payloads, vs. a maximum for the U.S. shuttle of 30 tons. That is enough to carry their shuttle, which is under development, or to orbit parts for a space station far larger than Mir, which could be a platform for a manned mission to Mars. Says Dale Myers, deputy administrator...
...solve the whole crime; we find the whole person"), is diverted from a career of finding vanished cats by a daunting assignment: assist a former Cambridge classmate who is wanted for murder and -- oh, yes -- save the human race from impending extinction. The yarn embraces time travel, ghostly possession, quantum mechanics, musical theory, computer modeling, cellular communications and, from another galaxy, Electric Monks (they "believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe"). College-level physics is not required, but familiarity with...
...Stanford and IBM announced that they had made thin films of the new substances, important for computer applications. The spotlight then shifted to IBM Researchers Robert Laibowitz and Roger Koch, who reported that they had made their own thin film into a working gadget called a SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device). Such tools are already used in low-temperature versions to measure extremely faint magnetic fields. They are also employed by physicists in the search for elusive gravity waves and magnetic monopoles, predicted by some theories but not yet observed. Medical researchers use SQUIDs to detect the minute fields...
Soros is as inventive at spending money as he is at making it. A large part of the more than $500 million Soros has earned from Quantum is given to three foundations that sponsor greater openness in his native Hungary and other Communist societies. Dozens of Hungarian writers and scientists, actors and artists, who lack government endorsement and support for their activities, live on Soros Foundation grants. In addition, Soros is now bankrolling a dozen Hungarian high school graduates each year to study at Oxford. Earlier this month Soros flew to Moscow to see whether a "Glasnost" foundation could...