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...Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...
...year-old was obsessed with DNA. He had originally set out to become a naturalist (since childhood, he had had an interest in birds), but during his third year at the University of Chicago, Watson read a book titled What Is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger, a founder of quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child. And because it had to be both complex and compact enough to fit inside a single...
...interest of pursuing what he calls Einstein’s “dying dream”—a unified theory which encompasses both quantum mechanics and relativity—the Cambridge-educated theoretical physicist has dismissed the constant speed of light as a misconception...
Currently, he said, the trend in the United States has been to propose an inflationist theory, one which explains quantum mechanics within the framework of relativity. Working across the Atlantic, Magueijo proposed a change...
...past life, Matthew Spotnitz was a Quantum Cellular Automata Architect—for six months at NASA during the year after his high school graduation. (In response to an FM request to clarify what exactly a Quantum Cellular Automata Architect does, Spotnitz answered, “A Quantum Cellular Automata Architect designs circuit patterns with Quantum Cellular Automata.”) “I was surrounded by PhDs at NASA’s JPL [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena,” the chemistry concentrator explains. “And I had only taken AP physics...