Life as electrons??

2023-06-23 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
John, please evaluate this article, because this report indicates that life could somehow be electron clouds of some sort, and we all know that electrons repel each other? Can you elucidate please? What is the impact, if true? I am working tonight and thus occupied instead of doing searches. 

Re: Life as electrons??

2023-06-23 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
Very good. I will dismiss the alleged profundity. Thanks! Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 7:35 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: It's complete nonsense.  Biological molecules assembled at random don't have to grow sequentially from one end.  His diagram should

Re: Life as electrons??

2023-06-23 Thread Brent Meeker
It's complete nonsense.  Biological molecules assembled at random don't have to grow sequentially from one end.  His diagram should look like: A B C D R ->  AB BA AC CA AD DA AR RA BC CB BD DB DR RD -> ABBA BAAB ABAC ACAB ABCA CAAB ABAD ADAB ABDA... Brent On 6/23/2023 3:37 PM,

NYTimes.com: New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim

2023-06-23 Thread John Clark
Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim A team of researchers verified a key measurement from a study earlier this year that had faced doubts

Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-23 Thread Brent Meeker
On Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 01:45:41 PM EDT, John Clark wrote: "It intuitively feels like lemurs, gibbons, chimps, and homo erectus were all more or less just monkey-like things plus or minus the ability to wave sharp sticks - and then came homo sapiens, with the potential to build nukes and

Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years

2023-06-23 Thread John Clark
*"Microsoft promises it'll deliver a Quantum Supercomputer - that will wreak havoc on any standard, non-quantum cryptography (including bitcoin) - in under a decade."* Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years

Re: AI takeoff speed

2023-06-23 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> An interesting comparison. But it avoids the obvious lesson. > There was a smooth evolutionary landscape leading to homo sapiens. What > happened was that homo sapiens killed off all the near competitors, * You may be right but you don't