Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > Steve Smith wrote: > >> I'm a little too steeped >> in classical statistical physics to easily imagine we are going to >> find/create/harness a "limitless source of free energy which does >> not require an increase of entropy to exploit". >> > Some fun related stuff.. > > http://www.quantumfields.com/gedanken%20spacecraft.pdf > Holy Shit Batman. I'm a huge fan of Bob Forward both as a scientist and a science/technology evangalist. This is work I was unfamiliar with and who could resist a tile such as "GedankenSpacecraft" !
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/291/5510/1941 > And double-holy-shit, I am just looking more closely at the performance envelope of MEMS based micromirror arrays (TI DLPs) and here you hand me nano-scale Casimir-effect mediated (sub)micromirror array actuators. So, you have me sufficiently distracted... everyone, carry on and finish paving the planet, I believe that in a post-human embodiment, I can outrun the paving of the universe on my GedankenSpacecraft! How long is a lifetime anyway? And my progeny? They are well educated and even young, they can come with me. - Steve ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
