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Exoplanets or Extrasolar planets with stars on background nebula, 3D illustration

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Author
News
Date
January 14, 2023

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Brett Tingley, Daniel Clery, Elizabeth Rayne, Enceladus, Evan Gough, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, Fine-tuning of universe for life, Kurt Gödel, Laurence Tognetti, LHS 475b, Low entropy, Matt Williams, Opals on Mars, Paul Sutter, Pluto, Roger Penrose, Scott Alan Johnston, Steve Meyer, Time travel, Tissint, UFOs}

The Search for Extraterrestrial Life 18

_{We are starting to find more different kinds of exoplanets and an unexpected source of water on Mars} _{News

January 14, 2023

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In our universe: Time travel? “How a Rotating Universe Makes Time Travel Possible” At Universe Today, Stony Brook astrophysicist Paul Sutter notes that mathematical philosopher Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) wrote a model for Albert Einstein (1879–1955) of a universe that allows time travel into the past: “Gödel constructed a relatively simple and artificial model universe to prove his point. This universe is rotating and contains only one ingredient. That ingredient is a negative cosmological constant that resists the centrifugal force of the rotation to keep the universe static. / Gödel found that if you follow a particular path in this rotating universe you can end up in your own past. ” (January 11, 2023) Our universe, as it happens, is not Read More ›

Abstract 3D wireframe neural cells and network

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
April 28, 2022

Tagged
Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Artificial Intelligence, artificial neural networks, Backpropagation, Big Tech, convolutional neural networks, D-Wave, David Deutsch, Deep Learning, dynamic feedback, error backpropagation, error backpropagation algorithm, Geoffrey Hinton, hardcore Einstein realism, Hugh Everett, Joe Bordogna, John Wheeler, machine intelligence, Marvin Minsky, mind-body problem, Multiverse, National Science Foundation (NSF), Norbert Wiener, Paul Werbos, quantum annealing, quantum Turing machine, Schrödinger, Vannevar Bush}

The National Science Foundation and Advancement in Artificial Intelligence

_{Robert J. Marks

April 28, 2022

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Early in his career, IEEE fellow and retired National Science Foundation program director Paul Werbos developed the neural network training algorithm known as error backpropagation, which has been foundational to the vast majority of today’s advances in artificial intelligence. Listen in as he discusses his work in this area and other topics, including his tenure with the National Science Foundation, Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
July 1, 2021

Tagged
Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, D-Wave, David Deutsch, hardcore Einstein realism, Hugh Everett, John Wheeler, mind-body problem, Multiverse, Norbert Wiener, Paul Werbos, quantum annealing, quantum Turing machine, Schrödinger}

Paul Werbos: Quantum Turing Machines

_{Robert J. Marks

July 1, 2021

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What are quantum Turing machines? In today’s Mind Matters News podcast, Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Paul Werbos explore the mind-boggling science of the quantum realm. Tune in to discover Werbos’s thoughts on historical scientists such as Albert Einstein and David Deutsch, the multiverse theory, and Schrödinger’s cat. Show Notes Additional Resources

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
June 5, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science

Tagged
a wrinkle in time, Albert Einstein, Dimensions, Madeleine L'Engle, Science fiction}

A Wrinkle In Time: Reading Science Fiction At An Early Age

_{An early introduction to science fiction will be a boon to any child's imagination} _{Caitlin Cory

June 5, 2021

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Arts & Culture, Science}

When I was young, my father was constantly pressing new books into my hands. The first in remembrance was C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The second to stand out was Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time. It was a funny choice, really. My father’s theology does not match L’Engle’s universalism, nor are his preferred subjects math and science. At the time, I was unable to wrap my mind around concepts of dimension and time introduced by L’Engle, but the novel became a fast favorite that I have returned to in my adulthood. A Wrinkle In Time was most recently brought back into popular view when an adaptation imagined by director Ava DuVernay was released in theaters Read More ›

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post

Author
News
Date
December 2, 2020

Categorized
Science

Tagged
Albert Einstein, bitcoin, Computers, cryptocurrencies, Energy efficiency, Enrique Blair, Entanglement, Featured, John Bell, nonlocality, Quantum Entanglement, qubits, Robert J. Marks, Spooky action at a distance, Superposition}

“Spooky Action at a Distance” Makes Sense—in the Quantum World

_{Einstein never liked quantum mechanics but each transistor in your cell phone is a quantum device} _{News

December 2, 2020

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Science}

In last week’s podcast, “Enrique Blair on quantum computing,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks talks with fellow computer engineer Enrique Blair about why quantum mechanics is so strange. The discussion turned to why Albert Einstein, a brilliant but orderly mathematical thinker, did not really like quantum mechanics at all and what we should learn from that: https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-110-Enrique-Blair.mp3 The discussion of Einstein and “spooky action at a distance” (his way of describing quantum particles’ behavior) starts at approximately 27:45. The Show Notes and transcript follow. Excerpts from the transcript: Robert J. Marks: Albert Einstein didn’t like quantum mechanics or certain aspects of quantum mechanics. Dd he die thinking that quantum mechanics was a fluke? Enrique Blair (pictured): That’s an Read More ›

the ultimate destruction of the planet in a great cosmic catastrophe 3d illustration

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Author
News
Date
October 17, 2020

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Technocracy

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Civilizations (stages), Extraterrestrials (ET), Jolene Creighton, Kardashev Scale, Matt Williams, Michio Kaku, Nikolai Kardashev, Robin Hanson, Science fiction}

Does Science Fiction Hint That We Are Actually Doomed?

_{That’s the implication of an influential theory as to why we never see extraterrestrials} _{News

October 17, 2020

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Arts & Culture, Technocracy}

Recently science and science fiction writer Matt Williams has been writing a series at Universe Today on why the extraterrestrial intelligences that many believe must exist in our universe never show up. Last week, we looked at the hypothesis that planets that can host life are rare so there are not many aliens out there to find. This week we look at a more ominous hypothesis. In “Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” III: What is the Great Filter?” (July 23, 2020), Williams asks us to consider: “there is something in the Universe that prevents life from reaching the point where we would be able to hear from it.” What could that “something” be? The term “the Great Filter” was coined to describe Read More ›

Stack of papers isolated on white background

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
June 9, 2020

Categorized
Military, Peer Review

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Frank Tipler, Hiroshima, Karl Popper, Marshall McLuhan, William Sealy Gosset}

Einstein’s Single Journal Paper Ended WWII

_{Does that mean that a thousand papers could multiply the effect? Think again.} _{Robert J. Marks

June 9, 2020

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Military, Peer Review}

It was Albert Einstein’s work on matter and energy, captured in e = mc2 that enabled the atomic bomb that ended World War II. Modern anonymous peer review today works well except that it is muddied with bias, incompetence, and ignorance. The review processes of Einstein’s day were better. A renowned expert’s approval was sufficient for a paper’s publication.1 The current system has only been in force since the end of World War II when pressure was applied to professors to write papers. The mantra “publish or perish” looks to have been coined soon after the war in 1951 by Marshall “The Medium is the Message” McLuhan.2 Earlier, professors were often discouraged from publishing. Karl Popper, one of the most Read More ›

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
May 14, 2020

Categorized
Peer Review

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Featured, Frank Tipler, Max Planck, Peer Review, Physics, Scholarly Publishing, Wilhelm Wiens}

Einstein’s Only Rejected Paper

_{It was the only one reviewed anonymously, as is the practice today} _{Robert J. Marks

May 14, 2020

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Peer Review}

Today’s collection of scholarly literature is exploding in quantity and deteriorating in quality. One solution is to return to review practices at the time of Einstein. The reviewers were much better qualified and were not anonymous.

Quantum Randomness Gives Nature Free Will

_{Whether or not quantum randomness explains how our brains work, it may help us create unbreakable encryption codes} _{Robert J. Marks

December 6, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

When I was boy, my father explained free will and predestination to me: I dig a fence post hole. · Did I create the hole because of my own free will? · Or was the hole already there and I simply removed the dirt? If true, the hole was predestined. The question cannot be answered by examining the evidence. In philosophy terms, it is “empirically unanswerable.” That is the sort of stuff that philosophers debate. Religious people might point to scripture to support one conclusion over the other.1 In physics, however, quantum randomness offers a definitive answer to the question of predestination vs. free will—for subatomic particles. In the world of classical physics (Isaac Newton’s physics), it can be argued Read More ›