What’s In the Middle of Black Holes, and Why Do We Care?
Technology has now taken us to the boundary of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, where space and time end. Will it lead to new discoveries in quantum mechanics? And if we find what lies beyond, how would that change our understanding of cause and effect in time?
James Webb Space Telescope Advances Search for Signatures of Life
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an alien world, an important step in the search for life within and beyond our solar system. What will JWST discover in its search for the cause of star formation?
NASA’s Artemis Mission: Could We Have a Moon Base by 2030?
On November 16, 2022, NASA launched a test rocket for its first moon landing since the final Apollo mission in 1972. After 25 days, it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Now, NASA has lots of data and big plans for our future on the Moon.
Asteroid Detection Systems and The Science of Planetary Defence
Millions of years ago, an asteroid strike caused the extinction of two-thirds of all plants and animals on Earth. With the recent major success of a test mission to change the trajectory of an asteroid, the question remains how good are we at predicting and preparing for asteroid threats?
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Plato’s Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato
Plato’s Pod is a podcast of discussions on the works of Plato, the philosopher and geometer who wrote nearly 2,400 years ago. Plato would have imagined no better way than in dialogue for knowledge – the account of the reasons why – to find its home.
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Our Exchange of Complex Ideas Over Time
James Myers introduces Plato’s Pod series on the Cratylus with thoughts on Plato’s Theory of Forms and its relevance to human development and exchange of complex ideas with meaning that evolves in time. With recent powerful advances in machine language technology, do we have the knowledge to distinguish between our own words and those of the machines learning to simulate us?
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Featured Blog: Connection Between Time and Value
As inflation reduces the value of money, we might question how much of the value destruction arises from our fading belief in the potential of the future?.. [Read More]
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Solar Flares and CMEs: Are (Millions of) Nuclear Bombs Threatening Our Technology?
Solar flares and CMEs can damage and disrupt GPS systems, aircraft control, and communications. While the science for predicting these events is advancing, how safe are today’s technological systems from the power of the sun?
The Search for Life In the Solar System’s Ocean Worlds
ESA’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy moons Explorer), expected to launch in April 2023, can unravel secrets from ocean worlds in our solar system, like Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, Neptune’s moon Triton, and Jupiter’s ice-covered satellite Europa.
“Space Hurricanes” Discovered in the Upper Atmosphere
Scientists reported a long-lasting space hurricane in Earth’s ionosphere and magnetosphere, near the North Pole. These findings shed more light on how space weather affects critical technology that we use daily on Earth.
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Latest Quantum Accounting
Major Advances in Quantum Computing Revolution
A quantum computer has just been used to simulate a wormhole, holding potential for future space travel. With recent advances in powerful computing capacity, and the rapid growth of the quantum computing industry, the technology promises many benefits including reduction of pollution and conflict.
Introduction to Quantum Accounting Theory, Part 2
Quantum accounting records the order of the quantum computer’s signals that begin in two states simultaneously and output to two points on the spherical limit of the qubit. The first principle of quantum accounting considers the geometry of the sphere, the time order of signals from present to past and future, and the nature of the quantum as the universal medium of the account.
The Two Key Values in Quantum Accounting, Part 2: Where is the Elusive 0?
In Part 2 of our series, we find that to balance the quantum account, zero must remain in the middle of the qubit sphere, but we face the problem and paradox of locating that point. We conclude the only way to pinpoint the middle is to define – simultaneously – the radius of the debit and credit.
Featured Science News
A Different Way to Explore the Brightest Light of the Universe: Synchrotrons
Synchotrons follow the path of light from moving electrons to reveal the atomic structure and other properties of the physical world. Brazil’s new fourth-generation synchotron will generate light beams up to a billion times brighter than before to shed new light on the reality of nature.
Latest Philosophy of Technology
What’s In the Middle of Black Holes, and Why Do We Care?
Technology has now taken us to the boundary of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, where space and time end. Will it lead to new discoveries in quantum mechanics? And if we find what lies beyond, how would that change our understanding of cause and effect in time?
Quantum Security: How Much Time Will We Have to Conquer a Cryptography Crisis?
There is increasing urgency to develop new cryptography standards, as the power of the quantum computer threatens to expose sensitive private information and critical secrets. Governments, academia, and industry are launching initiatives – but will they produce a standard in time for the quantum computing revolution?
Where Do I End and Where Does the Machine Begin?
With Neuralink planning to implant a computer interface in a human brain in 2023, we wonder what the technology will mean to the future of human interactions and experience. With so much of the brain’s function still unknown, and many ethical issues to address, maybe the biggest question – if you were receiving an implant – would be “Where do I end and where does the machine begin?”
Latest Technology Over Time
What Were They Thinking? The Past and Future of Humanity and Technology as Imagined in the 1968 Epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey
The film classic presents a vision of the future that after 55 years still resonates in the imagination. As the power of today’s computers approaches the movie’s HAL 9000, the message about our relationship with technology is increasingly relevant.
What Were They Thinking? The Lighter Side of 1950s Sci-fi Films and Cult Classics
The public demand for science fiction movies in the 1950s spawned many lower-budget films. Many were gimmicky, but a number were surprisingly imaginative and over the years have become cult classics.
What Were They Thinking? Popular Imagination of Outer Space in Motion Pictures of the 1950s and 1960s
In the 1950s, the movie screens were full of tales of science fiction that gripped the human imagination. As millions flocked to the theatres for entertainment before TV and the internet took over, we explore how their hopes and fears for the future were reflected in the motion pictures.
Latest Science News
James Webb Space Telescope Advances Search for Signatures of Life
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an alien world, an important step in the search for life within and beyond our solar system. What will JWST discover in its search for the cause of star formation?
NASA’s Artemis Mission: Could We Have a Moon Base by 2030?
On November 16, 2022, NASA launched a test rocket for its first moon landing since the final Apollo mission in 1972. After 25 days, it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. Now, NASA has lots of data and big plans for our future on the Moon.
Asteroid Detection Systems and The Science of Planetary Defence
Millions of years ago, an asteroid strike caused the extinction of two-thirds of all plants and animals on Earth. With the recent major success of a test mission to change the trajectory of an asteroid, the question remains how good are we at predicting and preparing for asteroid threats?