To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (6941 ) 2/19/2005 1:35:23 AM From: koan Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18308 Weekend musings: edge of knowledge Seventh son, I am most worried about a psychotic, dumb or mistaken leader. India and pakistan almost did it a couple of years ago. Ironic the three most important things: politics, religion and quantum mechanics are off limits to discussion most of the time. There is a life and death race taking place right now (similiar to the atom bomb race) that 99.9% of the people are oblivious too. Einstein's theory of relativity is an illusion like Plato's shawdows on the wall. It is a fair represnetation of reality, but Quantum Mechanics is the real reality. The race: humans must invent quantum encryption before they invent quantum computers. Why you might ask-lol? Or maybe not. Because a quantum computer can break any non quantum encryption system with ease. But even a quantum computer cannot break quantum encryption. So if the chinese for instance invent a functioning quantum computer before we invent quantum encryption they can break into our banks, missle silos, anything. We will be at their mercy. Hopefully they will be merciful-lol. Personally, I am making lots of new friends because my money is on the chinese to get their first! Why, you might ask, can you not break quantum encryption-lol? Because if one even looks or even tries to measure quantum encryption the particle wave action will collapse and you are cut off. This law is grounded in the very foundation of the laws of physics so there is no way around it. Quantum weirdness will be in every part of our world in the 21st century. Two things can go faster than the speed of light: the universes expansion itself and instantanous particle communication over any distance. Einstein called it spooky action at a distance. They are using these quantum realities today in industry. Mastering the quantum world will be as big as eating meat (increasing dramatically our brain size)and discovering fire. Scientific American this week talks about the universe being a quantum computer able to compute 10 to the 126th power. When we Hippies took LSD and tried to explain to people we could talked to trees the straight world laughed-lol. Well, it turns out everything is constantly transferrring information just like computers. Even stones and trees. Through a process called entanglement, if two particles mix and then are separated they can instantanously comunicate with each other over any distance. They have proved this by separating them, each one turning in a different direction (positive and negative). When they change the spin in one the other reverses immediately-lol. So our kids using quantum computers will probably be able to watch TV in other galaxy's. But people have to start learning about this stuff so they can make intelligent decisions. Bush is off to a bad start. Not even being able to recognize stem cell research's validity and gay marriage validity how is this guy going to understand quantum validity-lol? Clinton could have! And so can his wife!