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The ideas that Einstein formulated lead these discoveries, they are part and parcel. He may not have been able to solve these problems numerically, but directly contributed the materials required for others to further this work.”In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”- Vince Lombardi, perhaps Einsteins’ failure to produce the necessarily calculated data wasn’t because of his inability to do the math. It was the enormity of it; The sheer amount of calculations would have taken decades, lifetimes to compute.
So we must remind ourselves, just as it took time to construct LIGO, and LISA, that all great things take time. After all, Rome wasn’t built in a day. And neither was the volume of scientific work that we have today.
I use all types of senses from audio, and visual to kinesthetic to understand scientific concepts. I take other concepts or conceptualized theories from other domains and work them into the principles discussed. This cements, the wave of thought where it needs to be. I try my best to capture these thoughts in the respective valve, and then I circle back to these ideas later on as I gain more insight into a topic, or have other fields that I can reference to build upon the previous thought. Getting my thought down into words also helps, either in writing on pen and pad or in this window. This helps to structure my thoughts in a manner that is conducive, and constructive for others.
The unpredictability of certain elements is also a strength and a weakness. By being able to infer from these models we can begin to create truly random systems. This randomness can be used to perform many different things. We can rely upon their unpredictability. There are numerous use cases for this.
Security measures need to be in place, by having computer-brain or brain-brain interface capable humans opens them up to the possibility of corruption or worse malicious manipulation for personal gain.
Considering BMI will be the technology of the future and is currently being used, caution should be exercised. As there are numerous military and espionage activities that could significantly benefit from signals intelligence that having these devices installed and operational on individuals would give to the community as a whole.
But where do we draw the line between personal rights and freedoms, and security?
It makes me wonder how we could hack into these devices to pilfer the transmission signals happening within people’s brains.
I would use this technology to augment soldier frames in the field to have the ability to control frames for strategic mission outcomes. I would use a secure satellite uplink connection to the frames, through either short wave high capacity channels to a centralized unit that transmits commands on the field to increase speeds or depending on the cost of the asset operating the machine, to a home base that is secured in a native country.
It would also be advantageous to alleviate some of the problems with artificial limbs and sense to these limbs, which would be an excellent use case function for this technology.
It would also be neat to have a hive mind, where other people’s senses are augmented with this device, and then transmit the signals back to a central person that feels what society feels.
tough question, lots of use case functions.
What does LIGO mean to you?
LIGO means advancements, LIGO means the thirst for knowledge, LIGO means the future and new discoveries we have yet to unlock. It’s best to keep our peepers open and be listening, then to miss the chance of a lifetime.How does LIGO compare to other major scientific achievements of the 20th and 21st centuries?
It is amazing, it’s difficult to rate it in comparison to other scientific advancement. Being able to explain and solve complex phenomena, and creating functionally better equipment is fundamentally at the heart of science. We will never know until we try, and in trying to understand gravitational wave theory better. Then we can truly begin to unravel some more mysterious of the universe. This could be the project that sparks something or someone in the right direction to unlock things we couldn’t even begin to fathom we stumble across keys more often than we believe, and we just need to find the lock and use the key to see what is held within. Do you foresee changes to the ways in which scientists author papers and are credited for their work?
I do, as the summation of human intellect and the pursuit of knowledge is what leads them to these discoveries. Perhaps it would be better to attribute it to the entire human domain of knowledge than to one individual. We often take credit for things that we would have never been able to accomplish without the entire system of operational structures that enables us to have the ability and privilege to engage in such pursuits.
And so we should give just as much weight to the cleaner as we do to the researcher, as we do to the professor. Because often not, they are the ones that truly enabled the endeavour to happen. We all stand shoulder to shoulder when we look at the mountain of knowledge that lay before us, and in the attempt to surmount this knowledge, in climbing to these peaks and seeing these valleys, we often leave evidence behind, we often encounter things we would have never have dreamed of. And maybe it was left by someone who was unknown, known.
Freedom isn’t free, and the sentinels stand and walk the tomb of the unknown soldier, so perhaps we should also attribute science to the unknown scientists too.
Maybe it would be better to give these advancements to the wealth of the people, instead of to the wealth of one or an organization. That after all, that would be what these scientists and soldiers would want, wouldn’t it? Intellectual property is a messy topic, but it doesn’t have to be if it doesn’t exist.Do you think the current model of scientific funding plays a role in maintaining the status quo of scientific authorship? Explain your answers.
I do believe that it restricts the development of research. The model of authorship, of ownership, creates a long list of checkboxes to tick, and this stifles the process. It needs to change. Funding should be allocated based on the merit of the endeavour, not on the profits that a company stands to make from it. We allow individuals huge some of the wealth, but we at times lack sufficient funds to further the entire wealth of human knowledge, even to teach kids or develop nations.
We sacrifice efficiency for avarice, we sacrifice lives for greed, and we fail to cherish what truly matters, the interpersonal connections and achievements we make together as a planet of species all interconnected and woven into a complex and holistic system.
“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered “Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
And so we sacrifice a lot of people, for something as frivolous as a fancier car, or a nicer vacation, or a bigger house. Maybe it starts with reworking the system of ownership. And maybe science could be the first to take the reins of the future and relinquish its control, we are here to help one another, and to grow together. It pains me to imagine the human ingenuity losses to starvation and hunger, just so we could live in a bit more comfort, we sacrificed education for momentary amounts of dopamine, and that is a true tragedy of man.
Do you find that teaching a topic to someone else helps you to better understand it yourself?
I do find that teaching a topic helps to cement the understanding in my brain. There is a saying that says if you can teach a subject that means you have begun the steps to mastery, and so teaching is the true mastery of understanding.Have you ever been inspired by a great idea by trying to teach someone else?
I have come up with several ideas while teaching, and have learned so much more than what meets the eye. It is so vital to my development that I couldn’t even begin to describe the understanding that has come about from it.
Just not a week ago, I was teaching a young gentleman how to do a muscle-up, except I learned about the physical and biochemical reactions and circulation of surfaces and friction on the bar and a multitude of other factors just from that single interaction. It connected all of these together, and all of a sudden it just clicked in my brain, these understandings, seeing the molecular structures of energy released the friction of electrons between surfaces, the neural interactions in the brain, and the phenomenon of the human body lay before me. It was beautiful and it happened all at once but was built up in my subconscious through the lifetime of development. and so it was at that movement I was ready to have these realizations.
And it shame that most people never get to experience this kind of information flow, because few get the opportunity to study and teach at that level.
Perhaps, the unification of this will be completed with quantum computers. being able to solve all possibilities at once and choosing the correct one.
Or maybe we already have the answer hidden in the world around us, the equal symmetry of cause and effect, action and reaction? I need to do study more math <# It all depends on the layer of abstraction you look at the objects around you.
A human face could be judged to be symmetrical, in alignment from one side to the other, a sphere could be symmetrical, but on the molecular level perhaps it isn’t, maybe one of the quarks isn’t stable at the quantum level. Perhaps the human’s skin isn’t as symmetrical as it appears to be.Perhaps they are both in symmetry, in the sense of coordinate plans and boundary layers. A but circle has more symmetry, if I was to fry a circle in oil and a square in oil the circle would fry evenly, whereas the square with its pointer ends would end up more crisp. The circle is thus more symmetrical. this is because of the differential of distance from one side to the other. the circle all points are equal, but the square this is not the case. There are differences in thickness.