Feb 24, 2016 08:20 PM
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The Science Behind the Superheroes: Can Superpowers be Created?
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/15/the-s...e-created/
EXCERPT: If we take the 1984 classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG, also known as the 'FASERIP system', at its word, there are five categories of superhero:
●Altered Humans
●High-Tech Wonders
●Mutants
●Robots
●Aliens
When it comes to real life superpowers you may be thinking that this list is restricted to the realm of make believe, but just how close are we to making at least some of these reality? If we take Moore's law into consideration, we begin to see that we may well have the computing power to tackle two of these (High-Tech Wonders, Robots) sooner than we think. Couple that with the huge advances being made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and the lines between fantasy and reality become even more blurred....
Computer program dreams up new quantum experiments
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news...xperiments
EXCERPT: Quantum mechanics is so hard to understand that even experts do not entirely trust their intuition – and this makes it difficult for physicists to come up with new experiments that put the theory to the test. Now, physicists at the University of Vienna in Austria have devised a computer algorithm for designing new quantum experiments that are beyond our wildest dreams.....
http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/15/the-s...e-created/
EXCERPT: If we take the 1984 classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG, also known as the 'FASERIP system', at its word, there are five categories of superhero:
●Altered Humans
●High-Tech Wonders
●Mutants
●Robots
●Aliens
When it comes to real life superpowers you may be thinking that this list is restricted to the realm of make believe, but just how close are we to making at least some of these reality? If we take Moore's law into consideration, we begin to see that we may well have the computing power to tackle two of these (High-Tech Wonders, Robots) sooner than we think. Couple that with the huge advances being made in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and the lines between fantasy and reality become even more blurred....
Computer program dreams up new quantum experiments
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news...xperiments
EXCERPT: Quantum mechanics is so hard to understand that even experts do not entirely trust their intuition – and this makes it difficult for physicists to come up with new experiments that put the theory to the test. Now, physicists at the University of Vienna in Austria have devised a computer algorithm for designing new quantum experiments that are beyond our wildest dreams.....