The point is: whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires of our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time. That’s the Cave Man Principle.
The olfactory sensors of dogs, he said, had evolved over millions of years to be able to detect a handful of molecules, and that kind of sensitivity is extremely difficult to match, even with our most...
The 3-D printers of the future might be able to re-create the delicate tissues that constitute functioning organs or the machine parts necessary to make a self-replicating robot.
Perhaps various branches of genetically enhanced humans will populate different parts of the solar system and eventually diverge into separate species. And one can imagine that rivalries and even warf...
PREFACE Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole, including its birth and perhaps its ultimate fate. Not surprisingly, it has undergone many transformations in its slow, painful evolution, an...
One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world.
Looking back at those dark days, I am sometimes reminded of what happened to the great Chinese imperial fleet in the fifteenth century. Back then, the Chinese were the undisputed leaders in science an...
La base lunar está controlada en gran medida por trabajadores humanos, que están seguros y confortablemente instalados dentro de sus cápsulas en la Tierra
Introducing higher dimensions may be essential for prying loose the secrets of Creation. According to this theory, before the Big Bang, our cosmos was actually a perfect ten-dimensional universe, a wo...
In summary, the rather obscure laws of the weather are easy to understand once we view the earth from space. Thus the solution to the problem is to go up into space, into the third dimension. Facts th...
In other words, positive matter and energy that we see in stars can warp space-time so that it perfectly describes the motion of heavenly bodies. But negative matter and energy warp space-time in biza...
In conclusion, negative energy does exist, and if enough negative energy could somehow be collected, we could, in principle, create a wormhole machine or a warp drive engine, fulfilling some of the wi...
Historically, with each new scientific discovery, a new model of the brain has emerged. One of the earliest models of the brain was the homunculus, a little man who lived inside the brain and made all...
Einstein wrote, Quantum mechanics calls for a great deal of respect. But some inner voice tells me that this is not the true Jacob. The theory offers a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the O...
As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers.
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La ley de Moore, que afirma que la potencia de computación se duplica cada dieciocho meses.
Why go to the stars? Because we are the descendants of those primates who chose to look over the next hill. Because we won’t survive here indefinitely. Because the stars are there, beckoning with fres...
When bathed in telomerase, skin cells divide indefinitely, far beyond the Hayflick limit......But it should be pointed out that telomerase has to be regulated very carefully, because cancer cells are...
Todo individuo considera que los límites de su propia visión son los límites del mundo. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER