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The title is somewhat misleading, I think. Nevertheless, this sounds like very interesting research. It is astonishing how much we have learned about the brain
by krylon 5y ago
The title is somewhat misleading, I think. Nevertheless, this sounds like very interesting research.
It is astonishing how much we have learned about the brain and how it works, but there so much to learn I doubt we will ever run out of questions to ask.
- kiba 5y agoIs it? With physics, we haven't uncovered anything new that would lead to whole new technologies.
- GeorgeTirebiter 5y agoExcept... we cannot predict how future folks will be able to use e.g. neutrinos to achieve some fantastic future tech. And apart from the sheer desire to 'understand the world', physics research is giving future technologists some phenomena to (possibly) exploit.
- drdeca 5y agoI'm skeptical that future technologies will have much use for neutrinos specifically. Facts discovered via the study of neutrinos, that seems quite plausible, but I doubt there will ever be much use for neutrinos directly.
- rsynnott 5y agoWell, if you want _really_ low latency comms with somewhere approximately on the other side of the world, all you need is a very big particle accelerator, and a neutrino detector :) (or two of each, really). I'm sure the high frequency trading people would love it...
- amelius 5y agoThat would only speed it up by a factor of pi/2.
- rsynnott 5y agoAssuming a shortest possible fibre optic cable with 1c transmission speed (neither are particularly realistic). But yeah, I’m mostly joking. Tho you never know with the HFT people.
- sitkack 5y agoIt would also require no infrastructure between the emitter and the detector. Right now we lay little glass waveguides all over the seafloor to accomplish this, or put satellites in geo synchronous orbit and suffer the latency. Neutrino comms would be civilization transforming.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Neutrino comms would be civilization transforming. Not, like, even 1% as much as the rest of the consequences of the breakthroughs in practical physics necessary for them would be, I suspect.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoWhat? Like half of all modern tech is built out of weird physics. Photoelectric effect, liquid crystals, transistors, most camera improvements, capacitive touch - all applications of discoveries in physics.
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- antifa 5y agoThere's still a lot to learn in materials science, plus the gap between "well technically" in a lab vs "well actually" in a factory.
- Sosh101 5y agoIn what way is it misleading?
- joombaga 5y ago> Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding I was lead to believe a "brain-cleaning sleeping cap" already exists. It does not. Add "research" after "cap" (or prefix with "Research into" and I would not be lead to believe it already exists.
- antegamisou 5y agoYou sure you didn't mean to say > It is astonishing how little we have learned about the brain and how it works ?
- krylon 5y agoYou are correct. Silly me! Thanks for pointing that out!