We need global open accessible collaborative projects to benefit all humans and AIs
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Comment: We need global open accessible collaborative projects to benefit all humans and AIs
Rick, So you use lots of them and give them lots of energy. The photons of visible, infrared and ultraviolet light are only a few electron volts of energy and not a lot of momentum, but the intensities now are strong enough (if you have the money like some research projects) to boil off electron positron pairs in the vacuum. The electrons can each have million or billion or more electron volts. That flame you see is coming out of a chemical reaction and that is only about 10 electron volts But there are many desktop size lasers and accelerators that can give each molecule or atom or particle billions of electron volts each and they can have speeds that approach the speed of light. It is not hard, but it takes a lot of data and equations and memorization.
With the Internet Foundation, I am trying to make all that kind of knowledge accessible to the 5.4 Billion humans using the Internet. And also looking at the other 2.8 Billion not clearly using the open Internet or using computers at all.
It just occurred to me, the push of the particles is NOT the mass but the surface area. So if you fragment into quark gluon plasma like they do in accelerator labs and in a sense from laser plasmas generally (they contain a lot of electrons and ions), that is “many from one”. Do you remember the lesson from Brownian motion, particles exert pressure by their number. If you break up a nucleus or a cluster, it becomes many and each is counted in the number of moles of things in the mix.
In a more visual sense you use a spray of fine particles moving near the speed of light, not a lot of heavy slow bullets (atoms and ions and electrons). Look at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, their Atlas and CMS detectors (probably others) have these huge sprays of fragments when they concentrate energy into colliding with things like uranium atoms. So maybe a pulse fission reactor (a precisely controlled explosion) would be a cheap way for space tugs and long trips.
I have seen most of them over that last 60 years I have studied quantum chemistry and fields. Joe Weber at University of Maryland College Park told me not to follow him, but to study the work of Robert Forward and he wrote a lot of science fiction books about gravity in addition to a career as an industrial physicist and laying the foundations for LIGO and detection of dynamic gravitational fields. So any idea is fair game, if you “do the number”, run the models, calibrate and test the models until you are sure they work.
I did study gravitation, quantum chemistry, nuclear chemistry, astrophysics, geophysics, celestial mechanics, most all of mathematics, economics, finance, demography, digital marketing, long range planning, technology and business intelligence and development – most of the quantitative sciences and still do. But individual excellence and fame mean nothing at all if the world falls apart around all of us an billions of humans live in want and misery an knowledge poverty.
So for the last 26 years every day with the Internet Foundation, and most of the 26 years before that professionally and privately I have tried to organize the material that ends up on the Internet and in computers and flowing through the worlds networks – to make it more accessible. And much of “accessible” is simply “how can I ask questions and get basic background to understand what they are writing, saying, showing?”
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
