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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
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Bono lists his Top Ten for the next decade in the New York Times. Here's an example of one:
Matter Doesn’t Matter
God, it appears, is a Trekkie. (God help us.)
Dr. Anton
Zeilinger, an Austrian physicist, is becoming a rock star of science
for his work in quantum teleportation, which I know very little about
but which I think I may have achieved backstage one night in Berlin in
the early 1990s. At any rate, it seems to have something to do with
teleporting properties or bits of information, not physical objects;
even though Dr. Zeilinger plays down the possibility of a “Star Trek”
moment, his breakthroughs are catching the attention of the
nonscientific world for their metaphysical implications. His own
version of E=mc2 ends in a cosmic punch line: that when it comes to the
origin of the universe, information matters more than matter.
The whole article is worth a read.
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