Tag: Quantum Physics

• Quantum computers will kill cryptocurrencies, but that’s just the start of it

  About five years ago I took my first gander at the BitCoin phenomenon. In that post I wrote: In short, to trust a Bitcoin you must buy into its assumption that it can’t be hacked. Since the dawn of the computer age, hackers have demonstrated their ability to hack anything. They love the challenge. It’s…

  Mark

  March 29, 2019

  Politics 2019, Technology

  Bitcoin, Digital currencies, Electronic commerce, Encryption, Money, Quantum computers, Quantum computing, Quantum Physics, Trust

• The nature of reality isn’t what you think it is, continued

  Last November I wrote this post, which suggested (to me anyhow) that what we perceive as reality was anything but this. Since that post, I have been delving more into the subject, which is getting clearer and weirder every day. What’s weirdest about all this learning and research is that the exact sorts of people…

  Mark

  February 8, 2019

  Metaphysics, Sociology

  Astral planes, Ayn Rand, Brian Greene, Consciousness, Objectivism, Quantum Physics, Reality, Schrödinger’s cat, Virtual reality

• God is a verb

  Those of us who believe in God tend to think of God as a noun. As you may recall from elementary school, a noun is a person, place or thing. God is probably not a person, unless you count Jesus Christ. Nor is God a place, except heaven is assumed to be some physical or…

  Mark

  July 31, 2011

  Best of Occam’s Razor, Metaphysics, Philosophy

  God, Love, Physics, Quantum Physics, Religion

• Can being “prolife” be anti-life?

  If you pay attention to the news you have read about the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He was gunned down yesterday at his church in Wichita, Kansas by alleged murderer and “prolifer” Scott Roeder. Tiller was one of a small number of surgeons willing to provide late term abortions. He is hardly the first…

  Mark

  June 1, 2009

  Politics 2009, Sociology

  Abortion, Environment, Quantum Physics

• Consciousness as a two-way mirror

  I haven’t written about metaphysics for quite a while, mainly because I did not have much to say. Principally, I was losing interest in the subject but also I have been busy engaging in life, which I suspect is its natural purpose. Yet, occasionally something comes up in the press on metaphysics that piques my…

  Mark

  September 19, 2008

  Best of Occam’s Razor, Metaphysics

  Afterlife, Death, Quantum Physics, Soul

• Our Wild, Wild Universe

  Back in March I mentioned that I was going to read Brian Greene’s book The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality. Brian Greene is a physicist currently working in the area of string theory. Fortunately for the rest of us he is also a man who can demystify modern physics…

  Mark

  July 25, 2004

  Technology

  Brian Greene, Physics, Quantum Physics, String Theory

• The Illusion of Time

  This article in Thursday’s Washington Post intrigued both my wife and I. It is a synopsis of a conversation between a reporter (Joel Achenbach) and Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist. This physicist, like many in the business, is working hard trying to validate string theory. Hold on! Before you roll you eyes and click elsewhere…

  Mark

  March 12, 2004

  Metaphysics

  Quantum Physics, Time