# e-web: a space-based quantum internet, the begin

<< a team of physicists reports that it sent eerily intertwined quantum particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record >>

<< Entanglement involves putting objects in the peculiar limbo of quantum superposition, in which an object's quantum properties occupy multiple states at once: like Schrödinger's cat, dead and alive at the same time. Then those quantum states are shared among multiple objects. Physicists have entangled particles such as electrons and photons, as well as larger objects such as superconducting electric circuits >>

Gabriel Popkin. China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance. Jun. 15, 2017.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance

Juan Yin, Yuan Cao, et al. Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers. Science  16 Jun 2017: Vol. 356, Issue 6343, pp. 1140-1144 doi: 10.1126/science.aan3211

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6343/1140
   

# n-soc: inside a demonetized world, every(?)thing cheap or free, by Peter ...

<< At Singularity University's Exponential Finance Summit in New York [..], Diamandis [Peter Diamandis] talked about the broad and specific trends he believes are leading to a demonetized world >>

<< The counterbalance to technological unemployment [..] is the demonetization of living — in other words, pretty much everything we need and do in our day-to-day lives is becoming radically cheaper, if not free, and technology's making it happen >>

Vanessa Bates Ramirez. Technology Will Erase Jobs — But Also Make Everything Cheap or Free. Jun  08,  2017

https://singularityhub.com/2017/06/08/technology-will-erase-jobs-but-also-make-everything-cheap-or-free/

# s-behav: flow of non-verbal information among musicians

AA << demonstrated that musicians assigned as leaders affect other performers more than musicians assigned as followers. These effects were present during performance, when musicians could only hear each other, but were magnified when they could also see each other >>

http://trainorlab.mcmaster.ca/publications/ChangLivingstoneBosnyakTrainor2017

Andrew Chang, Steven R. Livingstone, et al. Body sway reflects leadership in joint music performance. PNAS 2017; 114(21): E4134–E4141.

http://m.pnas.org/content/114/21/E4134

# s-phys: beyond the Standard Model, a hypothesis

<< A fundamental assumption of the Standard Model is that the interactions of these elementary particles [ leptons: electrons, muons and taus ] are the same despite their different masses and lifetimes >>

<< A new review of results from three experiments points to the strong possibility that lepton universality — and perhaps ultimately the Standard Model itself — may have to be revised >>

<< The rates for some decays involving the heavy lepton tau, relative to those involving the light leptons — electrons or muons — were higher than the Standard Model predictions >>

Julie Cohen. Not So Elementary. June 8, 2017

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2017/018050/not-so-elementary

Gregory Ciezarek, Manuel Franco Sevilla, et al. A challenge to lepton universality in B-meson decays.     Nature 546, 227–233 (08 June 2017) doi: 10.1038/nature22346
Publ. 07 June 2017

https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22346.html

# s-gst: imaging a soliton, first in the centre (of the condensate) rather than at the edges

<< When a periodic waveform is subjected to small perturbations to its amplitude and phase, any nonlinearity in the system can lead to its fragmentation — a so-called modulation instability. The phenomenon often results in the formation of solitons — self-reinforcing solitary wave packets — aligned in a train >>

AA << found that [ in ultracold 7Li atoms ] solitons developed first in the centre of the condensate rather than at the edges, suggesting that the seed for the modulation instability is dominated by noise, which may be technical, thermal or quantum in origin >>

Yun Li. Ultracold gases. Search for the seed. doi:10.1038/nphys4172

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v13/n6/full/nphys4172.html

Jason H. V. Nguyen, De Luo, Randall G. Hulet. Formation of matter-wave soliton trains by modulational instability. Science 2017, 356 (6336), 422–426. doi: 10.1126/science.aal3220. 28 Apr 2017.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/422

# s-phys: photonic ('natural') intelligence: a laser chaos can make decisions

<< [..] over the past several years, researchers have demonstrated that physical objects [..] can also "make decisions" by responding to feedback from their environments >>

AA << has demonstrated that the ultrafast, chaotic oscillatory dynamics in lasers makes these devices capable of decision making and reinforcement learning, which is one of the major components of machine learning >>

<< [..] this is the first demonstration of ultrafast photonic decision making or reinforcement learning, and it opens the doors to future research on "photonic intelligence" >>

AA << utilize the computational power inherent in physical phenomena [..] The computational power of physical phenomena is based on 'infinite degrees of freedom,' and its resulting 'nonlocality of interactions' and 'fluctuations'  >>

AA << call such systems 'natural Intelligence' in contrast to artificial intelligence" >>

Lisa Zyga. Researchers investigate decision-making by physical phenomena. June  2,  2017.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-decision-making-physical-phenomena.html

Makoto Naruse, Yuta Terashima, et al. Ultrafast photonic reinforcement learning based on laser chaos. arXiv:1704.04379 [physics.optics]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04379

# n-art: works in the moment, by Brett

<< “There’s definitely something about working en plein air,” he [Brett Mason] said. “You get a lot of the sights, the sounds, the smells. You’re really kind of involved in the picture.” >>

Allyson Ruggieri, Alexander Popichak, et al. The Three Rivers Arts Festival Brings Color And Whimsy To Pittsburgh. Jun 6, 2017

http://wesa.fm/post/three-rivers-arts-festival-brings-color-and-whimsy-pittsburgh#stream/0

FonT

<< You’re really kind of involved in the picture >> immagine questa che potrebbe ricordare una sorta di immediato Satori; forse e' per questi transitori, ispirati "stati della mente" che certe acicliche  "visioni d'artista" (all'interno del qualsivoglia gomitolo quasistocastico) sono talvolta in-credibilmente "predittive", dirompenti, micidiali perfino ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori