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Submission + - Are we living in a giant hologram? (newscientist.com)

Anonymous Coward writes: "German made experiment called GEO600 has been detecting gravitational waves which are caused by astrophysical events like supernovae or coalescing massive binaries (neutron stars, black holes) for seven years. Suddenly their device started to make strange sound, while they were wondering the cause of that, a researcher who had a solution approached them. His solution was that GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time — the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. He say that this result is pointing that we all live in a giant hologram."

Comment Re:Privacy (Score 1) 199

Actually, as Moore's law is rapidly approaching it's conclusion; why don't we rather make systems for storing and sharing such information from personal, or even internalized devices?
It would be safer from exploit in your own possession, and you'd personally have to authorize access to any piece of data,
especially so if it's an item that you carry around with you.

Now this might pose a risk or a problem for less experienced users, but I can't see it not working for an entire generation grown up with information technology.
Technology

Silicon Circuits That Bend and Stretch 73

Matty the Monkey brings us a story from the BBC about silicon chips which can bend, flex, and even stretch. Researchers have developed a method to create circuits just 1.5 microns thick, which can then be bonded to a type of rubber to allow a great degree of flexibility. Scientists and companies see uses for these circuits in products ranging from "electronic paper" to form-fitting sensor devices to advanced brain implants. From BBC News: "To create the foldable chips, these circuit layers are deposited on a polymer substrate which is bonded in turn to a temporary silicon base. Following the deposition of the circuits, the silicon base is discarded to reveal delicate slivers of circuitry held in plastic. These are then bonded to a piece of pre-strained rubber. When the strain is removed, the rubber snaps back into shape, causing the circuits on the surface to wrinkle accordingly."

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