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This BLOG is for LLNL present and past employees, friends of LLNL and anyone impacted by the privatization of the Lab to express their opinions and expose the waste, wrongdoing and any kind of injustice against employees and taxpayers by LLNS/DOE/NNSA. The opinions stated are personal opinions. Therefore, The BLOG author may or may not agree with them before making the decision to post them. Comments not conforming to BLOG rules are deleted. Blog author serves as a moderator. For new topics or suggestions, email jlscoob5@gmail.com

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  • No political debate.
  • Posts and comments are posted several times a day.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Nuclear fusion

 Two of the key barriers to producing power from nuclear fusion have been overcome, in what scientists say is a major advance towards producing near-limitless clean energy.

Can one of you scientists unpack this for us?

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear-fusion-plasma-clean-energy-b2534500.html

Friday, April 19, 2024

LLNL in the news



https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/18/pentagon-speeding-work-first-new-nuclear-warhead-4/

Pentagon speeding up work on first new nuclear warhead in 40 years
Nuclear threats from China, Russia drive work on W93 for submarine-launched missiles by 2030s

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The world’s largest digital astronomy camera ever

After two decades of work, engineers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are celebrating the completion of the world’s largest digital astronomy camera ever.


 https://thedebrief.org/does-slac-national-accelerator-laboratory-completes-worlds-largest-digital-astronomy-camera-ever/

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

AI predictions

 This is an interesting article, Elon is saying AI will surpass the intelligence of the smartest individual humans, such as von Neumann I would imagine, by the end of next year. He also predicts that within 5 years the aggregate intelligence of machines considered as a whole, will surpass that of the human species. Furthermore, he predicts the expansion of AI will be limited by the electricity grid.


https://financialpost.com/financial-times/elon-musk-ai-overtake-human-intelligence-2025

Saturday, April 6, 2024

Changing of the World Order.


2025 could be a big year for the US. It seems like many things are coming together to shake up the United States position in the world.
We have the election, war in Israel and the middle east,. There is no sign of the end of the war in Ukraine. Also the rise of AI is staring to really kick off. There are lots of signs of economics upticks however the reality is younger people simply will not be able live anything like the lifestyle that boomers, Gen Xs lived. The mass immigration is also going to change quality of life for young people. At some point something is simply going to break. Like it or not this will have implications for the labs.

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Better quantum computer

 This is an interesting paper. A scientist performs a thought experiment claiming that Einstein's General Relativity (which describes gravity and spacetime curvature effects) in principle allows one to obtain a better quantum computer, exponentially faster than the ones which exist, and capable of efficient solution for new classes of problems:


https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02937

Obviously the scheme given here in the thought experiment may not be a practical one, but perhaps there are other means to achieve this, such as sending signals within the field of a large rotating mass such as the earth. Also, some related effects could even show up within classical physics to the extent it is the semiclassical limit of quantum behavior and these claims are true.

Monday, April 1, 2024

Blog impartiality questioned

 Scooby will post most topics and comments as long as they are clean, pro LLNS or critical of LLNS, or pro-Biden. Any comment or link that may be considered anti-Biden is not posted. Maybe it is time for another blog that might discuss an impact UC/LLNL or LLNS current or former employees independent of political party alliance for the other ~half of the USA population.

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