In William Hayashi's 'DARK GOD'S GIFT: A Great Uncle's Legacy', Dr. Sybil Perth takes an impromptu night time drive through the Nevada Desert. Unexpected car trouble forces her to stop in a small community until repairs can be made. The good Dr. soon finds the friendly folks in town harbor a strange secret in the isolated town. Dr. Perth's curiosity is peaked, but will caution win out before she is drawn into the mystery?
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Federico Cantero Villamil (Madrid, 22 June 1874 - 1946) was a Spanish civil engineer known for the dams he constructed and planned along the river Duero and for his research on the aeronautical field, which is summarized in the Libélula española, a helicopter constructed by him.
His parents were the civil engineer Federico Cantero Seirullo and Isabel Villamil Olivares. He married Tránsito Cid, and they had two children. A few years later she died. Later, Cantero married Concepción García-Arenal Winter, a granddaughter of Concepción Arenal, and they had six children.
He became an engineer 30 September 1896, with the first mark. He did his working practice during 1897 in Zamora, and in 1900 he began to work at the "Jefatura de Obras Públicas de Zamora". In May 1900 he asked and obtained a leave in order to work in hydraulics. At that moment, the governments of Spain and Portugal were planning how to exploit the hydroelectric potential of the river Duero.
In 1899 founds the society "El porvenir de Zamora" (The Prospect of Zamora), with the aim of funding and exploiting the dam of San Roman, near Zamora. Its construction lasted until 1903. This dam took profit of a "hoz" (meander) of river Duero that was 11.2 km. long. He opened a tunnel 1.5 km. long and built up the turbines and engines at the other side. By means of this, the unevenness from the reservoir to the turbines measured 14 meters, while the height of the dam was only 5 meters.
Although Cantero's main work was that of the dams, since 1908 he was patenting other inventions in the field of aeronautics. His main interest was the problem of flight. It is in 1910 when he patented an ...idea to hold bodies in the air, and, if wanted, propulsion. Thirty-four patents followed the first one, being the last ones devoted to the helicopter he constructed: the Libélula española.
Wikipedia: Federico Cantero Villamil, inventor
Sequestration...it seems a lifetime ago the government was "shutdown," $24 billion tax payer dollars (read: yours and mine) defecated to the winds and, sociopathic politicians that caused it posing in front of cameras and veterans memorials as if they hadn't. Bereft in the back-and-forth finger-pointing was an appreciation for The Scientific Method* and critical thinking skills when they are promoted.
* Problem - Research - Hypothesis - Test Hypothesis - Data Analysis - Conclusion - Retest
Problem: Government (supposedly a "collectivist conspiracy" from those other Founding Fathers).
Research: Milton Friedman et al, see "Seven Bad Ideas" by Jeff Madrick.
Hypothesis - Libertarian philosophies encapsulated by Ayn Rand and Grover Norquist:"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." We The People await with baited breath (in said bathtub) the omnipotent, invisible hand of the deified "Free Market" to cure all ills.
Test Hypothesis: They came (2010); they saw (2011 - 2012); they sequestered (2013), outside of any rational beings' natural minds and common sense.
Data Analysis - As illustrative points-of-fact:
- It has been suggested that the sequester left the Secret Service at less than optimum levels. I'd say < ~500 agents is leaning heavily in that direction.
- This resulted in Defense Department Force-Level cuts, a "good" thing to do with the rise of ISIS/ISIL (sarcasm).
- It negatively impacted Department of Defense Schools, i.e. the schools our men and women in the armed forces enroll their children in while they fight for this nation in our name. Supporting the troops...
- Our public schools started this year with reading, writing, arithmetic and budget cuts, or to everyone else, less teachers and more pupils - classroom Nirvana, I'm sure.
- This impacted negatively inner-city youth, poor and special needs in all demographics.
- Our scientific research and overall global competitiveness is suffering.
- The CDC points to it as eroding their response to the Ebola epidemic in Africa and the US. See also here and here.
- Harvard Law gives a list of impact areas (it sounds like I'm discussing craters from meteors or missiles, but the analogy is not too far off): Medicare; FDA (ahem: how we eat safely); the CDC cut by $490 million; the NIH cut by $2.5 billion; ACA programs in prevention and public healthcare.
Conclusion: #2014TheDayofReckoning, 4 November, we shall see what kind of democratic republic we really are.
Retest: Eh, do you really want to?
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| Astronaut Fernando (Frank) Caldeiro poses in front of the orbiter Discovery |
FERNANDO (FRANK) CALDEIRO
NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED)
PERSONAL DATA: Born June 12, 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but considered New York City and Merritt Island, Florida, to be his hometowns. He died on October 3, 2009 following a 2-1/2 year battle with a brain tumor. He is survived by his wife, the former Donna Marie Emero of Huntington Beach, California, and two daughters.
EDUCATION: Graduated from W.C. Bryant High School, Long Island City, New York, in 1976; received an associate degree in applied science in Aerospace Technology from the State University of New York at Farmingdale in 1978, a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona in 1984, and a master of science degree in engineering management from the University of Central Florida in 1995.
ORGANIZATIONS: Experimental Aircraft Association, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
AWARDS: Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Technical Leadership Certificate; Rockwell International Corp. Certificate of Commendation; Group Achievement Awards (9); KSC Center Director Round Table Award; KSC Superior Performance Awards (2); KSC Public Affairs Certificate of Appreciation for Service. University of Central Florida Distinguished Alummni, 2001 Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry Hispanic Scientist of the Year. Appointed in 2002 by President G. W. Bush to serve in the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans under the President’s “No Child Left Behind Act”.
EXPERIENCE: From 1985-1988, Caldeiro worked as a test director during the production and flight test of the Rockwell/USAF B-1B Bomber. In that capacity he was involved in the checkout and delivery of all 100 aircraft. In 1988, he was transferred by Rockwell International to the Kennedy Space Center as a space shuttle main propulsion system specialist. In this capacity he was the Rockwell International design center representative for the ground processing and launch of the Orbiter Discovery.
NASA: Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro, astronaut
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At left, a structural model of a typical silicon nanocrystal (yellow) stabilized within an organic shell of cyclohexane (blue). At right, a high-resolution transmission electron microscope photograph of a single silicon nanoparticle.
Credit: NIST
If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with nanoparticles very happy. NIST recently issued Reference Material (RM) 8027, the smallest known reference material ever created for validating measurements of these man-made, ultrafine particles between 1 and 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in size.
RM 8027 consists of five hermetically sealed ampoules containing one milliliter of silicon nanoparticles—all certified to be close to 2 nanometers in diameter—suspended in toluene. To yield the appropriate sizes for the new RM, the nanocrystals are etched from a silicon wafer, separated using ultrasound and then stabilized within an organic shell. Particle size and chemical composition are determined by dynamic light scattering, analytical centrifugation, electron microscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), a powerful technique that can measure elements at concentrations as low as several parts per billion.
NIST: World’s Smallest Reference Material is Big Plus for Nanotechnology
Michael E. Newman
Monday, October 6th the DARK GOD'S GIFT continues with Sci-fi Author and Genesis Radio Host, William Hayashi's 'DARK GOD'S GIFT: A Great Uncle's Legacy'. Somewhere deep in the Las Vegas Desert, a lone traveler has car trouble and stops in a small community only to be drawn into a strange phenomenon affecting the lives those who live there. The traveler's decision to stay or move on will not only affect the locals, but the entire world!
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GEORGE D. ZAMKA (COLONEL, USMC, RET.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
PERSONAL DATA: Born in 1962 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Raised in New York City; Irvington, New York; Medellin, Colombia; and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Married to the former Elisa P. Walker of Mississippi; they have two children. He enjoys weightlifting, running, bicycling, scuba diving and boating. His mother, Sofia Zamka, and brother, Conrad P. Zamka, both live in Florida. His father, Conrad Zamka, resides in Indiana.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Rochester Adams High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan, in 1980. Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy in 1984; received a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1997.
ORGANIZATIONS: Association of Space Explorers, United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Marine Corps Association and Marine Corps Aviation Association.
SPECIAL HONORS: NASA Space Flight Medal (two), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Strike Air Medal (six), Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V and various other military service and campaign awards. Distinguished Graduate, United States Naval Academy. Commodore’s list and Academic Achievement Award, Training Air Wing Five. Awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
EXPERIENCE: Zamka was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps after graduating from the United States Naval Academy in May 1984. After basic flight training, he was trained as an A-6E pilot at Whidbey Island, Washington, from 1987 to 1988. He then flew with Marine All Weather Attack Squadron VMA(AW)-242 in El Toro, California. He served in administration and flight safety roles and also as squadron weapons and tactics instructor. In 1990, he trained to be an F/A-18 pilot and was assigned to Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron VMFA(AW)-121, also in El Toro. He flew the F/A-18D Night Attack Hornet during overseas deployments to Japan, Korea, Singapore and Southwest Asia. Zamka flew 66 combat missions over occupied Kuwait and Iraq during Desert Storm. In 1993, he served with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines in Camp Pendleton, California, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Western Pacific. He was selected to attend the United States Air Force Test Pilot School class 94A and graduated in December 1994. Zamka was then assigned as an F/A-18 test pilot/project officer and the F/A-18 operations officer for the Naval Strike Aircraft Test Squadron (NSATS). While assigned to NSATS, Zamka flew a wide variety of tests in the F/A-18 Hornet, including high angle of attack, loads, flutter, crew equipment and weapon system programs. Zamka returned to VMFA(AW)-121 in 1998 and was serving as the aircraft maintenance officer deployed to Iwakuni, Japan, when he was selected for the astronaut program. Colonel Zamka retired from the Marine Corps in August 2010.
He has logged more than 5,000 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected as a pilot by NASA in June 1998, Zamka reported for astronaut candidate training in August 1998. He has served in various technical and leadership roles in the Astronaut Office, including space rendezvous and proximity operations, landing and rollout instructor and lead for shuttle systems within the Shuttle Operations Branch. Zamka served as lead for the Shuttle Training and Procedures Division and as supervisor for the astronaut candidate class of 2004. In 2007, he completed his first spaceflight as pilot on STS-120. For his second spaceflight, Zamka commanded the crew of STS-130, which flew in February 2010. Colonel Zamka has logged more than 692 hours in space. In March 2013, Zamka retired from NASA. He is now serving as the Deputy Associate Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, for Commercial Space Transportation.
NASA: George D. Zamka, Colonel, USMC, astronaut, retired
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GOCE stands for "Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer." It's not an acronym I know off the top of my head, either.
The physics definition: "the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass. For most purposes Newton's laws of gravity apply, with minor modifications to take the general theory of relativity into account."
Penguins are not flying off into orbit, and I hope the news doesn't do its usual bit of sensationalism for ratings - why, for the most part I've given up looking too much at the news and prefer to read summaries off the Internet - from other countries.
This IS a data point, and an important one. It means climate change can be measured not just in temperature or change in weather patterns.
From one of the articles (GOCE):
Scientists are now armed with the most accurate gravity model ever produced. This is leading to a much better understanding of many facets of our planet – from the boundary between Earth’s crust and upper mantle to the density of the upper atmosphere.
The strength of gravity at Earth’s surface varies subtly from place to place owing to factors such as the planet’s rotation and the position of mountains and ocean trenches.
Changes in the mass of large ice sheets can also cause small local variations in gravity. [1]
It will be useful information we can use in the exploration of other worlds, some in our own solar system's backyard.
Discovery ended on a somber note:
The news doesn't get much better for Antarctica. Earlier this year, two studies were released that indicated the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is headed for an irreversible collapse in roughly 200 years. Should the ice sheet completely collapse, scientists believe it could raise sea level by more than 10 feet. [2]
Bye-bye Florida in the 23rd century. Considering it's where we have traditionally launched space vehicles, that would be fairly unfortunate, especially for the Floridians!
1. GOCE: GOCE reveals gravity dip from ice loss
2. Discover: Antarctic Ice Melt is Changing Earth’s Gravity, Carl Engelking
Agent Thia Wayan's covert mission has hit a major snag. Instead of attempting to dominate the criminal underworld, due to strange powers granted by the mysterious jeweled artifact her target now has political aims! To keep in the Thug's good graces, Thia hatches a bold plan to support her target's political aspirations. However, it's going to need a little money to get off the ground....
If you're attending MIZUCON this weekend, be sure to stop by the Dapper 13 tattoo studio! I'll be on hand, prepping custom tattoo flashes, and taking weekly appointments.
Or, if you just want to commission so art, I'll be on hand for that too!
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The Ochoa Plane
Ochoa's machine is made of a framework of steel spring and steel tubing which he has contrived to put together in such a manner that it can be folded by working a lever. Over the framework is stretched a canvas covering. The plane is about twenty-six feet wide and the machine measures from front to back only six feet. The rear rudder is similar to a bird's tail.
The whole arrangement is mounted upon two bicycle frames whose wheels form the groundwork of the aeroplane. Between the bicycle frames, the inventor has mounted a six-horse power motor, below which he has placed a seat for the operator. The whole machine weighs about 250 pounds.
The inventor has been working upon this aeroplane more than twenty years, and during that time has succeeded in putting together several machines that operated successfully for short distances. The first fruit of his labors was a marvelously accurate reproduction of a bird with six wings. With this he believed he had solved the problem of aerial flight. His earliest models, propelled by clockwork, flew with remarkable stability.
He also invented an adjustable wrench, electric brake, pen and pencil clip, reversible motor and windmill. He apparently also was a revolutionary with a $50,000 dead-or-alive price on his head. Quite a guy!
Smithsonian Education: Victor Ochoa Mexican inventor
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| From Planet X - kind of reminded me of "The Time Tunnel" (dating myself) |
CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory and the place famous most recently for the discovery of the Higgs boson, is celebrating its sixtieth birthday today (actually 29 September).
The name CERN originally was the French acronym for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research, and its convention officially came into force on 29 September 1954. In the wake of a war that had torn the continent apart, a small group of scientists and policy-makers created CERN in an attempt to use fundamental research to reunite Europe.
From 12 founding members, the organization has today grown to 21 states, with scientists at the lab hailing from almost 100 countries around the globe.
While CERN hosts a celebration at its home near Geneva, Switzerland, Nature looks back at some of the lab’s most significant moments from the past six decades.
Some excerpts from the timeline:
1983: CERN’s 6.9-kilometre-long Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) discovers the particle carriers of the weak force, the W and Z bosons.
1989: CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee’s drafts a paper outlining plans for an information-management system, which at the time he termed “the mesh” but which later becomes known as the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee’s boss, Mike Sendall, famously replies that the proposal was “vague, but exciting”, giving Berners-Lee the green light for development. The world’s first web page address is born the following year (this copy is from 1992).
2012: On 4 July scientists at the LHC’s ATLAS and CMS experiments announce that they have found a clear signal of the Higgs boson, and reporter Geoff Brumfiel records the moment in a live blog (and later in an article). The announcement, made by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, causes waves around the world, and in 2013 earns theoretical physicists François Englert and Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize in Physics for their prediction of the mechanism.
Nature News Blog: CERN at 60: Biggest moments at flagship physics lab, Elizabeth Gibney
The Dark God's Gift continues in 'A Tangled Web' Pt. II. Agent Thia Wayan's cover as an Asian Mobster's wife is holding well, too well! As she goes deep into the Triad's inner-circle the Big Boss of the Dragon Triad has taken an 'interest' in the lovely agent. If she didn't have enough problems, the Boss receives a strange jeweled gift Agent Wayan believes could be far more dangerous than the gang themselves!
Google the Hourglass Nebula pictures and "here's looking at you kid" and "if your eye be single, your whole body shall be filled with light." and the floating pyramid capstone eye, and the eye of Osiris,.............
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| Source: Antonio Toriz's blog |
Guillermo González Camarena invented an early color television system. He received US patent 2296019 on September 15, 1942 for his "chromscopic adapter for television equipment". [1]
He was born on February 17, 1917 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. At two years of age, his family moved to Mexico City. Ever since he was young, he liked building electric toys, for which he established a laboratory in the basement of his house.
In 1930 he enrolled in the School of Mechanical and Electric Engineers and two years later was given license as radio operator. While he experimented in his laboratory, he worked at the radio station of the Ministry of Education. In 1934 he built his own television camera, he was 17 years old.
With the goal of giving color to television, he developed and patented a Trichromatic Sequential Fields System from primary colors, which could be adapted to the black and white system. This last patent was granted to him when he was 23 years of age. [2]
1. Inventors.com: Top List of Mexican Inventors, Mary Bellis
2. Explore and do Mexico: Guillermo González Camarena...
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TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: A new technique for creating pipes and tunnels deep inside silicon chips could change the way engineers make microfluidic machines and optoelectronic devices.
One of the enabling technologies of the modern world is the ability to construct ever smaller devices out of silicon. At first, these devices were purely electronic—diodes, transistors, capacitors and the like. But more recently, engineers have carved light pipes, fluid-pumping networks, and entire chemistry laboratories out of silicon.
The technique that makes all this possible is photolithography, which allows engineers to build on or etch the surface of silicon in very precise patterns. The devices—whether electronic, fluidic, or optical—are built up layer by layer. Everything is done in two dimensions on the surface of silicon and then added together to create 3-D shapes.
But what if it were possible to carve out structures beneath the surface of silicon, to create 3-D caves of almost any shape? Today, Onur Tokel at Bilkent University in Turkey and a few pals say they have developed just such a technique that can create networks of pipes and tunnels beneath the surface without any discernable change to the silicon surface.
The new technique relies on the fact that silicon is transparent to infrared light, which passes through silicon like sunlight through glass, at least at low intensities. When the light gets stronger, it can interact with electrons inside the material, generating currents and shaking the very crystal structure of the material. These effects are hard to predict and control but Tokel and co have found a way to use them to their advantage.
Abstract
Micromachining of silicon with lasers is being investigated since the 1970s. So far generating subsurface modifications buried inside the bulk of the silicon without damaging the surface has not resulted in success. Here, we report a method for photo-inducing buried structures in doped silicon wafers with pulsed infrared lasers without modifying the wafer surface. We demonstrate large aspect-ratio, continuous multilevel subsurface structures, with lengths on the millimetre scale, while having sub-micron widths. We further demonstrate spatial information encoding capabilities embedded in subsurface silicon barcodes based on an optical coherence tomography (OCT) readout. The demonstrated silicon processing technology can be used for the realization of multilayered silicon chips, optofluidics and on-chip quantum optics experiments.
Physics arXiv: Laser-Writing in Silicon for 3D Information Processing
O. Tokel, A. Turnali, I. Pavlov, S. Tozburun, I. Akca, F. O. Ilday
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Fe del Mundo (1911–2011) was a Filipino pediatrician who was the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936 — over ten years before the school officially began admitting women. She was also the first woman to be named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1980, and founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.
Born in Manila in the Philippines in 1911, Fe decided to become a doctor when her older sister died from appendicitis at the age of 11. She enrolled in the University of the Philippines in 1926. While earning her medical degree, she decided to pursue pediatrics. *
Fe del Mundo, OLD ONS OGH, (November 27, 1911 – August 6, 2011) was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School,[1][2] she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.[3] Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines in an active medical practice that spanned 8 decades[2][4] won her international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines while in 2010, she was conferred the Order of Lakandula.
Del Mundo was noted for her pioneering work on infectious diseases in Philippine communities. Undeterred by the lack of well-equipped laboratories in post-war Philippines, she would not hesitate to send specimens or blood samples for analysis abroad.[12] In the 1950s, she pursued studies on dengue fever, a common malady in the Philippines of which little was then yet known.[12] Her clinical observations on dengue, and the findings of research she later undertook on the disease are said to "have led to a fuller understanding of dengue fever as it afflicts the young".[5] She authored over a hundred articles, reviews and reports in medical journals[5] on such diseases as dengue, polio and measles.[16] She also authored "Textbook of Pediatrics", a fundamental medical text used in Philippine medical schools.[17]
Del Mundo was active in the field of public health, with special concerns towards rural communities. She organized rural extension teams to advise mothers on breastfeeding and child care.[11] and promoted the idea of linking hospitals to the community through the public immersion of physicians and other medical personnel to allow for greater coordination among health workers and the public for common health programs such as immunization and nutrition.[17] She called for the greater integration of midwives into the medical community, considering their more visible presence within rural communities. Notwithstanding her own devout Catholicism,[2][5][11] she is an advocate of family planning and population control.[11]
Del Mundo was also known for having devised an incubator made out of bamboo,[17] designed for use in rural communities without electrical power.[11] Wikipedia
* Amazing Women in History: Dr. Fe del Mundo
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| Artistic impression of quantum information. (Courtesy: iStockphoto/tusumaru) |
A quantum analogue of data compression has been demonstrated for the first time in the lab. Physicists working in Canada and Japan have squeezed quantum information contained in three quantum bits (qubits) into two qubits. The technique could pave the way for a more effective use of quantum memories and offers a new method of testing quantum logic devices.
Compression of classical data is a simple procedure that allows a string of information to take up less space in a computer's memory. Given an unadulterated string of, for example, 1000 binary values, a computer could simply record the frequency of the 1s and 0s, which might require just a dozen or so binary values. Recording the information about the order of those 1s and 0s would require a slightly longer string, but it would probably still be shorter than the original sequence.
Quantum data are rather different, and it is not possible to simply determine the frequencies of 1s and 0s in a string of quantum information. The problem comes down to the peculiar nature of qubits, which, unlike classical bits, can be a 1, a 0 or some "superposition" of both values. A user can indeed perform a measurement to record the "one-ness" of a qubit, but such a measurement would destroy any information about that qubit's "zero-ness". What is more, if a user then measures a second qubit prepared in an identical way, he or she might find a different value for its "one-ness" – because qubits do not specify unique values but only the probability of measurement outcomes. This latter trait would seem to preclude the possibility of compressing even identical qubits, because there is no way of predicting what classical values they will ultimately manifest as.
Note: I know that was difficult to follow, but don't go all "new age" here. Although I've noticed the popularity of relating quantum physics to metaphysics, the two are mutually exclusive - quantum only applies to phenomena going at or approaching the speed of light. Ahem: we humans are rather slow in comparison.
Physics World: Quantum data are compressed for the first time
Jon Cartwright, Bristol, UK
K. Ceres Wright's Tech Noir tale takes us to the streets of futuristic Shanghai where the dangerous nightlife is ruled by ruthless Chinese Triads!
Freelance undercover operative Thia Wayan is transformed into the guise of a Chinese National in order to infiltrate the Drug Trade. As she makes her way through the ranks, her already dangerous assignment runs into an unintended snag when a powerful Gang Boss acquires an intriguing jeweled artifact.
Despite the situation beginning to unravel around her, Agent Wayan must maintain her cool and not succumb to the growing madness surrounding her!
The intrigue and danger begins in 'Dark God's Gift: A Tangled Web' part I!
