For decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: can a huge amount of energy, theoretically generated by turning a black hole, ever be applied by a human hand? If the societies of the future were somehow able to contain this magnificent feat, the power supply of distant …
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The world could be training for an ‘information disaster’, as the pace of digital bit production continues to accelerate without signs of stopping, new research suggests. In a new study – one stuck in the more abstract aspects of theoretical physics, it must be said – researcher Melvin Vopson of …
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