@pragmatic_logic@CharlesMullins2 I think the point of finding a rich collection of amino acids on Bennu shows that the molecules needed for the chemistry of life came from "all sorts of stellar debris."
@pragmatic_logic@CharlesMullins2 These amino acids are extraterrestrial in origin, as shown by racemic (equal left- and right-handed) mixtures for most chiral ones, high ΒΉβ΅N and ΒΉΒ³C isotopic enrichments, and other markers ruling out terrestrial contamination...
@CharlesMullins2 Somehow, I thought this was already being done.
Having an AI with the laws of Physics already coded in its neural network architecture seems obvious.
Actually, this should be done with math and chemistry...
Okay, this is not an experiment.
No one physically split a photon in a lab and observed a "swarm of particles" flying out. It is a theoretical calculation using quantum field theory equations.
The required shutter speeds (on the order of femtoseconds for visible light) are currently impossible to achieve perfectly in reality.
Photons remain indivisible quanta in the usual senseβyou don't get "half-photons." The strangeness comes from the field response to the sharp cutoff, not from fragmenting the original photon...
@wavetossed@CharlesMullins2 Well, we explored this in the early '70s.
One of the biggest problems was the amount of airspace that would have to be restricted while the multi-megawatt beams are cutting through the atmosphere.
Beams drifting off center were considered a secondary problem...