Thoughts on Teleportation

At the suggestion of Dr. Michio Kaku, I would start out with an attempt to teleport something small. The first step would be to transport the essence of a solid object, not an image, like an examinable Death Star in Star Wars, except that one could do something like put their hand in the beam, and viola a temporary copy object would be created, at the receiving end.

I would expect to teleport using direction, essentially a vector that disappears in the same trajectory.  Picture teleportation as sending stuff through the internet. Remember the old days of zip files? The object would be packed as some sort of a zip file, and then beamed to a specific part of creation, specifically a receptor, probably a large magnet that would shatter the information, a fragile file, back into constructing itself in the desired form, a more robust file, such as a living being.

Maybe have an electrical interface on the teleportee's hand while inside of a scanning machine to facilitate transport or something and when they want to be teleported they just plug into a computer and then as packed molecules they go to the destination set for travel through the internet, and via magnet the computer intelligently unpacks them as if they were a zipped file.

Teleportation via hardwiring would almost certainly come before beaming anything from one place to a different place.

As I see it, we are data, and by that I mean that we are as a puzzle, so even the soul would somehow have to be coded for, meaning coding for variability. In fact, most of the body would need to have some variability coded for beyond what is already set in place by DNA. So to travel we would have to morph into a more compact puzzle for transit (right now to my knowledge we are only able to send electrons to code for that puzzle), and don't forget, we are 3 or more dimensional puzzles. For instance DNA carries much of the information by which we are constructed, and that at some point in the future, we might be able to transmit our entire body and genetic code for 3d unpackaging.

It would be a world where instead telephoning people, or using the 2d internet, we could actually travel to meet up with people with minimal need for traditional travel. For example, we wouldn't need airplanes.

Right now the idea of teleporting a human is absurd. However, we might be able to teleport something small, such as a strand of DNA. And, then a cell. It would be a long way to the trillion or so cells that humans have, but I think if we are able to transport 1 cell, that would be one of the greatest steps. Yet, in my lifetime we went from bytes, to kilobytes, to megabytes. Last time I checked, terabyte drives were still available. I think we could do it. Given this rapid expansion that has occurred in only a few years.

Also, this idea presents the potential for profit, such as reliability of transit.

4 Years of Grading Bullies High School Students

This is something I said years ago.  Giving grades, term after term, and year after year doesn't help. The grading system is the equivalent of bullying high school students.  It's no wonder why students choose to get high on drugs to cope with the grading system.  Not only that, but the grading system focuses too much on speed of learning, and not enough on long term memory, and real life problem solving.

I had no idea how bad it was until I worked at the Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, where Scientists, most of them with post doctoral degrees, needed reminders of the basics when it came time for peer reviewing other scientists.  If it is bad at a place that is considered more reputable than the Ivy Leagues, why haven't we put more effort in things such as study skills for the college bound folk?

Please teachers and professors of all kinds, stop focusing on how fast, and instead focus on retention related skills.  If it goes into the mind for a test, and pops out before the end of not just a semester, but after several years, that is something that should be taken into strong consideration.

The real test is should be one you can't prepare for, but comes at a completely random time.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/07/09/what-your-high-school-transcript-didn-include-grades/h9V1ZtSTWQqWmqIBzbYwPJ/story.html

Gypsy Moths Causing Evolution

On the subject of the fossil record, I wonder if the strata may be caused by invasive species causing punctuated equilibrium, instead of phyletic gradualism. This probably puts me in the minority because vocal scientists like Richard Dawkins seem to ignore punctuated equilibrium, favoring phyletic gradualism. This occurs to me because right now the trees around my house are covered in gypsy moths, such that it occurs to me that the death of trees over a hundred or perhaps a thousand years may appear as an actual geological stratum, or even strata. With modernity, if humans are still alive, and some say we won't be, there may be a time that we can discover this by studying patterns in creation of new species (given punctuated equilibrium new species would always be invasive), and migrant species, such as birds, bringing new species that are invasive.

Alex’s 2nd New Awesome Chess Variant

1. On each turn, player flips a coin or roll a six-sided die.
2. If a player flips a heads, or rolls an even number, then he or she gets to take two turns.
3. If a player flips a tails, or rolls an odd number, then he or she only takes one turn.
4. If a player is to take two turns and is put in check, or checkmate on the first turn, then he or she may sacrifice a pawn. This nullifies the status of the king.
5. The rest of the rules are the same.