Alexander

So ok, these are just quasiparticles. Yes, we could have quasiparticles that behave like actual particles. Yes, it’s just an abstraction. Yes, we can go batshit crazy in abstraction space and come up with anything.

This reminds me how some folks in ScientificAmerican modeled black hole with a vortex in water and found supersonic wave, which brought them to conclusions about possibility of passing through event horizon in actual black hole. bah.

In other words, when do I get some money to build a quantum quasiparticle computer and finally hack elliptic cryptography?

Though, as Rice alumni, can’t deny still always awesome publicity of that university.

Vangers 2.0

There you go, now we know the answer for “what was thinking that person who chopped the very last tree on Easter island?”

I make and sell mucrocloning kits in anticipation to see this happen

Oh come on, someone must have cloned it, it’s relatively simple to do even after it’s broken - plant stem cells are quite hardy. It’s totally hobbyist-level technology. That way we could’ve filled the island with hundreds of these palms over a couple of years, they would’ve been clones, sure, but then cross-polinating a palm forest would’ve been a much simpler task, not mentioning that at least all the critters wouldn’t have to be homeless.