Hello!
I'm currently sitting in the office in Bristol.
We've been trying to get two investments over the line into two really interesting impactful companies with great science behind them (more on this hopefully next week). But as a result a lot of my time as been soaked up providing momentum to get things done before the holiday slowdown.
The Christmas lights are going up, it’s drop in temperature by 10 degrees, and it feels like it starts getting dark at about 11am. I’ve been fuelling by alternating between mince pies and hot chocolate
… Winter is Coming….
This week’s video
How Physicists Created a Quantum Wormhole in the Lab - this is the closest we have ever gotten to producing a unified theory of everything.
I was on the Wiser Tomorrow Podcast
Episode is on YouTube here. I had a great time talking with Tyler, I really like his style of conversation and it’s definitely an up-and-coming show so do give him a follow.
A good book for the weekend
Rich Dad Poor Dad (amazon link) by Robert T. Kiyosaki. A bit of a polarising title, and I think a lot of people read this book hoping it’s a “how-to,” it’s not. It focuses instead on mindset switch. Looking at the product of your efforts as the creation of assets; whether education, experiential, or financial, and how to make these assets start working for you.
Quotes that I liked:
“More money seldom solves someone’s money problems.”
“Start minding your own business. Keep your daytime job, but start buying real assets, not liabilities.”
“Rich dad believed that the words ‘I can’t afford it’ shut down your brain. ‘How can I afford it?’ opens up possibilities, excitement, and dreams.”
3 things I found interesting
A Lab-Grown Meat Startup Gets the FDA’s Stamp of Approval - Until now, trying cultivated meat required signing a waivers - this is a big step forward in replacing animal products that require slaughter.
Quantum trick sees light move forwards and back in time simultaneously - Placing a particle of light in a superposition so that it is travelling both forwards and backwards in time could prove useful for quantum computation
Plans to beam solar generated electricity wirelessly from space to homes – BBC News - I’m super sceptical - but still interesting. What do you think?
Hope you’re having a fantastic week!
All the best,
Ben
I watched your video on passing a qubit through a wormhole and it reminded me of an experiment they did years ago where they took qubits from an atom and had half in NY and half in LA. They reversed the electrons in NY and saw that they instantaneously reversed in LA. I’ve probably botched the terminology as I’m not a scientist. Only any enthusiast. But it makes me wonder if this can be used for long distance communication. Especially for interplanetary communication. I’m sure there’s a whole lot involved that would make this infeasible but if there is virtually no latency, we could maybe have a set of qubits in NY and a set on Mars and then use the directions of the electrons to communicate in binary. If you have any insight on this, I’d be interested to hear it.