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She was brilliant, while her sister was far less so, and far more impulsive. She wondered how many children Amber would have. And if she and her super-genius husband would ever have any.
genetics is a crap shoot. your less intelligent sister might produce an idiot or a genius and so might you. difference being you are better equipped to deal with the idiot or genius . keep breading down to two.
“You really know how to use a trunk,” said Blake wryly. “Most women just use them to carry groceries or luggage. It’s the rare women who understands their utility for storing weapons and trapping dangerous intruders.”
oh please! i'm disappointed in this guy.
“Myla,” he said finally to his personal digital assistant,
what? no alexa?
This isn’t all that secure in the scheme of things. This is the equivalent of installing a dead-bolt lock on your door. It’ll keep out your average criminal, but not a pro.”
sounds about right for the person who put in the lock.
But I’m special-needs compared to Nathan. His mind was in another realm.
you sound weird. more like adoration. Nathan was probably not that wonderful .
the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification,
Dark energy can be tapped into, and all of this crazy energy can be bottled and used after all. But only by using it at right angles to the four dimensions of space and time. By driving the energy usage through a fifth dimension.
the fifth dimension is old and no longer performs. but if this is accomplished, .. let the sun shine!
After going back a bit over ten thousand of these 45.15 microsecond steps, when you reach about a half-second into the past, you’re done. No power in the universe can take something back any further.
“We can’t react in any meaningful way in this amount of time. But what about computers? For a computer, a half-second is a huge amount of time. So say you programmed a computer to see an uptick in a stock’s price, send this information back to itself a half-second earlier, and put in a buy order.”
bingo!
Einstein once quipped that time’s only purpose was to make sure that everything didn’t happen at once.
Einstein wrote that for physicists like himself, the distinction between past, present, and future was only a stubborn illusion.
Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren’t the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn’t have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics.
When a stampeding herd of cattle were coming your way, it didn’t much matter what had caused the stampede. You only had to know that no argument would alter its course, no persuasion would save your life if you were standing in its path.
He made one stop at a convenience store, where he purchased two oversized blankets, before entering the busy parking garage. He was now hidden from satellites.
how is he hidden ? the blankets as cover over the car?
But a split second earlier, the Earth was fifty-eight feet away. So in this earlier time, there are now two identical cell phones, separated by this distance.”
“I told you I’m an experimentalist. Not a theoretician. I designed my device based on experiments and intuition, and discovered that I had sent something back forty-five microseconds. But Nathan Wexler derived this period of time. He understood this at a fundamental, mathematical level. This could revolutionize the process. Who knows what insights it could give us?
“Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” —Carrie Snow
Except that he also believes that the least intelligent people in our world are reproducing far faster than the most intelligent.”
genetics is a crap shoot. this will not work. also, creating matter out of nothing?
transporter machines?”
can a duplicating machine duplicate itself?
And if we do, there are two or more copies of numerous scientists. The legal and ethical issues multiply exponentially. Who owns what? Who’s entitled to what job? Do all four versions of a man owe alimony to his ex-wife? Are three identical mothers all legally the parent of one child?”
IQ isn’t entirely determined by genes,
