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Jim Kakalios
Professor of Physics, University of Minnesota
James Kakalios is a physics professor at the University of Minnesota. Kakalios's work focuses on amorphous semiconductors, granular materials and 1/f noise. Kakalios is also the author of "The Physics of Superheroes," which studies the fundamental physics of comic book superheroes.
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Jim Kakalios: Personally, I’d like to be able to catch my thought every now and then.
Physicists trying to develop a quantum theory of gravity have found that they needed to dust off the "many worlds interpretation" and apply it to their theories in order to make them work out.
There’s a limit to what the human body can do and how much it can achieve.
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Is the idea of an invisibility cloak pure science fiction? Don’t bet against the cleverness of the scientists and engineers of the future.
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Attempting to explain quantum theory, physicist Erwin Schrodinger proposed an experiment almost 80 years ago that would send PETA into a frenzy.
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The physicist and comic book enthusiast outlines technologies that were once imagined by science fiction writers that have now found social utility.
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Early science fiction predicted jet packs and flying cars—a revolution in energy. Instead we got cell phones and laptop computers—a revolution in information.