Mark Thek serves as president of Esterline Power Systems and guides a Southern California company that provides dedicated solutions in the electrical power distribution sphere. Currently working on the book “The Quantification of Human Emotion,” Mark Thek has a passion for mathematics and physics. A recent article in Science Alert brought attention to a plan by National University of Singapore researchers for utilizing time crystals to create a super lightweight, reliable quantum computer. With regular crystals’ repeating units being a fundamental structure, time crystals are “repeated over time” rather than taking up three dimensional space. The particles have resonance in their movements that is not tied to a constant energy source; instead of generating energy, they create a ticking that could potentially be employed in storing vast quantities of information within what is referred to as “magic states.” To accomplish this, the Singaporean researchers propose to create a collective behavior among electrons that resembles the majorana fermions particles that are hypothesized to make up atoms. With the electrons arrayed in a twisting “braid motion” as they travel down a conductor, they would be less fragile than other quantum states and could be used to create ultra-reliable quantum computers. The time crystals would amplify this through time-domain features that would expand the qubits available for encoding information. Mark Thek, president of Esterline Power Systems in Los Angeles, California, has worked in the aerospace and rail fields for more than 20 years. Mark Thek's interest in technology extends outside of work. One of his favorite book series is Isaac Asimov's Foundation. The Foundation series consists of seven books, including prequels added many years later. The first, titled simply Foundation, began as a series of short stories, and chronologically sits at the middle of the series, introducing the titular organization and the other powers it struggles with in the galaxy. Other books detail the ways in which the Foundation approaches various threats, such as backlash from other great powers, as well as ways in which its underlying approach, known as the Seldon Plan, is challenged or succeeds. The books, written over the course of more than four decades, chronicle more than 500 years of the Foundation's activities. Its ambitious scale and distinctive vision of the future, informed by past events such as the fall of Rome, earned the author many awards for science fiction. |
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