Reflections by Comrade Fidel
THE
BEST PRESIDENT FOR THE UNITED STATES
A well-known European news agency yesterday published from Sydney,
Australia that a group of Australian researchers at the University of New South
Wales announced the creation of an electrical cable ten thousand times thinner
than a strand of hair, capable of carrying as much electricity as a traditional
copper cable.
…Bent Weber, lead author of a study published in Science magazine at the
“The wires were
made by precisely placing chains of phosphorus atoms within a silicon crystal,
according to the study, which includes researchers from the
The discovery is
essential in the international race to develop the first ‘quantum computer’,
super-fast machines capable of processing enormous amounts of information in
just a few seconds: a series of calculations that would take years, or even
decades, for today’s computers.
“In a traditional
copper cable, the electricity is generated when the copper electrons flow along
a conductor: but as the cable or conductor becomes smaller, resistance to the
electrical flow becomes greater.”
In order to solve
this problem, Weber and his team used specially designed microscopes with
atomic precision that allowed them to place the phosphorus atoms into the
silicone crystals.
“This allowed the
nanocable to act as the copper, with the electrons flowing easily and with no
resistance problems. They are trying to prove that with this technique it is
possible to minimize components down to the scale of a few atoms.
If we are going to
use atoms as bits, we need cables on the same scale as the atoms ― observed the supervisor of the group physicist, Micelle Simmons.”
With these unstoppable
technological advances that ought to be for the well-being of humankind, I was
recalling that just four days ago I wrote about the warming of the Earth and
the accelerated exploitation of shale gas in a world that in two hundred years
is consuming the fossil energy accumulated for 4 billion years.
Imagine Obama, that
wordsmith, for whom, in his desperate search for re-election, the dreams of
Martin Luther King Jr. are light years further away than the Earth is from the
nearest inhabitable planet.
Worse yet: any of
the Republican Congressmen who are presidential hopefuls, or any leader of the Tea Party carries more nuclear weapons
on their backs than ideas of peace in their heads.
Let the readers
imagine for one moment that powerful quantum calculator capable of multiplying
an infinite number of times the data that today is collected by modern
computers.
Is it not perhaps
obvious that the worst thing of all this is the absence in the White House of a
robot capable of governing the United States and preventing a war that would
put an end to the life of our species?
I am certain that
90 percent of registered Americans, especially Hispanics, Afro-Americans and the
growing numbers of the impoverished middle class would vote for the robot.
Fidel Castro Ruz