I read an article in Science News about the technique of combining the computing power of computers around the world which were idle or asleep. The way this works, for those of you that don't know, you can "donate" the computing power of your personal computer or laptop for that matter to be combined with gazillions of other computers to process data from a specific source. In this case the data was from the radio telescope at Arecibo which searches the sky in the very long wavelength region for things like supernovas, quasars and the like. They were able to find a pulsar which had not been known before. This body spins around at the amazing rate of once every 41 seconds.
But this is not what intrigued me. I wondered about the pooling of so many different computers(sustitute intelligences) and the fantastic results that occurred. And I got to supposing that perhaps there might come a day when all of us humans could vibrate at a frequency which would allow us to set aside our individual differences and pool our talents and experiences in such a way. Would this be the true "Golden Age"? Perhaps this is what this program is showing us. The project for this is called Einstein@home . For the original article check out http://www.sciencenews.org/ september 11, 2010
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