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...Hubble Space Telescope's devolution from Wonder of the Age to Blunder of the Century continued without letup last week. For one thing, the Associated Press reported that Perkin-Elmer Corp., which built the flawed mirror on the telescope, gave a subcontractor backward drawings for part of the telescope's guidance system -- forcing the prime contractor to pay the San Diego-based subcontractor, Composite Optics Inc., to rebuild it. Composite Optics reportedly made a tidy 63% profit...
...with two drivers seated back to back and a solar panel tipped rakishly, and permanently, to one side. In the morning students drove with the panel tilted toward the east. After lunch they simply turned the car around, so its panel caught the afternoon sun, and drove backward the rest...
...Education is the most backward single institution in all the U.S. I don't know of an industry that spends less money on research and development. It is not for lack of money. It is a lack of intelligence and will and competence. It is a bureaucratic inertia that is unbelievable and inexcusable. Between 38 cents and 41 cents of our education dollar gets to the classroom. That is an act of irrationality. We are not putting our resources where the kids are. In the city of New York there are more school administrators than there...
Moreover, he believes, quantum gravity could be behind consciousness itself. The argument is tricky, but one reason for this belief is that consciousness carries with it a peculiarity that baffles physics: humans perceive time as moving forward rather than backward. But virtually all the laws of physics are time symmetric -- they work equally well in forward or in reverse -- and the mind presumably operates by physical laws...
...universe must, at its earliest moments, have been governed by quantum gravity. And the Big Bang was surely a time- asymmetric phenomenon that could not happen in reverse. If quantum gravity winds up being the theory governing the mind, that will also explain why time moves forward, not backward...