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Freshman Jon Thompson picked up a hat trick for the Bears, and junior Jimmy Mormile added a pair in the victory...
They are looking at the electrical signals from one of the billions of cells in your brain. When the cell fires, you see one pattern; when it stops, you see another. Your awareness can be read from a single neuron. Now, in an even more unsettling trick, they send an electrical current to the neurons in that part of your brain and, with a push of a button, make you see one pattern or the other...
These feats of pinpoint mind reading and control are not fantasies. They have already been performed by Stanford University neuroscientist William Newsome. Not with people, of course, but with monkeys. Yet few scientists doubt the trick would work with...
...example, an asteroid impact of the kind that finished off the dinosaurs might do the trick, as might the appearance of a super-virulent and highly contagious virus. More probable, perhaps, is a man-made catastrophe--a general environmental collapse provoked by overexploitation of the world's resources, say, or nuclear conflicts. The awful possibilities are limited only by the imagination...
...probability of a macroscopic object--like a human--doing this trick is infinitesimal. But thanks to Albert Einstein we know that time travel of a different sort does happen in the macroscopic world. As he showed back in 1905 with his special theory of relativity, time slows down for objects moving close to the speed of light, at least from the viewpoint of a stationary observer. You want to visit the earth 1,000 years from now? Just travel to a star 500 light-years away and return, going both ways at 99.995% the speed of light. When you return...