Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.