VIII. Earth Earns: An Open Participatory Earthropocene to Astropocene CoCreativity

1. Mind Over Matter and Energy: Quantum, Atomic, Chemical Connectomics

This section gleans and glosses about how our collective human acumen has become able to learn all about and delve into any depth and breadth of quantum, physical and material realms, along with vivifying atomic and solar energies. Through computation, visualization, instrumentation, satellites, daily web postings, iterative theories, global collaborations and so on, our supermindful capacity seems poised and primed to begin a second intentional phase. For example, an active method is to apply a sense of “material genomes” in prescriptive effect. Into 2021, the Royal Society has commenced an Animate Materials perspective (Google) so that organic-like matters can proceed on their own. But as a caveat, we do not mean any artificial technology take over in this occasion. In essence, human beings in local and global community may now take up their intended purpose as the temporal center and leading edge of a genesis procreation.

2020: In the past few years, building on decades before, a strong capability has arisen to delve deeply into any substantial domain so as to wholly quantify by theory and experiment. By this information and empowerment, an inviting frontier opens to begin a new intentional cocreation. As the bibliography samples and conveys, it is apparent across these no longer inorganic title phases that our collective human acumen can consider quantum computational systems, “artificial” atomic elements, tailored chemical compositions, and more. In a widest view, at the same time Earth is beset by so many perils, an ecosmos genesis might be trying, by its innate nature, to pass on its procreative futurity to our respectful, encoded “evolutionary” continuance.

As we fittest. valiant Earthuman cocreators may begin and take up an ordained epochal turn from tinkered happenstance to an intentional, participatory, geonomic, beneficial makeover of matter, energy, spacetime, information we just post these samples from a vast literature.

Adams, Fred, et al. Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems. arXiv:2002.10661.
Armstrong, Rachel, ed. Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship. International: Springer Praxis, 2017.
Ball, Philip. Coming Alive. Nature Materials. March, 2021.
Canfield, Paul. New Materials Physics. Reports on Progress in Physics. 83/016001, 2020.
Cronin, Leroy, et al. Catalyst: The Metaphysics of Chemical Reactivity. Chem. 4/8, 2018.
Deane-Drummond, Celia, et al, eds. Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2015.
Das, Anirban, et al. Dark Matter Induced Power in Quantum Devices. arXiv:09313.
Dyson, Freeman. A Vision of a Green Universe. New York Review of Books.October 13, 2016.
Haba, Hiromitsu. A New Period in Superheavy Element Hunting. Nature Chemistry. 11/1, 2019.

Jorgensen, Mathias, et al. Atomistic Structure Learning. Journal of Chemical Physics.151/054111, 2019.
Khajetoorians, Alexander, et al. Designer Quantum States of Matter Created Atom-by-Atom. arXiv:1904.11680.
Maniscalco, Sabrina, et al. Quantum Network Medicine. arXiv:2206.12405.
Norreys, Peter, et al. Prospects for High Gain Inertial Fusion Energy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. October, 2020.
Prokopenko, Mikhail, ed. Guided Self-Organization: Inception. Berlin: Springer, 2014.
Ravoo, Bart. Frontiers of Molecular Self-Assembly. Israel Journal of Chemistry. 59/868, 2019.
Shayeghi, Armin, et al. Matter-Wave Interference of a Native Polypeptide. arXiv:1910.14538.

2023:

Institute of Accelerating Change. www.singularitywatch.com. A website hosted by entrepreneur John Smart which acts as a clearing house for many aspects of the "transhumanist" persuasion. A good place to find out what’s going in this area. Once again a listing is not an endorsement, but this movement is out there, and gives credence to an informed, creative enhancement of life, intelligence and galaxy.

Joint Quantum Institute. www.jqi.umd.edu. An extensive research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland. With a large, international staff, it is a premier endeavor to study and access this fecund quantascape as it opens for all intents and purposes to human ingenuity. And as one peruses, how amazing that we peoples as a sentient personsphere can initiate a new material nature by enhancing and reconceiving subatomic objects. See also, among many papers, Focus on Topological Quantum Computation by Jiannis Pachos and Steven Simon in New Journal of Physics (June 2014).

We are on the verge of a new technological revolution as the strange and unique properties of quantum physics become relevant and exploitable in the context of information science and technology. Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest physical scales, is the most accurate theory of nature ever devised. Many of its predictions can be confirmed to 10 decimal places or more. Its principles explain a host of phenomena from the grand sweep of the Periodic Table of Elements to the everyday workings of lasers, microchips, light-emitting diodes and MRI medical scans. The ability to understand and manipulate objects at the quantum level is among the most urgent goals of 21st century science.

JQI’s Objectives are to “serve as a world-class research institute, conducting fundamental investigations of coherent quantum phenomena and thereby laying the foundation for engineering and controlling complex quantum systems capable of using the coherence and entanglement of quantum mechanics;” and to “provide a unique, interdisciplinary center for the interchange of ideas among atomic physics, condensed matter and quantum information scientists.”

QUANTUMatter 2023 Conference and Expo.. www.quantumconf.eu/2023/. This is the extensive home site for the revolutionary international conference. In addition to a showcase for commercial hardware and software, some 200 Abstract pages for the myriad presentations are included. For just a flavor we note Single Molecules in Photonic quantum technologies, Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms, The Coming Decades of Quantum Simulators, Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED, Realizing non-Abelian statistics using graph gauge theory on a quantum processor, Addressing the fidelity and scaling challenges of superconducting qubit, and Chirality and Topology in DNA-type Chiral Material,s. On cue, here is vast project and prowess to vigorously begin a new matter/energy, space/time cocreation, that we Earthumanity peoples seem quite ordained to carry forth.

The 3rd edition of the Quantum Matter International Conference – QUANTUMatter 2023 - aims at gathering the many communities engaged in the science and technologies of these advancing fields to foster the incubation of new ideas, and collaborations at the forefront of, emerging materials and novel generations of communication, sensing and simulation. Quantum Information and Quantum Matter are two components of revolutionary treatments of information, which are becoming cornerstones for discovering and implementing disruptive paradigms in quantum computation and quantum technologies.

QUANTUMatter 2023 Conference and Expo.. www.quantumconf.eu/2023. This is the extensive home site for the revolutionary international conference. In addition to a showcase for commercial hardware and software, some 200 Abstract pages for the myriad presentations are included. For just a flavor we note Single Molecules in Photonic quantum technologies, Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms, The Coming Decades of Quantum Simulators, Giant Artificial Atoms and Waveguide QED, Realizing non-Abelian statistics using graph gauge theory on a quantum processor, Addressing the fidelity and scaling challenges of superconducting qubit, and Chirality and Topology in DNA-type Chiral Material,s. On cue, here is vast project and prowess to vigorously begin a new matter/energy, space/time cocreation, that we Earthumanity peoples seem quite ordained to carry forth.

QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe. qurope.eu/manifesto. A home site for this European venture for the adoption of a leading role in this materials and computational frontier. From this web page the May 2016 Quantum Manifesto document can be accessed as it extols how imaginative, technical human intellects can enter and advance this deepest domain. A note The Quantum Game in Nature Materials for April 2017 offers a perspective.

Singularity University. http://singularityu.org/overview. Modeled on the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, an ambitious endeavor based on Ray Kurzweil’s future scenarios, with support from Google, and based at NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, with the aim of “Preparing humanity for accelerating technological change.” A companion offing is the new documentary film by Barry Ptolemy “Transcendental Man” about Kurzweil’s well-intended prognostications, check this site: http://transcendentman.com. Of similar note is “The Coming Superbrain” by John Markoff in the New York Times for May 24, 2009. But in this case the producers name is perfect for all this hurtles on in the wrong, admittedly male, machine multiverse wherein life and human are alien accidents. However to imagine an intrinsically organic reality, which as a universal gestation has just reached its nativity singularity?

Singularity University aims to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.

Adams, Fred, et al. Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems. arXiv:2002.10661. The growing flow of research findings about a planet forming ecosmos now allows University of Michigan, CalTech and Yale University astrophysicists to observe and develop a sense of the role and importance of an energetic factor.

Motivated by the trends found in the observed sample of extrasolar planets, this paper determines tidal equilibrium states for forming planetary systems which are subject to conservation of angular momentum, constant total mass, and fixed orbital spacing. The present treatment generalizes previous results by including the self-gravity of the planetary bodies. For systems with sufficiently large total mass in planets, the optimized energy state switches over from the case of nearly equal mass planets to a configuration where one planet contains most of the material. These considerations of energy optimization apply over a wide range of mass scales, from binary stars to planetary systems to the collection of moons orbiting the giant planets in our solar system. (Abstract excerpt)

Aguardo, Ramon, et al. When matter and information merge into “Quantum.”. Communications Physics. September 22, 2023. Eleven Madrid and Barcelona proponents survey and report upon this worldwide event. Please the main entry herein for the whole meeting.

Despite only being its 3rd edition, the QUANTUM MATTER international conference & expo has already become a reference event for communities involved in the study of quantum materials, information and quantum at large. This article reports on this meeting, which took place in Madrid, in June 2023, with 420 participants and keynote speakers from all areas of this open frontier.

The next edition, QUANTUMatter2024, will move to San Sebastian. With an extended programme of four days, it will welcome researchers from across the globe to showcase their scientific and technological findings. QUANTUMatter2024 will be a major outreach event and a formidable platform for developing partnerships, collaboration and alliances.

Alberi, Kirstin, et al. The 2019 Materials by Design Roadmap. Journal of Physics D. 52/013001, 2019. Thirty-four coauthors from across the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Korea, Canada, Germany, and China gather some 17 two page entries such as Computational infrastructures for data generation, Materials informatics, Organic semiconductors, Lithium ion batteries, Peroskite photovoltaics and Multifunctional metallic alloys. We cite as a good example of humankinder’s rapidly expansive project of local and global mind over stochastic matter so as to take up, enhance and advance a cosmic creativity.

Advances in renewable and sustainable energy technologies depend on our ability to design and realize materials with optimal properties. The increased use of computational tools, the generation of materials databases, and advances in experimental methods continue to accelerate these activities. This Roadmap presents an overview of the current state of computational materials prediction, synthesis and characterization approaches, materials design needs for various technologies, and future challenges and opportunities. The brief papers cover computational techniques, validation, materials databases, materials informatics, high-throughput combinatorial methods, advanced characterization approaches, and materials design issues in thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, solid state lighting, catalysts, batteries, metal alloys, complex oxides and transparent conducting materials. (Abstract)

Aliosio, I. A., et al. Sampling Complexity of Open Quantum Systems. PRX Quantum. 4/020310, 2023. Monash University and University of New South Wales physicists explore and demonstrate how novel quantum computation advances can facilitate the increasing avail of quantum phenomena in all manner of chemical, condensed matter, optical, materials research and more as this 2020s frontier opens and expands.

Allhoff, Fritz, et al, eds. Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007. The philosopher editors have formed the Nanoethics Group (Google for website) as neither pro or con for these novel abilities to recreate nature and life at its fundamental levels but to air and address valid issues in this regard. A paper by theologian Ted Peters Are We Playing God with Nanoenhancement?, from which the quote, voices typical concerns. Clearly much work remains, a second scripture affirming a genesis universe with intended human co-creation would be helpful.

Rather, a biblically based theology affirms change and transformation rather than trying to retard scientific and technological advance. The Christian approach to ethics orients itself toward loving God and loving neighbor. The ethical question here would be: How can nanotechnology enhance the human capacity for loving God and neighbor? (174) Relevant here is the school of eschatological ethics within Christian theology. Based on Jesus’ promise of a coming kingdom of God and the New Testament vision of a future new creation, as eschatological orientation toward ethics celebrates transformatory change while trying to guide such change toward wholesome and loving ends. (182)

Alsharif, Mohammed, et al. Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Networks: Vision, Research Activities, Challenges and Potential Solutions. Symmetry. 12/4, 2020. An international team posted in Korea, Nigeria, Oman, Turkey, and Pakistan scope out this new hyper-dimensional worldwise knowledge transmission system. By order of magnitude advances and reach it promises ever faster speeds and content capacity. Once again, our premise is that this noosphere, conceived a century ago by V. Vernadsky and P. Teilhard, into the 21st century is manifestly coming to its (her/his) own knowledge and revolutionary discovery.

The standardization activities of fifth generation communications are clearly over and deployment has commenced globally. To sustain the competitive edge of wireless networks, industrial and academia synergy have begun to conceptualize the next generation of wireless systems (sixth generation, 6G) aimed at laying the foundation for communication needs of the 2030s. In support, this study highlights promising lines of research from the recent literature for the 6G project. Thus, this article will contribute significantly to opening new horizons for future research directions. (Abstract excerpt)

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