Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C., December 1, 2016 – Exoplanet images, investigations into artificial consciousness, privacy concerns about facial screening assessments by neural-networks, and accelerators in a post-grand unification era of physics are all covered in this month’s special December, 2116 edition of Physics Today, the world's most influential and closely followed magazine devoted to physics and the physical sciences community.
The issue was inspired by an article Physics Today published earlier this year by futurist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek entitled, “Physics in 100 years.” Hoping readers would succumb to the temptation of prognostication, the editorial staff held a writing contest, challenging them to submit news stories about “recent” physics related discoveries made in the year 2116.
Wilczek’s article is freely accessible and the December issue, out today, features the winning article written by Robert Austin, visiting assistant professor of physics at Florida Polytechnic University, covering the first images of exoplanets. Three runner-up articles also appear in this month's issue. Access these articles through the table of contents at http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/69/12.
Get a glimpse of your great-great-great-grandchild’s Physics Today, along with traditional coverage of actual 2016 physics topics, like exotic forms of silicon, in the full issue – though it won’t hurt to check the article date to verify its sources actually exist.
Wilczek’s article, from the April, 2016 issue of Physics Today, is freely accessible at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/69/4/10.1063/PT.3.3137
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